Everyone: call on Google to disclose its political spending and stop funding the US Chamber of Commerce.

US banksters ordered their subservient congresscritter to pass a bill to reduce the weak US regulations on banks.

Companies want to bribe people to accept TVs that keep track of where they are looking while watching.

I am glad the article takes account of the difference between getting a patent on a technique and using it. The patent, as such, does not mean Microsoft uses or will use this technique. It only enables Microsoft to sue anyone else that uses it.

Alas, we can't count on Microsoft to use that to protect us from this abuse. It is not altruistic enough for that. More likely it will let everyone else do this in exchange for paying Microsoft.

I don't think they will stop with "bribes" — like the "savings" from identifying yourself to a store, by and by it will morph into paying extra for not being monitored. And eventually they will try to turn off other options.

This won't affect me: I don't have a TV, because I'd rather spend my time on other things. However, if I were inclined to have a TV, I certainly would not accept one like this.

I wonder what these systems do if you block the camera, put a photo in front of it.

A man who knows Adebolajo, one of the Woolwich killers, was arrested in the UK just after giving a broadcast interview about Adebolajo.

He was accused of "terrorism" but believes he was arrested for saying things that the state finds embarrassing.

One article refers to this man as Abu Nusaybah, while the other refers to him as Ibrahim Hassan, but they clearly both mean the same man. I don't know why the discrepancy in names.

Prohibition of fairly safe drugs fuels the invention of legal mimics that might be dangerous.