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America’s top four Internet companies — Google, Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft — promise they will protect the personal information of people who use their online services to search, shop and socialize. But a close read of their privacy policies reveals as much exposure as protection.
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Taking a break from his work at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto on Monday, former President Clinton warned Republicans not to politicize the London terror arrests, slammed Sen. Joe Lieberman, whom he campaigned for just a couple weeks ago, and tackled some of the controversies surrounding his work to fight AIDS.
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“In June I decided to do a 30-day trial of no TV watching. DVDs were OK, but no regular programming or cable shows or tape anything with my DVR. At the end of the 30-day trial, I was pleased with the results, so I kept going. Now that it’s been over 60 days, I thought I’d share my observations on life without TV.”
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You know a cultural movement is real when the money men get on board. In just the past year a broad swath of financiers have begun sinking billions of dollars into anything that might tap into the green craze. Saving the planet, protecting America, doing God’s work, cynically exploiting a feel-good trend — call it what you will.
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Ethanol apologists like to use the example of Brazil. Unfortunately, the author lives in Brazil and sees no ethanol revolution there. In fact, the heavily subsidized ethanol program (Pro-Alcool) used to be a ecological and social disaster. Brazilian government spent nine billion dollars in subsidies and wasted large areas of land. It’s a sham.
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Overnight arrests have foiled threats to blow up aircraft.
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Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, US officials declared that the attacks had been motivated by the terrorists’ hatred for America’s freedom and values. The sad thing is that today, there are still Americans who fall for it.
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Michelle, once again, brilliantly sums up a plot to cause great harm and bodily injury in the UK. Tying together various sources, she touches on the stupidity of the US government to allow student visas to Egyptians, the callous UK “satire” regarding blowing things up in England, and most pointedly, the media itself for not IDing them as Muslim.
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Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon’s initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate.
