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POPSBeck says Net Neutrality would 'destroy the free market that created the Internet'. Oh really? 
The origins of the Internet reach back to the 1960s when the United States funded research projects of its military agencies to build robust, fault-tolerant and distributed computer networks. This research and a period of civilian funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation spawned worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies and led to the commercialization of an international network in the mid 1990s, and resulted in the following popularization of countless applications in virtually every aspect of modern human life. Meanwhile, Beck has yet to explain how regulations constraining the mega-corporations that provide our Internet infrastructure from deciding what content we can and can't access would actually take the system "out of the private hands of private business". Maybe Beck can explain to us why Comcast was attacking peer-to-peer file sharing on its network system.
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POPSObama’s FCC, “Media Justice” Mob, and Liberal Churches
* Media change of all kinds must expose and directly confront the mechanics of structural racism and systemic oppression. * Leaders from historically marginalized communities must be developed as effective media activists and strategic movement communicators. * Media policy advocacy and strategic communications are more effective when clearly relevant to the primary justice issues of the movement for racial justice, economic and gender equity, and youth rights. * Compelling communications and media activism campaigns must be both rooted in critical issues and coordinated across issue, sector, and region for national impact. * When justice sectors strengthen communications strategies, center the use of culture as a communications tool, employ winning frames and messages, and strengthen their influence over media rules and rights, the possibilities for transformative change skyrocket. “Transformative change” = a media landscape purged of the Right’s most powerful voices.
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POPS Retreat! In a briefing at the Pentagon, Mr Gates said that the new system could be operational six or seven years before the Bush-era shield would have come online, more effectively replying to future threats. Mr Gates said that the initial stage of the new American plan would see the deployment of Aegis-equipped ships, armed with interceptors, giving the military the ability to move the system around. Another key to the near-term network would be new, more mobile radar used to detect and track short- and medium-range missiles if they were launched from Iran. Mr Gates said that a second phase of the plan would add a modified version of a land-based missile that is still being developed. He said that the United States had told the Czech Republic and Poland that they would be part of that stage of the system, which will not be in place until 2015 - but could still result in American missiles being based in Eastern Europe.
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POPS Los Angeles Web Design Company Develops Cutting-edge Websites Los Angeles Web Design firm ATAK Interactive is ready bring your business to the next level in e-commerce and web design. If you are interested in becoming a client or have questions about web design, marketing, or search engine optimization (SEO), the ATAK Interactive team is ready to show you how your web site will beat the competition.
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POPSWeb Development Services, Website Development Firm, Website Developers Redix web development services are made very much cost-effective and quality driven. Redix offers web development services from open source to Microsoft .Net technologies. You will find industry specialists with many years of quality experience and dedicated web developers at Redix. Redix has gained maximum fame in the international perspective providing quality web development services in the contemporary web development technologies.
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POPSThe planet's future: Climate change 'will cause civilisation to collapse' But the authors suggest the threats could also provide the potential for a positive future for all. "The good news is that the global financial crisis and climate change planning may be helping humanity to move from its often selfish, self-centred adolescence to a more globally responsible adulthood... Many perceive the current economic disaster as an opportunity to invest in the next generation of greener technologies, to rethink economic and development assumptions, and to put the world on course for a better future." More at source.
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POPSThe CitiCAT and MiEv coming soon Despite what the ignoramuses and special interest groups say, the reason we need these technologies is becoming more and more obvious around the globe: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/34145218-DDDA-496B-A5ED-5BBAD785C2B1/
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POPSStudying Abroad - Benefits of UK Education A UK education is highly regarded worldwide. The United Kingdom has been regarded to be one of the best places in the world for education with many thousands of students from all over the world going to the UK each year to study. Not only that, in the UK you learn in an environment that has advanced technologies and advanced teaching methodologies.
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POPSUN: Rebuild global economy through green investment These are clean energy and new technologies including recycling; rural energy including renewables and biomass; sustainable agriculture including organic cultivation; ecosystem infrastructure and reduced emissions from deforestation, and sustainable cities including green building and transport.
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POPSCongress Should Wear T-Shirts with Endorsements Lawmakers should fork over all campaign contributions received from TARP-taking banks. These institutions doled out $114 million in the past year for lobbying and campaign contributions, according to CRP. Add that to the $50 million in AIG bonuses already returned by recipients, and we could put this whole bonus kerfuffle to rest. It turns out the $114 million was money well spent. It bought the banks $295.2 billion in TARP money, a return of more than 258,000 percent. Who needs off-balance-sheet vehicles when the government can provide that kind of return on investment?
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POPSCongress Should Wear T-Shirts With Endorsements With Congress pounding away at Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for more transparency, and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo threatening to release the names of the AIG bonus recipients -- an invasion of privacy that has no relevance to anything -- isn’t it time Congress let a little sun shine in?
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POPSgeothermal heat pumps check out the whole article here <a href=http://www.ecosolutionsreview.com/energy-saving-geothermal/>geothermal</a> http://www.ecosolutionsreview.com/energy-saving-geothermal/
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POPSNew Study: Are Green Jobs A Snow Job? Myth : Green jobs promote employment growth. Reality : By promoting more jobs instead of more productivity, the green jobs described in the literature encourage low-paying jobs in less desirable conditions. Economic growth cannot be ordered by Congress or by the United Nations. Government interference - such as restricting successful technologies in favor of speculative technologies favored by special interests - will generate stagnation. Myth : Government mandates are a substitute for free markets. Reality : Companies react more swiftly and efficiently to the demands of their customers and markets, than to cumbersome government mandates.
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POPS10 Facts on American Healthcare
Fact No. 8: Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. When asked about their own health care instead of the “health care system,” more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared to only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent). Fact No. 9: Americans have much better access to important new technologies like medical imaging than patients in Canada or the U.K. Maligned as a waste by economists and policymakers naïve to actual medical practice, an overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identified computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade. The United States has 34 CT scanners per million Americans, compared to 12 in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has nearly 27 MRI machine
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POPSNew Study: Green Jobs Myths Myth: Government mandates are a substitute for free markets. Reality: Companies react more swiftly and efficiently to the demands of their customers and markets, than to cumbersome government mandates. Myth: Imposing technological progress by regulation is desirable. Reality: Some technologies preferred by the green jobs studies are not capable of efficiently reaching the scale necessary to meet today’s demands and could be counterproductive to environmental quality. In this Article, we survey the green jobs literature, analyze its assumptions, and show how the special interest groups promoting the idea of green jobs have embedded dubious assumptions and techniques within their analyses. Before undertaking efforts to restructure and possibly impoverish our society, careful analysis and informed public debate about these assumptions and prescriptions are necessary.
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POPSObama's Nat'l Security Adviser Gets "Daily orders from Kissinger" This is straight from the CFR, which Obama is a member of (as well as all other leading primary candidates). Sandy Berger (Burglar) is mentioned as being present--former National Security Adviser to Clinton (a virtual Israeli-linked spy) who was caught stealing and destroying documents from the National Archives (to protect interested parties).
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POPSSuneel Sawant Shantech Inc. was formed by Suneel Sawant to pursue opportunities in the international gaming marketplace. Mr. Sawant is an entrepreneur who has founded several companies. Suneel Sawant is currently the founder and current Chairman of Software International, Inc. and also the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Sentinel World, a Homeland Security Company. Mr. Suneel Sawant is a seasoned senior technology advisor in the United States and overseas to Fortune 1000 companies.
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POPSGreen Your Portfolio The new administration's focus on alternative energy is good news for green companies. The ten companies included in this piece offer dividend reinvestment plans.
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POPSI Know Who Killed Us Because of the limited space here at Clipmarks I suggest you go the the original website at the top of the story to get all of it. However, does it really matter much after your hit who threw it? There is a lot of details in this story, but it all reads the same. They can tell who made the nuclear bomb "AFTER" it has been deployed!
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POPSWTF::Nuclear Agreements With Middle-East And United States??? crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, met President George W. Bush at Camp David, according to people familiar with the visit. U.A.E. officials decided to delay the official signing over uncertainties about Mr. Obama's position and possible negative reaction from Congress, according to these officials. In 2006, the U.A.E.'s state-owned DP World had to scrap a plan to purchase the U.S. port holdings of Britain's P&O because of opposition in Congress. The nuclear trafficking network run by Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan used Dubai in the U.A.E. as one of its major bases, according to investigations of the Khan network. U.S. officials, however, say the U.A.E. has taken major steps to better manage its export controls and guard against money laundering. H/T debbieschlussel.com http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/12/absurd_dangerou.html
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POPSWhat the data miners are digging up about you They know how much we paid for our house, what magazines we subscribe to, which books we buy and what vacations we take. Microsoft has filed patents for technology that monitors the heart rate, blood pressure, galvanic skin response, facial expressions of office workers, and even their brain waves. The idea, the patents say, is to let managers know if workers are experiencing heightened frustration or stress. Given that the same technologies are used in lie detectors and to study human behavior, it seems unlikely many workforces would quietly accept their boss introducing such a system.
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