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Bush approval rating chart
The BBC has created a very nice interactive Approval Rating Tracker on their web site. Together with the chart for one year or five years users can display details for key events. The charts are created with data from weekly and monthly opinion polls. Click on the image for the jump
Russia: Activities of more then 90 NGOs suspended
Yesterday Russia has suspended the activities of more the 90 foreign non government organizations (NGOs) including Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders and Human Rights Watch, saying they failed new registration requirements recently introduced with a controversial law. The law that was signed by President Putin earlier this year allows authorities to ban financing of specific [...]
FBI DNA database: Next Generation combined DNA Index System now on its way
Timing couldn’t have been worse – with the Military Commissions Act of 2006 just signed out- the U.S. Dept. of Justice announced that the FBI has today awarded a contract to develop the NGCODIS (next-generation combined DNA index system) to a group of providers. Unisys together with IBM, government service provider iSYS LLC and two [...]
HotSoup.com: Now live and cooking
Much talked about social network site for political issues HotSoup has a few hours ago opened its gates and is now online. Created by …four Democratic strategists, three Internet entrepreneurs, two Republican strategists and one journalist… they are planning to bring together 80+ celebrity opinion leaders with grass roots opinion drivers (?consumers) to engage them [...]
Military Commissions Act: Yay, Nay who voted what?
Those of you American citizens that would like to know who is so freely giving away your civil rights should check the BORDC website. Currently only the Senate voting record is online but the house voting from yesterday should be available soon. More on the Military Commissions Act of 2006: UK’s highly popular website The [...]
The Economist: On issues with US voting machines
In his last edition top European business and political magazine The Economist has an interesting brief article on US voting machines.Crash and re-boot, that’s how the article is titled, is looking into how the wrong kind of voting machines could bring chaos to the mid-term elections. Even the Economist that rarely is using stronger wording [...]
