STATE SLAPS DR. DO-GOOD The state is trying to shut down a New York City doctor’s ambitious plan to treat uninsured patients for around $1,000 a year. Dr. John Muney offers his patients everything from mammograms to mole removal at his AMG Medical Group clinics, which operate in all five boroughs. “I’m trying to help [...]
Obama administration continues Bush administration’s policies–where’s the outrage from the people who were against them when Bush was in pwoer? U.S. Says Rendition to Continue, but With More Oversight – NYTimes.com Lawless Surveillance, Warrantless Rationales Where’s the change? Again, those who think voting matters in a system where special interests control the government, get ther [...]
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 20 years later many Chinese don’t even know it happened.
but I did tell you so. (Obama’s Democratic Authoritarianism) No only is there no change, but he’s actually escalating, and trying to legalize some of the Bush administration’s policies. You don’t change stuff by voting in the power elite. Hey, Mister, got some change.
Is FACEBOOK run by D.A.R.P.A’s Information Awareness Office? | Daily Newscaster Is FACEBOOK a Department of Defense data mining scheme run by the CIA and D.A.R.P.A.? Should you be trusting all your personal data to FACEBOOK’s management? FACEBOOK was initially conceived by Mark Zuckerberg but the venture was first funded with $500,000.00 in capital from [...]
Satellite photos of Washington D.C. from yesterday’s inauguration. Via PopSci
An Interview With Nina Paley About “Sita Sings The Blues” | QuestionCopyright.org I’m an advocate for fair copyright laws. Which we don’t have at this point. The copyright laws serve big corporations, and already rich artists (but mostly corporations), and the article above points out a lot of reasons why. there’s also, a 42 minute [...]
Auto Makers to Get $17.4 Billion – WSJ.com They got more money than they asked for, with fewer strings attached, and less oversite. Oh, and who’s the “car czar”? The guy who’s supposed to watch over all this? why, our favorite bailout maven, who’s done such a fine job with the bank bailout–none other than [...]
This story is about democracy and why a limited (voting) franchise is better than an unrestricted one. It was first brought to my attention in Robert Heinlein’s book of essays Expanded Universe, and is quite hard to find, since it’s probably not as popular as some of Twain’s other stories. I found it online after [...]
I’ve got an idea. Yes I do. How ’bout, instead of giving Wall Street 700 Billion Dollars, Washington, gives everyone in the US 2 Million Dollars. With a population of approximately 305,358,236 (US Census Bureau estimate), that’ll cost the gov’t less money, and, really ought to kick the economy up a notch. Just a thought.
