Berto Jongman: Robert Fisk: We Might As Well Name Our Newspapers ‘Officials Say’

He calls it the “Cancer of American Journalism” Robert Fisk: We Might As Well Name Our Newspapers ‘Officials Say’ May 7, 2013 Watch the full 20-minute interview with Robert Fisk on Democracy Now! at http://owl.li/kN9jD. Longtime Middle East correspondent of the British newspaper The Independent, Robert Fisk, tells Democracy Now! that journalists covering Syria and …

Theophillis Goodyear: Bring a Stupid Teen-Ager is Now a Felony

It may be idiocy but it is also fascism — zero tolerance means the state defines all speech as subject to state definition — both a tautalogical redundancy and a clear and present overturning of the Constitutional right to free speech. Teenagers, social media, and terrorism: a threat level hard to assess Authorities are leaning …

Marcus Aurelius: Manifesto on Behalf of the Second Amendment

Provided by a retired Marine colonel and apparently written by a former Servicemember and/or law enforcement officer, following is among  very best articles on Second Amendment issue that I’ve ever read.)  Snell: Waking the dragon — How Feinstein fiddled while America burned By Barry Snell, barry.snell@iowastatedaily.com | Posted: Friday, May 3, 2013 12:00 am Along with …

Berto Jongman: “Deathbed” Testimony” about UFOs and Area 51 from former CIA Officer + UFO Meta-RECAP

The actual identify of the alleged former CIA official has not been validated. ANONYMOUS from Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell on Vimeo. ‘Deathbed testimony’ about UFOs given by former CIA official (VIDEO) Video testimony by an anonymous alleged former CIA official was shown at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure at the National Press Club in Washington, …

SmartPlanet: The rise and $23 billion fall of text messaging

The rise and $23 billion fall of text messaging Text messaging, the 20-year-old thumb-happy talk replacement that radically changed people’s communications habits and enriched cellphone carriers, is on a decline. Mobile operators like Verizon and Vodafone lost a combined $23 billion of potential revenue in 2012 as users opted for other ways to send short …

Review (Guest): Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom

Rebecca MacKinnon 4.0 out of 5 stars an excellent overview of the ideas and forces shaping Internet policy debates globally January 25, 2012 By Adam Thierer MacKinnon’s book is well-researched exploration of the forces driving Internet developments and policy across the globe today. She serves up an outstanding history of recent global protest movements and …