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Peer Source Verification

Adam Selene — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:15:38 +0000

Worried about the situation in Iran, but not sure who or what to believe? This is the new emerging reality of news. Everyone is struggling with it including the established media like CNN, FOX and NPR.

When the media consisted of a few people working for a few companies, it was a lot easier to verify a story and trust a source. A reporter’s and by extension the entire network’s reputation and value was based on the quality of the information and the reliability of the sources the information came from. In today’s twitter/facebook/blog world, there isn’t an obvious structure of trust to fall back on, but a new system is emerging.

Peer Source Verification is occurring in a really strong way for the first time with the Iran election situation driving the process. With Iranian citizens blogging and twittering about what is happening in Iran at the same time as Iran’s efforts to control, limit and often co-opt the information coming out of Iran people around the world are using their existing trust networks, their personal relationships, common sense and a sophisticated understanding of our modern tools to ferret out who is really presenting factual information and who is spewing spam or chaff. One such example is an effort going on at Twitspam to identify Fake Iran Election Tweeters.

This emerging model of trust has some existing models to draw ideas from, but its implementation and effectiveness are developing both organically and through the concerted efforts of several bloggers, tweeters and activists around the world. How are your altering the definition of trusted source and how are your perceptions of trusted sources changing as the new Peer Source Verification model develops?

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Let’s Play 20 Questions

Will Senate Torture Probe Target Cheney?

Adam Selene — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:55:06 +0000

Well, Dick. Looks like you were at some secret briefing with congressional leaders back when you were the appointed VP in an attempt to build support for the torture program. Now with Feinstein’s investigation into the torture program, the question is whether Cheney will be the focus of the investigation or not.

So far the Obama administration has taken a very hands-off approach to getting to the bottom of the criminal activity conducted by Bush/Cheney and their band of criminals. Although I see a clear reason why the Obama regime shouldn’t be leading the process, I feel it is critical that the process is undertaken and by our own nation. The world is only going to give us a little while to prove that we can take care of our own mess before they start taking things into an international process. They are required to!

Let’s shine the full power of this nation’s moral light at Bush and Cheney and watch as the cockroaches whither.

Will Senate Torture Probe Target Cheney? | Mother Jones.

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Inauguration Audio

Adam Selene — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:27:24 +0000

Looking to incorporate audio from Obama’s Inauguration speech in your mashups or mixes? Download a collection of clips or the entire speech right here!

Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

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Adam Selene — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:34:18 +0000

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McCain-Palin Haiku Hysteria

Adam Selene — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:40:46 +0000

Religious zealot,
Cultivating ignorance.
Ya betcha my friend.

The bridge to “no” where.
Steady hand on the tiller.
Bold-faced lies. Nothing else.

McCain and Palin.
They’re peddling ignorance.
Obama for me.

And more…

Polar bear, wild wolf,
threatened and under attack.
Palin’s Alaska.

Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight…
Seventeen times in one night.
Vote for hope and light.

Can the right do more
than fight, fight, fight? I vote for
Obama and change.

What’cha got?!

People For the American Way: McCain-Palin Haiku Hysteria

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Support Planned Parenthood in the Name of Palin

Adam Selene — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:51:07 +0000

Here’s a great idea…

Instead of just pointing out how Sarah Palin is unqualified to be the Vice President and that her extremist religious views are not appropriate for the nation, you can make a positive statement by donating to Planned Parenthood in her name.

Make a donation in honor of Sarah Palin by clicking the link below or by going to PlannedParenthood.com and clicking the Donate link at the top. In the “Donate Online” section, click the link to In Honor / In Memory link and fill out the form.

Best of all you can send an acknowledgment to the McCain office as a wonderful protest action:

McCain for President
1235 S. Clark Street
1st Floor
Arlington , VA 22202

I donated $25 and it was very fulfilling! I can see hundreds of cards from Planned Parenthood being delivered to the McCain campaign offices and the look on their faces…

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Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword

Adam Selene — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:06:32 +0000

For the past 28 years, the GOP and corporate America has been beating one drum louder than all the rest; big government is bad and it should stay out of business’ way. They have worked tirelessly and systematically to rip apart this nation and what little safeguards it held for workers, their jobs, a hope for a living wage and a future to retire on. Legislators and their rich backers called you a communist or a socialist if you stood up for any oversight. They shreded regulations left and right, dismantled oversight systems and ran amok with the nation’s finances.

And now that they have gutted the system, bled it to the brink of death, they want the suffering tax payers to pony up 800 BILLION dollars to bail them out?! Are you fucking kidding me!!! They want the “Big, Bad Government” to step in and fix their problems. No.

No. No. No. Let the free market that you have been ramming down our throats for the past 28 years take care of itself. We know what it is going to do. It is going to collapse. Total failure. And a lot of people are going to hurt. And a lot of people are going to get run out of town on a rail for their immoral, illegal, selfish greedy actions. And then after all the hurting, and the failing, and the collapsing. We are going to stand up again and start to put things back together again. This time we will have learned our lessons. This time we will make sure that the fox is locked outside of the hen house. This time we will regulate and oversee what happens with our money. Where the investors invest our money. We will make sure that CEOs and fund managers make a living wage and no more. This time when you choose to live by the sword, you have to die by the sword.

But wait. No. Henry Paulson and the Bushies and apparantely the entire fucking Congress is conning the American people. They are using the same old scare tactics, telling the same old lies. And they are playing the same evil game, too.

Section 8 of the Proposed Bailout Package states:

Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.

Non-reviewable and not under the jurisdiction of any court of law???

NO! Not in my country! Time to get the swords… This needs to die.

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Stand Up and Be Heard: Impeach Cheney

Adam Selene — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:06:15 +0000

If you haven’t already signed, there are some important grassroots efforts ongoing to impeach Cheney.

The Political Chit Chat has a collection of links to the various efforts to impeach Dick Cheney. Make sure you stand up and be heard!

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