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Politics

• 08.23.07
  Chinese Buddhists Need Government Permission to Reincarnate
  Politics (0)

  China has banned Tibetan monks from reincarnating without government permission. Yes, you read that correctly. Why? So that Chinese authorities can have the power to choose the next Dalai Lama. Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is ...
  
  
• 08.21.07
  E-Voting Raises Privacy Issues
  Privacy, Politics, Law (0)

  If you're curious who voted for which candidate, now you have a way to look that data up - at least in Ohio. According to CNet,  e-voting machines made by Election Systems and Software time stamp their paper trails. Those paper trails along with voter sign-in records are publically available to ...
  
  
• 08.20.07
  How Technology Allows Us To Spy on Big Brother
  Privacy, Politics, Computers (0)

  Tech President has a great commentary on William Gibson's NPR talk where he mentioned that technology not only allows Big Brother to watch us, but we also have the tools to watch Big Brother. Micah Sifry then points out some of the ways technology is working to help us out ...
  
  
• 08.16.07
  Herr Markos Moulitsas on Stephen Colbert
  Politics (0)

  Stephen Colbert interviews Markos Moulitsas of the DailyKos. The result is this fantastically funny clip on how super liberal "hate" websites promote Nazism - at least according to Bill O'Reilly. iFilm has the clip - click to view. Stephen made the point that anyone - including himself (notstephencolbert) - can ...
  
  
• 08.16.07
  Jon Stewart Interviews Stephen F. Hayes
  Politics (0)

  Jon Stewart interviews Neocon columnist Stephen F. Hayes about his new book, Cheney and offers some great political commentary. The clip is up at iFilm (which doesn't allow embeds...) The debate was surprisingly civil yet Jon made some fantastic points about how Cheney flip flopped on the idea of Iraq from ...
  
  
• 08.16.07
  Appeals Court to Decide Fate of NSA Surveillance Lawsuits
  Privacy, Politics, Law (0)

  Ryan Singel and David Kravets live blogged the US 9th Circuit hearing on the NSA's spying and AT&T's alleged role in it. The back story is that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) accused AT&T of collaborating with the NSA to illegally track domestic and foreign communications. The Justice Dept wants ...
  
  
• 08.14.07
  Will Lobbyist Support Influence Hillary Clinton?
  Copyright, Politics (0)

  Lawrence Lessig writes about concerns he has with Hillary Clinton's lobbyist support - and her lack of support for the free culture movement. He points out that some of the worst changes in copyright law came under her husband (like the Sonny Bono Act, DMCA, and NET Act). Recently, she's ...
  
  
• 08.13.07
  The 12 Worst Candidate Websites
  Politics (0)

  Cracked.com rates the 12 Worst Candidate websites - yep, that about covers them all. Each web site is reviewed according to "Overall Impression," "Awkward Attempt at Hipness," and "Weirdest Moment." No candidate escapes their sarcasm with comments like "Be a Hillraiser" - it's like being a Hellraiser, only you have to ...
  
  
• 08.13.07
  Karl Rove Resigns
  Politics (0)

  Karl Rove has resigned and will leave the White House at the end of August. Hopefully we won't have to wait for his book to learn why - let the speculation begin. Perhaps because he refused to show up for a congressional hearing 2 weeks ago? Or maybe because the ...
  
  

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