via selinawoman and others:

a riotous hack of the WTO website1

WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa
Philadelphia - At a Wharton Business School conference on business in Africa, World Trade Organization representative Hanniford Schmidt announced the creation of a WTO initiative for "full private stewardry of labor" for the parts of Africa that ( Read more... )

my friend sulky_girl got the following e-mail on behalf of moveon.org:
Subject: Don't let the Senate let President Bush off the hook for breaking the law ( Read more... )

today's headline of interest:
My role in the Plame leak probeBY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST ( Read more... )

read about this and visited the site, but won't have time to look into it in more detail 'til later. so i will just go ahead and post for anyone who wants to explore:

Campaigns Wikiafounded by the founder of wikipedia, it hopes to spark political debate on a fact-based level, and--i guess--bring many sides of an issue out instead of various "us ( Read more... )

remember a few weeks agout when the u.s military captured and showed to reporters outtakes of footage for the al-Zarqawi video?

according to the air force times, "Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, spokesman for the U.S. command, mocked al-Zarqawi as the previously unseen footage showed a smiling al-Qaida leader first firing single shots from a U.S.-made M-249 ( Read more... )

...must get out of the bunker for a wee bit

oddball quiz from the wild nalidoll that seems to mix sense and non-sense. surprisingly, i liked the end bit.

i always found it wierd that a lot of my ideals dovetail with libertarians and, from what i can tell, i am pretty solidly not libertarian...!

andywa, see what you think:

MungBeing Quiz Number 008: ( Read more... )

i had missed this one, but broadband carriers are busily lobbying congress to undermine internet neutrality, in a move that could ultimately jack up the costs of your net surfing. read more!

Without 'Net neutrality,' will consumers pay twice?
[c|net, free]
The debate over whether broadband providers should be allowed to prioritize the traffic ( Read more... )

actually surprised. i usually come off as a kind of new deal democrat or libertarian on these types of thing. maybe i need to find out more about the greens. seen, oh, almost everywhere....


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Yahoo accused of helping jail another Chinese writer
[c|net, free]
Yahoo may have helped Chinese police identify an Internet writer who was subsequently jailed for four years for subversion in the third such case, an advocacy group for journalists said Wednesday ( Read more... )

i should know that by now....

Phone-Jamming Records Point to White House
[yahoo! news, free]
Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show ( Read more... )