http://www.blogstudio.com/perspectives/perspectives.html freedom, privacy, control en-us http://www.blogstudio.com/perspectives/perspectives.html http://www.blogstudio.com/BlogCSS.gif freedom, privacy, control Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:14:24 CST Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:14:24 CST Blog Studio http://www.blogstudio.com/SearchResults.php?Mode=G&Action=BL_Blog&Method=searchPosts&Subject=Introduction&Display=YES&Id=1039539071187000111673308558&OpenNew=NO&TargetMessageId=1131455617707 NBC and CBS are making TV shows available for viewing for 99 cents without commercials. If Blinkx got access to them, it could notify you when a TV show matches your search criteria via RSS feeds. This is a few weeks after Walt Disney Co.'s ABC began offering commercial-free Internet downloads of its biggest hits, "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives," for $1.99 a piece. The news also came the same day that file-sharing service Grokster Ltd. agreed to stop distributing software that allows users... On Demand Video Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:13:37 CST http://www.blogstudio.com/SearchResults.php?Mode=G&Action=BL_Blog&Method=searchPosts&Subject=Introduction&Display=YES&Id=1039539071187000111673308558&OpenNew=NO&TargetMessageId=1126393532931 Bush First Responder Halliburton Moves Fast to Relieve Government of $62.3 Billion New Orleans Fund Burden - (CNN)"Firms with White House ties get Katrina contracts" "FEMA taps Halliburton subsidiary, Shaw Group, Bechtel for cleanup" "Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina." This happened 1. Two days after Cheney surveys damage... Government Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:05:32 CDT http://www.blogstudio.com/SearchResults.php?Mode=G&Action=BL_Blog&Method=searchPosts&Subject=Introduction&Display=YES&Id=1039539071187000111673308558&OpenNew=NO&TargetMessageId=1126042264125 We the people... We the people Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:31:04 CDT http://www.blogstudio.com/SearchResults.php?Mode=G&Action=BL_Blog&Method=searchPosts&Subject=Introduction&Display=YES&Id=1039539071187000111673308558&OpenNew=NO&TargetMessageId=1122377291443 Bill Gates will be frisking you with a simple point and click - The Globe and Mail"It sets an extremely negative precedent," Pam Dixon, executive director of World Privacy Forum, a non-profit public-interest research centre in San Diego, said of the company's initiative. "Microsoft is saying, 'Before I let you do anything at all, you have to open your computer to us.' I really object to this."... Privacy Tue, 26 Jul 2005 06:28:11 CDT http://www.blogstudio.com/SearchResults.php?Mode=G&Action=BL_Blog&Method=searchPosts&Subject=Introduction&Display=YES&Id=1039539071187000111673308558&OpenNew=NO&TargetMessageId=1117192968044 U.S. unprepared against new flu - experts The government is charged with protecting its citizens.... Health Fri, 27 May 2005 06:22:48 CDT http://www.blogstudio.com/SearchResults.php?Mode=G&Action=BL_Blog&Method=searchPosts&Subject=Introduction&Display=YES&Id=1039539071187000111673308558&OpenNew=NO&TargetMessageId=1116427086602 Georgia grenade was real and threat to Bush - FBIThe FBI said on Wednesday a grenade thrown at President Bush during a visit to Georgia last week had been a threat to the American leader and had only failed to explode because of a malfunction. ... A White House spokesman also said then that Bush, who had visited the ex-Soviet republic to show support for its pro-Western government, had never been in danger.... All Wed, 18 May 2005 09:38:06 CDT http://www.blogstudio.com/SearchResults.php?Mode=G&Action=BL_Blog&Method=searchPosts&Subject=Introduction&Display=YES&Id=1039539071187000111673308558&OpenNew=NO&TargetMessageId=1116416989046 Bush demands vote on judges Bush Administration Out of Line With Request to 'Newsweek'Now, the Bush administration wants the respected weekly news magazine to act as an organ of U.S. policy. 'We appreciate the step that Newsweek took yesterday,' White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. 'It was a good first step. And what we would like to see now is for Newsweek to work to help repair the damage that has been done, particularly in the region, and Newsweek certainly has the ability to help... News Wed, 18 May 2005 06:49:49 CDT http://www.blogstudio.com/SearchResults.php?Mode=G&Action=BL_Blog&Method=searchPosts&Subject=Introduction&Display=YES&Id=1039539071187000111673308558&OpenNew=NO&TargetMessageId=1116275526654 White House says Newsweek report damaged U.S. image It is the current administration that has brought the world to such a fragile state that such a story, wrong as it may be, could touch off such deadly reactions around the world. More and more major media organizations are being attacked by the current administration as being unreliable. What past administration has ever done this to such an extreme degree? Can this be a strategy to pave the way for dictating without comment?... News Mon, 16 May 2005 15:32:06 CDT http://www.blogstudio.com/SearchResults.php?Mode=G&Action=BL_Blog&Method=searchPosts&Subject=Introduction&Display=YES&Id=1039539071187000111673308558&OpenNew=NO&TargetMessageId=1116038140393 The US has announced that it is to re-impose quotas on three categories of Chinese textile imports, arguing that thousands of jobs are at risk but US does nothing when High-tech industry lost 333,000 jobs in 2003 and 25,000 jobs in 2004 My mistake, they are doing something, they are causing more high-tech jobs to be lost this week!The U.S. ... is opening wide its doors Thursday (May 12, 2005) for 20,000 foreign nationals who wish to obtain H-1B visas. ...many of the applicants have high-tec... Jobs Fri, 13 May 2005 21:35:40 CDT http://www.blogstudio.com/SearchResults.php?Mode=G&Action=BL_Blog&Method=searchPosts&Subject=Introduction&Display=YES&Id=1039539071187000111673308558&OpenNew=NO&TargetMessageId=1115293535377 IED in NYC Blasts at UK Consulate in NYCThe explosions occurred as voters in Britain were casting ballots in a general election...... Terrorism Thu, 05 May 2005 06:45:35 CDT