The US was until now known for its economic efficiency. It is slowly becoming corrupted by political and business expediency: An immediate concern for short term gratification, profitability and a lack of long term investment vision.
With that much money spent on the Globalist agenda you would think that the organizers would be able to afford a security force that can differentiate between law braking offenders and journalist including citizens that are exercising their democratic right to demonstrate peacefully.
Vandalism, a dead-end tactic at Toronto G20 demonstrations
by Bryan Farrell, WagingNonViolence.org
“During Saturday’s nonviolent [...]
Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn to be released next year…
President Obama pledged to “take a back seat to no one” in his support for Net Neutrality. His appointee to the FCC, Chairman Julius Genachowski, promised to bring a new era of transparency to proceedings on this and other important issues.
Yet now the FCC is huddling with industry lobbyists in closed-door meetings to cut a [...]
And Big Corporations May Come Out on the Losing Side
Fed up with Internet monopoly, cities have begun to take things into their own hands.
By Christopher Mitchell and David Morris, AlterNet.net
“A battle is raging for control of the Internet and it is not taking place in Washington. Scores of cities, fed up with the recalcitrance and [...]
Timothy Karr, SavetheNet.com
HuffingtonPost.com
“The Wall Street Journal just reported that the Federal Communications Commission is holding “closed-door meetings” with industry to broker a deal on Net Neutrality — the rule that lets users determine their own Internet experience.
Given that the corporations at the table all profit from gaining control over information, the outcome won’t be pretty. [...]
Susan Crawford at PDF: You Can’t “Geek Around” Broadband Policy, YouTube.com
“Former White House special adviser Susan Crawford tells an audience of “techies” that staying on the sidelines of the open Internet fight is no longer an option.”
Save the Internet
I have been banned from editing pages on Wikipedia by an editor who does not believe in open source or Wikipedia:
“You are currently unable to edit pages on Wikipedia.
You can still read pages, but you cannot edit or create them.
Editing from Netage has been disabled by Kurt Shaped Box for the following reason(s):
Your account has [...]
Center For Democracy & Technology, CDT.org
“I’m spending the week in sunny San Jose, California for the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference. Social networking is clearly the focus this week; a stated goal of the conference is the creation of a social network users “Bill of Rights,” that would create a set of “best practice” [...]
Two Million Strong for Net Neutrality
This is a crucial time in the fight for Net Neutrality. The FCC is pursuing new Net Neutrality rules; Congress is weighing legislation; and President Obama wants Net Neutrality to become the law of the land.
More than 1.9 million people have already urged Congress and the FCC to stand with [...]
