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Pennsylvania photographer Jason Macchioni was taking photographs from a bridge in Elizabethtown the other night for a time-lapsed video, which naturally got the cops thinking he would then try to blow up the bridge or something.

A mohawk-wearing anarchist nicknamed "Cyco" was among five men arrested after allegedly conspiring to blow up a bridge about 15 miles south of Cleveland, the FBI said Tuesday. The men were arrested Monday evening in an FBI sting, but posed no real danger to the public because the explosives were inert and were controlled by an undercover FBI agent, the bureau said in a statement. This is another one of those supposed plots that the FBI has helped create over the past couple of years.

NYPD leads thousands of protesters into the traffic lane of the Brooklyn Bridge, before halting the procession halfway across, setting up barricades in front and behind, and arresting hundreds.

Full video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fockzr7rXys

A remote-controlled aircraft owned by an animal rights group was reportedly shot down near Broxton Bridge Plantation Sunday.

Golden Gate Bridge readies for 75th anniversary celebration

Wow! The "bridge to nowhere" has nothing on Johnstown Pennsylvania's John Murtha Airport!

An analyst that explains "how do we get from here to the next energy economy?"

This story about the FBI busting "anarchists" for trying to blow up a bridge even has the NY Times wondering why we have an agency that -- like children -- creates their own terrorist plots, "solves" the crime, and gives themselves a round of applause.

The Bowery Boys (another great podcast about NYC history) posted this article about a federally run speakeasy during prohibition. Look at some of the insidious activities the goons did there.