New Orleans The Stop On-Line Piracy Act (SOPA) at least means soup in Spanish, so there’s at least one good thing about it. Other than that it seems to be about big Hollywood and others trying to use poorly written domestic legislation in a ham-handed way to strike out at Russian, Chinese, and other foreign [...]
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New Orleans Remember Wikileaks? Yes, I know that seems so “yesterday,” but even with Julian Assange under “luxury arrest” and Wikileaks itself supposedly at death’s door because of financial attacks by its donation enablers like PayPal, the reverberations for all of us continue in our own homes and offices, and not just on the front [...] Atlanta On ACORN International’s Remittance Justice Campaign (www.remittancejustice.org) we have had difficulty getting any response from the big banks except in the most cursory terms. Wells Fargo did finally reply and told us they were doing great within a small footprint of countries. Bank of America and JP Morgan/Chase were stone silent. Not surprisingly [...] New Orleans No wonder Wikileaks wants to open the door on everything on the internet, reading the news it seems that the damn door is already open wide and swinging according to an article in the Times by Miguel Helft and Claire Cain Miller about subpoenas and declining to nonexistent privacy protections for email, internet, [...] New Orleans Eric Lee is one of those underground labor heroes for the labor of love he does in collecting information from the internet about unions and labor issues all over the globe and putting them out from his LabourStart website. A notice he sent out today was forwarded to me by a friend, and [...] |
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Revolution for the Masses, Leaders for the Media
New Orleans If the commentary on TV and in print about Egypt were not so ridiculous, pathetic, tragic, and misinformed about such deadly serious business as freedom, revolution, and regime change, it would actually be funny.
I listened to a blip on CNN on the way to the Hornets game last night with my son [...]