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EFF Desinger Hugh D’Andrade was recently asked to create mural-sized political cartoon at a show of experimental drawings and cartoons at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco.

Anybody remember Thoof? Well, it won’t be too long before most people answer that question with “What’s a Thoof?”.

The US Attorney General is proposing new guidelines that could, according to Senators Dick Durbin of Illinois, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, the new rules would permit the FBI to use “a variety of intrusive investigative techniques with no evidence of possible wrongdoing”.

The International Olympic Committee filed a copyright infringement claim against YouTube recently to get them to pull a video that was made by Students for a Free Tibet

A lot of people seem to think that Obama has the best shot at winning, but there’s a CBS news article that raises some questions about that. Notably there’s seven factors that could individually or together serve to put a damper on Obama’s run for the White House.

Once again Iran is in the news, once again it’s because they’re refusing to halt their uranium enrichment program. The US state department is once again talking about sanctions:

Just in case you thought China was the only country doing stuff like this, they’re not. The Iranian government is working on a law that’s going to “toughen punishment for harming mental security in society” (translation: give the government more license to kill people that openly disagree with it.) They’re already blocking websites that either have sexual content, anything religious that does not agree with Islamic doctrines, and of course, anything that doesn’t agree with government approved politics.

He spoke recently at the National Governors Association’s semiannual meeting and talked about a growing polarization in America. He made this 44 minute speech, citing statistics about voting habits and such, painting the picture that apparently people in this country are physically segregating themselves into groups that all tend to vote the same.

This election has turned out to have been rigged eight ways from Sunday so that Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe could continue to stay in power. From what I’ve read, there’s really no question about it, the election was totally bogus and Mugabe shouldn’t be Zimbabwe’s President any more than Hannibal Lecter.

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