Reblogged from Piratenpartij.nl Blog: Wij zijn geen one-issue partij, wij zijn de core-issue partij. Informatiepolitiek, wat is da? Wij leven in een informatiemaatschappij De Piratenpartij zet zich in voor informatiepolitiek. Dat wil zeggen, de politiek van het managen van informatie. Dit klinkt misschien vaag, maar we zullen de verwarring eerst nog wat vergroten door te [...]

Author: Stephen Alexander Much like “big beef” sued Oprah Winfrey in the 1990′s, Google could sue Rupert Murdoch today over his comments in reference to the SOPA debate. In court and in the media, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association tried to show that Oprah Winfrey deliberately aired false, sensationalized claims about food safety in order to boost ratings. The alleged [...]

A short time ago, Iran’s Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Seyed Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i urged the Muslim World to boycott anything and everything that originates with the Jewish people. In response, Meyer M. Treinkman, a pharmacist, out of the kindness of his heart, offered to assist them in their boycott as follows: “Any Muslim who has Syphilis [...]

Oct 3, 2011 at 7:19pm ET by Pamela Parker After quietly testing in Brazil, Spanish-speaking Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, Google will roll out a new algorithm globally that gives more weight to landing page quality when it comes to AdWords Quality Score. This means ads with landing pages that Google deems to be most relevant to the [...]

Oct 3, 2011 at 1:28pm ET by Andrew Shotland Last week, I released the results of a survey of Google News Ranking Factors with some of the top news SEOs in the business. While there has been plenty of response regarding the Top 10 Most Important Factors, I thought it would be helpful to take a closer [...]

Karel van Kesteren, Dutch Ambassador to Bulgaria, confirmed Monday his country’s position and intentions to block Bulgaria’s joining of the Schengen zone. After a meeting with the candidates for president and vice president from the ruling Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB, party, Rosen Plevneliev, and Margarita Popova, the diplomat reiterated the Netherlands government [...]

Remittances – money sent by Bulgarian migrants to family members back home – continue to increase slightly, but steadily despite the global downturn, data from the central bank shows. The net sum of the remittances from Bulgarians permanently working abroad totaled EUR 473 M during the first seven months of 2011, Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) wrote. [...]

Right now, Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manning is being tortured in a US military prison. Manning is subjected to utter isolation that can drive many people insane, with short periods each day where he is stripped naked and abused by jeering inmates. Manning is awaiting trial for releasing secret military documents to Wikileaks – including a [...]

It’s the day when newspapers compete to come up with the most inventive spoof stories – but not every bizarre report on 1 April is fictitious. Here’s a round-up of some of the day’s seemingly hoax reports which are, in fact, entirely true. 1. French President Nicolas Sarkozy uses a £10,000 armour-plated umbrella to protect him [...]

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