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Domestic spying under Bush; Al-Haramain in Oregon, NSA warrantless wiretapping

Seeded on Mon May 19, 2008 2:14 PM EDT (Salon.com)

"You can be designated without an evidentiary finding that you ever actively engaged in or supported terrorism," says Cole. "This is a guilt-by-association process."

us-news, bush, al-qaeda, fbi, terrorist, nsa, wiretapping, oregon-foundation

Apple launches iPhone in UK with provider O2

Seeded on Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:46 AM EDT (shop.o2.co.uk)

Apple's "Mum is no longer the word" event this morning in the UK debuts the iPhone's arrival in Europe starting with O2 in the UK. Official launch is November 9th.

technology, apple, europe, uk, iphone, cellphone, o2

Amazon Flex Pay - No, Not A PayPal Killer, Yet

Sat Aug 4, 2007 2:58 AM EDT

This week Amazon launched their Flexible Payment Service (FPS) API in a limited beta. What is it?

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technology, internet, google, ebay, amazon, ecommerce, credit-card, paypal, google-checkout, flexible-payment-service

Governor Establishes Broadband Ohio Network To Expand High Speed Internet Access in Ohio

Seeded on Thu Aug 2, 2007 2:47 AM EDT (governor.ohio.gov)

Columbus, Ohio – In order to coordinate and expand access to the state's broadband data network, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland has signed an executive order establishing the Ohio Broadband Council and the Broadband Ohio Network.

technology, internet, ohio, network, broadband, rural, ted-strickland

FEMA Concentration Camps: Locations and Executive Orders

Seeded on Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:52 AM EDT (mindfully.org)

There over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty.

us-news, bush, fema, executive-order, ashcroft, prison-camps, garden-plot, marshal-law, rex-84, cable-splicer

Did FEMA Ignore Toxic Trailers?

Seeded on Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:51 AM EDT (TIME)

The bloody noses started almost immediately. Paul Stewart, a former police officer and first lieutenant in the U.S. Army, completely lost his home when Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

politics, katrina, hurricane, fema, trailers, osha, formaldehyde

Windmill Cuts Bills, but Neighbors Don't Want to Hear It

Seeded on Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:30 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Tired of paying as much as $340 per month for gas and electricity at the Cape Cod home here where he has lived for 18 months, Michael Mercurio erected a 35-foot windmill in his backyard last fall that helped reduce his bill to about $114 — a year.

technology, alternative-energy, wind, cape-cod, skystream

Library of Congress asked to pull webcasting licenses

Seeded on Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:17 AM EDT (Ars Technica)

Media Rights Technologies made waves in the tech world a few weeks back by claiming that it was about to sue Adobe, Microsoft, Real, and Apple for not doing enough to stop the streamripping of Internet radio.

technology, microsoft, drm, adobe, library-of-congress, online-radio, media-rights-technologies, streamripping

Putting Google On Your Phone

Seeded on Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:22 PM EDT (blogoscoped.com)

Reto Meier of the Radioactive Yak blog recently turned his cell phone into a "Google Phone," and he'll explain how you can do the same through the different mobile-optimized sites and Java clients Google offers.

technology, google, cell-phone, online-apps

Revised Patriot Act Will Make It Illegal To Read Patriot Act

Seeded on Wed Jul 4, 2007 1:44 AM EDT (The Onion)

"Under current federal law, there are unreasonable obstacles to investigating and prosecuting acts of terrorism, including the public's access to information about how the federal police will investigate and prosecute acts of terrorism," Bush said at a press conference Monday.

politics, bush, congress, satire, patriot-act

Google Desktop now available for Linux

Seeded on Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:02 AM EDT (googleblog.blogspot.com)

Just a few months after Google Desktop became available for the Mac, I'm happy to tell you it's now available for Linux users too.

technology, google, linux, search, google-desktop

Google Docs and Spreadsheets Updated

Seeded on Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:28 AM EDT (google-d-s.blogspot.com)

Today we introduced some exciting changes to Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Here's what's new:

technology, google, office, application, spreadsheet, word-processor

Lawmakers to Investigate Bush on Laws and Intent

Seeded on Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:38 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Lawmakers say they plan to dig deeper into the Bush administration's use of bill-signing statements as ways to circumvent Congressional intent.

politics, bush, congress, republicans, executive-branch, signing-statements, federal-law

Machinima Series Red vs. Blue Ends Tour of Duty

Seeded on Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:14 AM EDT (Wired News)

Red vs. Blue, the cult hit, web-video series created from in-game Halo footage, concludes its genre-defining run as it airs its 100th and final episode Wednesday evening.

technology, microsoft, xbox, halo, bungie, machinima, red-vs-blue

The Great Biofuel Hoax

Seeded on Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:31 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)

The question is not whether ethanol and biodiesel have a place in our future, but whether or not we allow a handful of global corporations to impoverish the planet and the majority of its people.

business, oil, agriculture, ethanol, farming, corporations, biofuel, hybrid-seed

Bush claims oversight exemption too - Los Angeles Times

Seeded on Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:09 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

The White House said Friday that, like Vice President Dick Cheney's office, President Bush's office is not allowing an independent federal watchdog to oversee its handling of classified national security information.

politics, bush, president, white-house, cheney, vice-president, oversight, classified, executive-branch

Cheney ordered Secret Service logs destroyed, paper reports

Seeded on Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:32 PM EDT (Raw Story)

VP created new secret document classification, keeps 'man-size' safes A massive piece in Sunday's Washington Post reveals the true extent of secrecy Vice President Dick Cheney requires.

politics, cheney, vice-president, executive-branch, top-secret

FBI to restrict student freedoms

Seeded on Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:28 PM EDT (Press Esc)

US university students will not be able to work late at the campus, travel abroad, show interest in their colleagues' work, have friends outside the United States, engage in independent research, or make extra money without the prior consent of the authorities, according to a set …

us-news, fbi, students, espionage, spies, universities, freedoms

Hacker Adrian Lamo Wins, Won't Have to Give the FBI his Blood

Seeded on Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:18 AM EDT (Wired News)

Lamo offered to give a hair sample or cheek swab instead of blood, but federal probation officer Michael Sipe filed a notice of violation in U.S District Court for the Eastern District of Northern California asking the judge to put Lamo in jail.

technology, fbi, dna, jail, hacker, lamo, codis

Bush-ites Outsourced Our Government to Their Pals

Seeded on Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:46 AM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

Ever helpful to its clients, HSD also maintains a private-sector office, headed by an assistant secretary who is not a security expert but a former banker from JP Morgan Chase. This office provides concierge service for cookie grabbers.

politics, bush, military, terrorists, outsourcing, dhs, halliburton, contracts, blackwater-cheney

What's in a Laptop? Court Ponders Legality of Border Searches

Seeded on Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:05 AM EDT (Wired News)

Is your laptop a fancy piece of luggage or an extension of your mind? That's the central question facing a federal appeals court in a case that could sharply limit the government's ability to snoop into laptop computers carried across the border by American citizens.

technology, government, security, search, privacy, laptop, dhs, eff, fourth-amendment, us-customs

Man calls for EMS, gets police Tasers

Seeded on Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:01 PM EDT (waxahachiedailylight.com)

Waxahachie resident Allen Nelms says a call to 911 to get medical attention for his diabetic seizure got him Tasered by police instead.

us-news, police, 911, taser, diabetic-seizure

It'll be tough to jumpstart classic car after 50-year burial

Seeded on Sun Jun 17, 2007 4:43 PM EDT (CNN)

Calling it "our King Tut's tomb," thousands of people watched as a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere was pulled from the ground where it had been buried for 50 years as a time capsule of American Midwest culture.

us-news, oklahoma, plymouth, time-capsule, belvedere, boyd-coddington

A price to pay for alternative fuels

Seeded on Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:43 PM EDT (The Charlotte Observer)

Bob Teixeira decided it was time to take a stand against U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

us-news, oil, fuel, alternative-fuel, vegetable-oil, motor-fuel-tax

What if our mercenaries turn on us?

Seeded on Sat Jun 9, 2007 7:56 AM EDT (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

The privatization of war hands an incentive to American corporations, many with tremendous political clout, to keep us mired down in Iraq. But even more disturbing is the steady rise of this modern Praetorian Guard.

politics, america, blackwater, corporations, paramilitary, governemnt

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