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Hope Plus for ’social politics’
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- President Barack Obama and Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates are being asked to back Hope Plus, a global, multilingual website promoting “social politics”. Through it, people would collaborate on “building schools, campaigning against pollution or helping disaster victims,” says the E-Government Bulletin . Slated for launch at the UN Climate Change conference in Copenhagen in December, it’ll create “a place where people can meet, congregate, and participate with NGOs to change the world online,” says founder Phil Noble (right) who advised Obama presidential campaigners on internet activity “The name Hope Plus is derived from the premise that ‘If you take hope, people’s desire to do something, plus action, that equals change”, the story has Noble saying.
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Barack Obama’s new Twitter site
p2pnet is only the 424th site to sign on to president Barack Obama’s new Twitter site !!!! Not quite as good as being the first. But still … :sigh: Now we can communicate with Barack one-on-one. Thousands of snow white pigeons are released into the air and the massed band of the RIAA Girl Scouts Brigade plays Hail to the Thief (Not Obama – the RIAA).
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Obama the Barbarian: comic book hero
“Barack the Barbarian: Quest for the Treasure of Stimuli #1 “From a far away land rises a mighty hero. The son of peasants from two different realms, the one known only as Barack protects the people of Hope Kingdom at all costs. Watch as he takes on the likes of Boosh the Dim, Red Sarah and Cha-nee the Grim in this hilarious first issue!” The way things are turning out, Obama is no joke . But leaving that aside, “When word broke last week that DDP would be releasing two new Obama-related titles in June, questions began popping up everywhere,” says US comic book co Devil’s Due . “Now, even the Chicago Tribune is picking up on two of this summer’s most original releases,” it says, going on »»» The Tribune spoke with Josh Blaylock about his plans for the comics and how he came up with the idea to bring U.S.
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RIAA supports French 3 strike move
RIAA boss Mitch ‘The Don’ Bainwol says he’s all for the ‘three strikes and you’re out’ rule being promoted on the behalf of the movie and music industries by French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Given that Bainwol’s bosses, Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (USt), together with Hollywood studios Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney, dreamed up the idea in the first place, his support isn’t terribly surprising. South Korea is the latest country to fall in line with the corporate entertainment industry plan to have ISPs act as copyright cops, turning in their own customers so they can be victimised as file sharing criminals and thieves by the cartels.
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