U.S. Gov‘t Software Creates ’Fake People’ to Spread Message via Social Networking
"Whenever I shop on the internet, I skip right over the positive reviews of products and go straight for the bad ones, figuring the company probably paid some hack to sit and create fictional names and post fake glowing five-star reviews for their products to dupe unsuspecting customers. But what if the federal government could operate this way?"
Saturday, February 19, 2011
The Weekend Interview with Paul Ryan: Ryan's Charge Up Entitlement Hill - WSJ.com
The Weekend Interview with Paul Ryan: Ryan's Charge Up Entitlement Hill
"Paul Ryan doesn't look like the menacing sort. He's amiable in a familiar Midwestern way, his disposition varies between cheerfully earnest and wry, and he uses words like 'gosh.' Yet to hear Democrats tell it, the 41-year-old Republican congressman is the evil genius, the cruel and mad budget cutter who threatens grandma's health care, grandad's retirement, and the entitlement state as we know it."
"Paul Ryan doesn't look like the menacing sort. He's amiable in a familiar Midwestern way, his disposition varies between cheerfully earnest and wry, and he uses words like 'gosh.' Yet to hear Democrats tell it, the 41-year-old Republican congressman is the evil genius, the cruel and mad budget cutter who threatens grandma's health care, grandad's retirement, and the entitlement state as we know it."
NationalJournal.com - House Passes Amendment to Block Funds for Net Neutrality Order - Friday, February 18, 2011
House Passes Amendment to Block Funds for Net Neutrality Order
"The House passed an amendment Thursday that would bar the Federal Communications Commission from using any funding to implement the network-neutrality order it approved in December."
"The House passed an amendment Thursday that would bar the Federal Communications Commission from using any funding to implement the network-neutrality order it approved in December."
House votes to defund Planned Parenthood - David Nather and Kate Nocera - POLITICO.com
House votes to defund Planned Parenthood
"The House just approved Rep. Mike Pence’s amendment to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood, checking off a hot-button social issue even as it set up a bigger showdown over defunding the health care law."
"The House just approved Rep. Mike Pence’s amendment to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood, checking off a hot-button social issue even as it set up a bigger showdown over defunding the health care law."
House blocks funding for health care law - On Politics: Covering the US Congress, Governors, and the 2012 Election - USATODAY.com
House blocks funding for health care law
"The GOP-led House voted today to block funding to implement the nation's health care law."
"The GOP-led House voted today to block funding to implement the nation's health care law."
Shafik Gabr: What Egypt's Top Tycoon Fears Most - The Daily Beast
Shafik Gabr: What Egypt's Top Tycoon Fears Most
: "Egyptian industrialist Shafik Gabr was in Davos, Switzerland, when the revolution began. It was January 26, the second day of protests in Tahrir Square, and from 1,600 miles away at the World Economic Forum—teeming with financiers, celebrities, and heads of state in the crisp, Alpine air—it didn’t look much like a revolution."
: "Egyptian industrialist Shafik Gabr was in Davos, Switzerland, when the revolution began. It was January 26, the second day of protests in Tahrir Square, and from 1,600 miles away at the World Economic Forum—teeming with financiers, celebrities, and heads of state in the crisp, Alpine air—it didn’t look much like a revolution."
Bloomberg.com: News
Bloomberg.com: News: "Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) -- In what union leaders say is becoming a national fight, protests against legislation to restrict public employees’ collective-bargaining rights spread from Wisconsin to Ohio."
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