The BBC is doing more important work for everyone to enjoy: Dirac is a way of turning video into data and data back into video (called a “codec” for “compressor-decompressor”). But there are tons of video codecs out there (MPEG codecs, Theora, Sorenson, etc.) so what’s the big difference with Dirac? Dirac is licensed for [...]
Ralph Nader‘s running mate, Matt Gonzalez, asks “What do they have to do to lose your vote?“. Good question. What’s your breaking point? How much support for the death penalty, corporate welfare, corporate crime, saying one thing and voting differently, and silencing electoral competition will you continue to tolerate? How effectively can major-party candidates use [...]
Today’s Democracy Now! program put to shame the corporate media and corporate-run so-called debates (run through the Commission on Public Debates) and did it in one hour (including breaks and headline news coverage). Senators Obama and McCain get plenty of time for lame topics like negative campaigning but third-party and independent candidates get a virtual [...]
Sen. Obama (D-IL) can see to them both. Both corporate US presidential candidates have been upfront about their shared allegiance to so-called “clean coal” (one of many important points on which the two major party candidates agree) but the corporate press won’t tell you what that phrase really means. On 2008 October 7, Democracy Now! [...]
Finance Sector Gave 51 Percent More to House Bailout Backers The Center for Responsive Politics is reporting members of the House of Representatives who supported bailing out the financial sector have received 51 percent more in campaign contributions from the finance, insurance and real estate sector in their congressional careers than those who opposed the [...]
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