News/Google/Media

[verytwistedmind.livejournal.com]

There is so much to this story I don’t know where to begin. I am going to a poor job of presenting this but I hope it will inspire a more thoughtful post, or at least a discussion of what is going on here.

The information:

Debate raged in Washington yesterday, as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's workshop on journalism in the Internet age separately hosted both Rupert Murdoch and Arianna Huffington.

http://www.mediabistro.com/baynewser/future_of_journalism/murdoch_and_huffington_express_different_viewpoints_at_washington_event_144686.asp

Newspaper publishers reeling from the Internet-spurred decline of print advertising may join Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. in considering blocking Google from displaying their news articles.

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/google_murdoch_pay_wall/2009/11/25/290941.html

The Federal Communications Commission is already reconsidering rules that prevent a company from owning newspapers and TV stations in a single market.

Federal and state officials this year have explored how the government might play a role in helping ease the financial travails of news organizations. Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D., Md.) this spring proposed a bill that would allow newspapers to operate as tax-exempt institutions. Congress has held several hearings about the financial challenges facing the industry

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107104574569661532881656.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

Microsoft (MSFT) has cut a deal with News Corp (NWSA) to ban Google's (GOOG) spybots from scanning Rupert Murdoch's news sites for content and headlines. Since most business and tech press reporters are painfully aware of Google's impact on the media's business model, we don't suppose they'd be preoccupied with anything else.

http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/feeling-lucky/2009/11/30/will-microsoft-murdoch-conspiracy-work

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Rendering unto Caesar: Fasces in Hand

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

"If the Creator had meant for people to be citizens of Rome, they'd be born with fasces in hand."

Once we come to see the Pontifex Maximus as the vicar of Caesar, it makes sense that Roman priests oppose birth control. After all, to control one's own ability to reproduce implies freedom from the fear of the blunt instrument of Roman rule. Caesar seeks to dominate all of his subjects to the point of manipulating their reproductive practice.

The other side of the revelation involves the freedom from imposing the Roman bludgeon on children. Parents who were raised in the Roman religion are wising up to the brutality of Roman rule. They don't want their children to be forced into reproducing by accident the way that they had been forced by a vicarious pseudo-father.

If you were a Catholic parent, would you obey the rules of Caesar by trying to beat your children into conformity with Roman social custom? Would you use the fasces of Caesar to bring your offspring into subjugation?

Terrorism: how to fight w/ it?

[analytics-nor.livejournal.com]

The bomb attack that derailed a Russian express train last week killing 26 people and injuring over 90 bore was the result of Islamist terrorism.
Putin on his annual Q&A session with Russian citizens promised to fight w/ terrorism. But what could he really do? Wouldn't it lead to another war, like in Afghanistan or like in Georgia the last year? Every step towards setting piece relations is seemed to be accepted by "terrorists" as a provocation.

Nobody knows the real reasons of their behaviors, they're just dutiful puppets in the hands of insane leaders.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pledged radical measures to end a surge of militant violence in the North Caucasus, but said a new war is not expected in the region.

"No new war is in the air in the North Caucasus, but the situation is difficult... illegally armed gangs are still active there. We will wage a ruthless fight against them until they are totally destroyed," Putin said in his annual question-and-answer session broadcast live on television and radio on Thursday.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20091203/157087772.html