Transcript in this Daily Kos diary, along with the day-long discussion about getting it on the air in swing states. Truthandhope.org has been helping such grassroots video work get the production assistance and funding to be seen nationally, and they are hoping to do the same for this one (per comments in the links diary).
Naturally, tv advertising takes money, so, if you can, give them a few bucks.
I get most of my news about the upcoming election from blogs (as I get most of my news in general). Here are the ones I follow most closely for information and analysis of the campaigns, media coverage and polls. (No particular order, but my top recommendations for those with limited time are indicated with *.)
Obviously, these are left-leaning blogs, so the opinion slants towards the Democrats, though there has been plenty of criticism of the Obama campaign and of downticket candidates published on these blogs, and throughout the netroots — certainly a great deal more of that kind of thing than you’ll find on right-wing blogs.
As with any source, traditional or new media, obtaining information online requires one to use judgment and assess statements against known facts, etc. etc.
To that end, I use Wikipedia, Congresspedia, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact and Open Secrets to verify things I’ve read, or dig deeper. When necessary, the government sites are available for primary sources of legislation, press releases, etc.
If any readers have further suggestions, or issues with my list, please use comments to share.
Yesterday evening I Twittered as I browsed through some Oklahoma sites:
- peacearena: Continuing the Sunday stroll through online Oklahoma: Chaz moves Dustbury.com to Wordpress! http://www.dustbury.com/
- peacearena: Lots of crazy anti-Obama posts on OKC Craigslist/pol http://oklahomacity.craigslist.org/pol/
- peacearena: Work on rebuilding the Rock Cafe on Rt. 66 is coming along. Hurrah! http://tinyurl.com/59whek
I’ve decided to do this regularly. I won’t ban politics, but I’ll try to keep it in balance with other interesting stuff that’s being posted.
This is critical. So please take action RIGHT NOW!!!
Sign MoveOn’s petition and call Congress today.
FEC Won’t Regulate Internet Politics - Yahoo! News
Expanded explanation of how this affects the netroots.
The search results sweep by the US spy industry continues:
Google lashed out at the U.S. Justice Department on Friday, saying that a high-profile request for a list of a week’s worth of search terms must not be granted because it would disclose trade secrets and violate the privacy rights of its users.
and now there’s three in the fight:
Google may be about to face a second round of subpoenas for search-related information
If the U.S. Justice Department is successful in obtaining a week’s worth of search terms from Google, which it demanded as part of an attempt to defend a 1998 Internet pornography law, a second round of subpoenas is shaping up to be far more intrusive.
The American Civil Liberties Union warned Friday that if the first subpoena is granted–giving the government’s expert the information to use to evaluate the effectiveness of porn filters–the ACLU’s legal assault on the same antipornography law will require it to target Google as well.
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Businesses have been encouraged by our government for years now to go into China, and the motivation was NOT to bring them our freedoms, but to take away their money. Now, the shit has hit the fan, because Yahoo, no doubt like other companies dancing to China’s tune, provided info that got a dissident identified and imprisoned for 8 years.
There will be hearings in the House this week. But as Steve Guillard correctly noted, there are only two choices here, and one of them is the right one.
I am a heavy user of various Yahoo services, and I recently contacted the company with my outrage over their release of search information to US spying agencies. Now this. I will be paying attention to the hearings, and seeing what Yahoo does about this. But things don’t look promising.
It will be a big hassle to move dozens of listserves to another service, to say nothing of my SBC account for internet access and several Yahoo mail accounts, but I will not continue to support Yahoo if this isn’t handled appropriately.
My message to Yahoo: Get out of China.
How Comcast Censors Political Content says David Swanson of After Downing Street. (Comcast is a major internet service provider, equivalent, I think, to what Cox is around the OKC area.)
I can think of a couple of other possibilities for the source of the email blockage they experienced, but all of them involve squelching of political speech, and it comes down to Comcast being more responsible for how it operates it’s near monopoly (in some areas of the country).
Not a Good Day for Innovation, Customer Rights and Free Speech
The Grokster file sharing decision was the most notorious of the ones handed down today. But the court also came down on the wrong side in the so-called “Brand X” matter, saying cable Internet access providers companies don’t have to provide access to third party ISPs. They own the cable, so they get to decide what data gets sent, in what order.
Given that there are only two “broadband” providers in most communities — if that many — this is an invitation to a media consolidation that makes the current one look pale. The decision, which ratifies Congressional and FCC failure to address the open-access question in a way that promotes freedom of speech, is a gift to the cable/phone duopoly. They will abuse their power, because history shows that’s how they work.
Do you care? Or are you a sheep, baa baa, ready to be just a consumer of the crap Hollywood feeds you? Are you willing to let the phone and cable companies dominate tomorrow’s media, having built “their” networks on the backs of monopoly deals with government that they now leverage to capture entirely new markets? Baa baa.
If you care, fight back. Call, and especially write, your member of the U.S. House and U.S. senators. Tell them that the law is now grossly out of balance in the hands of the entertainment cartel and data duopoly. They won’t pay much attention if you’re the only one who calls, but they may begin to wake up if enough people care.
