UVB-76 Live Stream Blog Automobile In American Life and Society The biggest threat to Internet freedom 692,547 have signed. Help us get to our new target of 3,000,000 Update: 7 July 2012 VICTORY! Our 2.8 million strong campaign helped MEPs axe the ACTA treaty in the European Parliament. This dangerous treaty would have been rubber stamped - threatening our Internet freedom and allowing corporations to police us online. Read more about the ACTA victory here. Update: 13 April 2012 GREAT NEWS! Update: 10 February 2012 Amazing! Posted: 25 January 2012 Last week, 3 million of us beat back America's attack on our Internet! ACTA - a global treaty - could allow corporations to censor the Internet. Europe is deciding right now whether to ratify ACTA -- and without them, this global attack on Internet freedom will collapse.
The Billionaires' Tea Party In Summer 2009, something stirred in America. After Barack Obama and a Democratic congress swept to power promising a new era of hope and change, out of nowhere the emergence of a citizens protest movement called the Tea Party threatened to derail their agenda. Was this uprising the epitome of grassroots democracy? Or was it, as some said, an example of “astroturfing” - the creation of fake grassroots groups, designed to put corporate messages in the mouths of seemingly independent citizens? Fascinated by this concept of astroturfing, and curious to find out if these accusations were true, Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham hopped on a plane to investigate. Going undercover as a curious onlooker, his month-long journey took him over 5000 miles, six states and right to the heart of the “American Dream”. The Billionaires’ Tea Party is both a journey through a unique moment in American history and a thoroughly researched piece of investigative journalism.
Lobbying Database You can use the options on the right to search through our database in several ways: search by name for a company, lobbying firm or individual lobbyist; search for the total spending by a particular industry; view the interests that lobbied a particular government agency; or search for lobbying on a general issue or specific piece of legislation. NOTE: Figures are on this page are calculations by the Center for Responsive Politics based on data from the Senate Office of Public Records. Data for the most recent year was downloaded on January 27, 2014. *The number of unique, registered lobbyists who have actively lobbied. Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the Center for Responsive Politics.
UVB-76 UVB-76, also known as "the Buzzer", is the nickname given by radio listeners to a shortwave radio station that broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kHz.[1][2] It broadcasts a short, monotonous buzz tone , repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, 24 hours per day.[1] Sometimes, the buzzer signal is interrupted and a voice transmission in Russian takes place.[3] The first reports were made of a station on this frequency in 1982.[4] Its origins have been traced to Russia, and although several theories with varying degrees of plausibility exist, its actual purpose has never been officially confirmed and remains a source of speculation.[5] The name[edit] Format[edit] A spectrum for UVB-76 showing the suppressed lower sideband. The station transmits using AM with a suppressed lower sideband (R3E), but it has also used full double-sideband AM (A3E). Voice messages[edit] Sometimes the buzzing sound is interrupted and a voice message is broadcast. Unusual transmissions[edit] "Я – 143.
Explore the amazing TEDxTalks video collection: 7,000+ videos, now findable News State of the X: Stats on TEDx and TEDxTalks in January The new feature “State of the X,” on the TEDx Tumblr, runs the numbers on TEDx and the great video coming from these worldwide independently produced events. TEDx Starting today: More TEDx video on TED.com Starting today, you’ll see a new talk every single day on the homepage of TED.com!
World Intellectual Property Organization - Wiki WIPO members Members Non-members The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is one of the 17 specialized agencies of the United Nations. WIPO currently has 187 member states,[2] administers 26 international treaties,[3] and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. History[edit] The predecessor to WIPO was the BIRPI (Bureaux Internationaux Réunis pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle, French acronym for United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property), which had been established in 1893 to administer the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. WIPO was formally created by the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, which entered into force on April 26, 1970. Unlike other branches of the United Nations, WIPO has significant financial resources independent of the contributions from its Member States. Information network[edit]
COMMENTARY: Got a Problem You Want the White House to Fix? E-Petition It! - Saturday, September 10, 2011 The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States protects the right of the people to "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." When the White House officially launches We the People next month, that constitutional right will be formally brought into the digital age. "When I ran for this office, I pledged to make government more open and accountable to its citizens," President Obama says at WhiteHouse.gov. "That's what the new We the People feature on WhiteHouse.gov is all about – giving Americans a direct line to the White House on the issues and concerns that matter most to them.” While some political commentators will inevitably tie this initiative to the gearing up of the 2012 campaign, there is a big idea embedded in this launch, going back to the original compact between the American people and its government. Here are the key takeaways: Reasonably, we can expect there to be similar challenges with the White House version.
Sleeping Tricks - Effective Techniques For Falling Asleep U B U W E B Stop the biggest threat to Internet freedom 2,008,307 have signed. Help us get to our new target of 3,000,000 Update: 10 February 2012 Amazing! We smashed our 2 million target as we delivered to key decision-makers in Brussels this week -- let's get to 3 million before the crucial parliamentary debates Posted: 25 January 2012 Last week, 3 million of us beat back America's attack on our Internet! ACTA - a global treaty - could allow corporations to censor the Internet. Europe is deciding right now whether to ratify ACTA -- and without them, this global attack on Internet freedom will collapse. It's outrageous -- governments of four fifths of the world’s people were excluded from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations and unelected bureaucrats have worked closely with corporate lobbyists to craft new rules and a dangerously powerful enforcement regime. Big corporate interests are pushing hard for this, but the EU Parliament stands in the way.
Executive Order--Developing an Integrated Strategic Counterterrorism Communications Initiative The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release September 09, 2011 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 2656 of title 22, United States Code, and section 3161 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. The purpose of this Executive Order is to reinforce, integrate, and complement public communications efforts across the executive branch that are (1) focused on countering the actions and ideology of al-Qa'ida, its affiliates and adherents, and other international terrorist organizations and violent extremists overseas, and (2) directed to audiences outside the United States. Sec. 2. Executive branch efforts undertaken through the Center shall draw on all agencies with relevant information or capabilities, to prepare, plan for, and conduct these communications efforts. (b) To achieve these objectives, the Center's functions shall include: Sec. 3.