Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:10:51 am
If you've ever expressed a liberal political opinion on Twitter, you've seen them -- the rabid right wingers who feverishly tweet insults and long-debunked talking points at you, with no attempt at all to really debate anything. The worst ones are blatantly racist, homophobic, anti-Muslim religious fanatics whose online lives ...

Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:19:55 pm
YouTube From Tommy's 1991 album, "Determination", this song was originally played on electric with a full band! Recorded on: Canon 7D, Rode K2, Audio Technica 8033 Sound by: Brad Benge Video by: Clara Emmanuel Please like, comment and share so we can continue providing our Youtube fans with great videos! Order CD from official shop: ...

Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:10:21 pm
Getty Image Rolling Stone's interview with Bill Gates is interesting, not least because he makes some comments about NSA leaker Edward Snowden that have thrown our pal The Mighty Greenwald into a fine rage: Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview. Do you think some of these concerns people have are overblown? There's ...

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Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:15:52 am
MP3 Audio Investigative reporter Julia Angwin was curious what Google knew about her, so she asked the company for her search data. "It turns out I had been doing about 26,000 Google searches a month ... and I was amazed at how revealing they were," she tells Fresh Air's Dave ...

Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:04:55 am
Turns out that the George Polk Award is given out by Long Island University which is also home to the Homeland Security Management Institute. Polk Award page at Long Island University: The George Polk Awards are conferred annually to honor special achievement in journalism. They were established by Long Island University ...

Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:16:13 am
YouTube Written in 1993 by Tommy Emmanuel & David Hirschfelder for the album, The Journey, which went double platinum in Australia and won the Aria award for Best Adult Contemporary Album of the Year in 1994. The original recording had 72 tracks, featuring a full band as well as orchestra, bagpipes, ...

Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:26:36 am
YouTube Join President Obama as he "travels" across the country in a virtual whistle-stop tour. The President will join Google+ Hangouts with people across the United States and talk with Americans about the issues laid out in his speech.

Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:50:24 pm
YouTube An original tune dedicated to the great Jerry Reed! Please like, comment, share and subscribe so we can keep delivering videos to you! See Tommy live: http://www.tommyemmanuel.com/tours Ord er the CD here: http://www.certifiedguitarplayer.com/o nly.aspx iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/only -special-edition-remastered/id31047847 9 Did you know that Tommy posts on his Facebook page? Like him here: https://www.facebook.com/tommyemmanuel https://twitter.com/tommyemmanuel ht tps://plus.google.com/1156002965439795 90743/posts Visual recorded on a Canon 7D, audio ...

Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 6:21:25 pm
Vimeo It was one hell of a journey during the fourteen months making Wyoming Wildscapes II, my second and final Wyoming related time lapse project. Had plenty of adventures while working on this. Lightning almost got me a couple of times this summer, gear froze up in the winter (literally), ...

Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 2:01:55 pm
Here's the detailed synopsis released by the White House of the 6-month deal reached with Iran yesterday. This actually looks like a pretty good deal to me. Two major points in its favor: Iran commits to halting all uranium enrichment above 5%, and even better, commits to neutralizing their entire stockpile ...

Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:11:58 pm
I'll forego the temptation to say "what took you so long:" Google's Eric Schmidt Announces New Blocks on Child Porn. Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt has outlined how his company is introducing new measures to block child pornography from appearing in its searches. Schmidt explained the changes to Google's search ...

Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 5:44:19 pm
YouTube A tune dedicated to the great fiddler, Byron Berline! The song is featured on Tommy's album, The Endless Road. Please like, comment, share and subscribe so we can keep delivering videos to you! Check Tommy's tour dates: tommyemmanuel.com Order the CD here: certifiedguitarplayer.com iTunes: itunes.apple.com Did you know that Tommy posts on his Facebook ...

Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:13:54 pm
Vimeo This is a great little video, making an important point about our irrationality on privacy, in a world where Google, Facebook, Linkedin and many other large corporations know far more about each one of us than the NSA could ever dream of. We are the Transparent Machines™ | ...

Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:09:23 am
YouTube Written by His Majesty, the King of Thailand, this song was planned to be performed by Tommy and Martin Taylor in Bangkok on October 28 during their Colonel And Governor Tour in Asia. Please like, comment and share so we can continue providing our Youtube fans with great videos! (Apologies ...

Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:29:22 am
French newspaper LeMonde is reporting today that NSA officials were not lying when they said the recent stories about NSA data collection in France and Spain were "completely false:" Surveillance: DGSE transmitted the data to the American NSA (Google Translate). According to our information, collected from a senior official of ...

Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:54:14 pm
The whole YouTube (and Blogger) commenting system will shift to be powered exclusively by Google+. All comments must be tied to an account. HELPING USERS... For users, this change will likely be wonderful. First, it should banish some of the trolls spewing racism, sexism and homophobia. The anonymity of a one-off ...

Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:45:18 am
Americans are concerned about internet privacy, but they're far less worried about government snooping than they are about their online activity being monitored by hackers and advertisers. That's according to a survey of 792 internet and smartphone users in the US by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, conducted ...

Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 5:42:21 pm
The headline for this new story from Guardian writer Dan Roberts is ... I hope you're sitting down ... highly misleading: US Surveillance Guidelines Not Updated for 30 Years, Privacy Board Finds. The subheading continues the deceptive theme: Privacy watchdog points out in letter to intelligence chiefs that rules designed to ...

Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 2:12:38 pm
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has released the following Statement on NSA Compliance, in response to the Washington Post's leaked internal NSA audit. "By law, the Intelligence Committee receives roughly a dozen reports every year on FISA activities, which include information about compliance issues. Some of ...

Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 6:12:37 pm
This is the week the right wing said, "We're all rodeo clowns now." Capped off by Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas): Stockman Invites Missouri Rodeo Clown to Perform in Texas | Congressman Steve Stockman. Yes, this is your modern Republican Party, denying the existence of racism in their ranks as they simultaneously excuse ...

Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:13:08 pm
Time for a completely hysterical breaking story from Gizmodo: Google: Gmail Users Have No Reason to Expect Privacy. Here's some more bad news to add to the pile of concern over email vulnerability, a brief filed by Google's attorneys has just surfaced and revealed that Gmail users should have "no ...

Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:19:36 pm
Image via Shutterstock Bob Cesca makes an excellent point in a post about a new article by computer security writer Bruce Schneier: Government Surveillance Critics Willingly Accept Egregious Corporate Privacy Violations. While viewing Schneier's article, I ran a browser privacy extension called Ghostery, which detects web bugs embedded in a page. ...

Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 3:54:17 pm
Here's the document President Obama mentioned in his statement yesterday, detailing the administration's legal rationale for surveillance efforts. A fascinating section that shows the extremely limited scope of the analysis done on the massive amounts of metadata collected: Thus, critically, although a large amount of metadata is consolidated and preserved by ...

Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:35:17 pm
New York writer/blogger Michele Catalano has a piece at Medium on a very disturbing experience her family had yesterday -- a visit from members of the local Joint Terrorism Task Force: Pressure Cookers, Backpacks and Quinoa, Oh My! What happened was this: At about 9:00 am, my husband, who happened ...