January 2012
“[There has been] an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the...”
– -Hal Rounds, the Fayette County attorney and spokesman for a revisionist Tea Party faction.
Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder’s Slave-Owning History
Itinerant. →
Freight Train Riders of America (freighthoppers in United States)
Romani people
Various indigenous peoples (indigenous peoples, including uncontacted peoples)
Afar people in Horn of Africa
Bajau people of Philippines
Banjara of India
Bedouin (nomadic Arab people of the desert)
Beja people in North Africa
Bushmen of Southern Africa
Dom people in North Africa and Western Asia
Eurasian...
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AUDISM FREE AMERICA: AFA's Letter to Indiana... →
“…In May 2011, Governor Mitch Daniels appointed to the Board of Directors at the Indiana School for the Deaf individuals who had vested interest in the HEAR INDIANA organization. HEAR INDIANA is one of the biggest supporters of House Bill # 1367. This organization, which professes to be all about “options, choices and unbiased information” is a chapter of the AG Bell...
Censorship in the world's largest democracy -... →
In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Rai explained that the evidence he submitted to the court included content offensive to Hindus, Muslims and Christians. ”My intention is to ensure that the sentiments of any religion or community are not hurt,” he told the Journal.
In October, well before Rai’s lawsuit emerged, India’s acting telecommunications minister...
“The most interesting part of seeing these guys up close is seeing the way people...”
– Romney Bombs, and Other Thoughts on the Charleston Debate | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
“I was astonished to wake up this morning and read, in this morning’s Wall...”
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Romney Bombs, and Other Thoughts on the Charleston Debate | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
Two lessons from the Megaupload seizure - Glenn... →
(1) It’s wildly under-appreciated how unrestrained is the Government’s power to do what it wants, and how little effect these debates over various proposed laws have on that power. Contrary to how it was portrayed, the Obama administration’s threatened veto of the NDAA rested largely on the assertion that they did not need a law vesting them with indefinite detention powers because they...
“But just as the celebrations began over the saving of Internet Freedom,...”
– Two lessons from the Megaupload seizure - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
“The militant Muslim group Boko Haram, which is fighting for sharia rule in...”
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Nigerian President Visits Sites of Bombings - Bloomberg
If you’re brown, and you jump in the news cycle at the wrong time, people won’t even look at your terrorism.
“Given Gingrich’s overwhelming victory, it may be difficult for him to find...”
– Gingrich wins South Carolina: How can Romney recover from his terrible defeat? - Slate Magazine
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“OK, so our friendly northern neighbor isn’t exactly Saudi Arabia or Venezuela....”
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Canadian tar sands: Is our neighbor to the north becoming a jingoistic petro-state? - Slate Magazine
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“[A]t a deeper level, citizens of the industrial world who believe that they live...”
– -Larry Summers (sounding surprisingly reasonable), quoted in:
Surely President Obama Is Joking About This ‘Have Larry Summers Run The World Bank’ Thing!
“Tensions have risen in recent years over oil exploration around the Falklands....”
– BBC News - Argentina outraged at Cameron’s ‘colonialism’ remarks
BBC - How to offset your 'conflict mineral' guilt. →
“…But for consumers eager to act on this new knowledge, two problems emerge.
The first is that the large American companies which sell the finished product do not deal with the mines directly.
Those companies buy parts from smaller companies, which in turn often buy the minerals after they have been mined. That makes it difficult to determine where the minerals originated - and...
BBC - Charles Taylor 'worked' for CIA in Liberia →
Rumours of CIA ties were fuelled in July 2009 when Mr Taylor himself told his trial, at the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in the Hague, that US agents had helped him escape from a maximum security prison in Boston in 1985.
The CIA at the time denied such claims as “completely absurd”.
But now the Defence Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s spy arm, has disclosed...
BBC - Sopa and Pipa protests not over, says... →
Supporters of the bill were quick to condemn the actions of the websites. Ex-Senator Chris Dodd, MPAA’s chief executive, described the blackouts as an “abuse of power”. Ahead of the day’s action, Mr Dodd said: “It’s a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in...
The Funniest Internet Reactions to the Anti-SOPA... →
The Funniest Internet Reactions to the Anti-SOPA Blackout
4—-> Misunderstanding the Blackout
Many people just weren’t reading up on the information about SOPA/PIPA and failed to understand why so many sites decided to go down all together on the same day. Alternative backstories and even conspiracy theories were plentiful:
Hannah Johnson
@HannahBanana172 How am I supposed to...
An open letter to Washington from Artists and... →
neil-gaiman:
An open letter to Washington from Artists and Creators
We, the undersigned, are musicians, actors, directors, authors, and producers. We make our livelihoods with the artistic works we create. We are also Internet users.
We are writing to express our serious concerns regarding the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
As creative professionals, we...
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1992 in smartphone history. →
The first smartphone was the IBM Simon; it was designed in 1992 and shown as a concept product that year at COMDEX, the computer industry trade show held in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was released to the public in 1993 and sold by BellSouth. Besides being a mobile phone, it also contained a calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, note pad, e-mail client, the ability to send and receive...
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“All too often, however, in the history of the United States, the schoolteacher...”
– Richard Hofstadter (via azspot)
BBC News - Sopa: US backers end support for... →
Eight US lawmakers have withdrawn their backing from anti-piracy laws, amid “blackout” protests on thousands of internet sites.
Two of the bill’s co-sponsors, Marco Rubio from Florida and Roy Blunt from Missouri, are among those backing away.
Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia and blog service WordPress are among the highest profile sites to block their content.
The Motion Picture...
CBC: Vehicles outnumber people in Newfoundland and... →
There are more vehicles on Newfoundland and Labrador’s roads than there are people living in the province with almost 633,000 cars and trucks of 2010. There are about 500,000 people living in the province.
Speaking at the Motor Vehicle Registration office in Mount Pearl, driver Bernie Dobbin believes he knows part of the reason why driving is so popular in the province.
“Our bussing...
“It’s also good for the new CEO. He has one less entrenched legacy board...”
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BBC News - Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang resigns from its board
“Some analysts had seen Mr Yang as an impediment to the sale or restructuring of the business.”
Fucking founders getting in the way of progress greed.
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