Is it possible to create a new information delivery system that replaces telecoms?

This isn’t an article claiming anything.  It is primarily an attempt to open a discussion.  It looks like Net Neutrality is going down in December.  So I have a question.  … Read More

Bloomberg declines to run; aides essentially admit plan to sandbag Sanders

By now, many news-aware folks here have likely heard that Bloomberg is officially declining to enter the 2016 Presidential race as an independent. That’s good news for Team Blue; although … Read More

NY Times header:”U.S. Embracing a New Approach on Battling ISIS in Iraq.” World responds……

Hehehehahahahehe… 5555555555555555… LOLZ… 呵呵呵呵呵… хихихихихихи… mwahahamwahahamwahahamwahahamwahaha… 크크크크크크크크크크크크… HAHAHAHAHAHAHA… 笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑… bwahahahabhahaha… חָה־חָה־חָה… mort de rire — حقا، لا أستطيع … Uh, yeah. Welcome to 2003 again. Byline says Michael Gordon instead … Read More

UPDATE: CENTCOM watched 30 ISIS truck bombs roll on Ramadi and did nothing. May 14th? A bloodbath

See evil. This goes to May 14th when the U.S. military does surveillance and gets all the proper details: how many truck bombs, how many ISIS fighters came in, how … Read More

The 2015 Ramadi Government Center attack. What is going on over there?

In Ramadi, Iraq, last week a force of some 200 ISIS fighters carried out a successful suicide-based attack on the Government Center building. A chain of cars drove in and … Read More

NY Times “The Center-Right Moment.” In fact it's Dirty Tricks and racism that beat the Left

David Brooks states the issue properly: Given the financial crisis, widening inequality, the unpopularity of the right’s stances on social issues and immigration, you would have thought that progressive parties … Read More

Who said: “The Arab world is a source of danger, killing, destruction over the whole world” ???

Republication. Done to correct the linked title. Please forgive…. Unless you follow the Arabs and world press you are not going to see the answers to this mystery. NY Times … Read More

Dowd At NY Times pries open C.I.A.'s Pandora's Box. Gee, no torture. Nothing there but heroism.

MoDo celebrates Easter as always: a turn at stylish whining. “Good Riddance, Carrie Mathison” This “Carrie Mathison” is the lead character, played by Claire Danes, in the “Homeland” television series. … Read More

Likud's Miri Regev: Kahlon (of Kulanu) is a “traitor.” DFM Hanegbi: “He will join our coalition”

UPDATE: Friday, March 20th — Times of Israel, initial source, reports on its front web page that Channel 2 in Israel reports that Moshe Kahlon has agreed to support Bibi … Read More

Corporatist $$$$$ going to turn out a 300,000-man evangelical army for 2016

The story detailing their plans appears in the NY Times today: Evangelicals Aim to Mobilize an Army for Republicans in 2016 This is what you get for just one of … Read More

Al Jazeera gets A+. The Iran deal will be a Security Council Non-Proliferation Treaty Resolution

Al Jazeera gets it right. NY Times, in contrast, are going out of their way to avoid identifying the fundamental, high school civics fail of Republican ignorance at the core … Read More

Favorite Comments from the Petition to Ban Fracking in Illinois

The MoveOn.org Fracking Fighter petition to ban fracking in Illinois got off to a fast start! It's just shy of the first 500 signatures. The comments people add are fun … Read More