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    greengovernment.org
      In the morning. Still a boner though.
      http://www.greengovernment.org/
    wedontcareaboutcustomers.com
      ITM,
      Please add the following domains, now forwarding to noagendashow.com:
      wedontcareaboutcustomers.com
      monkeysthrowpoopatme.com
      Keep up the excellent mouth-hitting!
      Thanks,
      Chuck B
    bogusnews.tv
      While I was listening to NA 318 I heard you guys talk a lot about bogus news, as you always do, and I thought that might be a good domain to forward to noagendashow.com so I registered bogusnews.tv
      Again, thank you for providing a valuable public service by calling out all of the nonsense in the media
      -Ryan Hoskins
    drpooper.com
      To round things out, I'll mention that I've been forwarding a domain I own "drpooper.com" (like Dr Pepper, but with more fiber, or at least that was the idea at the time I registered it) to noagendashow.com for some time.
      Best regards,
      Steven Cogswell
    ibeendoingthat.com
      Adam - Need an account on the news network please.
      Also, I got ibeendoingthat.com since obama's been doing all that. It's pointed to noagenda.com.
      Thanks,
      --
      Mike
    themediaisowned.com
      Hey Adam,
      Happy 4th. I just forwarded themediaisowned.com and themediaignores.com to noagendashow.com and also signed up for thr $5 monthly donations. Sorry i've been a doucher for a while. Keep up the great work.
      -Ronson
    NoAgendaKnighthood.com
      ITM ... a few more domains now forwarding to http://www.noagendashow.com/
      AreYouFullyCharged.com
      NoAgendaKnighthood.com
      PhillyKrispyKreme.com (the Krispy Kreme franchise owner in Philly owes me money; fuggim)
      TheProblemIs.us
      GitmoNationIs.us
      Happy 4th to you and Miz Mickey!
      Black Knight Sir LOHAD
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    10:40AM: @adamcurry now forwarding noagendauniversity.com and noagendainstitute.com to noagendashow.com. (@adamcurry - Twitter Search)
      @adamcurry now forwarding noagendauniversity.com and noagendainstitute.com to noagendashow.com.
    askobama.org
      ASKOBAMA.ORG now forwards to NOAGENDASHOW.COM.
      --Thoren
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    Trains Good, Planes Bad (WHoo Hoo!)
      High-speed rail: How fast is fast enough? | The Economist
        The best way to get high-speed rail to succeed in America is to actually build it somewhere, and then to wait for the other states to say "I want that!"
      United Kingdom, | YORK, England, June 28, 2011 | Four Million Britons Give up Flying Dueto Airport Stress | The Herald - Rock Hill, SC
        Bad airport experiences have led close to four million[1]travellers to give up flying altogether, with more than a third of Britons who have flown now claiming the airport experience is more stressful than the working week. -
      Meridian Six is the Carbon Cutter. | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
        Meridian Six is the Carbon Cutter. UK Train
        The Carbon Cutter. | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
        The Carbon Cutter | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
    $hadow Puppet Theatre
      President Obama loses official seal on I-76 in Philadelphia - Drive On: A conversation about the cars and trucks we drive - USATODAY.com
        In fact they are magnetic stick-ons like the cheesy signs real-estate agents slap on the sides of their cars to maintain its tax-deductibility. And according to this report by the Philadelphia Daily News, they are about as permanent.
      Blackwater's New Director: Bill Clinton's Lawyer | Danger Room | Wired.com
        Blackwater's rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of-the world's most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
    Anti Constitution
      Should We Abolish the Jury System? - Opinion - PatriotPost.US
        Should we embrace the European inquisitorial system, in which judges ask the questions and come up with the decisions? Should we hire professional jurors? The answer doesn't lie in abolishing the jury system utterly, but in revamping it completely. The rationale behind juries is still important, particularly with regard to politically-oriented trials: We don't want judges paid by government to have full authority to condemn those of different political persuasions. And the rationale behind a public trial is also still relevant -- we don't want Star Chambers or clandestine hearings. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
      Marshall Frank: Casey Anthony case prime example of waste of time, money in finding citizen jurors; hire professional ones >> TCPalm.com
        "Jury of our peers" is a misnomer in modern times. How do we seat a panel of American-born men and women as peers of a criminal defendant from Zimbabwe or Pakistan? When the forefathers established the "peer" rule, trials rarely lasted beyond one day and juries were limited to white, male, Protestant landowners. Today, juries are a mixed bag of multicultural people with educations ranging from grade school to doctorate degrees. Major trials can last for months. Much of trial time is expended explaining law and procedure to a jury, or repeatedly excusing them from the courtroom.
      Casey Anthony trial: Cable TV, social media spur Casey Anthony spectacle - latimes.com
        Dubbed "the social media trial of the century" by Time magazine, the case generated untold number of tweets, including from the 9th Judicial Circuit Court itself, where the case was tried. In a sign of the unusual cultural reach of the case, reality TV star Kim Kardashian tweeted Tuesday after the verdict: "WHAT!!!!???!!!! I am speechless."
      We The People - TIME
        Americans weigh in on the founding document
    Bank$ters
      STRAUSS-KAHN: DA TO DROP CHARGES, BUT NEW CONSPIRACY EVIDENCE EMERGES. | The Slog
        Yesterday, The Slog suggested that the maid Nafissatou Diallo's conversation with an Arizona prison inmate tended to rule out a 'higher level' of anti-DSK conspiracy. But now we learn that Vance (a) recklessly opted to keep DSK in jail and (b) the Frenchmen cannot now get his passport back in time to compete in France's Presidential primaries. Along with Vance's (c) completely inexplicable decision to delay telling the defence for 36 days that he had no case, as such, this will keep conspiracy theorists going for decades.
        Nevertheless, a former CIA operative said yesterday, "There's just far too much uncontrollable sh*t for this to have been an operation.
        Anyway, it's game over for the prosecution. And so Strauss-Kahn exits the frying pan of New York, and returns to the fire of another attempted rape accusation in France. My reading on this one is that the lady should save her money and move on: it's far too long ago for any forensics, she works for the Right Wing Le Figaro, she's a feminist who writes books about male domination in politics, and her mum (a Socialist) openly admits that the only reason she's bringing the case is because the New York case collapsed. Frankly, there isn't a jury in Europe outside Haringey that would go for it given that background.
        But here's the odd, sleazy sting in the tail that's always there with Dominic Strauss-Kahn: the girl, Tristane Banon, is his second wife's Goddaughter. He really is a lecherous old lizard....
    Gitmo Nation
      Exclusive: Sony Forces Employees To Submit To Body Scanners
        Sony distribution centers are mandating that employees pass through body scanners when they exit the workplace according to an internal memo leaked to Infowars, but the corporation claims that the devices do not emit harmful radiation nor do they display naked images, why begs the question such scanners are not being used in airports.
      China to deploy huge Big Brother surveillance network with Cisco
        The system, dubbed "Peaceful Chongquing," is among the largest and most sophisticated video surveillance projects of its kind, which aims to cover half a million intersections, neighborhoods and parks over nearly 400 square miles.-Chongqing's government will be investing more than $800 million for the project and another $1.6 billion will be coming from other unspecified sources, according to the report.
      John Cornyn Has Lost My Vote | KOSSOME MEDIA
      Airport body scanners: MEPs demand strict safeguards
        MEPs accept that body scanners would enhance aviation security, but ask Member States "to deploy technology which is the least harmful for human health" and addresses privacy concerns. Due to health risks "scanners using ionising radiation should be prohibited in the EU".
    United $tates of EURO-pe
      BBC News - Schengen state Denmark beefs up border controls
        Denmark, part of the Schengen border-free zone, has deployed extra customs officers on its frontiers in a move causing concern among EU neighbours.
        Thirty additional officers were being posted on the Danish land border with Germany and 20 others on the country's sea borders.
    Ministry of Truth
      Sources: 10,000 US Troops On Offer For Iraq : NPR
        despite opposition from many Iraqis and key Democratic Party allies who demand that President Barack Obama bring home the American military as promised.
      The News - Fleming taps flock to cheap water
        The Flemish are feverishly looking for cheap water. Through cisterns, but in recent years via drilled wells. The cause is the sharp increase in price of drinking water and the charge for the treatment of wastewater that comes on top. So the integral water in Flanders has increased to 2.8 per cubic meter in the cheapest towns and even to 3.6 euros in the most expensive.
      Corporate Media and Threat to Democracy
        "Whoever controls the media, controls the peoples' minds."
      Project Gunrunner | Kenneth Melson | ATF Resignation | The Daily Caller
        Former El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) director Phil Jordan said he thinks this scandal goes as high as Attorney General Eric Holder. From his decades of law enforcement experience working with Washington-based Justice Department officials, Jordan said he's sure this kind of program would have needed approval from either the Attorney General or one of his direct deputies.
      whitehouseTweeters.opml
      Did Obama lie about White House salaries in Twitter town hall? - Hot Air
        So who's telling the truth?- Hint: it's not the master of Hope and Change.- First, not all White House salaries were frozen for two years.- Obama froze salaries of White House staff making over $100K two years ago, but the across-the-board federal freeze that impacts the rest of the staff didn't take place until January 2011. That's how economic adviser Matthew Vogel got an 82% pay increase (of $59,000 to $130,500) in 2010.- Vogel wasn't the only one to get his income nearly doubled, but given how the economy has performed over the past two years, this particular raise seems ... less than justified.
        Chart of whitehouse pay increases
      US court orders halt to gay military ban. (robertleather news feed)
        US court orders halt to gay military ban.
        A US appeals court has ordered the Obama administration to stop enforcing the ban on allowing gay men and women serving openly in the military
      Pentagon Reacts to 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Ruling - Political Punch
        The ruling drew this response from Pentagon Spokesperson Cynthia Smith, " We are studying the ruling with the Department of Justice."- She added, "We will of course comply with orders of the court, and are taking immediately steps to inform the field of this order. -In the meantime, implementation of the DADT repeal voted by the Congress and signed in to law by the President last December is proceeding smoothly, is well underway, and certification is just weeks away."
      AllGov - News - Obama and Holder Drop 99 of 101 CIA Torture Cases
        That's the number of CIA torture cases involving detainees that the Obama administration will continue to investigate after spending two years reviewing just over 100 instances of alleged abuse during the George W. Bush years. - Outgoing CIA Director Leon Panetta was thrilled by the news, which amounted to "one of the greatest gifts the Justice Department could have given" to the agency's new leader, former General David Petraeus," according to Spencer Ackerman at Wired. - Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. said special prosecutor John Durham's two-year review of the CIA torture program led to the conclusion that any further investigation of the 99 other cases "is not warranted."
      aangirfan: GOOGLE PERSONALISES RESULTS
    HackGate
      Journalists hacked missing teen girl's phone, lawyer charges - CNN.com
        Journalists hacked into the phone messages of a missing girl, deleting some to make space for more and thus giving her parents hope she was still alive when she was dead, the parents' lawyer told CNN on Tuesday.
        "The family are completely horrified. They thought this was all over" after the disappearance of Milly Dowler in 2002 and the conviction of a man for her murder this year, lawyer Mark Lewis said.
        But in April, police told the Dowlers that journalists had hacked into their phones and those of their daughter, he said.
        The accusation is the latest twist in a long-running scandal involving media baron Rupert Murdoch's flagship Sunday British tabloid newspaper, the News of the World.
        The paper has apologized for hacking into the voicemails of celebrities and politicians, paying compensation to actress Sienna Miller and offering money to others.
      HACKGATE DAY 175: The Establishment loses control | The Slog
        It has taken five years and billions of column inches, but Hackgate finally broke out of its Chatterati segment yesterday, and into the mainstream. And it happened, as usual, because the general public can't stand cruelty to children. How easy it was in the end
      aangirfan: MURDOCH, PHONE HACKING, MURDERS
        There are reports that people working for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World hacked the telephones of:
        1. Victims of the London Tube Bombings, bombings which have been linked to the CIA and its friends.
        2. The families of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, the young girls whose dead bodies were found near a US military base in England. (The Soham Murders and Ian Huntley)
        3. The murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
        4. The family of murdered child Sarah Payne.
        5. People involved in the case of missing child Madeleine McCann.
      Murdoch & News Group: Holdings
    Arab Spring
      President Obama Announces Presidential Delegation to the Republic of South Sudan to Attend the Ceremony Marking the Declaration of the Independence of the Republic of South Sudan | The White House
        Members of the Presidential Delegation: The Honorable Donald M. Payne, United States Representative from New Jersey and Ranking Member of House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights The Honorable Colin L. Powell, Former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff The Honorable Johnnie Carson, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State The Honorable Princeton N. Lyman, United States Special Envoy to Sudan, Department of State The Honorable Brooke Anderson, Deputy National Security Advisor, Chief of Staff and Counselor for the National Security Staff The Honorable Donald K. Steinberg, Deputy Administrator, USAID General Carter F. Ham, Commander, United States Africa Command The Honorable R. Barrie Walkley, United States Consul General in Juba Mr. Ken Hackett, President of Catholic Relief Services
      Who Sold Libya Its Supermissiles? | Danger Room | Wired.com
        Aviation Week's eagle-eyed reporter David Fulghum spotted a Russian-SA-24 Grinch surface-to-air-missile mounted on a Libyan army truck in recent cable news footage.-And that's a cause for concern: The SA-24 is more accurate, longer-flying, and more lethal than than earlier models of surface-to-air missiles.-It also has a dual-band infrared seeker and is more difficult to jam than older systems.
        Gaddafi threatens to attack Europe over airstrikes - Telegraph
          Gaddafi spoke from an unknown location in a sign of concern over his safety. Addressing the West, he warned that Libyans might take revenge for Nato bombings.
          "These people [the Libyans] are able to one day take this battle ... to Europe, to target your homes, offices, families, which would become legitimate military targets, like you have targeted our homes," he said.
        Villagers taught to spot a rocket | Herald Sun
          Villagers were shocked when police told them that some areas of Surrey - on the southwestern outskirts of London - had been identified as potential "high-risk launch sites" for terrorists to fire rockets at planes taking off or landing at Heathrow Airport.
      The News - France stop arms deliveries to Libyan opposition
        Dropping weapons to the Libyan rebels is "no longer necessary". That said French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet Tuesday during a press conference.
        "There is a political organization independent of government in Libya (from Gaddafi, ed) in Tripoli, Longuet explained the decision by the French government. "The droppings were the last few weeks, but the regions can now function autonomously."
      Goldman Sachs Lost 98% of Libya's $1.3B Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment - Agustino Fontevecchia - Moral Hazard - Forbes
        The fascinating drama includes Goldman offering Libya preferred equity and debt which could've made it one of the investment bank's largest shareholders during the onset of the crisis, as well as intimidation and violent threats by Libyan officials.
      Syria's Protesters Find Little Support in Pop Music - TIME
        It's meant to look like one of the countless amateur videos streaming out of Syria from an antigovernment protest, capturing the state's violent crackdown. Except it is not.
    Shut Up Slave!
      Indiana Schools to Stop Teaching Cursive (Dame Tanya's feed)
        Indiana Schools to Stop Teaching Cursive
        [Not quite sure what to make of this. Certainly they should still learn how to read cursive, but write it? Probably not necessary. Although I may be biased since Penmanship was the only class I ever failed.]
      WSJ declares war on bizav: AINonline
        If there remained any doubt after its February 14 piece on the alleged excesses of "Air Bloomberg" (AIN, March, page 62), The Wall Street Journal effectively declared hostilities on business aviation last month.
        With "Corporate Jet Set: Leisure vs. Business" (June 16), the unveiling of the online "WSJ JetTracker" (June 16) and "Ready for Departure: M&A Airlines" (June 17), the paper paints a picture of corporate jets as expensive, wasteful, abused perks for, oddly enough, the same people who have built its subscriber base--people chasing, hooking, embracing and furthering the very same American Dream for which the WSJ in its self-promotional slogan once claimed to be the daily diary. What the hell has gotten into the paper, many in business aviation are asking?
        Among the theories floated last month by people affected: like many other publishing ventures in the age of the Internet, the Journal is in distress and desperate to raise revenue by gaining attention, readers and advertisers any way it can; it's owned by Rupert Murdoch, long recognized as the biological father of the trashy tabloid genre; the anti-business crusade by the liberal media continues; and
      Investigation into APS cheating finds unethical behavior across every level -| ajc.com
        Teachers and principals erased and corrected mistakes on students' answer sheets.
        Area superintendents silenced whistle-blowers and rewarded subordinates who met academic goals by any means possible.
      Kids turn in dad for pot possession | kare11.com
        Authorities say a Utah man was arrested after his two children called police to report that he had marijuana in the house.
    Food!
      The sandwich with a 14-day shelf life - Telegraph
        Ray Boggiana, the food technologist who helped develop the range, said that lettuce and tomatoes has been left out as they had a tendency to go soggy. Otherwise, most of the secret to the long shelf life was down to basic food technology: removing the oxygen from the packaging and replacing it with nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
    Cyber War$
      Read The Bill: H.R. 1981 - GovTrack.us. (DaDenMan news feed)
        Read The Bill: H.R. 1981 - GovTrack.us.
        Retention of Certain Records- A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least 18 months the temporarily assigned network addresses the service assigns to each account, unless that address is transmitted by radio...
      Obama Campaign Website 'Hacked': 'Commy Obama' Invites Supporters to 'Anti-Government' Events | Breaking news and opinion on The Blaze
        The Obama campaign website along with its iPhone applications were hacked Tuesday. Hackers reportedly invited Obama supporters to two fake anti-government events titled "Rules of Politics," hosted by one "Commy Obama."
      TechWomen
        TechWomen is funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and implemented in partnership with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI).
      TechWomen >> Partners
        Participants will complete mentorships at leading technology companies in Silicon Valley. Companies supporting TechWomen 2011: Adobe Systems, Inc.* AT&T* Avaya Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley* Cisco Systems* Edelman Ericsson F Gordon Group Facebook* Google* Hewlett-Packard Laboratories* Huawei* Intel Corporation* Internet Systems Consortium* Juniper Networks* Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory LikeList* Mayfield Fund Microsoft Corporation mPay Connect* NetApp* Newcomb Anderson McCormick* Northgate Environmental Management, Inc.* Omidyar Network Oracle Corporation* Parallel Earth* Research in Motion SAP Labs* SF Public Press Soup Stanford University Susan Nesbitt Consulting Symantec* ThoughtWorks* Twitter VMware, Inc. Yahoo!* YouTube ZaReason* * indicates Technical Mentorship Host companies
      Alec Ross (innovator) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
        Alec Ross (born November 30, 1971) is Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a role created for him that blends technology with diplomacy.[1] As Secretary Clinton's "tech guru,"[2] Ross is leading the State Department's efforts to find practical technology solutions for some of the globe's most vexing problems on health care, poverty, human rights and ethnic conflicts.
      Ross, Alec
        Hillary Clinton. In this role, Alec is tasked with maximizing the potential of technology in service of America's diplomatic and development goals. Prior to his service at the State Department, Alec worked on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team and served as Convener for Obama for America's Technology, Media & Telecommunications Policy Committee. In 2000, Alec Ross and three colleagues co-founded One Economy, a global nonprofit that uses innovative approaches to deliver the power of technology and information about education, jobs, health care and other vital issues to low-income people. During his eight years at One Economy, it grew from a team of four people working in a basement to the world's largest digital divide organization, with programs on four continents.
      Alec Ross (alecjross) on Twitter
      Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs: Lorraine Hariton
        Throughout her business career Ms. Hariton worked with various technologies and products including mainframes, thin-client technology, e-commerce financial infrastructure, internet audio solutions and speech applications. Most recently Hariton worked on Smart Grid initiatives including advanced metering and intelligent street lighting. Ms. Hariton served as President and CEO of Apptera from 2003 to 2005 where she brought their first product to market and raised $8 million in venture capital. She served as the CEO of Beatnik from 1999 to 2002 where she repositioned the company as a leader in the wireless industry and raised more than $40 million in venture capital. Ms. Hariton also spent 15 years at IBM serving in a number of executive capacities.
    Monsantoooo
      WWF documentary leads to huge row in Germany: GM support and money taken from Monsanto - NGOWatch | the NGOs & conservation groups that are bargaining away our future.
        "Now it has become a PR disaster. WWF Germany is responding with a 23 points factsheet, and say some accusations are false. For they do criticise partners, 'when necessary'. "The panda is not muzzled", so they say. But what to think about the fact that -- when asked by ou redaction -- WWF admits they have taken money from Monsanto? And about the statement that the very clear 'yes' to gene technology from Jason Clay in the film comes from 'an individual outsider'. Clay is not an outsider. He is Vice-president of WWF-international."
    Techno Experts
      No 140-character answers for Obama at Twitter town hall -- The 1600 Report - CNN.com Blogs
        "He's just answering the questions. He's not typing and tweeting," White House spokesman Jay Carney said of the event Friday. Still the event is a major coup for the five-year old company that was barely on the radar only one campaign cycle ago.
      Why the Internet is America's greatest weapon -- Tech News and Analysis
        The added twist, of course, is that most of these dictators see the use of social networking as a proxy for American intervention. Lukashenko's people were quick to put forward the theory that these online protests were somehow linked to a visit to neighboring Lithuania by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. And while that might seem like mere delusion, there's evidence to suggest it has some truth to it: Clinton was visiting Eastern Europe to promote a Tech Camp that "teaches activists web savvy" and "subversion". She explicitly called out Belarus while she was there, and the Moscow Times quoted a Belarusian activist who had attended the camp "to learn how to keep his group safe online when it uses social media to organize protests at home".
    Squirrel!
      TSA on-TNT - Thought Stream - Quotable Diatribe
        I just have question, more of a shot in the dark, did anyone at the TSA happen to watch TNT recently?
      Implanted bombs: TSA warns of possible terrorist threat of bombs implanted in people - latimes.com
        The idea of surgically implanting bombs has been examined by intelligence agencies in the past, but new information has suggested that terrorist groups are seriously considering the technique, officials said.
    Real News
      Real News: Swiss party looks to ban PowerPoint. (WT news feed)
        Real News: Swiss party looks to ban PowerPoint.
        The APPP (Anti-PowerPoint Party) says that the time wasted by the presentation software costs the Swiss economy 2.1 billion Swiss Francs (ˆ¢Ôø‡¬¨1.7 billion) annually and ˆ¢Ôø‡¬¨110 billion for the rest of...
    Out There
      Another minuteman launch
        LAUNCH ALERT
        Brian Webb
        Ventura County, California
        launch-alert-editor@earthlink.net
        www.spacearchive.info
        2011 July 4 (Monday) 17:43 PDT
        ----------------------------------------------------------------------
        VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
        As of 2011 July 4
        Launch
        Time/Window
        Date (PST/PDT) Vehicle Pad/Silo
        ---------- ----------------- ------------- --------
        JUL 27 To be announced Minuteman III ---
        Vehicle will probably send one or more unarmed warheads on a ballistic
        trajectory to an impact area in the Central Pacific. The Air Force will
        announce details about the launch a few days in advance.
      NASA - NASA Rocket Launches Scheduled July 5 -- 23
        Based on the approved range schedule, the rocket pairs are set for launch between 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. EDT. The experiments on the Terrier-Improved Orion rockets will release lithium in the ionosphere. The resulting clouds are not expected to be visible to the naked eye but will be seen by special cameras on the ground.
      Atmospheric flare from a minuteman III ICBM missile on Vimeo
        Footage from a webcam on the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii presumed to have been caused by a test launch of a Minuteman III missile from California on June 22, 2011. The event was also captured by a camera on the Subaru telescope and witnessed by an observer with night-vision goggles.
    Donations
      DIGIDAY:DAILY - 5Qs: Turner's Walker Jacobs
        Having audience become the currency just broadens your competitive set infinitely.
      Account Executive Job in Atlanta PBS
        Daily life for an account executive in public television is similar to that of a salesperson in commercial broadcasting or local print media.
          An account executive is expected to make cold-calls to decision makers at local and regional businesses, meet with them to understand their marketing needs and develop proposals that offer marketing solutions to help them grow their business.
    Video
      [VIDEO]: THE NEWBURGH FOUR - FAKE TERROR
        Three men convicted of trying to blow up synagogues in New York have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
        The men were actually incited by the FBI, and handed fake bombs. ¬‚
        According to media reports, an FBI operative provided the fake C4 and the fake stinger missile.
      [VIDEO] George Osborne BBC Flashback - Ed Miliband Repeat - England | Mediaite
        In the video clip below, Conservative party member George Osborne is reacting to news from the Office of National Statistics that Britain's economy saw 0.8% growth between July and September 2010. If you listen very closely, he adheres to his talking points very carefully, repeating the same lines about "getting a double dose of good news," Britain's credit rating, and pretty much everything else.
      [VIDEO] - Archie Bunker on Democrats
        Archie Bunker on Democrats
      [VIDEO] Could America go the way of Greece? -- Fareek.
        Will America face the same financial disaster that the Greek government faces, with a soaring deficit and debt, markets that have lost faith in it and a downward spiral of budget cuts that then further depress the economy?
        Fareek in TIME: Debt Woes: Could America Go the Way of Greece? - TIME
          Right now, we could actually learn something from Greece. The current Greek government has faced up to its problems and initiated a series of spending cuts and tax increases and the sale of state-owned assets. What it has proposed dwarfs anything contemplated in the U.S. And the Greek government has made the case to its people patiently and persistently, not pandering to populist sentiment -- despite mobs rioting in the streets. It has also set about enacting a longer-term program to make the economy more competitive.
          In this respect, America is not like Greece at all, alas.
      [VIDEO] Dominique Strauss-Kahn's French Accuser, Tristane Banon, to Sue - ABC News
        A French journalist and writer will file a lawsuit Tuesday in connection with an alleged rape attempt by Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2002, her lawyer said today.
      Twitter for Newsrooms: #Report -- Twitter Media
        On Twitter, Andy Carvin of National Public Radio is a key filter and verifier of information coming out of North Africa and the Middle East. During the uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and beyond, Carvin was finding ways to verify sources thousands of miles away, in real-time. (Check out his interview with PBS Newshour.)
      TwitLonger: To a TV reporter, political PRs can seem incredibly fussy, often to the point where it takes vast ta
        So the fact that the unedited interview has found its way onto YouTube in all its absurdity, to be laughed at along with all the clips of cats falling off sofas, is perfectly proper.
        Afterwards, I was overcome with a feeling of shame. I couldn't look him in the eye.
        But before I dried up completely, and had to be led out of Westminster with my mouth opening and shutting, I had an opportunity to ask one last question. I had an urge to say something so stupid, so flippant that he would either have to answer it, or get up and leave. `What is the world's fastest fish?' `Can your dog do tricks?' `Which is your favourite dinosaur?' But, of course, this was a pool interview, and I had no wish to feed out the end of my television career to Sky and the BBC.
      [VIDEO]Does The Constitution Still Matter?
        Does The Constitution Still Matter?
        Does The Constitution Still Matter? July 06, 2011 CNN MOXNews.com From: MOXNEWSd0tCOM Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 11:11 More in News & Politics
      [VIDEO] Lucifer's Techno Experts (women)
        uly 6, 2011: Secretary Clinton delivers remarks at the closing luncheon for women who participated in the TechWomen Initiative in Washington, D.C.
      [VIDEO] The President delivers Remarks at Independence Day Celebration | The White House
        President Obama speaks to military families celebrating Independence Day on the South Lawn of the White House.
      [VIDEO] International Monetary Fund Press Conference - C-SPAN Video Library
        The new managing director and chair of the International Monetary Fund gave her first official news conference since taking the job. She most recently served as the finance minister of France.
      [VIDEO] So, what does the journalistic world inside the West Wing look like? | Breaking news and opinion on The Blaze
        ABC News takes us on a tour, complete with cubicles, chips and cameras, oh my:
      [VIDEO] Claim Rupert Murdoch Tabloid Hacked Phone Of 13 Year Old Murdered Girl & Deleted Messages
        Distracting from the true crimes
      [VIDEO] Casey Anthony Attorney Calls Case 'Media Assassination' - Orlando News Story - WKMG Orlando
        "I hope that this is a lesson to those of you that have indulged in media assassination for three years. Bias, prejudice and incompetent heads saying what would be and how to be. I'm disgusted by some of the lawyers who have done this," Mason said.
      [Video] Obama: "My Father Served In WWII" (The War Began In 1939-Obama's Father Was Born 1936) | The Raw Deal
        (video courtesy Greensboring.com) In the video, Obama explains how his Father, when returning from World War II, was treated properly.- Truly, he takes 'appeal to your audience' to a whole new level.
        A 3-year-old soldier.- Impressive.- It was September 1st [1939] when Nazi Germany first invaded Poland.- Obama's father would have been three at the time.- Facts truly are stubborn things.- Perhaps what's most interesting about the verbal 'misstep' is the ease and sincerity at which he pulls it off.- Kinda makes you wonder what else he might be lying about...
      [VIDEO] PM David Cameron devastated as Tory pal Christopher Shale found dead in Glastonbury toilet | The Sun |News
        An hour before he was last seen alive, Mr Shale is said to have been told that a secret memo in which he criticised the Tories' image was to be published by a Sunday newspaper.
      [VIDEO] Who is the French writer accusing Strauss-Kahn of sex crimes? (France 24 Video) (WT news feed)
        Who is the French writer accusing Strauss-Kahn of sex crimes? (France 24 Video)
        The second woman to accuse former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape is known in France as a wealthy young novelist and the daughter of a prominent Socialist politician. But there's a lot more to Tristane Banon than meets the eye.
      [VIDEO] Strauss-Kahn prosecutor refuses to step down (France 24 Video) (WT news feed)
        Strauss-Kahn prosecutor refuses to step down (France 24 Video)
        Lawyers for the woman at the heart of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual assault case said Wednesday that New York prosecutor Cyril Vance's office had leaked damaging information that undermined the case and called for Vance to step down.
      [VIDEO] Facebook adds Skype video chat feature. - Perfect intelligence storm (robertleather news feed)
        Facebook adds Skype video chat feature. - Perfect intelligence storm
        Facebook has announced a partnership with Skype to add video chat to the social networking site. So now they have your location, associations and now they can listen in on your conversations. This is an intelligence agencies wet dream!
  Trains Good, Planes Bad (WHoo Hoo!)
    High-speed rail: How fast is fast enough? | The Economist
      The best way to get high-speed rail to succeed in America is to actually build it somewhere, and then to wait for the other states to say "I want that!"
    United Kingdom, | YORK, England, June 28, 2011 | Four Million Britons Give up Flying Dueto Airport Stress | The Herald - Rock Hill, SC
      Bad airport experiences have led close to four million[1]travellers to give up flying altogether, with more than a third of Britons who have flown now claiming the airport experience is more stressful than the working week. -
    Meridian Six is the Carbon Cutter. | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
      Meridian Six is the Carbon Cutter. UK Train
      The Carbon Cutter. | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
      The Carbon Cutter | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  $hadow Puppet Theatre
    President Obama loses official seal on I-76 in Philadelphia - Drive On: A conversation about the cars and trucks we drive - USATODAY.com
      In fact they are magnetic stick-ons like the cheesy signs real-estate agents slap on the sides of their cars to maintain its tax-deductibility. And according to this report by the Philadelphia Daily News, they are about as permanent.
    Blackwater's New Director: Bill Clinton's Lawyer | Danger Room | Wired.com
      Blackwater's rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of-the world's most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  Anti Constitution
    Should We Abolish the Jury System? - Opinion - PatriotPost.US
      Should we embrace the European inquisitorial system, in which judges ask the questions and come up with the decisions? Should we hire professional jurors? The answer doesn't lie in abolishing the jury system utterly, but in revamping it completely. The rationale behind juries is still important, particularly with regard to politically-oriented trials: We don't want judges paid by government to have full authority to condemn those of different political persuasions. And the rationale behind a public trial is also still relevant -- we don't want Star Chambers or clandestine hearings. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
    Marshall Frank: Casey Anthony case prime example of waste of time, money in finding citizen jurors; hire professional ones >> TCPalm.com
      "Jury of our peers" is a misnomer in modern times. How do we seat a panel of American-born men and women as peers of a criminal defendant from Zimbabwe or Pakistan? When the forefathers established the "peer" rule, trials rarely lasted beyond one day and juries were limited to white, male, Protestant landowners. Today, juries are a mixed bag of multicultural people with educations ranging from grade school to doctorate degrees. Major trials can last for months. Much of trial time is expended explaining law and procedure to a jury, or repeatedly excusing them from the courtroom.
    Casey Anthony trial: Cable TV, social media spur Casey Anthony spectacle - latimes.com
      Dubbed "the social media trial of the century" by Time magazine, the case generated untold number of tweets, including from the 9th Judicial Circuit Court itself, where the case was tried. In a sign of the unusual cultural reach of the case, reality TV star Kim Kardashian tweeted Tuesday after the verdict: "WHAT!!!!???!!!! I am speechless."
    We The People - TIME
      Americans weigh in on the founding document
  Bank$ters
    STRAUSS-KAHN: DA TO DROP CHARGES, BUT NEW CONSPIRACY EVIDENCE EMERGES. | The Slog
      Yesterday, The Slog suggested that the maid Nafissatou Diallo's conversation with an Arizona prison inmate tended to rule out a 'higher level' of anti-DSK conspiracy. But now we learn that Vance (a) recklessly opted to keep DSK in jail and (b) the Frenchmen cannot now get his passport back in time to compete in France's Presidential primaries. Along with Vance's (c) completely inexplicable decision to delay telling the defence for 36 days that he had no case, as such, this will keep conspiracy theorists going for decades.
      Nevertheless, a former CIA operative said yesterday, "There's just far too much uncontrollable sh*t for this to have been an operation.
      Anyway, it's game over for the prosecution. And so Strauss-Kahn exits the frying pan of New York, and returns to the fire of another attempted rape accusation in France. My reading on this one is that the lady should save her money and move on: it's far too long ago for any forensics, she works for the Right Wing Le Figaro, she's a feminist who writes books about male domination in politics, and her mum (a Socialist) openly admits that the only reason she's bringing the case is because the New York case collapsed. Frankly, there isn't a jury in Europe outside Haringey that would go for it given that background.
      But here's the odd, sleazy sting in the tail that's always there with Dominic Strauss-Kahn: the girl, Tristane Banon, is his second wife's Goddaughter. He really is a lecherous old lizard....
  Gitmo Nation
    Exclusive: Sony Forces Employees To Submit To Body Scanners
      Sony distribution centers are mandating that employees pass through body scanners when they exit the workplace according to an internal memo leaked to Infowars, but the corporation claims that the devices do not emit harmful radiation nor do they display naked images, why begs the question such scanners are not being used in airports.
    China to deploy huge Big Brother surveillance network with Cisco
      The system, dubbed "Peaceful Chongquing," is among the largest and most sophisticated video surveillance projects of its kind, which aims to cover half a million intersections, neighborhoods and parks over nearly 400 square miles.-Chongqing's government will be investing more than $800 million for the project and another $1.6 billion will be coming from other unspecified sources, according to the report.
    John Cornyn Has Lost My Vote | KOSSOME MEDIA
    Airport body scanners: MEPs demand strict safeguards
      MEPs accept that body scanners would enhance aviation security, but ask Member States "to deploy technology which is the least harmful for human health" and addresses privacy concerns. Due to health risks "scanners using ionising radiation should be prohibited in the EU".
  United $tates of EURO-pe
    BBC News - Schengen state Denmark beefs up border controls
      Denmark, part of the Schengen border-free zone, has deployed extra customs officers on its frontiers in a move causing concern among EU neighbours.
      Thirty additional officers were being posted on the Danish land border with Germany and 20 others on the country's sea borders.
  Ministry of Truth
    Sources: 10,000 US Troops On Offer For Iraq : NPR
      despite opposition from many Iraqis and key Democratic Party allies who demand that President Barack Obama bring home the American military as promised.
    The News - Fleming taps flock to cheap water
      The Flemish are feverishly looking for cheap water. Through cisterns, but in recent years via drilled wells. The cause is the sharp increase in price of drinking water and the charge for the treatment of wastewater that comes on top. So the integral water in Flanders has increased to 2.8 per cubic meter in the cheapest towns and even to 3.6 euros in the most expensive.
    Corporate Media and Threat to Democracy
      "Whoever controls the media, controls the peoples' minds."
    Project Gunrunner | Kenneth Melson | ATF Resignation | The Daily Caller
      Former El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) director Phil Jordan said he thinks this scandal goes as high as Attorney General Eric Holder. From his decades of law enforcement experience working with Washington-based Justice Department officials, Jordan said he's sure this kind of program would have needed approval from either the Attorney General or one of his direct deputies.
    whitehouseTweeters.opml
    Did Obama lie about White House salaries in Twitter town hall? - Hot Air
      So who's telling the truth?- Hint: it's not the master of Hope and Change.- First, not all White House salaries were frozen for two years.- Obama froze salaries of White House staff making over $100K two years ago, but the across-the-board federal freeze that impacts the rest of the staff didn't take place until January 2011. That's how economic adviser Matthew Vogel got an 82% pay increase (of $59,000 to $130,500) in 2010.- Vogel wasn't the only one to get his income nearly doubled, but given how the economy has performed over the past two years, this particular raise seems ... less than justified.
      Chart of whitehouse pay increases
    US court orders halt to gay military ban. (robertleather news feed)
      US court orders halt to gay military ban.
      A US appeals court has ordered the Obama administration to stop enforcing the ban on allowing gay men and women serving openly in the military
    Pentagon Reacts to 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Ruling - Political Punch
      The ruling drew this response from Pentagon Spokesperson Cynthia Smith, " We are studying the ruling with the Department of Justice."- She added, "We will of course comply with orders of the court, and are taking immediately steps to inform the field of this order. -In the meantime, implementation of the DADT repeal voted by the Congress and signed in to law by the President last December is proceeding smoothly, is well underway, and certification is just weeks away."
    AllGov - News - Obama and Holder Drop 99 of 101 CIA Torture Cases
      That's the number of CIA torture cases involving detainees that the Obama administration will continue to investigate after spending two years reviewing just over 100 instances of alleged abuse during the George W. Bush years. - Outgoing CIA Director Leon Panetta was thrilled by the news, which amounted to "one of the greatest gifts the Justice Department could have given" to the agency's new leader, former General David Petraeus," according to Spencer Ackerman at Wired. - Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. said special prosecutor John Durham's two-year review of the CIA torture program led to the conclusion that any further investigation of the 99 other cases "is not warranted."
    aangirfan: GOOGLE PERSONALISES RESULTS
  HackGate
    Journalists hacked missing teen girl's phone, lawyer charges - CNN.com
      Journalists hacked into the phone messages of a missing girl, deleting some to make space for more and thus giving her parents hope she was still alive when she was dead, the parents' lawyer told CNN on Tuesday.
      "The family are completely horrified. They thought this was all over" after the disappearance of Milly Dowler in 2002 and the conviction of a man for her murder this year, lawyer Mark Lewis said.
      But in April, police told the Dowlers that journalists had hacked into their phones and those of their daughter, he said.
      The accusation is the latest twist in a long-running scandal involving media baron Rupert Murdoch's flagship Sunday British tabloid newspaper, the News of the World.
      The paper has apologized for hacking into the voicemails of celebrities and politicians, paying compensation to actress Sienna Miller and offering money to others.
    HACKGATE DAY 175: The Establishment loses control | The Slog
      It has taken five years and billions of column inches, but Hackgate finally broke out of its Chatterati segment yesterday, and into the mainstream. And it happened, as usual, because the general public can't stand cruelty to children. How easy it was in the end
    aangirfan: MURDOCH, PHONE HACKING, MURDERS
      There are reports that people working for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World hacked the telephones of:
      1. Victims of the London Tube Bombings, bombings which have been linked to the CIA and its friends.
      2. The families of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, the young girls whose dead bodies were found near a US military base in England. (The Soham Murders and Ian Huntley)
      3. The murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
      4. The family of murdered child Sarah Payne.
      5. People involved in the case of missing child Madeleine McCann.
    Murdoch & News Group: Holdings
  Arab Spring
    President Obama Announces Presidential Delegation to the Republic of South Sudan to Attend the Ceremony Marking the Declaration of the Independence of the Republic of South Sudan | The White House
      Members of the Presidential Delegation: The Honorable Donald M. Payne, United States Representative from New Jersey and Ranking Member of House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights The Honorable Colin L. Powell, Former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff The Honorable Johnnie Carson, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State The Honorable Princeton N. Lyman, United States Special Envoy to Sudan, Department of State The Honorable Brooke Anderson, Deputy National Security Advisor, Chief of Staff and Counselor for the National Security Staff The Honorable Donald K. Steinberg, Deputy Administrator, USAID General Carter F. Ham, Commander, United States Africa Command The Honorable R. Barrie Walkley, United States Consul General in Juba Mr. Ken Hackett, President of Catholic Relief Services
    Who Sold Libya Its Supermissiles? | Danger Room | Wired.com
      Aviation Week's eagle-eyed reporter David Fulghum spotted a Russian-SA-24 Grinch surface-to-air-missile mounted on a Libyan army truck in recent cable news footage.-And that's a cause for concern: The SA-24 is more accurate, longer-flying, and more lethal than than earlier models of surface-to-air missiles.-It also has a dual-band infrared seeker and is more difficult to jam than older systems.
      Gaddafi threatens to attack Europe over airstrikes - Telegraph
        Gaddafi spoke from an unknown location in a sign of concern over his safety. Addressing the West, he warned that Libyans might take revenge for Nato bombings.
        "These people [the Libyans] are able to one day take this battle ... to Europe, to target your homes, offices, families, which would become legitimate military targets, like you have targeted our homes," he said.
      Villagers taught to spot a rocket | Herald Sun
        Villagers were shocked when police told them that some areas of Surrey - on the southwestern outskirts of London - had been identified as potential "high-risk launch sites" for terrorists to fire rockets at planes taking off or landing at Heathrow Airport.
    The News - France stop arms deliveries to Libyan opposition
      Dropping weapons to the Libyan rebels is "no longer necessary". That said French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet Tuesday during a press conference.
      "There is a political organization independent of government in Libya (from Gaddafi, ed) in Tripoli, Longuet explained the decision by the French government. "The droppings were the last few weeks, but the regions can now function autonomously."
    Goldman Sachs Lost 98% of Libya's $1.3B Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment - Agustino Fontevecchia - Moral Hazard - Forbes
      The fascinating drama includes Goldman offering Libya preferred equity and debt which could've made it one of the investment bank's largest shareholders during the onset of the crisis, as well as intimidation and violent threats by Libyan officials.
    Syria's Protesters Find Little Support in Pop Music - TIME
      It's meant to look like one of the countless amateur videos streaming out of Syria from an antigovernment protest, capturing the state's violent crackdown. Except it is not.
  Shut Up Slave!
    Indiana Schools to Stop Teaching Cursive (Dame Tanya's feed)
      Indiana Schools to Stop Teaching Cursive
      [Not quite sure what to make of this. Certainly they should still learn how to read cursive, but write it? Probably not necessary. Although I may be biased since Penmanship was the only class I ever failed.]
    WSJ declares war on bizav: AINonline
      If there remained any doubt after its February 14 piece on the alleged excesses of "Air Bloomberg" (AIN, March, page 62), The Wall Street Journal effectively declared hostilities on business aviation last month.
      With "Corporate Jet Set: Leisure vs. Business" (June 16), the unveiling of the online "WSJ JetTracker" (June 16) and "Ready for Departure: M&A Airlines" (June 17), the paper paints a picture of corporate jets as expensive, wasteful, abused perks for, oddly enough, the same people who have built its subscriber base--people chasing, hooking, embracing and furthering the very same American Dream for which the WSJ in its self-promotional slogan once claimed to be the daily diary. What the hell has gotten into the paper, many in business aviation are asking?
      Among the theories floated last month by people affected: like many other publishing ventures in the age of the Internet, the Journal is in distress and desperate to raise revenue by gaining attention, readers and advertisers any way it can; it's owned by Rupert Murdoch, long recognized as the biological father of the trashy tabloid genre; the anti-business crusade by the liberal media continues; and
    Investigation into APS cheating finds unethical behavior across every level -| ajc.com
      Teachers and principals erased and corrected mistakes on students' answer sheets.
      Area superintendents silenced whistle-blowers and rewarded subordinates who met academic goals by any means possible.
    Kids turn in dad for pot possession | kare11.com
      Authorities say a Utah man was arrested after his two children called police to report that he had marijuana in the house.
  Food!
    The sandwich with a 14-day shelf life - Telegraph
      Ray Boggiana, the food technologist who helped develop the range, said that lettuce and tomatoes has been left out as they had a tendency to go soggy. Otherwise, most of the secret to the long shelf life was down to basic food technology: removing the oxygen from the packaging and replacing it with nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
  Cyber War$
    Read The Bill: H.R. 1981 - GovTrack.us. (DaDenMan news feed)
      Read The Bill: H.R. 1981 - GovTrack.us.
      Retention of Certain Records- A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least 18 months the temporarily assigned network addresses the service assigns to each account, unless that address is transmitted by radio...
    Obama Campaign Website 'Hacked': 'Commy Obama' Invites Supporters to 'Anti-Government' Events | Breaking news and opinion on The Blaze
      The Obama campaign website along with its iPhone applications were hacked Tuesday. Hackers reportedly invited Obama supporters to two fake anti-government events titled "Rules of Politics," hosted by one "Commy Obama."
    TechWomen
      TechWomen is funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and implemented in partnership with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI).
    TechWomen >> Partners
      Participants will complete mentorships at leading technology companies in Silicon Valley. Companies supporting TechWomen 2011: Adobe Systems, Inc.* AT&T* Avaya Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley* Cisco Systems* Edelman Ericsson F Gordon Group Facebook* Google* Hewlett-Packard Laboratories* Huawei* Intel Corporation* Internet Systems Consortium* Juniper Networks* Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory LikeList* Mayfield Fund Microsoft Corporation mPay Connect* NetApp* Newcomb Anderson McCormick* Northgate Environmental Management, Inc.* Omidyar Network Oracle Corporation* Parallel Earth* Research in Motion SAP Labs* SF Public Press Soup Stanford University Susan Nesbitt Consulting Symantec* ThoughtWorks* Twitter VMware, Inc. Yahoo!* YouTube ZaReason* * indicates Technical Mentorship Host companies
    Alec Ross (innovator) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Alec Ross (born November 30, 1971) is Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a role created for him that blends technology with diplomacy.[1] As Secretary Clinton's "tech guru,"[2] Ross is leading the State Department's efforts to find practical technology solutions for some of the globe's most vexing problems on health care, poverty, human rights and ethnic conflicts.
    Ross, Alec
      Hillary Clinton. In this role, Alec is tasked with maximizing the potential of technology in service of America's diplomatic and development goals. Prior to his service at the State Department, Alec worked on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team and served as Convener for Obama for America's Technology, Media & Telecommunications Policy Committee. In 2000, Alec Ross and three colleagues co-founded One Economy, a global nonprofit that uses innovative approaches to deliver the power of technology and information about education, jobs, health care and other vital issues to low-income people. During his eight years at One Economy, it grew from a team of four people working in a basement to the world's largest digital divide organization, with programs on four continents.
    Alec Ross (alecjross) on Twitter
    Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs: Lorraine Hariton
      Throughout her business career Ms. Hariton worked with various technologies and products including mainframes, thin-client technology, e-commerce financial infrastructure, internet audio solutions and speech applications. Most recently Hariton worked on Smart Grid initiatives including advanced metering and intelligent street lighting. Ms. Hariton served as President and CEO of Apptera from 2003 to 2005 where she brought their first product to market and raised $8 million in venture capital. She served as the CEO of Beatnik from 1999 to 2002 where she repositioned the company as a leader in the wireless industry and raised more than $40 million in venture capital. Ms. Hariton also spent 15 years at IBM serving in a number of executive capacities.
  Monsantoooo
    WWF documentary leads to huge row in Germany: GM support and money taken from Monsanto - NGOWatch | the NGOs & conservation groups that are bargaining away our future.
      "Now it has become a PR disaster. WWF Germany is responding with a 23 points factsheet, and say some accusations are false. For they do criticise partners, 'when necessary'. "The panda is not muzzled", so they say. But what to think about the fact that -- when asked by ou redaction -- WWF admits they have taken money from Monsanto? And about the statement that the very clear 'yes' to gene technology from Jason Clay in the film comes from 'an individual outsider'. Clay is not an outsider. He is Vice-president of WWF-international."
  Techno Experts
    No 140-character answers for Obama at Twitter town hall -- The 1600 Report - CNN.com Blogs
      "He's just answering the questions. He's not typing and tweeting," White House spokesman Jay Carney said of the event Friday. Still the event is a major coup for the five-year old company that was barely on the radar only one campaign cycle ago.
    Why the Internet is America's greatest weapon -- Tech News and Analysis
      The added twist, of course, is that most of these dictators see the use of social networking as a proxy for American intervention. Lukashenko's people were quick to put forward the theory that these online protests were somehow linked to a visit to neighboring Lithuania by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. And while that might seem like mere delusion, there's evidence to suggest it has some truth to it: Clinton was visiting Eastern Europe to promote a Tech Camp that "teaches activists web savvy" and "subversion". She explicitly called out Belarus while she was there, and the Moscow Times quoted a Belarusian activist who had attended the camp "to learn how to keep his group safe online when it uses social media to organize protests at home".
  Squirrel!
    TSA on-TNT - Thought Stream - Quotable Diatribe
      I just have question, more of a shot in the dark, did anyone at the TSA happen to watch TNT recently?
    Implanted bombs: TSA warns of possible terrorist threat of bombs implanted in people - latimes.com
      The idea of surgically implanting bombs has been examined by intelligence agencies in the past, but new information has suggested that terrorist groups are seriously considering the technique, officials said.
  Real News
    Real News: Swiss party looks to ban PowerPoint. (WT news feed)
      Real News: Swiss party looks to ban PowerPoint.
      The APPP (Anti-PowerPoint Party) says that the time wasted by the presentation software costs the Swiss economy 2.1 billion Swiss Francs (ˆ¢Ôø‡¬¨1.7 billion) annually and ˆ¢Ôø‡¬¨110 billion for the rest of...
  Out There
    Another minuteman launch
      LAUNCH ALERT
      Brian Webb
      Ventura County, California
      launch-alert-editor@earthlink.net
      www.spacearchive.info
      2011 July 4 (Monday) 17:43 PDT
      ----------------------------------------------------------------------
      VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
      As of 2011 July 4
      Launch
      Time/Window
      Date (PST/PDT) Vehicle Pad/Silo
      ---------- ----------------- ------------- --------
      JUL 27 To be announced Minuteman III ---
      Vehicle will probably send one or more unarmed warheads on a ballistic
      trajectory to an impact area in the Central Pacific. The Air Force will
      announce details about the launch a few days in advance.
    NASA - NASA Rocket Launches Scheduled July 5 -- 23
      Based on the approved range schedule, the rocket pairs are set for launch between 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. EDT. The experiments on the Terrier-Improved Orion rockets will release lithium in the ionosphere. The resulting clouds are not expected to be visible to the naked eye but will be seen by special cameras on the ground.
    Atmospheric flare from a minuteman III ICBM missile on Vimeo
      Footage from a webcam on the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii presumed to have been caused by a test launch of a Minuteman III missile from California on June 22, 2011. The event was also captured by a camera on the Subaru telescope and witnessed by an observer with night-vision goggles.
  Donations
    DIGIDAY:DAILY - 5Qs: Turner's Walker Jacobs
      Having audience become the currency just broadens your competitive set infinitely.
    Account Executive Job in Atlanta PBS
      Daily life for an account executive in public television is similar to that of a salesperson in commercial broadcasting or local print media.
        An account executive is expected to make cold-calls to decision makers at local and regional businesses, meet with them to understand their marketing needs and develop proposals that offer marketing solutions to help them grow their business.
  Video
    [VIDEO]: THE NEWBURGH FOUR - FAKE TERROR
      Three men convicted of trying to blow up synagogues in New York have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
      The men were actually incited by the FBI, and handed fake bombs. ¬‚
      According to media reports, an FBI operative provided the fake C4 and the fake stinger missile.
    [VIDEO] George Osborne BBC Flashback - Ed Miliband Repeat - England | Mediaite
      In the video clip below, Conservative party member George Osborne is reacting to news from the Office of National Statistics that Britain's economy saw 0.8% growth between July and September 2010. If you listen very closely, he adheres to his talking points very carefully, repeating the same lines about "getting a double dose of good news," Britain's credit rating, and pretty much everything else.
    [VIDEO] - Archie Bunker on Democrats
      Archie Bunker on Democrats
    [VIDEO] Could America go the way of Greece? -- Fareek.
      Will America face the same financial disaster that the Greek government faces, with a soaring deficit and debt, markets that have lost faith in it and a downward spiral of budget cuts that then further depress the economy?
      Fareek in TIME: Debt Woes: Could America Go the Way of Greece? - TIME
        Right now, we could actually learn something from Greece. The current Greek government has faced up to its problems and initiated a series of spending cuts and tax increases and the sale of state-owned assets. What it has proposed dwarfs anything contemplated in the U.S. And the Greek government has made the case to its people patiently and persistently, not pandering to populist sentiment -- despite mobs rioting in the streets. It has also set about enacting a longer-term program to make the economy more competitive.
        In this respect, America is not like Greece at all, alas.
    [VIDEO] Dominique Strauss-Kahn's French Accuser, Tristane Banon, to Sue - ABC News
      A French journalist and writer will file a lawsuit Tuesday in connection with an alleged rape attempt by Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2002, her lawyer said today.
    Twitter for Newsrooms: #Report -- Twitter Media
      On Twitter, Andy Carvin of National Public Radio is a key filter and verifier of information coming out of North Africa and the Middle East. During the uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and beyond, Carvin was finding ways to verify sources thousands of miles away, in real-time. (Check out his interview with PBS Newshour.)
    TwitLonger: To a TV reporter, political PRs can seem incredibly fussy, often to the point where it takes vast ta
      So the fact that the unedited interview has found its way onto YouTube in all its absurdity, to be laughed at along with all the clips of cats falling off sofas, is perfectly proper.
      Afterwards, I was overcome with a feeling of shame. I couldn't look him in the eye.
      But before I dried up completely, and had to be led out of Westminster with my mouth opening and shutting, I had an opportunity to ask one last question. I had an urge to say something so stupid, so flippant that he would either have to answer it, or get up and leave. `What is the world's fastest fish?' `Can your dog do tricks?' `Which is your favourite dinosaur?' But, of course, this was a pool interview, and I had no wish to feed out the end of my television career to Sky and the BBC.
    [VIDEO]Does The Constitution Still Matter?
      Does The Constitution Still Matter?
      Does The Constitution Still Matter? July 06, 2011 CNN MOXNews.com From: MOXNEWSd0tCOM Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 11:11 More in News & Politics
    [VIDEO] Lucifer's Techno Experts (women)
      uly 6, 2011: Secretary Clinton delivers remarks at the closing luncheon for women who participated in the TechWomen Initiative in Washington, D.C.
    [VIDEO] The President delivers Remarks at Independence Day Celebration | The White House
      President Obama speaks to military families celebrating Independence Day on the South Lawn of the White House.
    [VIDEO] International Monetary Fund Press Conference - C-SPAN Video Library
      The new managing director and chair of the International Monetary Fund gave her first official news conference since taking the job. She most recently served as the finance minister of France.
    [VIDEO] So, what does the journalistic world inside the West Wing look like? | Breaking news and opinion on The Blaze
      ABC News takes us on a tour, complete with cubicles, chips and cameras, oh my:
    [VIDEO] Claim Rupert Murdoch Tabloid Hacked Phone Of 13 Year Old Murdered Girl & Deleted Messages
      Distracting from the true crimes
    [VIDEO] Casey Anthony Attorney Calls Case 'Media Assassination' - Orlando News Story - WKMG Orlando
      "I hope that this is a lesson to those of you that have indulged in media assassination for three years. Bias, prejudice and incompetent heads saying what would be and how to be. I'm disgusted by some of the lawyers who have done this," Mason said.
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      (video courtesy Greensboring.com) In the video, Obama explains how his Father, when returning from World War II, was treated properly.- Truly, he takes 'appeal to your audience' to a whole new level.
      A 3-year-old soldier.- Impressive.- It was September 1st [1939] when Nazi Germany first invaded Poland.- Obama's father would have been three at the time.- Facts truly are stubborn things.- Perhaps what's most interesting about the verbal 'misstep' is the ease and sincerity at which he pulls it off.- Kinda makes you wonder what else he might be lying about...
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      An hour before he was last seen alive, Mr Shale is said to have been told that a secret memo in which he criticised the Tories' image was to be published by a Sunday newspaper.
    [VIDEO] Who is the French writer accusing Strauss-Kahn of sex crimes? (France 24 Video) (WT news feed)
      Who is the French writer accusing Strauss-Kahn of sex crimes? (France 24 Video)
      The second woman to accuse former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape is known in France as a wealthy young novelist and the daughter of a prominent Socialist politician. But there's a lot more to Tristane Banon than meets the eye.
    [VIDEO] Strauss-Kahn prosecutor refuses to step down (France 24 Video) (WT news feed)
      Strauss-Kahn prosecutor refuses to step down (France 24 Video)
      Lawyers for the woman at the heart of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual assault case said Wednesday that New York prosecutor Cyril Vance's office had leaked damaging information that undermined the case and called for Vance to step down.
    [VIDEO] Facebook adds Skype video chat feature. - Perfect intelligence storm (robertleather news feed)
      Facebook adds Skype video chat feature. - Perfect intelligence storm
      Facebook has announced a partnership with Skype to add video chat to the social networking site. So now they have your location, associations and now they can listen in on your conversations. This is an intelligence agencies wet dream!