Premium access channel HBO will release a documentary film entitled Hacking Democracy on November 2, five days before elections are held across the United States. The 80 minute documentary follows Seattle writer Bev Harris on a frightening investigation into the security of America’s electronic voting systems.
Google launched a service on Thursday for consolidated searches of U.S. Government websites. Searches on the site seem to return more results and execute much more quickly than the U.S. Government's own consolidated search site and portal.
The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Friday in favor of upholding a Federal Communications Commission policy that treats interconnected VoIP providers and broadband Internet service providers the same as traditional POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) providers with regards to government wiretaps.
Cities are so addicted to the idea of federal funding that they'd rather be considered a terrorist target and get the money to attempt to combat that terrorism than not be a terrorist target to begin with.
There used to be a time where I could, without guilt, vote for Republicans as the lesser of two evils. The thought of John Kerry sitting in the White House frightened me, so I was able to vote for Bush in 2004 and be reasonably certain that I did the country a favor. I don't regret that vote, but I certainly won't be repeating it.
Karl Marx would love the popular moves among politicians in various state governments and the federal government to ban so-called "junk" food in schools, and to "put healthy food in" convenience stores and on the tables of those they define as poor. It's a very elitist and arrogant mindset that promotes this ideology, and it needs to be addressed.
Ultimately, the war supporters in Congress prevailed in the vote on the resolution. Still, the vote was significant because it places every member of Congress on the record as supporting or not supporting the unconstitutional, costly, violent occupation of a country that never attacked us. This vote should serve as an important reminder to the American people of where their representatives really stand when it comes to policing the world, empire building, and war.
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