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In 2002, John Poindexter, a major outlaw in the Iran-Contra scandal, took the reins of the U.S. Defense Department’s Total Information Awareness project (TIA).x10 One of the features of TIA, was the “Terrorism Futures Market”, which would set up a web site to allow people to bet on future violent events, such as terror […]

Republican leaders and news outlets whipped up a little furor over MoveOn.org’s ad headlined “General Petraeus or General Betray Us? — Cooking the books for the White House.“x01 A common comment was that the ad was “over the top.“x02. The ad came out in the New York Times September 10th, the day of […]

In September 2002 a reporter asked President Bush’s Chief of Staff Andy Card why the administration was suddenly pushing for an invasion of Iraq70×71. Card replied: “From a marketing point of view, you don’t introduce new products in August.” Shortly before that push, Vice President Dick Cheney, in a speech to the V.F.W., […]

The reporter for u>The Washington Stakeout waited with his videographer outside news show studios in D.C. Sunday, ready to ask three national leaders some pointed questions that the TV hosts had not. After appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped for questions91. The reporter, Sam Husseini, asked the governor […]

Here are three pictures of the Internet in the U.S.A., as it could be in the future.

The first picture is the Internet with net neutrality, where no one’s data gets priority over another’s1. This is the kind of Internet we have always had. In this picture CNN is the Cable News Network, a […]