Published on Thursday, July 6, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
Written by Jeff Cohen

At least among many people I know, there will be a mass exodus from doing business with AT&T after reading this article that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday.

For a moment there, it felt like a turn around. As if fascism, that hate that permeates American discourse, was taking it on the chin.

Today at the most war-glorifying, soldier-heroing ceremony ever - the ceremony that repeatedly bellowed the lies of this war of spreading freedom & democracy while protecting our freedom & democracy - we stand in the middle of the parade route and represent the voice of peace. We (including our 77 yr. old elder) are spit on, screamed at, threatened, materials snatched from our hands & ripped up, as we stand on the grounds of peace.

Understandably the thought of “Controlling the Internet” appears to be a daunting task. In fact; could they do that? Isn’t there a hodgepodge of networks and technologies that is this wonderful melting pot for the whole world to share in? And it’s diversity almost impossible to control because of it’s complexity?

As of now, the simple answer to that is:
YES
They can control all of that.

Boeing-Boeing runs a story about UN World Intellectual Property Organization trying to organize worldwide censorship, ban podcasts and perform some other interesting things sake saving the market positions of current media-monopolies.
Here is an excerpt:
UN cooking podcast-killing treaty
The UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization has reconvened to discuss a treaty that will kill innovative Internet audio/video [...]

The vital issue at stake is something called “net neutrality” - it is the concept that that everyone, everywhere, should have free, universal and non-discriminatory access to all the Internet has to offer.

Aw heck. The good ‘ol US of A is flunking…

-eyeseetruth

911 Commission Report Card for the Bush Administration

Article on 911 commission report card

An interesting article run today by Electronic Frontiers Foundation.

“While magic as I understand it is more a craft than an art or a science, the basic principle holds. The medium of magic is consciousness — one’s own consciousness, that of other people, and (more controversially, at least within the worldview of modern industrial culture) that of other-than-human entities of various kinds. The tools of magic are will, imagination, and the innate structures of consciousness itself, constellated through formal patterns of symbol and ritual. The goals of magic are defined by the individual magician.”

–John Michael Greer

The following comes to me via Freepress.net. It is the prepared text for Bill Moyers’ eloquent speech to the National Conference for Media Reform on May 15, 2005. The event in St. Louis was organized and hosted by Free Press.net

On the Disneyfication of our children’s hopes and dreams.

Alexander Gorlov’s helical turbine, a device that’s 100 inches long and resembles “an oversize beater from an old handheld mixer,” can harness kinetic energy from any body of water, including canals, open oceans, and rivers.

Do you really know how the things that you see, read, expose yourself to during the course of your day effect you?

I was browsing News.com as I usually do every moring, and was struck by the headline SEC, meet the blogosphere This is yet another concrete example of ‘blogging’ becoming a revolutionary, mainstream channel.

Marc Bathmuthi Joseph
“Racism got off on his own P.R., said, I’m the star of this show, here y’ go. Nothing to say until Capitalism slipped into the frame, ‘hey baby what’s your name?’ Racism spitting game, but Capitalism was looking-she flipped in on him like he was a two-bit hooker. He took her and shook [...]