Facebook claims the right to be the only “Book” and “Face” on the Net Facebook se veut seule « Face » et seul « Book » au monde Par François Krug, rue89.com The U.S. social networking site Facebook has notified Stupidbook.fr to stop using its domain name. The reason for the request: the site is [...]
Revelation, YouTube Lee “Scratch” Perry Talks About His New Album Revelation Featuring Keith Richards and George Clinton, page 3 by Phyllis Pollack, BlogCritics.org “Much of this album is a spiritual experience. Perry explains why, as Saxon says, it is so easy for him to conjure his poetic lyrics, seemingly out of nowhere. “God is a [...]
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Peter Ludlow, TheNation.com Brought to our attention by AlterNet.org “In recent months there has been considerable discussion about the WikiLeaks phenomenon, and understandably so, given the volume and sensitivity of the documents the website has released. What this discussion has revealed, however, is that the media and government agencies believe there is a single protagonist [...]
On 7/24 we linked the article The Da Vinci Code and Mary Magdelene as an external link to the subject of Mary Magdalene using a different username. The external link was removed for the following reason: “The link you added to Mary Magdalene was a blog post, which is discouraged under our external links policies. [...]
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness vs corporate kingdoms Percy Schmeiser vs Monsanto: The Story of a Canadian Farmer’s Fight to Defend the Rights of Farmers and the Future of Seeds. “Gathered here in Bonn this week are some eighty Right Livelihood Award laureates, including the Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser, who has battled the [...]
to Protect Citizens’ Fundamental Rights News Update by Gwen Hinze, EFF.org “In a victory for democracy and transparency, the European Parliament adopted Written Declaration 12/2010 (WD 12) on the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement earlier this week. WD 12 calls on EU negotiators to ensure that ACTA does not weaken citizens’ fundamental rights of freedom of [...]
About ‘The Great American Stickup’ We’ve heard about the robber barons on Wall Street who brought on our current economic crisis, but they couldn’t have done it without the help of key political players like Bill Clinton, for one, as Robert Scheer tells Amy Goodman in this “Democracy Now!” interview about his new book, “The [...]
‘They talk about me like a dog’ “Has President Obama been listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix lately? With just under two months to go before Election Day, Obama kicked off the fall campaign season Monday with an aggressive speech targeting Republicans. But it was an off-script moment in the speech that’s attracted the [...]
Settles privacy suit Reporting by Dan Levine; Editing by Matthew Lewis, Leslie Gevirtz and Richard Chang News.Yahoo SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc said on Friday it was the target of an investigation by the Texas Attorney General’s office into the fairness of its search engine rankings. The world No. 1 search engine company said [...]
