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Obama Team Names Net Neutrality Advocates for FCC Review
Slashdot reports that the Obama-Biden transition team have named two long-time Net Neutrality supporters to head up it’s FCC Review team. The two chosen were Susan Crawford, a University of Michigan Law School professor, and Kevin Werbach, a former FCC member and Wharton professor. This choice by the Obama-Biden team sends a clear message that [...]
Continue reading...Pictures from Barack Obama Chicago Grant Park Election Rally
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Our muscles-in-the-know, Grant Gochanuer, made it down to the Grant Part rally for the Obama Election Rally last night and snapped off some excellent shots. His full Flickr set is here. Here are some highlights: For anyone that missed Obama’s acceptance speech, it was really a moving speech. A lot of nice things said… obviously action [...]
Continue reading...Xbox Live Poll Shows Support for Obama
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
According to the data released by Microsoft’s gamerscore blog, Senator Barack Obama is the favorite among Xbox 360 owners in the race for the white house. The presidential hopeful and his running mate Joe Biden are leading the McCain/Palin camp by twenty percent. While this doesn’t reflect all of America, I do believe that this is [...]
Continue reading...John McCain President… According to the AOL.com Homepage Poll
Monday, November 3, 2008
Tom Robinson sent in a link to an interesting “general sampling” of the population as far as the presidential election goes, in the form of the AOL.com’s homepage presidential pole. The results are in and it looks like John McCain dominated the poll oddly enough. Assuming that the Flash-based poll wasn’t hacked, I was initially surprised [...]
Continue reading...Obama Pledges Creation of US CTO – Job Creation Through Technology
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
BusinessWeek had a piece recently discussing Barack Obama’s plan to develop an office of CTO for the United States if he wins in November. Obama feels that the US is not making use of it’s inherent brain trust or resources to advance technology day-in and day-out to both improve our lives, education and existence but also [...]
Continue reading...Economic Crisis, The Amero, North American Union and the New World Order
Friday, October 10, 2008
We first took a look at the shape of things to come last year with the review of the “How the Banking System Works” series of movies on YouTube (it’s an excellent series, must-watch if you haven’t already). The most perspective-shifting piece of information from that series is two things: How organized the world-wide banking system is How [...]
Continue reading...Dow Down 700 Pts Again, After Bailout… Herald in the Amero and the North American Union
Monday, October 6, 2008
The first time the $700 billion buyout bailout was voted on, it failed, and the Dow dropped 770 pts. The next time it was voted on, and passed, the Dow dropped. The last time it was re-voted on it finally passed and what’s that? Yep, the Dow dropped another 700 pts just for good measure. How did this [...]
Continue reading...Let the Handouts Begin, California Needs $7 Billion Bailout
Friday, October 3, 2008
If you haven’t seen the news, Todd Swarthout send in this tasty morsel: now that it looks like the $700 billion bail-out is going to pass the House, it looks like the hands are starting to get held out… now California needs a $7 billion bail-out as well. But don’t worry, this one isn’t for lobbyists, [...]
Continue reading...Iran Missile Launch Photo is a Fake
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Did you see the above picture yesterday or did a friend forward it to you? I got it in my inbox and over IM a few times and it looks like it’s made it’s rounds online: We better be scared right? A story with the word “Iran” in it, and then the associated picture. If I [...]
Continue reading...5th Underwater Internet Cable Faulting, Precursor to Iran War?
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
It started when the first 3 underwater internet cables were cut by “boat anchors” (even though that had never happened in the histories of the cables before… and now it happened 3x in 3 days) then reports came in about the 4th cable getting taken offline due to “power issues” and now Robert Heron sends [...]
Continue reading...3rd Undersea Cable Cut in 3 Days
Friday, February 1, 2008
… really? We are doing just fine for 20 years, a mistake here and there… and then woopsie… 3 cables cut in 3 days? Boat anchors! … seriously? Entire country economies, security and banking infrastructures rely on these things to stay intact, and you are telling me these fucking things aren’t marked on every maritime map in [...]
Continue reading...4 Indicted from The Pirate Bay
Thursday, January 31, 2008
The Local reports that 4 leaders from The Pirate Bay site have been indicted on charges of being accessories to breaking copyright law: Hans Fredrik Neij Per Svartholm Warg Peter Kolmisoppi Carl Lundström While I certainly understand why the US is pressuring Sweden to go after these guys (now that TPB is the biggest BT site on the web) [...]
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
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