There’s plenty of speculation who will run against Obama in 2012.Nevertheless, the first television ad for the 2012 election supports Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president.A Chicago dentist named William De Jean spent ,000 to create the ad, which is currently airing in Washington, New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles and Houston as well.We [...]
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AN ITEM that popped up today on Croz Walsh’s Fiji blog taking the mickey out of a “profound shame” article by a former Fiji Times editor-in-chief, Rory Gibson, in the Brisbane Courier-Mail. It ran under this heading:Don’t give me that nonsense about the media freedom in the Mickey Mouse pressQ. What does the Fiji Times, [...]
Texting Censorship Flap Settled Out of Court: Via Threat Level. A legal flap concerning whether wireless carriers may censor text messages was settled out of court Friday, leaving unanswered the highly contentious question of whether wireless carriers have the same “must carry” obligations as traditional phone companies. The month-old New York federal case pitted T-Mobile [...]
I’m so grateful to Michael Coren for giving me a full hour to talk about Ethical Oil on his show. SDA Matt was kind enough to YouTube the interview; here are the clips. What do you think? Ezra Levant
What a great review in Wednesday’s Financial Post by Peter Foster. May I invite you to read the whole thing; here is just one small excerpt: Mr. Levant has certainly already raised the ire of his opponents. Police had to be called to a book signing in Saskatoon. Matt Price, policy director of Environmental Defence, [...]
I’m pleased to announce that I will be adding more visits to my book tour. I’ll have a Victoria event to announce soon, and more Alberta events. But here are two new ones from the Atlantic: Monday, October 25, Dartmouth Chapters Dartmouth, 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 26, St. John’s Chapters St. John’s, 7 p.m. I [...]
Do you know how your location information is used? A recent survey commissioned by security company, Webroot, asked 1,645 social network users in the U.S. and UK who own location-enabled mobile devices about their use of location-based tools and services. The survey found that 39 percent of respondents reported using geo-location on their mobile devices [...]
Hack Exploits Google Street View to Find Victims – The New New Internet This very short article describes a really simple attack that enables someone to discover your physical location with a very high degree of reliability and accuracy. It involves using JavaScript to access the MAC address of your WiFi wireless access point (base [...]
Here’s an update on my Ethical Oil tour’s public events. For more details on a continuous basis, follow me on my Twitter page. Please note the Dartmouth date has been changed. I hope to announce a Montreal event, and Fort McMurray, don’t you worry — we’ll be up there very soon! (E-mail me with other event [...]
Thanks to Bruce Schneier for linking to this post by Seth Grodin on the “Fear Tax”. This is a great essay on the hidden, and possibly very large, costs of acting in reaction to our fears in ways that fail to substantially benefit us. He uses the example of TSA Security theater as an obvious case, [...]