August 31, 2007 :: J.E. Robertson :: Comments Off
OF 25 SUCH FORMAT ‘FLIPS’ OVER 18 MONTHS, ZERO HAVE PRODUCED HIGHER RATINGS THAN THE CANCELLED PROGRESSIVE TALK FORMAT In San Diego, California, the sixth largest city in the United States, Clear Channel is planning to shut down the city’s only progressive radio station, Air America, a nationally-syndicated talk radio format that often voices criticism [...]
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August 30, 2007 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
CRITICS SAY PLAN DESIGNED TO GIVE GOP UNFAIR ADVANTAGE IN NATIONAL VOTE The Electoral College is a procedural peculiarity enshrined in the Constitution, initially intended to protect the voting power of slave-holding states, which puts the very concept of majority rule in question. A California plan to “reform” the system would grant electoral college votes [...]
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August 14, 2007 :: J.E. Robertson :: Comments Off
When Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder asked Pres. Bush to “leave this world alone” in song, online viewers watching Lollapalooza via AT&T’s ‘Blue Room’ webcast were not able to hear it. The company cut the political lyrics from the webcast in what band-members, fans and net-neutrality advocates have called blatant censorship. AT&T blamed an outside contractor and apologized for the ‘mistake’.
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August 14, 2007 :: J.E. Robertson :: One Comment
Water is one of the “fundamental building-blocks of life”, as is often said in science, in biology classrooms, in medicine, theology, environmental policy debates, and in cosmology and space exploration. It is also a commodity whose economic reality is increasingly defined by chronic scarcity and often intensely uneven distribution.
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August 13, 2007 :: J.E. Robertson :: Comments Off
As China officially began the countdown to the Beijing Olympic Games, various groups report foreign journalists have been intimidated, harassed and even detained, while trying to do their work in China. There is an apparent campaign from the highest levels to limit the ability of Chinese citizens to speak out about corruption, state violence, ecological crisis and authoritarianism; the state is apparently not embarrassed by being seen as a closed totalitarian system.
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August 9, 2007 :: staff :: Comments Off
Journalist Bill Moyers explains how Net Neutrality is really about stipulating for all media regulations an ‘Equality of Access provision’ like that imposed on AT&T after “Free Press and Save the Internet.com orchestrated 800 organizations, a million and a half petitions… a top-shelf communications campaign…”
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August 9, 2007 :: J.E. Robertson :: Comments Off
THE OPEN INTERNET IS A FORCE FOR DEMOCRACY & OPEN GOV’T, NOW IT IS UNDER THREAT FROM THOSE WHO WISH TO BOTTLENECK THE FREE PRESS The concept of ‘net neutrality’ refers to the current state of affairs in the free democracies of the world, where those who control the physical infrastructure of the Internet are [...]
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August 8, 2007 :: staff :: Comments Off
Arusha, Tanzania, played host last week to leaders from “more than 10 Darfur rebel groups”, as the groups held talks to work out common ground and a structure for negotiating peace with the Sudan government, in light of the coming deployment of 26,000 UN-mandated peacekeepers for Darfur. The conflict which began as an effort to stamp out regional differences and secure control for Khartoum has become a crisis of global interest and one which the United Nations now seeks to put an end to.
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August 6, 2007 :: J.E. Robertson :: Comments Off
A California government-sponsored study has “found that virtually all voting machines used in the state are vulnerable to hackers”, creating a whirlwind of complaints from activists and defiance from manufacturers. Secretary of State Debra Bowen, along with voting rights activists have said the problem needs to be solved before next year’s presidential primary elections.
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August 3, 2007 :: J.E. Robertson :: Comments Off
As environmental groups, lobbyists and the general public push for more environmentally friendly industrial practices, scientists are finding innovative ways to bring down costs and increase the efficiency of renewable resources. The dye-sensitive solar cells (DSSC), with a pinkish sheen, now being developed at Ohio State University, are an example of the type of engineering innovation that could bring about a genuine green-power revolution.
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August 2, 2007 :: The Editors :: Comments Off
BANCROFT FAMILY SHAREHOLDERS GIVE ENOUGH SUPPORT TO LET DEAL GO THROUGH, MURDOCH WILL CONTROL WALL STREET JOURNAL Controversial media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, through his company Newscorp, has reportedly persuaded the Bancroft family, which holds a controlling interest in the financial company Dow Jones, to sell the firm for $5.6 billion, giving him control of the [...]
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August 2, 2007 :: J.E. Robertson :: Comments Off
A new study has shown that the most serious risk rural Mexican women face of contracting HIV is by sexual intercourse with their own husbands, in cases where the husband is a migrant worker traveling to and from the US. The result of the irregular migration policy regarding the US-Mexico border is that men who migrate without papers to work in factories or on farms often spend large amounts of time alone, with no contact with their wives or families.
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