Funny how they can always find Arab Americans when they want to cast them as terrorists...

Re: The Upcoming Prince of Persia film:

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The Princess of India

The Prince of Persia


And Bollywood? Doesn't exist. At all.

Jedifreac snarks magnificently here


In the meantime...


The Face of the Other: Are Manga Characters White?

AVATAR PICSPAM OF AWESOME

MOAR Avatar Protest Icons!!!

de/vision. gonna need to set up a best of cd mix

De Vision - Love Me Again

De/vision - Heart Shaped Tumor

more. fun.

Unheilig - Freiheit

Unheilig - Sei mein Licht (live DVD 2008)

Oomph - Supernova

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apocalyptica - somewhere around nothing

HIM feat. The Rasmus - Apocalyptica bittersweet reposted cause its badass.

Apocalyptica & Sandra Nasic - Path

WTF Obama? No really, WHAT. THE. FUCK?????????

Via: Pharyngula

Rick Warren?At his fucking inaugural??? THIS rightwing tard with a softer voice?

As we've pointed out several times before, in 2004 Warren declared that marriage, reproductive choice, and stem cell research were "non-negotiable" issues for Christian voters and has admitted that the main difference between himself and James Dobson is a matter of tone. He criticized Obama's answers at the Faith Forum he hosted before the election and vowed to continue to pressure him to change his views on the issue of reproductive choice. He came out strongly in support of Prop 8, saying "there is no need to change the universal, historical defintion of marriage to appease 2 percent of our population ... This is not a political issue -- it is a moral issue that God has spoken clearly about." He's declared that those who do not believe in God should not be allowed to hold public office.

That that BS in your speeches about gay Americans is just a sop? What the fuck is wrong with you? What exactly is preventing you, a smart, intelligent man, from not seeing how much of an ass you are when you pull shit like this? I mean seriously? You pulled this shit with Donnie McClurkin, dammit! Did you learn NOTHING? HELLO THERE? Its called bigotry when you pull that shit!

Via: Pams House Blend

Have complaints to share? Email Parag Mehta is Obama's LGBT liaison on the transition team -
parag.mehta@ptt.gov.

EDIT:

ANd the fucker is even worse than I thought...

Warren: The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers.

AND he refuses to condemn Bush for torturing


In fact, the guy is against key issues in Obama's platform!


WTF? There were NO other preachers that he could find? Are only ignorant rightwingers Christians or something?

So apparently the Wall Street Journal was wrong

Google backing off net neutrality with ISP deal? Not really

First, let's look at what Google's up to. The Journal doesn't bother describing it until the very end of the article, and the description is sorely lacking; all the authors say is that the deal would "place Google servers directly within the network of the service providers." Fortunately, Google's Public Policy Blog has been used for damage control, as company counsel Richard Whitt describes the system in more detail. The plans are to have Google become its own edge-caching service provider, and do what commercial companies like Akamai are already engaged in: hosting copies of content at servers with high-speed connections to major regional networks. Under this system, users who are looking to obtain a large download, such as a video, get redirected to a copy of the file on a server that is local to them, providing a low-latency connection that avoids any network congestion elsewhere on the Internet.

Google's twist on the edge-caching setup is that it doesn't want to bother with the hassle of setting up a server facility and arranging a fat pipe to connect it with the local network. Instead, they're negotiating with ISPs to simply colocate their servers in the existing network facilities, neatly clearing both of these hurdles. Google emphasizes that these deals won't be exclusive—any content provider could get the same sort of deal if it's willing to pay the ISPs' price—and its commitment to net neutrality stands.

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Net Neutrality and the Obama Stimulus Package

As long as US telecom is duopoly dominated, a neutral Internet is endangered if not impossible; regulation of this kind of concentrated power is necessary but is unlikely to be sufficient. The solution, IMHO, is to dilute the power of the duopoly so that consumers can buy whatever kind of Internet access they want. Countries like the UK with a competitive ISP market do not seem to have net neutrality problems nor require net neutrality regulation and have better Internet access than we do at lower prices.

... part of the problem with net neutrality regulation; it's almost impossible to write workable definitions. Fervent supporters of the concept of net neutrality disagree on what is or isn't a violation of such neutrality. There is a huge danger that any regulation would result in further advantage to the incumbents who are accustomed to using regulation to their advantage. Would you want to wait for the FCC to certify your new service neutral before you could introduce it?

On the other hand, it's easy to recognize the virtues of a neutral Internet. With a few exceptions, we've had that so far. The backbone itself delivers packets to anywhere from anywhere without trying to figure out who sent them or what they might contain. It is wide open to innovation. It allows innovative business models whether they're disruptive or not – and whether they will ultimately succeed or not. Friend Om Malik warns "Many startups might skip over this issue, which I constantly bring up, but they need to wake up and realize that in the end they are all going to be impacted if network neutrality is backstabbed to death." He's right.

Introducing Raj Patel

The book

The Blog

STUFFED, STARVED & SPRAYED: Raj Patel on Agro-Ecology & LBAM

RAJ PATEL, Author of STUFFED AND STARVED: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World's Food System (http://www.rajpatel.org/ ),
talks about globalized corporate agriculture, the planet-wide democratic push for 'agro-ecology,' and their relation to California's movement to Stop the Spray.

The fight over the world's food systems

Stuffed and Starved: As Food Riots Break Out Across the Globe, Raj Patel Details "The Hidden Battle for the World Food System"
Global food prices have risen dramatically, adding a new level of danger to the crisis of world hunger. In Africa, food riots have swept across the continent, with recent protests in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania and Senegal. In most of West Africa, the price of food has risen by 50 percent—in Sierra Leone, 300 percent. In the United States there has been a 41 percent surge in prices for wheat, corn, rice and other cereals over the past six months. We speak with Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. [includes rush transcript]

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