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Bill Gates Foundation Invests In McDonald’s - The Raw Feed
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, built on Microsoft money and supposedly dedicated to global health issues, is a major investor in junk-food giant McDonald’s, Gates disclosed yesterday. So while Gates and company are wiping out diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in the third world, they’re FINANCING DISEASES like obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease in the industrialized world.
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New Math - Stereophile
Here’s a number to contemplate: 52% of recorded music sales at Sony/BMG are now via downloads.
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0xdb: The ultimate P2P-powered film database - P2P Blog
File sharing activists like to argue that swapping music and movies is not just about getting content for free, but about preserving the world’s knowledge in a decentralized fashion. Some folks from the Pirate Cinema Berlin now decided to put their money PHP coding skills where their mouth is and created a huge database for films that are available on P2P networks called 0xdb.
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U.S. requests WTO ruling in piracy complaint against China - Bloomberg News
The Bush administration has asked the World Trade Organization to rule in a complaint against China over the piracy of copyrighted movies, music, software and books, escalating a dispute that has roiled commercial relations. The U.S. Trade Representative’s office took the formal step Monday of asking the WTO to decree that China’s laws fall short of international agreements, after consultations failed to resolve differences over what the United States says are weak Chinese laws to safeguard patents and copyrights.
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Will Colbert offer enough truthiness? - San Francisco Chronicle
YouTube plans to question comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, among others, as it prepares its case against Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit. That should make for some entertaining testimony: Will Colbert, host of “The Colbert Report,” offer “The Word?” Will his responses be punctured by a raise of the eyebrow? Will it smack of truthiness?
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ITV admits staging X Factor shots - BBC
Some scenes in TV talent show The X Factor were staged “to get the story right”, ITV has admitted. “Occasionally, we have to go back and re-shoot something,” the broadcaster’s director of entertainment Paul Jackson said at a launch for the new series.
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U.S. to Expand Domestic Use Of Spy Satellites - the Wall Street Journal
The U.S.’s top intelligence official has greatly expanded the range of federal and local authorities who can get access to information from the nation’s vast network of spy satellites in the U.S.
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August 15th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
theyve got your medusa story in wired defense - http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/08/meet-the-medusa.html