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A crew laminated vinyl stars and placed them on blank squares in Hollywood. Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — destroyed on several occasions by detractors who sometimes wield a pick-ax — mysteriously multiplied over night so that on Thursday morning there were several dozen stars. The effort comes from a conservative street artist who wishes to remain anonymous, but says he was motivated not only by the destruction of the president's real star, but also a recent unanimous vote by the West Hollywood City Council to recommend the removal of Trump's star due to accusations he...

==================================================================================== sam·iz·dat ˈsämēzdat/ noun: samizdat the clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state, especially formerly in the communist countries of eastern Europe. Origin 1960s: Russian, literally ‘self-publishing house.’ a key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat

Incredibly, music-mad bootleggers found an extraordinary way to copy illegal gramophone records of Western jazz, rock 'n' roll and forbidden Russian music – they built homemade recording machines and used X-ray film as the base for their illegal recordings.

More samizdat art illustrating the type of coverage that the Pearl Harbor attack would have received if the media had treated it as they do Islamic terrorists attacks today. To fully appreciate the satire, you have to know that Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor by surprise.  You have to know that this was the historical event that drew the United States into World War Two.  You have to know that the attack was by aircraft launched from aircraft carriers.  You have to know that the United States response was swift and decisive. You have to know that Republicans were...

Tiny dots produced by some laser printers are a secret code that can allow the government to track down counterfeiters, a new study concludes, raising the hackles of privacy advocates. The Electronic Frontier Foundation said its researchers recently broke the code behind the tiny tracking dots and said the US Secret Service confirmed that the tracking is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers to identify counterfeiters. "We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of...

Samizdat is a series of excerpts from an upcoming book on open source and operating systems that will be published later this year. AdTI did not publish Samizdat with the expectation that rabidly pro-Linux developers would embrace it. Its purpose is to provide U.S. leadership with a researched presentation on attribution and intellectual property problems with the hybrid source code model, particularly Linux. It is our hope that leadership would find this document helpful with public policy decisions regarding its future investment in Linux and other hybrid source products. The United States is the home of the United States Patent...

On Monday, 24 May 2004 I found the following note in my inbox: Justin Orndorff : > Attached is an upcoming book to be put out by the > Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (www.adti.net). If > you're receiving this mail then we've probably been in > touch before now, regarding our research. > > Questions / comments / concerns should be directed to > Ken Brown - kenbrown@adti.net > > Have a great weekend, > Justin Orndorff Attached to it was a 92-page PDF that described itself as excerpts from Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the `Source' of Open Source...

Democratic presidential hopeful lays out his vision for America before 400 enthusiastic listeners BATH,MAINE - If you think Dennis Kucinich's campaign for president of the United States is not serious, try explaining that to the more than 400 people who overflowed the sanctuary of the United Church of Christ Congregational on Congress Street Wednesday evening to listen to Kucinich speak. The Democratic presidential candidate stopped in Bath as part of a bus tour of the state that began in Orono earlier and would end late Wednesday night in South Portland. The crowd had to wait more than an hour for...

 Spectator.org Print Article         Close Window         Copyright © 2002 Spectator.org. All Rights Reserved. The Soldier-Citizen Samizdat By Published 9/15/2003 12:02:00 AM Another Perspective After President Bush's address to the nation two Sundays ago, I wrote Jed Babbin that people like Terry McAuliffe, the nine dwarves (or eleven, or whatever) in the Democratic presidential race, and the commentariat "have no appetite -- or aptitude -- for the plain truth." To which Jed replied, "Amen." Thankfully, the American people do know the plain truth when they hear it, which is why they continue to support President Bush and the war...