Preferential voting, the answer to third party candidates
February 24, 2004With many Democrats frothing at the mouth over Nader’s announcement and an indication via The Nation that:
Dear Mary
February 24, 2004Upping the ante in the issue of gay marriage, Dearmary.com allows sending Mary Cheney, openly lesbian daughter of Dick Cheney a postcard to ask her why she is tacitly supporting her fathers anti-gay position. The questions to Mary might not be comfortable, but neither is living a life being denied human dignities like hospital visitation,…
Worlds first Green Prime Minister
February 24, 2004Needless to say, there wasn’t great fanfare in the corporate press that the first Green Prime Minister has taken power in Latvia after the center-right coalition there collapsed.
Kwiatkowski confirms Clark Petroeuro hypothesis
February 23, 2004In an interview with the L.A. Weely, former Lieutenant-Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski argued there were three reasons for invading Iraq:
Pentagon predicts climate change wars by 2020
February 23, 2004The Observer is running a story on a leaked report that has come from the Pentagon predicting that climate change will threaten security of the U.S. and other nations as natural disasters and loss of arable land threaten the economic stability of nations. It predicts that climate change will be a greater threat than terrorism…
Map of the occupation wall in the West Bank
February 22, 2004A site I just discovered, Electronic Intifada has an article with maps showing the extent of the apartheid wall being erected inside the west bank. It’s worthwhile to examine just how much of a land grab this wall actually constitutes.
Roe v. Wade under attack again
February 20, 2004Stepping up the backlash, Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion rights lawsuit is being appealed by the woman who apparently used the pseudonym Roe in the original case.
The Nationalities of the Guantanamo Bay Detainees.
February 19, 2004An insight into the nationalities of the Guantanamo Bay detainees. It is interesting to note that the Australian David Hicks, one of those held at Guantanamo bay is considered in this report as the highest profile case. That is a really scary thought, since coverage of his condition is censored, and marginal at best, and…
Anti-consumerism sites
February 18, 2004Courtesy of Jill, I’ve been checking out Adbusters a print and web publication which is perhaps one of the best examples of culture jamming advocacy. One of the sites they reference is the historically informed MediaCarta, a declaration and petition for intellectual rights in our sea of corporate controlled media.
Java scores big in China
February 18, 2004The Register is reporting a very large Chinese cellphone (90m subscribers) contract with Sun using Java. I’m not trying to be Chicken Little, but this does lend weight to my concern that there is a technology shift occurring towards open standards in developing markets that may lead to U.S. technology stagnation or bypass for home…