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Yesterday's USA Today bombshell about the National Security Agency's wholesale (and illegal) data-mining of domestic phone calls with the generous compliance of telcos forms a colorful backdrop to the latter's entreaties before Congress to scupper net neutrality.
(Bear in mind that this phone mining comes hard on the heels of the government's eyebrow-arching move to quash on national security grounds a class-action suit of the Electronic Frontier Foundation alleging that AT&T has been feeding the NSA its Internet traffic, too.)
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11:30 AM May 12, 2006 -
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Watching Cool Flash Counts As Work: Not Your Soldier
Our friend Jeanette at the National Forest Protection Alliance, who wears the DIA field rep hat from time to time as well, tipped us to this ass-kicking subversive Flash countering military recruitment and countenancing troop resistance. Aimed at the young, but all ages can enjoy. DIAniacs Ruckus Society and IndyVoter are among the sponsoring organizations for notyoursoldier.org.
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05:00 PM May 10, 2006 -
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Should Publicly Funded Scientifc Research Be Publicly Available?
The question answers itself. Thrill to familiar-sounding my-ox-is-gored rationales why not from scientific journals! If the Federal Research Public Access Act is embraced, why, what's to stop the public from ceasing to gift the commercial fruits of research to private companies altogether? Next stop, socialism!
Bonus: Rare footage of Joe Lieberman and John Cornyn in white hats. Off-white, anyway. Call it whalebone.
(Thanks to The Happy Tutor.)
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03:00 PM May 10, 2006 -
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E-xemplar: Wage Peace for Mother's Day
It seems this is the season for saluting noteworthy dates -- though of course, in truth, every day on the calendar has its occasions -- so on the heels of yesterday's gore-soaked valentine to martial prowess in the service of anti-fascism, here's a tribute to ploughshares in the service of anti-imperialism:
DIA communards CodePink is pulling out the stops for Mother's Day, with a daylong White House vigil and some other events here in Babylon, plus other happenings around the country and the mandatory letter-writing campaigns and what-not for the wired. It's a nice, coordinated action with something for anyone to do.
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10:30 AM May 10, 2006 -
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С днем победы!
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| "The Saved World Remembers," drawn from a photo of the Soviet flag raised over the Reichstag. |
With D-Day imminent, speechwriters hereabouts are limbering up their "Greatest Generation" cliches (perhaps for the purpose of belittling said generation). But it takes nothing from those who forced Omaha Beach to acknowledge that it was Soviet blood that won the war ... and this is the day to honor those who bled to shatter Naziism.
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12:00 PM May 09, 2006 -
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