This might be old news to you, but not to me. In a conversation with Davey D today, really on the new FCC rulings being promulgated, he noted in passing that Facebook is now charging you for the privilage of talking to all your “fans” and “friends.” I spent a few minutes online right after the conversation, and confirmed it. According to Facebook's own advertising department, on the average, about 15% of the folks you imagine are getting your stuff are getting it. The other 80 or 85%..... not. That's one in five if you're lucky, one in seven if you're not. Read below the fold...
In late 2012 or early 2013 the FCC will open a 30 day window for acceptance of new station license applications from nonprofit organizations across the country.
What could your peace and justice work, your environmental or educational or housing advocacy, your arts organization or whatever DO with ITS OWN RADIO STATION?
Know anybody who still thinks Steve Jobs is a god, or even a near-decent human being? Who doesn't understand what's meant by "Chinese competitiveness" in attracting iPhone and other computer & smartphone assembly business? Who doesn't believe their favorite gadgets are assembled in near-slave conditions? Read below the fold...
I'm in Chicago, staying at the apartment of an old comrade, across the table from each other on laptops. He has a hotmail account, I have a GoDaddy webmail account. He says he sent me two emails earlier today, but I can only find one. Can't figure that out, so he re-sends it, but after several minutes, nothing appears. He checks the address, and it's correct. He re-sends a second time, to no avail. Read below the fold...
Those of us who imagine we're helping bring a new world into being are obligated wherever possible to confound our betters, to elude the rentiers, to flee the walled gardens and digital plantations of commercial software, and take as many as we can with us. Read below the fold...
On Wednesday morning June 29 we showed up at the downtown Atlanta office of Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) as part of a gang of local residents, mostly black and including former Rep. Cynthia McKinney and others recently returned from Libya. We came to confront Lewis, supposedly a man of peace and nonviolence, for his vote to fund the illegal bombing of Africans in Libya, and his support of the heinous US intervention in progress there. Read below the fold...
In Georgia legislation has already passed the House which out-does Arizona for pure spite, and cracker meanness. GA's Brown Codes, as some are calling them, would...
codify the racist slur "illegal alien" into state law
make it a felony (1-5 years in prison) to look for a job with any false ID. Second offense 3 to 15 years.
make it a felony (3-15 years) if that ID was of an actual person, living or dead
make it a misdemeanor (up to 1 year in prison) to give an undocumented person a ride, a felony for more than 7.
obligate law enforcement officers, school principals, health care professionals and others to ascertain the citizenship of everybody they come into contact with
grant any yahoo with a computer and legal forms standing and free discovery to sue any state or local government official or unit of local government that fails to enforce the Brown Codes with exemplary rigor.
It would take an entire library to move the mountain of fake history spun around the life and career of Ronald Reagan by now. Sometimes only a cartoon can approach the truth.
Aaron McGruder, in this intro to a Boondocks episode of a couple years ago, comes as close to capturing a piece of the mean and nasty spirit of the Gipper as anybody ever will.
Submitted by brucedixon on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:54am
Did Georgia prison officials conspire to conceal the beating by transferring Dean more than a hundred miles away to Atlanta and failing to notify his family for more than two weeks of either the beating nor the transfer? Read below the fold...
After dozens of calls to national media --- CNN, NYT and others, they finally notice the GA prisoners on strike. Not a bad story, actually...
Prisoners Strike in Georgia
By SARAH WHEATON
Published: December 12, 2010
"In a protest apparently assembled largely through a network of banned cellphones, inmates across at least six prisons in Georgia have been on strike since Thursday, calling for better conditions and compensation, several inmates and an outside advocate said. Read below the fold...
