Day January 20, 2006

Bechtel blinks, the people win

Bechtel drops $50 million claim to settle Bolivian water dispute. Bechtel, a global engineering and construction company based in San Francisco, today reached agreement with the government of Bolivia, dropping a legal demand for $50 million after a revolt over…

Now running WordPress 2.0

Polizeros uses the WordPress blogging platform and is now running WordPress 2.0, the latest and greatest version. Though you won’t see anything new when reading the blog, it has lots of new, useful, behind-the-scenes features. Plus, WordPress is open source,…

More neocon idiocy

The U.S. has sunk nearly $200 million into TV Marti’s programming aimed at Cuba. But one scholar estimates it has ‘nearly zero viewership.’ However, I’m sure the 200 million has provided lots of jobs and slush funds for extreme right…

Kudos to Google

Google is refusing a US government request to turn over records of searches made. Google has refused to comply with a US government subpoena for information about how people use its search engine, opening one of the first legal battles…