Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Less than 24 hours after the SOPA victory, the Government seizes one of the world’s largest websites with no trial… The U.S. really is a society that simply no longer believes in due process: once the defining feature of American freedom that is now scorned as some sort of fringe, radical, academic doctrine.Via www.salon.com
Cognizant Transmutation
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationArs Technica alum Julian Sanchez has a timely redux of the research he did on how the made-up piracy numbers quoted during debates about SOPA and PIPA come from, and how little relation they bear to reality. It seems like every discussion of SOPA/PIPA includes a phrase like “Everyone agrees that piracy is huge problem,” but…
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationWhat does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto — a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.Via www.ted.com
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationLessig said the type of corruption rampant in the US Congress is not the old type of bribery, where congressional representatives had safes in their offices to hold the cash they received for voting in certain directions. That is now illegal and eliminated. This new type of corruption is more subtle, indirect and harder to…
Via Scoop.it – Creating the Future Joule Unlimited will build a production plant for turning sunlight and CO2 into liquid fuels. The company claims that its genetically engineered bacteria will eventually be able to produce ethanol for as little as $1.23 a gallon or diesel fuel for $1.19 a gallon, less than half the current cost of both fossil…
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationIts time to publicly investigate, press charges and aggressively prosecute all Corporate Cronies and their puppetiers who are in conflict with their oaths of office to uphold the Constitution and have been acting with treason against the American People. Chris Dodd, 3-decade senator who vowed not to lobby, is now the top paid advocate for…