Apple strong-arms expo event organizers to get rid of inconvenient criticism from environmental group. News gets plastered all over the net. Talk about a counterproductive move from the cultists.
Environmentalist group Greenpeace was ousted from the current MaxExpo in London by event organizers who claimed they had received complaints about the exhibitor from unnamed sources.
Greenpeace purchased […]
Yay! Meanwhile, new lapdog government ‘troubled’ by said ‘revelation’.
Swedes think that the United States and North Korea pose the greatest threats to world peace, according to the results of a poll released on Sunday.
Nearly one in three Swedes, 29 percent, think that the US is the biggest threat to peace on earth, the poll, commissioned […]
Imagine a future where Intel decides what software its processors will allow you to execute, what OS you will run. Or at the very least that your movies and music have all passed MPAA / RIAA gestapo checkpoints. All cleverly concealed and wrapped in the fight against computer viruses. It does sound awfully familiar doesn’t […]
What do you know. Another example of unfair trade and intellectual piracy by an American transnational. Where is that invisible hand when you really need it?
Starbucks, the giant US coffee chain, has used its muscle to block an attempt by Ethiopia’s farmers to copyright their most famous coffee bean types, denying them potential earnings of […]
At least some people have had enough. Like Swiss Justice Minister Christoph Blocher. Hopefully this will make other European nations a little more likely to bring up the controversial issue and to think about restoring freedom of speech to its former glory.
Freedom of expression was essential to democracy, affirmed the minister. “I want people to […]
(Source) So … it’s a cheap shot but I couldn’t help myself. It’s the first thing that came to mind. Ironically, aside from shaky democratic foundations, they’re both big fans of travelling the world and lecturing other people on the shallower points of democracy. Stooges as they may be.
Press Freedom Index 2006 - France, the United States and Japan slip further.
The United States (53rd) has fallen nine places since last year, after being in 17th position in the first year of the Index, in 2002. Relations between the media and the Bush administration sharply deteriorated after the president used the pretext of “national […]
Wired: Battle of the New Atheism
“There’s an infinite number of things that we can’t disprove,” he said. “You might say that because science can explain just about everything but not quite, it’s wrong to say therefore we don’t need God. It is also, I suppose, wrong to say we don’t need the Flying Spaghetti Monster, […]
As autumn brings forth cooler weather, glorious foliage, and football season, it’s also the time when Dilbert creator Scott Adams gets ready to reveal the latest cornucopia of Weasels in his unscientific and fifth annual Weasel Poll. There’s never a shortage of this illustrious breed and 2006 proves to be no different with Weasels in […]
One could of course argue that things have never been quite alright with Britain, being tainted by its imperialistic, violent past, Puritan-Victorian values and whatnot. But they still manage to surprise, and together with the U.S. and a select few unsavory nations, they continue to cheerlead the erosion of civil liberties — and indeed reason […]
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