May 2009
The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make (happy...
Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed... →
by David Kravets, Wired : ht Groklaw
The judge assigned to review whether the trial judge in the Pirate Bay trial was biased has now been removed — for bias, of course.
The convoluted web of potential scandal further complicates the April 17 copyright infrigment convictions of the four founders of The Pirate Bay, the world’s most notorious BitTorrent tracker.
Judge Ulrika Ihrfelt was...
Pirate Bay Judge Judged by More Biased Judges →
by Ernesto @ Torrentfreak : ht Groklaw
To determine if the verdict in the Pirate Bay case was biased, the connections of Judge Tomas Norström to national and international pro-copyright lobby groups will be reviewed by another judge. However, the judge that was initially appointed has already been replaced because she was linked to the same organizations as Norström, and her replacement is...
Obama's civil liberties speech →
by Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com
—via unburyingthelead:
Ultimately, what I find most harmful about his embrace of things like preventive detention, concealment of torture evidence, opposition to investigations and the like is that these policies are now no longer just right-wing dogma but also the ideas that many defenders of his — Democrats, liberals, progressives — will defend as well. ...
RNC Hits Obama For Criticizing Slavery →
—via minorjive: azspot
The Unbalanced →
by Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish/The Atlantic
A simple note having now read the former vice-president’s despicable and disgraceful speech. It confirms the very worst of him, and reveals just how callow, just how arrogant, and just how reckless and unrepentant this man is and has long been. There was not a whisper of regret or reflection; there was a series of lies and distortions, a...
Luis Alberto Spinetta - Los libros de la buena...
