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A Mass Psychological Change 
David Sirota via Open Left - Front Page on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
What worries me about this moment is not whether Barack Obama will do good, progressive things. As I've said ad nauseum, I think he will. And what worries me is not debates on the merits of particular policy - let's have those on the merits, not on grounds that define "anything [insert beloved politician] does" right and true and pure and moral. What worries me is that the mass psychology of the c
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Hackers, Others Seek DMCA Exemptions
David Kravets via Wired: Threat Level on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
The U.S. Copyright Office has received 19 comments constituting nine requests
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KBR Contractor Warehousing Foreign Workers in Iraq
(unknown author) via Truthout - All Articles on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Baghdad - About 1,000 Asian men who were hired by a Kuwaiti subcontractor to
the U.S. military have been confined for as long as three months in windowless
warehouses near the Baghdad airport without money or a place to work.
Najlaa International Catering Services, a subcontractor to KBR, an engineering,
construction and services company, hired the men, who're fr
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Federal Prosecutor Investigating Dismissal of US Attorneys
(unknown author) via Truthout - All Articles on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
A prosecutor who is investigating the dismissals of nine U.S. attorneys has
been meeting with defense lawyers, dispatching subpoenas and seeking information
about the events, according to legal sources familiar with the case.
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey appointed prosecutor Nora R. Dannehy two
months ago, after the department's Office of Inspector General
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No Ifs, Ands or Butts, the New FCC Must Focus on Neutrality
tkarr via Save the Internet Blog on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
The Denver Post today urged a new FCC to get its mind off of “buttocks” and onto more serious issues like Net Neutrality.
The editorial board was referring to a case now before the U.S. Court of Appeals, in which the agency’s top legal minds are trying to determine the appropriate
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Last Secrets of the Bush Administration
(unknown author) via Truthout - All Articles on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
How to find out what we still don't know.
In March 2001, U.S. Archivist John W. Carlin received a letter from Alberto
Gonzales, then counsel to the newly inaugurated president George W. Bush. It
concerned an important deadline that was looming-one that Bush owed to Richard
Nixon.read more
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Reuters: Obama Backs Off Promise to Pass Windfall Profits Tax on Big Oil
David Sirota via Open Left - Front Page on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Off the Reuters wire:
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama is not planning to implement a windfall profit tax on oil companies because prices have dropped below $80 a barrel, an aide said on Tuesday...
Obama, who signaled early in his campaign for the White House that he wou
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Retail stores face scanning revolution
Cory Bergman via Lost Remote » Blog on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
As you may or may not know, there are apps for iPhone and the Google Android phones that allow you to take a picture of a bar code in a store and get an instant price comparison with the store’s competitors. Someone shopping in Target the other day was told by a clerk that scanning was against store policy. When the app company and
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Harvard team to copyright office: Let consumers hack DRM abandonware
Chris Soghoian via Security and Privacy in a Surv on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
See my full write-up of all of the other DMCA requests here.
When a DRM based music, video or software product shuts down, as has happened in the past with Microsoft,
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DMCA exemptions desired to hack iPhones, DVDs
Chris Soghoian via Security and Privacy in a Surv on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
For copyright activists, Christmas comes but once every three years: a chance to ask Santa for a new exemption to the much-hated Digital Millennium Copyright Act's prohibitions against hacking, reverse engineering, and evasion of digital rights management (DRM) schemes protecting all kinds
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I Spit My Last Breath at Thee
(unknown author) via The Washington Note on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Apparently, John Bolton isn't the only one who didn't get the messa
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ANC pulls out of constitutional debate
(unknown author) via National on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
The African National Congress (ANC) on Wednesday pulled out of a public debate on the protection and defence of the Constitution.
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UK government sneaking in mandatory ID cards
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Glyn sez, "The UK Government planning to sneak in a police power to make anyone who has ever entered the country, at any time, prove who they are. This would effectively cover any British citizen who has ever left the UK, even for a holiday, because they will have "entered" the UK on their return. It will mean that for
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Google adds millions of newspaper pages to their archive
Garett Rogers via Googling Google on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
In September, Google announced plans to scan and index the content of historical newspapers — that project just got a huge boost with the acquisition of Paper of Record’s archives.
Paper of Record started off by being the first to index the entire history of the Toronto Star newspaper in original published form. Since then, [...]
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Attorney Scott Horton on "Justice After Bush: Prosecuting an Outlaw Administration"
mail@democracynow.org (Democra via Democracy Now! on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
We speak with Scott Horton, an attorney specializing in international law and human rights. He is also a legal affairs contributor to Harper’s magazine, where he has
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US Interrogator in Iraq Says Torture Policy Has Led to Deaths of Thousands of American Soldiers
mail@democracynow.org (Democra via Democracy Now! on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
We speak with a former special intelligence operations officer who led an interrogations team in Iraq two years ago. His nonviolent interrogation methods led Special Forces to Abu Mu
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The Neoconservatives in the Obama Era
(unknown author) via Truthout - All Articles on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
What, exactly, does Barack Obama's mild-mannered choice to head the
Department of Health and Human Services, former Senator Tom Daschle,
have to do with neocons who want to bomb Iran?
A familiar coalition of hawks, hardliners, and neoconservatives expects
Barack Obama's proposed talks with Iran to fail - and they're already
proposing an escalating set
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Ex-Generals to Urge Obama Action on Torture Issue
(unknown author) via Truthout - All Articles on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Washington - Barack Obama should act from the moment of his inauguration
to restore a U.S. image battered by allegations of torturing terrorism
suspects, said a group of retired military leaders planning to press
their case with the president-elect's transition team on Wednesday.
"We need to remove the stain, and the stain is on us, as well as on our
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