Month: April 2014
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FCC Murders Net Neutrality. Don’t Get Mad – Get Even
from theguardian.co.uk: The former cable and wireless industry lobbyist Tom Wheeler is re-writing rules in favor of the telecom giants – not you, me or the internet. Here’s what you can do to stop him. In January, a federal appeals court rejected regulations designed to assure some measure of fairness in the way America’s internet…
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New Seasons to Sponsor Oregon Latina Entrepreneurs
from bizjournals.com: New Seasons Market will sponsor Latina entrepreneurs through the nonprofit Adelante Mujeres for the next five years. Wendy Collie, CEO of the Portland grocery, will announce the sponsorship of Adelante Mujeres’ Empresas Small Business Development program today at the Portland Business Journal’s Women of Influence luncheon. Check back later for more news from…
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SpaceX Intends to Build Texas Spaceport
from houstonchronicle.com: SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk on Friday said his company intends to build a launchpad near Brownsville, a significant development that could signal the start of a renaissance in Texas spaceflight as manned activity at the Johnson Space Center has ebbed. At end of an unrelated press conference in Washington, Musk said his…
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China’s Little Known Security Stakes In Ukraine
By Monish Gulati | eurasiareview.com: The Chinese position on the Ukraine crisis and the Russian intervention in Crimea has been described as being of “studied ambiguity”, and one of the objectives of this policy was to balance interests in both Russia and Ukraine. The discussion on Chinese interests in Ukraine has largely centered on military…
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Cover Oregon Officially Calls It Quits, State to Use ObamaCare Site
from foxnews.com: Cover Oregon on Friday became the first casualty of the state-run ObamaCare exchanges, as officials formally gave up the fight to offer residents a state health care portal. Instead, Oregon, which has been hemorrhaging millions of dollars on a barely functioning website that has failed to sign up a single person, is turning…
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Pittsburgh Stabbing Suspect Said, ‘I Have More People to Kill”
from cnn.com: A teenager tackled by a vice principal refused to drop the knives he’d used to stab 21 at his Pittsburgh-area high school, saying, “My work is not done, I have more people to kill,” according to a criminal complaint released Friday. While some underwent surgery, none of the 20 fellow students and one…
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US Anti-Apartheid Movement Helped Bring Change to South Africa
from voanews.com: It’s been 20 years since the end of apartheid in South Africa, the system of racial segregation that curtailed the rights of black South Africans for decades. One of the strongest protest movements outside South Africa to dismantle apartheid was in the United States during the 1980s.
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Curiosity Snaps First Asteroid Photo from Red Planet
from sciencerecorder.com: According to a statement from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the Curiosity Mars rover captured the first-ever image from the Red Planet’s surface to show an asteroid. The bonus? The image shows two, known as Ceres – which is a dwarf planet and an asteroid – and Vesta. Ceres and Vesta…
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New York Considering Labeling GMO Food
from lohud.com: Supporters say customers have a right to know what’s in their food and how it was grown or made. Those against labeling say that it’s unnecessary and will drive up food prices.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode191 – Drones Justified, Net Neutrality, #MyNYPD
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode191 – Drones Justified, Net Neutrality, #MyNYPD Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Federal Judges Order Obama to Release Memo Justifying Assassination of Americans John Yoo Says…
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Reagan Shooter John Hinckley Pictured for First Time Unsupervised
from dailymail.co.uk: This is John Hinckley Jr., the would-be assassin of President Ronald Reagan, pictured for the first time since a court ruled he can spend 17 days a month away from a mental home where he has been for the last three decades. Clutching a bottle of soda in his hand and casually dressed,…
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Palestine Rivals Announce Unity Pact, Drawing US and Israel Rebuke
from nytimes.com: The faltering Middle East peace process was thrown into further jeopardy on Wednesday, with Israel and the United States harshly condemning a new deal announced by feuding Palestinian factions, including the militant group Hamas, to repair their seven-year rift. Israel canceled a negotiating session scheduled for Wednesday night shortly after leaders of the…
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For Web Users, FCC Raises Specter of Unequal Internet
from bloomberg.com: Your Netflix bill might rise. You may have to switch Internet providers to get faster YouTube videos. Or, you may miss out on the next big thing on the Web. Those are some of the concerns that consumer advocates are raising about U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposal this week for…
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Interview w/ Paul Brannigan of ‘Birth School Metallica Death’
On the line from London, music journalist and author Paul Brannigan joins Media Monarchy to talk about his latest critically-acclaimed book, ‘Birth School Metallica Death, Volume 1: The Biography’ (Co-written with Ian Winwood). With a particular focus on the punk ethos that surrounded the band early on, the conversation covers this “polarizing force in a…