Unusual Hotels of the World : Woodpecker Hotel:
Tree house set 13 metres above a Swedish public park, with rope ladder access only.

The Woodpecker hotel is another brainchild of Mikael Genberg, artist and innovator of this hotel and its sister, the underwater Utter (Otter) Inn on nearby lake Malaren.

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Rochelle said she’d take me there next year! ohhhhh myyyyyyssssss!

Fair(y)_Use_Tale_Stanford_Cut-stream.mp4 (video/quicktime Object):

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cool copyright video…

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Bush To Be Dictator In A Catastrophic Emergency:
The directive itself recognizes that each branch is already responsible for directing their own continuity of government procedures. If that’s the case than why does the President need to coordinate these procedures for all of the branches? This is nothing more than a power grab that centralizes power and will make the President a dictator in the case of a so called “Catastrophic Emergency”.

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interesting argument…. i’m wondering when this actually will happen.

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INTERPRETATION IN POLICY ANALYSIS: RESEARCH & PRACTICE

31 May – 2 June 2007
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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this is why i’m going to the netherlands next week.

Law enforcment access to Internet communications expanded – NJ.com: Star-Ledger updates:
Cyberspace became more transparent today.

Effective today, broadband providers and Internet phone companies must open their networks for lawful intercepts of e-mails, calls and other electronic communications.

Authorities hail the move as an important step to combat terrorism and crime. Critics call it another erosion of personal freedoms.

The new rules mark an expansion of government surveillance capabilities first aimed at mobile phones in 1994, in a law called CALEA, short for the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.
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scary… they are probably intercepting this….