Whatever 2011 brings, I suspect it won’t be boring!
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Whatever 2011 brings, I suspect it won’t be boring! The solution is to set a repeating alarm or else the alarm might not go off at all. That’s because it’s an illegal Internet provider rather than one of the Big Three Chinese providers that the state has a piece of and off which top level government officials no doubt make a handsome living through salaries, kickbacks, and bribes. Am I cynical? I think not. Reprinted in full, with permission, from Ballot Access News, the newsletter of highly respected ballot access expert Richard Winger. Government-printed ballots in the United States were first created in 1888, and almost from the start, opponents of new and minor political parties started manipulating the ballot access laws to keep certain parties off the ballot. The [...] Cartoon by Martin Rowson for the British political zine, Tribune via casadelogo.typepad.com At the White House on Dec. 15, business executives asked President Obama for a tax holiday that would help them tap more than $1 trillion of offshore earnings, much of it sitting in island tax havens. Executives including John T. Chambers [...] 2010 Retrospective: Top stories from the past year and what we might expect from the year ahead. Plus, we still haven’t heard the last word on Wikileaks. What’s happened to the media discourse? Has there been collateral damage in Zimbabwe? With Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, and Josh Mull of Firedoglake & Rethink Afghanistan. (I [...] Now our economy is facing the biggest student loan debt bubble in the history of the world, and when our new college graduates enter the “real world” they are finding out that the good jobs they were promised are very few and far between. Then they discover they are tens of thousands of dollars [...] A new technique creates hydrogen at much high efficiency from concentrated solar. The hydrogen can then be used to power fuel cells and create energy. The researchers involved specifically designed the hardware to be easy to manufacture in bulk and incorporate into a industrial-size facility, so it seems to be a serious attempt at getting [...] Communications satellite Ahumanright.org is bidding on a commercial satellite that it wants to use to beam cheap bandwidth to the poor and disenfranchised of the planet. Their founder says Ahumanright is charged with promoting Internet access as a human right. The organization also promotes endeavors that can ensure everyone has a chance to [...] The municipal offices of St. Cloud, Minnesota are the first in the country to install a visible light communication system in place of Wi-Fi. The system, which uses LED fixtures to connect office computers to the internet, is saving lots of energy, and the city of St. Cloud lots of money on energy bills. [...] | |||||
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