Likud’s Reuven Rivlin resorts to particularly unkind analogy to slam current-day Israeli leadership; Knesset speaker recalls his beloved dog, says leaders look back to see what people want instead of leading the way
Continue reading …Beltway Media Refuse to Cover the Substance of Bernie Sanders’ Message on the Estate Tax
December 14, 2010 No Comment
Click here to view this media Rachel Maddow highlights some of the points Bernie Sanders attempted to make during his 8-1/2-hour long speech on the Senate floor that most of our Beltway media have chosen to ignore, like just who benefits and how much from lowering the estate tax for billionaires. Rachel is exactly right about the media doing their best to ignore all of what Sen. Sanders had to say in his speech and not just the points he made about the estate tax. He got very little coverage and what coverage he did get showed him up there speaking while some talking head gave their opinion about what was going on instead of allowing viewers to actually hear what he was coming out of his mouth instead of theirs. Rush Limbaugh goes to C-PAC and they’re giving him commercial free coverage on CNN. Sarah Palin goes to speak to the teabaggers and the media covers her flame throwing speech. But Bernie Sanders gives this amazing almost eight and a half hours long speech and they shrug their shoulders.
Continue reading …Sixth Circuit rules that the government needs a warrant to search your email
December 14, 2010 No Comment
Score another baby step for digital democracy: the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the government must have a search warrant before it can obtain email from your provider. Specifically, the court held in U.S. v Warshak that “it would defy common sense to afford emails lesser Fourth Amendment protection” than traditional communications like phone calls and postal mail. Yes, you’d think that would be obvious, but the specific question had never actually been raised at the appellate level before, so the decision is critically important — it’s likely that other courts will take their cue from the Sixth Circuit when faced with similar issues. As the EFF points out, however, there are several legal exceptions to the warrant requirement in the Stored Communication Act that the organization is still fighting to have amended, but hey — we’ll take every little bit of progress we can. Sixth Circuit rules that the government needs a warrant to search your email originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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A devastating blaze raced through a garment factory near Bangladesh’s capital on Tuesday, killing at least 25 people and injuring more than 100, witnesses and news reports said. (Dec.14)
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The Federal Reserve indicates there’s still plenty of reason to stick with its $600 billion dollar Treasury bond buying program. (Dec. 14)
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South African President Jacob Zuma has sued a leading media group and others over a two-year-old political cartoon depicting him in a sexually suggestive scene with a figure representing “Lady Justice”. Mr Zuma is seeking four million rand (Euro437,000) for…
Continue reading …US Southwest May Enter Into Permanent Drought-Like Conditions by Mid-Century
December 14, 2010 No Comment
photo: Kevin Dooley / Creative Commons If you closely follow the water issues that plague the US southwest, the precipitation predictions for the region, and have a notion of the development patterns there that headline may seem obvious. But if you haven’t this is the thumbnail sketch of the situation, with some help from The New Y… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Frankly speaking, the vast majority of knockoff gear is a giant leap backwards from the real-deal. This, friends, is one of those fringe cases where the opposite is true. The 3-in-1 iPad camera connection kit (available in black or white) is a single dock connecting apparatus with a trifecta of ports: USB, SD and microSD. In order of mention, you can offload photos from your camera onto your iPad via a direct USB connection, offload photos from your SD card and offload photos from your microSD card. It’s all pretty self explanatory, and and at just $29.90, there’s hardly a reason to even consider the official version . Hit the links below to get your order in, but don’t expect it to ship until early next year. Knockoff 3-in-1 iPad camera connection kit improves Apple’s own design originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Piper Perabo, who stars in the USA Network show ‘Covert Affairs,’ is up for best actress in a TV drama at the 2011 Golden Globes. Her competition includes Julianna Margulies, Elisabeth Moss, Kyra Sedgwick and Katey Sagal. (Dec. 14)
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Photo: Sempra Energy 48 Megawatts of Goodness It’s 10x smaller than the planned 500 MW solar PV farm that Sempra is trying to build near Phoenix, Arizona, but the 48 MW Copper Mountain Solar facility, located in Boulder City, Nevada, has the benefit of not being just a plan anymore. Construction began in January 2010 at the 380-acre desert site and up to 350 workers installed nearly 775,000 thin-film PV solar panels. Now that it is finished, the Copper Mountain Solar farm is the l… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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