garrett’s NewsCloud Journal

Last week, a US Court of Appeals upheld a ruling on software piracy. The organization doing the piracy, however, happened to be a branch of the US government, and the decision highlights the significant limits to the application of copyright law to the government charged with enforcing it. Most significantly, perhaps, the court found that because the DMCA is written in a way that targets individual infringers, the government cannot be liable for claims made under the statute.

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A global shift toward renewable energy could jack up food prices by up to 80 percent as crops and farmland are diverted to producing biofuels, an international agricultural
think-tank warned Thursday.

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NASA’s $420 million Phoenix Mars lander blasted off early today and began a 10-month voyage to the red planet, bound for the northern polar plains where scientists
believe vast deposits of ice are hidden just beneath the frozen surface.

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An interview with Dennis Kucinich about his presidential platform on energy and the environment

A vegan who counts Ralph Nader among his heroes, Kucinich doesn’t exactly embody the sensibility of the average American. He says his commitment to sustainability
“extends to everything I am and do” — from the food he eats and clothes he wears to the policies he espouses. It’s the same progressive platform that made him a darling
of the far left when he ran for president in 2004.

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Readers of National Review, “the bible of american Conservatism” go on a regular cruise with a literal whose who of conservatives like Kenneth Star and John O’Sullivan.
A reporter tags along with disturbing results.

The civilised countries should invade all the oil-owning places in the Middle East and run them properly. We won’t take the money ourselves, but we’ll manage it so the
money isn’t going to terrorists.

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The National Science Teachers Association has rejected 50,000 free copies of An Inconvenient Truth citing a possible
loss of funding from Exxon Mobil.

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A powerful statement. It’s too bad the media hasn’t picked up on this.

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A Stanford professor is proposing that states decide to throw their electoral votes behind the winner of the nations popular vote. If 11 of the largest states did this then the winner of the popular vote would also when the electoral vote. The advantage of this idea is that it wouldn’t require any constitutional changes.

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