By Lakshmi Chaudhry
We have no interest in being anti-establishment,” says Matt Stoller, a blogger at the popular Web site MyDD.com. “We’re going to be the establishment.”
That kind of flamboyant confidence has become the hallmark of blog evangelists who believe that blogs promise nothing less than a populist revolution in American politics. In 2006, at least some of that rhetoric is becoming reality. Blogs may not have replaced the Democratic Party establishment, but they are certainly (…)
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Can Blogs Revolutionize Progressive Politics?
11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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Police blotter: Patriot Act e-mail spying approved
10 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
“Police blotter” is a weekly report on the intersection of technology and the law.
By Declan McCullagh , Staff Writer, CNET News.com
What: The Justice Department asks a judge to approve Patriot Act e-mail monitoring without any evidence of criminal behavior.
When: Decided Feb. 2, 2006 by U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan in Washington, D.C.
Outcome: E-mail surveillance approved.
What happened: As part of a grand jury investigation that’s still secret, the Justice Department asked a (…) -
One million drawings.
10 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsOur goal is to compile one million drawings during 2006 in order to send a strong visual and virtual message. It s about making a campaign to sensibilise people on the defence of the Earth (in the present and future), by making a fresco composed by one million drawings fram all over the World. Together we are going to express our refusal to the slow destruction of our planet.
The participants: who are they? Their participation!
The adventure is starting and is to be followed up daily. (…) -
Google News Bug Resurfaces
9 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
Evil-doers at work again
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (OfficialWire) — 02/09/06 — It was just one year ago that Google, Inc.-the popular online search engine company-attempted to explain [read: blame] the failure to properly index OfficialWire on the numbers in the URL that they claimed were interpreted as dates. Of course, their explanation wasn’t true or even believable.
The ’indexing-problem’ was first made public in my article, Google News As They See It [Jan 14, 2005]. In any event, after (…) -
NEWSMAX HAWKING SYRIA WMD "DOCUMENTS" : BUYER BEWARE !
6 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
9 commentsOther scoops from the super-patriotic, all-american , god fearing, and truth impaired website NEWSMAX
1 ) "Madman Saddam’s Lurking Doomsday Weapons"
2 ) "Saddam’s War Plan Includes Bioweapons to make US a living hell "
3) " Saddam is Behind the Terrorist Attacks
4) "Bush : Saddam Not Interested in Complying"
5) "Saddam Connection : West Nile Virus the First Bioweapon"
6) " Iraq Linked to 9/11 and Oklahoma City Bombing"
7) "Report : Saddam to Arm Palestinian Militants (…) -
The End Of The Internet
4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentThe End Of The Internet By Jeff Chester [Posted Online on February 1, 2006]
The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.
Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move (…) -
US plans to ’fight the net’ revealed
29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military’s plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.
Internet cafe in Iraq The document says information is "critical to military success"
Bloggers beware.
As the world turns networked, the Pentagon is calculating the military opportunities that computer networks, wireless technologies and the modern media offer.
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Internet serves as ’social glue’
27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
The internet has played an important role in the life decisions of 60 million Americans, research shows.
Whether it be career advice, helping people through an illness or finding a new house, 45% of Americans turn to the web for help, a survey by US-based Pew Internet think-tank has found.
It set out to find out whether the web and e-mail strengthen social ties.
The answer seems to be yes, especially in times of crisis when people use it to mobilise their social networks.
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Above Top Secret Forum part of Pentagon Psy-Ops???
7 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentExcerpt from Laura Knight-Jadczyk’s Blog: Postcards from the edge of reality:
Full article has many hyperlinks to evidence.
[...] Now, let’s come back to the all-important question: Who is Simon Gray??? [owner of abovetopsecret.com]
As it happens, a little investigation produces the following WhoIs information about AboveTopSecret.com:
Registrant:
Gray, Simon 1 Sackville Close Swindon, Wiltshire SN3 3EJ UK
Domain Name: ABOVETOPSECRET.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical (…) -
Podcast yourself: schedule (suite)
3 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentThe emergent multimedia radio of criticalsecret _ Is to download free as podcast and as videopodcast _ (2 formats by article: mp3 more mp4 -Fire work )
PODCAST YOURSELF -since 2005 December 26th _ (mostly in French with bilingual abstracts) Current thematic issue _ FIRE WORKS
4 columns: 1. ADVANTAGES OF THE RECORDING,
2. CONFUSIONS OF THE DESCRIPTION
3. RETURNS ON FITTERING
4. PROSOSCOPIES
RSS link to be pasted:
_ (unionization online in your way, more (…)