Perhaps your political bigotries cloud your objectivity.

As far as this turning us “more into Russia than we already are,” perhaps Russia will take the opportunity to turn into the internet’s wild west and will not sign onto this deal, leeaving them free to host “free” sites. Appalling. This is not going to play well with Thee One’s young internet fan base!

Transparency, huh?

Huffy Poo writer James Love coined this “The Patriot Act for the Internet.”

Here’s a section from the Love article, posted Nov.4th:

“If you are a lowly member of the public, the text is secret. The names of persons who attend the meetings are secret. The titles of the documents are secret. If you represent a big firm or law firm — pretty much any big firm it seems, the U.S. government will show you documents after you sign a non-disclosure agreement – curbing your right to speak out on the contents of the documents you see.”

Of course, I guess I could get hauled off to the Internet Gulag for cutting and pasting that.

Scary times we’re living in!

Secret copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad. Very bad.
The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. It says:

* * That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn’t infringing will exceed any hope of profitability.

* * That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet — and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living — if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel.

* * That the whole world must adopt US-style “notice-and-takedown” rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused — again, without evidence or trial — of infringing copyright. This has proved a disaster in the US and other countries, where it provides an easy means of censoring material, just by accusing it of infringing copyright.

* * Mandatory prohibitions on breaking DRM, even if doing so for a lawful purpose (e.g., to make a work available to disabled people; for archival preservation; because you own the copyrighted work that is locked up with DRM)

From:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html

Obama is so naive that it’s impossible for leaders in the powerful countries, Russia, China, Western Europe… not to mention Iran and the like, to take him seriously.

Things are so heavy in the WH now, Obama is losing weight like he’s on liquid diet.

Neither does your characterization of Gorbachev as being blindingly stupid.

There were a lot of factors working at that time. Reagan as a combination of Superman and Disraeli is simplistic and straight-out wrong. I thought you were being satirical until I realized you were serious.

However, I liked your saying: ”There is the right way, the wrong way, and the Russian way.”
It reminded me of a similar one I heard when I worked in Ireland:: “An Irish solution to an Irish problem”.

How long till the Obama administration comprehends that Moscow is a virile threat unless and until it is regarded with respect and cooperation?

Never! The Obama administration believes we need to apologize for our past sins to be friends with Russia while endeavoring to emulate the old USSR. To the Obama administration, that’s the way to govern.