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Steve Jobs says the music monopolists need to rethink. Online music must be DRM-free.
Apple - Thoughts on Music
Thoughts on Music
Steve Jobs
February 6, 2007
With the stunning global success of Apple’s iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to “open†the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to protect […]
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Zero-sum game
Zero-sum game
Dawn Porter
Next week is London Fashion Week and catwalks again will be full of skinny models. So what does a “size zero” diet do to you? Dawn Porter (right) went on a crash slimming course and found a perverse, and worrying, comfort in her misery.
When I […]
Playboy has an exclusive on American military-industrial complex that’s worth the read.
by Richard Cummings
In November of 2002, Stephen J. Hadley, deputy national security advisor, asked Bruce Jackson to meet with him in the White House. They met in Hadley’s office on the ground floor of the West Wing, not far from the offices of Vice […]
By Jack Tuckner, Esq. for Women’s Rights Blog
In NY Times today, the article “For $7.93 an Hour, It’s Worth a Trip Across a State Line” is an empirical study that proves the thesis that affluent, business folk who identity as Republicans (including our fearless leader, his coterie of wealthy, power-hungry, morally vacuous advisors and congressional […]
Quite heartening to notice that the masses finally get the power they deserve. More power to the Nepalese!
By Charles Haviland
BBC News, Kathmandu
Nepal’s Maoist party has named the people who will serve as its MPs in a interim parliament to be established on Monday, after a 10-year civil conflict.
The rebel group says it will now follow […]
Warnings to Iran and Syria Cause Concern in Congress
By JOHN HENDREN
President Bush’s sternly worded warning to Iran and Syria that the United States’ new strategy in Iraq could include action against them sent shock waves across Capitol Hill today, prompting pointed questions for top administration policymakers.
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Some pressing concerns over the “Pentagonization of our world†by Tom Engelhardt:
Just this week, the Bush administration is considering making a little futuristic news. The President might soon approve “a major step forward in the building of the country’s first new nuclear warhead in nearly two decades,” the Reliable Replacement Warhead. If only names were […]
By Brian Beutler
Democrats’ own Rules Commmittee chair criticizes exemption, bill architecture
WASHINGTON — A major loophole in the Democrats’ recently unveiled ethics package will allow non-profit arms of controversial lobbying organizations to fund travel excursions for members of Congress, RAW STORY has discovered.
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Sunanda K Datta-Ray has a brilliant take on modern day racism. She says, the elite Indians were always global anyway. Its the rest of us that still have not been accepted.
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WASHINGTON - Energy giant ExxonMobil borrowed tactics from the tobacco industry to raise doubt about climate change, spending US$16 million on groups that question global warming, a science watchdog group said on Wednesday.
“ExxonMobil has manufactured uncertainty about the human causes of global warming just as tobacco companies denied their product caused lung cancer,” Alden Meyer […]
By Robert Fisk
12/30/06 “The Independent” — – Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold - that crack of the neck at the end of a rope - than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of the Tigris, the man who murdered […]
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: HABEAS CORPUS, THE U.S.BILL OF RIGHTS, THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS
The Military Commissions Act of 2006:
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SUSPENDS THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS, enshrined in law since 1215 A.D., i.e., the rights of any accused to test their arrest or detention in a court of […]
By KAREN W. ARENSON
The chancellor of the City University of New York
yesterday directed the president of City College to remove
the names of two fugitives linked to violent crimes from
the entrance to a student clubroom.
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