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Posted at 10:57am on Jul. 1, 2008 Google's Fight to Socialize Broadband, Part 2

By Erick

Yesterday, I told you how Google is funding an effort to bring socialism to broadband with an assorted cast of far left characters including the SEIU and ACORN.

It's important to understand how they are doing it.

First and foremost, we need to go back to Larry Page's comment that he "[doesn't] want people to be misled by people who have interests." The Google co-founder claims he is really bothered by that, but apparently not enough to disclosure the funding mechanisms behind all these "open internet" groups -- all of which are, via various means, being funded by Google while it hides behind innocuous names.

Google is the Obama of corporations -- it issues small platitudes about "internet for everyone" and expects the collective Web 2.0 community to faint.

But what Google, Internet For Everyone, the Open Internet Coalition, and the rest of these groups won't tell us is who funds them and who really operates them. Hypocrisy is frequently referred to as the only sin the left knows. In this case, these left wing organizations are demanding transparency for all, but refusing to give it for themselves. The hypocrisy is thick.

Let's go back to InternetForEveryone.org. It appears to have originated with a rather secretive, left-wing P.R. firm in Washington known as Connections Media. While most P.R. firms will gladly show off their prestigious clients, not so with Connections Media. On its website it write, "We believe in discretion and prefer to let our work advance our client’s goals, not our own. As a result, we do not routinely publish our client list."

But we can get an idea of who the organization is and what groups it works with. And from those, we can get an idea of where this is all headed.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 10:40am on Jun. 30, 2008 Google's Fight to Socialize Broadband

By Erick

I am increasingly convinced that the right is getting distracted by George Soros's incompetent spending of his personal fortune and we should instead be looking at Google.

Google, which claims it will "do no evil" is, in fact, doing evil by proxy.

Through a host of third party organizations, Google is at the center of a spider web of entangled left wing interests hiding behind feel good notions like "net neutrality" that have evolved from keeping internet service providers from charging you extra for using iTunes instead of Rhapsody, into socialized broadband.

More troubling though, Google is the silent partner in a host of organization that are subtly, but consistently promoting social change in a way that is long term harmful to the individual and the free market.

Let's begin today with internetforeveryone.org, a pretty little site on the internet that unintentionally gives a subtle hint in its intentions with its map of the U.S. entirely in blue (I write that only partly in jest). It's innocent name covers up all the troublesome characters who are using this site as a program for radical social change.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 11:36am on Jun. 28, 2008 Which gets better gas mileage? A Prius or a BMW M3?

By Mord

Top Gear decided to find out and they made a very good point. Liberals would have you believe that you can save the planet if you buy a Prius. Well, Top gear decided to test it out. Check out the Youtube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP6fe6i1vaY

If you have never seen Top Gear, they are a car-enthusiast show. Obviously they have a bias because they hate any and all car that doesn't have 300+ horsepower, but they are very careful with their research and have a reputation to uphold. It's definatly not a scientific test, but it IS a real-world example of something that would seem to be obvious to most people can be completely untrue.

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Posted at 4:42pm on May 29, 2008 Improve Science & Math Education = Reduce Need for Outsourcing

By GPSkins

I’ve never been a fan of science or math (I dislike the rigor of the subjects, not their applications), but as I’ve grown older – and marginally wiser – the gap in skills-based math and science learning between American and international students has become readily apparent. It’s not been for lack of trying – GWB has pushed hard for increased funding for education in these areas – but there needs to be drastic improvement in these areas to ensure that skills-based jobs do not continue fleeing our country. According to a recent report from the American Society for Engineering Education, 62% of doctoral degrees in engineering awarded in the U.S. went to foreign nationals in 2006, compared with 50% in 2000. With pathetic statistics like these, what will it take to convince corporate America that the best and the brightest are those actually born and raised in our great country?

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Posted at 7:37pm on May 27, 2008 Landing an Interview at NIF and PPPL

By kowalski

Hi folks:

Most people who have been around on this blog during my time here know that one of my important interests is the development of thermonuclear fusion energy as one of America's true 'alternative' energy sources. I see it as one of the three best, most important sources of central power station energy for the United States and elsewhere in the world in this century, along with conventional fission and exoatmospheric solar power.

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Posted at 8:18pm on May 25, 2008 Phoenix Lands on Mars

By kowalski

The NASA/JPL Phoenix lander has successfully completed EDL (entry, descent and landing) and has landed on the arctic plain of Mars. According to the flight engineers and everyone I'm watching at NASA, the descent went "better than we could have predicted" and the Phoenix touched down with just 1/4th a degree of tilt. As close to a perfect landing as one could imagine after traveling more than 420 million miles, and a thrill to listen to as Phoenix completed each of its "do or die" landing sequence milestones. Big congratulations go out tonight to everyone at NASA JPL, Lockheed Martin, and everywhere else that supported Phoenix.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 1:59pm on May 24, 2008 Oil is now obsolete, maybe.

By PhxG

Turns out the world of making cold fusion reaction a reality; if real, this discovery could eliminate a huge demand for fuels that are petroleum based. Maxine Waters now unsure of what to nationalize.

From Physworld.com

"Arata's demonstration...was successfully done. There came about 60 people from universities and companies in Japan and few foreign people. Six major newspapers and two TV [stations] (Asahi, Nikkei, Mainichi, NHK, et al.) were there...Demonstrated live data looked just similar to the data they reported in [the] papers...This showed the method highly reproducible. Arata's lecture and Q&A were also attractive and active."

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Posted at 12:28pm on May 22, 2008 Doing the Right thing...Stopping a bad Chinese import.

By PhxG

Turns out the wildly popular, if somewhat unusual Bodies…The Exhibition, you know the one that takes a real human body and plastinates it into a striking pose, splayed for all to see the inner wonder that is the human body has raised the ire of Rep. Todd Akin R-MO.

More...

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Posted at 4:58pm on May 14, 2008 Keeping Jobs in America Through Innovation

By GPSkins

The Left is always trying to portray the Dems as the “party of science” and the GOP as a backwards, wheel-building group of troglodytes - even though there's been a big push by Dubya for improvements in science education and innovation - so, here’s something that you might find interesting that has to do with the two– Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), which is going on this week in the ATL. ISEF (http://www.intelisef2008.org/) began in 1950 as a means of encouraging pre-college students to conduct scientific research, and grown in size and prestige to become the crowning achievement in U.S. high school science competitions.

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Posted at 11:36pm on May 7, 2008 The Next Big Thing for the Right?

By Bluey

Conservatives and Republicans have whined for the past year about their disadvantage vs. the left's activism, fundraising and journalism websites. I've monitored it closely on blogs and heard about it during countless panel discussions. There has been continuous talk about how to grow, adapt and change.

That discussion has revealed the monumental challenges facing the right -- both online and offline. There's frustration with the non-existent "Republican brand" and resistance among many conservatives to embrace technology. I've witnessed these challenges up close both on Capitol Hill and in my job at The Heritage Foundation, a 35-year-old institution that is (slowly) trying to strengthen its footing in the digital world.

Changes are happening all around, including here at RedState. As Erick reported earlier today, this site will undergo its own restructuring as part of version 3.0. The new RedState will fill important voids on the right, particularly at the state and local level, one of the fastest growing areas for citizen journalism.

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Posted at 6:38pm on May 6, 2008 Harry Potter and the Ghastly Climate Change

By Next93

In one of the recent Harry Potter movies, the kids were taking a class on fortune-telling (“divination”). The teacher is a complete fraud and the class is gibberish, and in a classical satire of what I picture liberal arts classes to be like, they’re doing their best to parrot the nonsense in a way that they hope will make their instructor think that they’ve internalized it. Gazing at apparently contradictory portents in Harry’s tealeaves, Ron’s prediction is “So you’re going to be miserable, Harry, but you’re going to enjoy it”.

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Posted at 9:35pm on May 2, 2008 Web 2.0 is a Cambodian Rice Field

By TRM

Watching Attack Of The Show yesterday I was introduced to LiveNewsCameras.com. What an obvious idea, that none of us thought of, but that’s always the case isn’t it?

I’ve been speaking with a few fellow blogosticians, (Doug, Jenn, Erick, Warner, Chad and a shout out to “lil’ pistol starter“) discussing the admirable job commie socialist(D) do using the web as an activist tool, more lethal than all the bags of thrown pooh and lead filled protest signs used since 1964.

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Posted at 11:27am on Apr. 26, 2008 Why Microsoft Has Turned Me Off

By kowalski

File under..."Jobs Americans Won't Do" (and read the post at the link -- it's excellent.)

Anyone who has followed my latest series of posts here at RedState and TMR knows that Microsoft has done its level best in the past couple of months to disabuse me of any unconditional positive regard I might have held in their favor as a customer. I'd also like to report today that the problems with my system did not end with fixing the 0xC1F5 bug -- they were only just beginning.

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Posted at 2:07am on Apr. 24, 2008 Vista 0xC1F5 Bug Fixed With Linux, Frenchmen

By kowalski

Here's the ultimate update, short and simple:

It works. Can you believe it? Yes, you must believe it.

The procedure outlined in my last post, authored by Tom Karpowitz, who runs The Galactic Toilet blog and is a Senior Staff Engineer for Sun Microsystems, recommending the use of a Linux system repair disk authored by Francois Dupoux, Pierre Dorgueil, Franck Ladurelle and Isaiah Salinas -- works.

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