Thursday, August 30, 2007

UFC 74: Respect ..
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Heavyweight championship bout: Randy Couture vs Gabriel Gonzaga.




UFC 74 : Respect - Georges St. Pierre vs Josh Koscheck.




Sobral vs Heath

UFC 74: Respect: Light heavyweight bout: Renato "Babalu" Sobral vs. David Heath.




Note:"Sobral has been withheld $25,000 of his purse pending a hearing because he did not immediately follow referee's directions for releasing his chokehold after Heath tapped." c/o wikipedia




NOW PLAYING www.noendinsightmovie.com The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, NO END IN SIGHT is a jaw-dropping, insider's tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality.






SYNOPSIS

The war in Iraq has been showcased as both an example of American decisiveness and the catastrophic result of failed leadership. But beyond the debate, what is the reality of life on the ground? In December of 2003 traveler Mike Shiley felt compelled to find out for himself. Shiley, who is not a professionally trained journalist or filmmaker, managed to strike a deal with a local ABC-TV station to bring back stories about the troops in Iraq. Armed with a digital video camera and a home-made press pass, Mike Shiley chronicled a two month journey inside Iraq, interviewing American and Iraqi soldiers, talking to local citizens, and putting himself in situations of great personal risk. The footage from Shiley's excursions throughout the Sunni Triangle, the city of Baghdad, the northern Kurdish region and the Shiite-controlled south, put into deep personal context the stories we hear about in the news. Rather than push a political point of view, INSIDE IRAQ: THE UNTOLD STORIES lets Shiley's camera roll, catching a multitude of real-life moments that tell it like it is.


Guided by his own narration and interspersed with cuts to the studio interview, we are shown Iraq as we've never seen it before, getting a raw look at what it's like to be a soldier and a civilian in Iraq today. No matter how you feel about the war, INSIDE IRAQ: THE UNTOLD STORIES is bound to leave you examining your own beliefs about the U.S. military, the Iraqi people, and our future in the middle east.

it's a really good doc, anyone who has a chance to check it out should take the time to see this one. gives a really good all around perspective of what's been happening in Iraq; the good, the bad and the unspeakable.






Wednesday, August 29, 2007



Bush to request $50 bln more for Iraq war - Post

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush is preparing to ask Congress for as much as $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a White House official.

The request signals increasing White House confidence that it can fend off mounting congressional pressure to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, the Post reported.

The additional funds would come on top of about $460 billion in the fiscal 2008 defense budget and $147 billion in a pending supplemental bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Post said.

U.S. President George W. Bush speaks at Republican Party reception in Bellevue, Washington, August 27, 2007. Bush is preparing to ask Congress for as much as $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a White House official. (REUTERS/Jim Young)
The request is expected to be announced next month after the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker report to Congress on the state of the war, the newspaper said.

Asked about the Post report, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said no decision had yet been made about funding requests.

"We have said previously that after Gen. Petraeus reports we will be evaluating what adjustments may need to be made to our pending FY 08 (fiscal 2008) supplemental request," Stanzel said.

"I would decline to speculate on this, as Gen. Petraeus has not testified nor has any decision been made at this stage about whether, when or what specific changes would be made."


Copyright © 2007 Reuters

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Joost



The entrepreneurs behind Skype and Kazaa have a new venture: Joost. V.P. David Clark gives Daniel Sieberg a preview of the free, global broadband TV service.





http://www.Joost.com - I just got my invitation to Joost and thought I'd show everyone a little of what it looks like.




Anime Distributor Has No Legal Right to Threaten BitTorrent Users

Written by enigmax on August 25, 2007

A company that tracked thousands of users sharing anime via BitTorrent has lost its legal battle to force an ISP to reveal its customer’s details. The company would’ve used the information to demand $3,500 in compensation from each person they tracked - a plan which now lies in ruins.

OdexLast week we reported on the Singapore-based anime distributor Odex Pt. Ltd and their campaign to track, find and threaten thousands of BitTorrent users which they claim infringe their copyrights. The demand - ‘Pay us $3,500 - or else’.

After previously forcing the ISP ‘Singnet’ to give up personal details (names, addresses) of its customers, they moved on to the ISP ‘StarHub’ who put up a fight but was also forced to hand over details. The next move was to force another ISP - Pacific Internet (PacNet) - to give up the details of a thousand of its customers so it could demand money from them also.

PacNet said that although it respects the rights of intellectual property owners, equally it believes in “protecting the privacy of all our subscribers” and refused to hand the information over. Odex went to the courts to force PacNet to comply.

Unfortunately for Odex, the court decided that Odex had ‘no right of civil action’ against those it accuses of infringing its copyrights. Apparently, Odex is merely a sub-licensee of its anime titles and is not even the copyright holder so it cannot take any action at all. It had also threatened criminal action against BitTorrent users - the judge quashed this threat too.

Furthermore, according to the report from ChannelNewsAsia, the judge wasn’t happy with the way Odex went after the BitTorrent users. He criticized the investigative methods used to collect their IP addresses and the manner in which it gathered other so-called ‘evidence’.

Odex is to appeal but in the meantime, they now know what it’s like to be on the receiving end of a ‘pay-up or else’ demand. The judge has ordered them to pay more than $7,000 in legal costs.

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Monday, August 27, 2007

Russell Peters Full Length Comedy Act

After many requests. This is the Entire show from the Comedy Now show Russell Peters did back in 2004. Beware Clip is 45mins (100Meg)




Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Awesome Futsal Goal



It is Futsal, and judging by the emblems above the net and kit, it is an AS Roma futsal team.

And I think its Calderolli Fabricio.




Tuesday, August 21, 2007

The Most Hated Family in America (Full)

The documentary by Louis Theroux about the Phelps Family of the Westboro Church.