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Stop the Telco Takeover -- National Day of Out(R)age -- Save Public Access The Baby Bells are moving nationwide to dominate and control our communication delivery systems. More than 500,000 people have spoken on behalf of net neutraility and saving public, education, and government access channels. Internet users, community activists and independent media producers, consumer groups, churches and are speaking out. The National Day of Out(r)age is an opportunity for everyone to make their voice heard with political action....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 4:37pm PDT
Perhaps a little compassion? This article just goes to show that no matter who you are or what you do, oil prices will affect you in MANY different ways....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 2:27pm PDT
New Frontiers of Shamelessness: Bono's Independent "I have no embarrassment at all. No shame." Bono says it himself, in the course of his luvvie interview with comic Eddie Izzard, and that's a typically 'disarming' tactic. But don't be disarmed: Bono's shamelessness is of a whole different order from anything we've seen before, and it crosses new frontiers in the edition of the London Independent that he allegedly 'edited' today (16 May)....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 6:55am PDT
Nancy Pelosi forfeits the Constitution For those of you who pray, I suggest you change your prayers from "God bless America," to "God help us." And I suggest you start today....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2006 9:43pm PDT
Copps says FCC should investigate phone record dislosures FCC Commissioner Michael Copps has called for the Federal Communications Commission to start an inquiry into whether telephone companies acted legally by handing over millions of records to the government....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2006 5:52pm PDT
Verizon denies giving phone info to NSA After their stock fell with word of a $50 billion class action lawsuit filed against them, Verizon denies assisting with NSA phone log database....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2006 3:56pm PDT
Lawsuit seeks $50 billion dollars from Verizon for assisting NSA phone database ...
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2006 3:54pm PDT
Hundreds Gather in Duncan Oklahoma to Protest Outside Halliburton Shareholder Meeting We go to Oklahoma to speak with Corpwatch’s Pratap Chatterjee about his new report "Hurricane Halliburton: Conflict, Climate Change and Catastrophe." We also speak with Nigerian attorney Michael Keania Karikpo who represents Environmental Rights Action in Nigeria....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2006 9:23am PDT
London Mayor Gives Warm Warm Welcome Hugo Chávez One superior politician salutes another....
Posted: Mon, May 15, 2006 9:08pm PDT
Paul Krugman on Medicare D The Bush administration turns out to be the reverse Midas, everything it gets its hands on from reconstruction of New Orleans to the drug benefit turns to crud....
Posted: Mon, May 15, 2006 10:38am PDT
The Utopias of Capitalism "Government and freedom exclude one another" Max Barry in "Jennifer Government." In the negative utopia,. the dystopia, the fear is over capital interests. The all-powerful corporation changes into a religion. Workers are no longer paid because their work is understood as divine service....
Posted: Mon, May 15, 2006 5:54am PDT
Broken News: Howard’s final Suck “Bush Praises Howard”, reads the headline on ninemsn ‘news’, 15 May ‘06. It is not often a response can be encapsulated in one word, PUKE, Puke, puke – whatever way you care to spell it!...
Posted: Sun, May 14, 2006 10:21pm PDT
Few critical FCC filings so far on proposed AT&T/BellSouth merger Nearly a month into the pleading cycle for AT&T's proposed merger with BellSouth, few parties have filed critical comments with the FCC regarding the matter, the agency's records show....
Posted: Sun, May 14, 2006 5:28pm PDT
AK Press Event!: "Our Oil and Other Tales" Film Showing for Modesto Copwatch! Friday, May 26th—Our Oil and Other Tales Benefit Film Screening for Copwatch
7PM at the AK Press Warehouse
$5-$20 sliding scale donation at the door; no one turned away for lack of funds
Join us for the west coast premiere of Our Oil and Other Tales, filmed recently in Venezuela. This documentary delves deep into oil and coal from Lake Maracaibo to the Orinoco Delta, examining sovereignty and self-determination through the life experiences of communities, oil workers, and indigenous peop...
Posted: Sat, May 13, 2006 12:51pm PDT
US Congress passes more tax cuts for the rich The US Congress this week passed another round of extraordinary tax cuts for the rich, worth an estimated $70 billion over five years. The bill is part of the relentless redistribution of social resources in the United States, from the vast majority of the population into the hands of a small oligarchy. It will be signed into law by President Bush early next week....
Posted: Sat, May 13, 2006 9:22am PDT
Chávez's Decent Society Threatens U.S. Imperialists 
Acclaimed international correspondent John Pilger reports from Venezuela....
Posted: Sat, May 13, 2006 12:28am PDT
July 15 - Day of Action against Climate Change and G8 International Day of Direct Action
against Climate Change and the G8
Rise Up Against G8 Policies
Target Fossil Fuel Industries in Your Town or Bioregion...
Posted: Sat, May 13, 2006 12:09am PDT
Taking Care of Your Teeth Naturally “Modern” society is used to buying everything necessary for oral hygiene in prefabricated, mass-produced packaging. But people all over the world use natural toothbrushes made from plants which contain beneficial oils and properties, growing around them. The precursor to the modern toothbrush was a twig. This article will explore different ways to take care of your teeth and mouth naturally, without paying off a major corporation for those benefits....
Posted: Fri, May 12, 2006 9:02pm PDT
Halliburton solves global warming! SurvivaBall™'s hook up a brighter future...
Posted: Fri, May 12, 2006 4:34pm PDT
Si Valley should Know: End of Moore's Law is a Crisis 
Transistors-per-chip growth (Moore's First Law) is ending (soon, see graph), and it could be very bad for the economy. The good news is that Gordon Moore's Second Law is finally coming into effect. This "forgotten" part of his famous article was about "handy" "sale"-priced computers (see his cartoon)....
Posted: Fri, May 12, 2006 2:45pm PDT
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