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BP Uses Mercenaries to Blocks Journalists From Talking to Disaster Workers

I saw this terrible event on youtube yesterday. In the first step it was a BP worker who tried to stop a camera man from doing his job.

Apparently the situation gets worse today because Mercenaries are making the perception of being in charge even worse.…

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Posted on June 18, 2010 at 9:18am — 1 Comment

Freedom of speach

Not everything today is negative, thank God!! But when negative issues are mentioned it's a good thing to discus them in a blog like this.

Support freedom, support freedom of speech, the most essential component of democracy!

Posted on May 8, 2010 at 6:13pm — 2 Comments

Kopenhagen

I don't get get it! Yesterday I saw mister Biden say that the US and Europe should take the leading role on climate change. Than why did president Obama disappear behind the curtain with some Chinese delegation while a real progress could have been made in Kopenhagen? Strange, very strange :(

Posted on May 7, 2010 at 10:47am

Why Does The US Gov't Get To Patent Research Paid For By Public Tax Dollars?

An anonymous reader links us to a report from The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which came out earlier this year, that highlights how, in 2008, the US government bought in 170 million by licensing federally (i.e., taxpayer-funded) technology and

patents to private companies. It details which agencies are getting how

many patents, showing that the government appears to get, on average,

between 1,000 and 1,500 patents per year. Now,…