Posts in: Politics
- Link dump: Aug. 7, 2006
- State of the Blogosphere, August 2006 Dave Sifry releases his update on the ‘blogosphere.’ One trend worth noting: folks are goofing off at work. According to this report, English-language posting occurs between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. with an additional ‘about to get off work’ spike at 5 p.m. Zend compatibility and mysqli If Zend compatibility is on, [...] [7 Aug 2006]
- Recommended viewing: “America: Freedom to Fascism” trailer
- For the not-so-paranoid conspiracy theorist in all of us. [22 Jul 2006]
- Israel vs. Hezbollah & Lebanon = U.S. Attacking Iran, Syria in 2007
- Cross-posted on BlackFeminism.org] Keep an eye on the rhetoric coming from the White House regarding Israel’s attacks on Lebanon. My inner paranoid conspiracy theorist thinks that this may indeed be the perfect ruse to justify an act of American attack on Iran and/or Syria as neo-Cons have planned since at least 2000 [PDF file] (more info). Consider [...] [14 Jul 2006]
- Questions for President Bush
- If the NSA is chartered with gathering foreign intelligence, and the wiretaps and datamining on American soil are designed to ‘narrowly target’ all ‘known Al Qaeda associates,’ then why are you applying a broad dragnet covering 2/3 of the American public? If you know who these associates are, then why do you need the phone records [...] [13 May 2006]
- Political action alert: Bill could block school/library access to social networking sites
- Thanks to danah for the heads-up about a bill proposed in the House this week that would effectively block access to sites like MySpace, Yahoo!, Friendster, BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com and Facebook from federally-funded schools and libraries. Danah explains why this is a bad, bad, really stupid idea. Because it affects both libraries and schools, it will dramatically [...] [12 May 2006]
- May 2, 2006 link dump: International economics edition
- POST EDITED FOR CLARITY. Jump to update How Bad Is Inflation in Zimbabwe? It’s pretty bad. $6 million Zimbabwe dollars for a funeral. According to Bloomberg.com, that’s about US$60. Puerto Rico government shuts down A US$740 million shortfall + no spending plan = a government shutdown. Only essential services are in operation on the island. I wonder what this [...] [2 May 2006]
