No matter how acrimonious the Republican primaries get, all of the candidates agree on one thing: Barack Obama must be defeated in November 2012. For 3 of the 4 remaining candidates, that is virtually the only important issue in the Republican primary ... Read more »
Microsoft Creates ‘Avoid Ghetto’ Feature For GPS
There are very few areas in the United States in which merely driving through on a main thoroughfare is a serious danger, so personal safety is not what this is about — it’s an app to avoid people of a lower socioeconomic status. Via the Inquisitr:
Read more »Microsoft Corporation is taking heat for a patent it filed for what is being called the “Avoid Ghetto” GPS App. The app esentially links up with your GPS or Smartphone and when you are approaching an area that, based on crime statistics or racial make-up, is deemed undesirable it gives you directions around it.
Sarah E. Chinn, author of Technology and the Logic of American Racism, made an interesting point where she stressed that even though it may give people less of a nervous feeling to not get lost and wind up in a really bad neighborhood, the vast majority of crime is committed by people…
Vote Fraud, Power, and Privilege in Small Town Iowa
I know this is a long post. But if you enjoy small town soap operas and tales of political corruption, please read on. ****** OK, so it was only three votes. In a statewide election that was settled by a margin of eight votes, three votes could be impo... Read more »
Latest Julian Assange News
Manifesto of a cyber rebel Yes, that's what the perennial rebel and non-conformist Julian Assange has written. It so happened that Assange shared his story with the writer he had enlisted to aid him even though under residence arrest at Ellingham Hall, UK. It was all in some 50 hours of … Read much more [...] Read more »
Ron Paul Endorsed by Nationally Syndicated Radio Talk Show Host Jerry Doyle
* F U L L S T O R Y A T : L I B E R T Y P U L S E * * http://youtu.be/5_nuMvImQ9o Today it is official! Jerry Doyle just endorsed Ron Paul for President 2012 live on the air: "I moved to endorsing Congressman Ron Paul... Read more »
MSNBC Fact Checks Bachmann/Paul Exchange on Iran Nukes
MICHELE BACHMANN: "We have an IAEA report that just recently came out that said literally Iran is within just months of being able to obtain that (a nuclear) weapon." RON PAUL: "There is no U.N. report that said that. It's totally wrong, what you just ... Read more »
Ron Paul Wins Again! Bachmann lied (again!) about Iran in debate.
Responding to a hypothetical question about whether the United States should support an attack against Iran by Middle East-ally Israel, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann noted that Iran already has announced plans to strike Israel. "They've stated, as recentl... Read more »
How The Food Industry Eats Your Kid’s Lunch
Lucy Komisar, who contributed the essay “Dirty Money and Global Banking Secrecy” to the disinformation anthology Everything You Know Is Wrong, contributes a major op-ed to this Sunday’s New York Times:
Read more »An increasingly cozy alliance between companies that manufacture processed foods and companies that serve the meals is making students — a captive market — fat and sick while pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. At a time of fiscal austerity, these companies are seducing school administrators with promises to cut costs through privatization. Parents who want healthier meals, meanwhile, are outgunned.
Each day, 32 million children in the United States get lunch at schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program, which uses agricultural surplus to feed children. About 21 million of these students eat free or reduced-price meals, a number that has surged since the recession. The program, which also provides breakfast, costs $13.3 billion a year.
Sadly,…
A close look at SOPA
A Close Look at SOPA Jonathan Zittrain, Kendra Albert and Alicia Solow-Niederman This document is a guide to the Stop Online Piracy Act as proposed in the United States House of Representatives. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), H.R. 3261, 112th Cong. (2011). It represents our notes as we sought to understand exactly what it does and [...] Read more »
