[From BBC NEWS] Online journalists have the same rights as traditional reporters, a Californian court has ruled. The decision was made in a case brought by Apple against a number of reporters who published information online about a future Apple product launch. Apple filed the lawsuit to find out the source of the reporter’s information. [...]
Archive For May, 2006
The Keep It Simple Solar Tile – KISSTile
[From Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women] Roof mounted solar panels are nothing new, but an Australian designer has added a second feature that he hopes will spur adoption. Sebastian Braat has prototyped a roofing system of solar panels that are contain a grid of plastic tubing. Water runs through the tubing, absorbs heat from the [...]
There Is No “War on Terror”
[From ] Memorial Day Truth: There Is No “War on Terror” By Pachacutec There is, however, a “war” on the U. S. Constitution. After September 11, 2001, we’ve learned that we can take a punch and move on. We’ve faced far worse threats to our national survival in our history – the Civil War, the [...]
Minneapolis Voters To Decide on Using IRV
[From Ballot Access News] On May 26, the Minneapolis city council voted 11-1 to ask voters whether to amend the city charter to use Instant Runoff-Voting. The question will be on the November 2006 ballot.
Connecticut Fails to Ease Clean Elections Discrimination
[From Ballot Access News] The Connecticut legislature adjourned, and failed to pass any of the 5 bills that would have eased the discriminatory aspects of the “Clean Elections” public funding bills. The Connecticut legislature had passed “Clean Elections” in 2005, but basically excluded all candidates except Democrats and Republicans. The funding does not begin until [...]
US idol more popular than the president
[From ] JACQUI GODDARD IN MIAMI RONALD Reagan set a record when he received 54.5 million votes to claim the United States presidency in 1984. In 2004, George Bush broke it with nearly 62 million under his belt. But in a new indicator of just how seriously America takes its elections – or, perhaps, how [...]
Truth
[Via: How to Save the World] Cartoon by Charles Barsotti from The New Yorker. Buy his amazing cartoons here, or his new book here.
Save Darfur? Not So Fast
[From CounterPunch] Not So Fast … By JOSHUA FRANK If President Bush had any foresight at all, he’d intervene in the Darfur mayhem just to slice a wedge in the antiwar movement. President Nixon attempted to do such a thing in the early 1970s when his administration helped establish the Environmental Protection Agency. Nixon thought [...]
Time to Dust Off That Old “No Nukes!” Button
[From CounterPunch] Radioactive Troika: Bush, Nuclear Power Industry and the New York Times By PETER MONTAGUE It’s time to dust off your “No Nukes!” button — or grab that old one out of your Mom’s top bureau drawer. You may need it soon. The “powers that be” have begun a new campaign to convince us [...]
National Review: ThinkProgress Doesn’t Have The ‘Slightest Idea What They Are Talking About’
[From Think Progress] Jason Lee Steorts of the National Review has published a column taking issue with our response to his cover story on global warming, “Scare of the Century.” The response is useful because it more explicitly exposes the tactics of Steorts and others trying to muddy the debate: 1. Discount the consensus of [...]