energy, Internet, cleantech Robert Buderi wrote: In case you weren’t one of the 657,000 people who have watched it as of this writing, Barack Obama posted his first post-election YouTube address on Saturday, signaling a new stage in the evolution of presidential communications. The President elect, who plans to give weekly video addresses in parallel to the traditional weekly radio messages, touted a range of plans in his three-and-a-half-minute message (embedded below), most notably his ideas for getting America out of the current recession by rebuilding bridges, schools, and roads, providing affordable health care and high-quality education, and investing in the country’s long-term energy future. “It means investing $150 billion to build an American green energy economy that will create five million new jobs while freeing our nation from the tyranny of foreign oil and saving our planet for our children,” Obama said of his energy plans. Wade, our resident PhD in the history of technology, notes that Obama isn’t the first politician to use YouTube in such a manner. Hillary Clinton, for one, posted a series of high-quality Internet addresses and other videos during her campaign. Wade also notes (as have others), that there are historical parallels to be made here—starting with FDR’s use of radio, through which he pioneered the “fireside chat” format, which was later copied by Jimmy Carter on TV. Comments (1) | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

Obama's New Toy: Snazzy new technology isn't enough to bring transparency to the White House, by John Dickerson Less

King Shango will give his analysis of Obama, the melanite president. He will discuss the 401 Divinities, the recharging of our melanin and the nature of good and evil. OBA Shango | the melanite president | Obama | good and evil | photon belt Less

Baby and The Q. openly discuss the campaign & the President Elects win. Callers are welcome. Politics | Obama | President | Palin | McCain Less

A Hodge Podge, a Compendium, a Smorgasborg, a Veritable Potpourri! Hosts: Larry Fain & Stan Cox Finally, we get away from election talk, and cover a “hodge podge” of different issues.  The President-elect is still top on the list, but we talk basketball, stem cell research, abortion, Sarah Palin, Providence, Toothless and Hairless Dogs, and Gay Marriage.  Now you understand the title! Show Notes: Obama the Con Man. Satire, not fact.  But… isn’t there a little bit of truth in every successful satire? Internation Con Man Barack Obama Leaves U.S. With $85 Million in Campaign Fundraising. Obama’s Agenda - Executive Orders. It looks like the first order of business when Obama is sworn in is the issuing of executive orders on social issues like stem cell research and abortion.  Obama has Clinton insiders and liberal activists seeking to determine how much damage can be done, and how quickly they can do it! Obama Positioned to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions Quirky Obama News. Two quick notes:  First, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban voted for Obama.  Why?  And is his reasoning legitimate.  Second, Peru has offered the Obama family a four month old hairless/toothless UGLY dog.  Ain’t that sweet? Cuban: Proud to be An American Peru offers bald dog of Incas to Obamas What Will Palin do?  And Is God Telling Her to Do It? Stan and Larry discuss the inaccurate slant of an AP article about Palin’s possible plans to move from the Alaskan capital to the Senate.  Is she hearing the voice of God?  Or trusting His Providence.  Should her words concern Christians? Palin Leaves Door Open for Possible Senate Run Gay Marriage In the News Again.  Connecticut State Supreme Court ruled that the state must allow gays to marry.  The people of California voted to amend their constitution to ban it.  Who has the momentum?  Is it inevitable that Gay Marriages will become legal throughout the nation? Gay Couples Start Marrying in Connecticut Stan’s Weekly Rant: Apathetic parents lead to out of control, and underperforming children.  Parents, when you abdicate your duty, you disobey God, and handicap your children!  To read Stan’s rant for the week, click here! Larry’s Bible Verse: Ephesians 6:1-4. Stan rants, then Larry backs up the rant with scripture.  The text Larry exposits clearly establishes the responsibility,  before God, that parents have to raise their children right. Stan’s Software Review: Skype, and PrettyMay.  The two programs that make Watchman Digest possible.  Skype (the telephony software) is free, and PrettyMay (used to record the Stan and Larry’s conversations) costs $25.  You can be a podcaster like Stan and Larry.  But we were here first! We want your input! Feel free to post your comments using the form below! Music provided by the JPFM Band, from their album Paris S.K, via Jamendo under the Creative Commons Liscense. Less

Join the authors of AAMBC as we talk about the history making events of the last two weeks election | barack | obama | freedom | president Less

In his newest edition of "Christianity And War," Dr. Vance has 79 essays, organized under the headings of Christianity and War, War and Peace, The Military, Christianity and the Military, The Iraq War, Other Wars, and The U.S. Global Empire. He says all these have one underlying theme: His opposition to the warfare state that robs us of our liberty, our money, and in some cases our life. Although many of these essays reference contemporary events, the principles discussed in all of them are timeless: war, militarism, empire, interventionism, the warfare state, and the Christian attitude toward these things. It is Dr. Vance's contention that Christian enthusiasm for the state, its wars, and its politicians is an affront to the Lord Jesus Christ, contrary to Scripture, and a demonstration of the profound ignorance many Christians have of history. Less

Can something as common as building materials represent an opportunity to create jobs, help the needy, and save the planet? NOW looks at two "green" projects keeping furniture, paint, cabinets, and other building supplies out of landfills and getting them into the hands of those who need them most. Will they be devastated by the economic meltdown, or do they signal a possible way out? Based in the Bronx, New York, Greenworker Co-operatives aims to set up worker-owned green businesses. The first of these is Rebuilders' Source, a store that sells recycled and donated building materials at affordable prices -- items that would otherwise have ended up in a landfill. "My vision now is a completely green South Bronx," says Bronx-born entrepreneur Omar Freilla, the founder of Greenworker Co-operatives, "with businesses throughout the area that are owned and run by people living in the area together." On the other side of the country, in Southern California, Materials Matter matches donations of furniture and high quality building materials with individuals, organizations, and homeless shelters that use the materials to literally rebuild lives. But the faltering economy has had an impact. "We have to decide whether the value of that donation will be worth the cost of transportation," says Materials Matter co-founder Alison Riback on her blog. "[The economic downturn] put a huge dent in our 'always say yes to a donation' philosophy." Less

This week on the nearly famous Gathering Storm Radio Show our guest is Rosine Ghawji, who unknowingly married and had two children with a man who, through his family and acquaintances, was involved in international terrorism. sharia | Muslim | sharia | jihad | terrorism Less

What will President-elect Obama's promises of change mean for the Middle East? JOURNAL guest host Deborah Amos sits down with Elizabeth Rubin, the Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Slate magazine columnist Fred Kaplan. And, EXPOSE on THE JOURNAL follow a team from the Denver Post's award-winning reporting on the broken justice system on Indian reservations across the country. And, for Veteran's Day, veterans speak up about the best ways to thank them for their service. Less

Biotech, Roundup, Dendreon Luke Timmerman wrote: It was one of those cold, rainy November weeks in Seattle, and the headlines were pretty grim in local biotech. —Targeted Genetics (NASDAQ: TGEN) will never be the same. That was the big news this week, when H. Stewart Parker, the founder, CEO, and ballast during some very rocky years, resigned from the ailing Seattle gene therapy company. She didn’t have much to say on what she’ll do next. “I am thrilled to be looking ahead with a completely blank sheet of paper!” she wrote in an email. She changed her title on LinkedIn to “Entrepreneur” so I don’t think this is the last we’ve heard from Ms. Parker. —The most precious resource at money-losing biotech companies, a cash cushion, is getting dangerously thin. I ran the numbers on all 10 unprofitable, publicly-traded life sciences companies in Seattle, and saw a disturbing trend. —Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN) apparently still has enough cash on hand to move ahead with another cancer drug candidate behind its lead contender, sipuleucel-T (Provenge) for prostate cancer. This one is designed to be a conventional oral pill that hits a gene target Dendreon discovered in the late 1990s. —Bob Nelsen was an eyewitness to history last week. The managing director of Arch Venture Partners, was in the crowd at Chicago’s Grant Park on election night when President-elect Barack Obama addressed the country. Not only was he there, he was in the front row, just 20 feet from Obama himself, and five feet away from civil rights activist Jesse Jackson. —Microsoft is trying to figure out a strategy to clean up the mess that is healthcare information technology. They see a future of personalized medicine in which consumers take control over their health information. A panel of life sciences executives, pulled together by the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association, didn’t sound so sure. —We had a little announcement of our own at Xconomy. We unveiled plans for our first event in Seattle, which will concentrate on a new breed of vaccines. The event will be held Dec. 11 at the Institute for Systems Biology, and features a panel discussion of scientists and entrepreneurs, including Steve Reed, CEO of Immune Design, Chris Elias, CEO of PATH, Denise Galloway, a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Todd Patrick, the former president of ID Biomedical. Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

Biotech, Roundup, Dendreon Luke Timmerman wrote: It was one of those cold, rainy November weeks in Seattle, and the headlines were pretty grim in local biotech. —Targeted Genetics (NASDAQ: TGEN) will never be the same. That was the big news this week, when H. Stewart Parker, the founder, CEO, and ballast during some very rocky years, resigned from the ailing Seattle gene therapy company. She didn’t have much to say on what she’ll do next. “I am thrilled to be looking ahead with a completely blank sheet of paper!” she wrote in an email. She changed her title on LinkedIn to “Entrepreneur” so I don’t think this is the last we’ve heard from Ms. Parker. —The most precious resource at money-losing biotech companies, a cash cushion, is getting dangerously thin. I ran the numbers on all 10 unprofitable, publicly-traded life sciences companies in Seattle, and saw a disturbing trend. —Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN) apparently still has enough cash on hand to move ahead with another cancer drug candidate behind its lead contender, sipuleucel-T (Provenge) for prostate cancer. This one is designed to be a conventional oral pill that hits a gene target Dendreon discovered in the late 1990s. —Bob Nelsen was an eyewitness to history last week. The managing director of Arch Venture Partners, was in the crowd at Chicago’s Grant Park on election night when President-elect Barack Obama addressed the country. Not only was he there, he was in the front row, just 20 feet from Obama himself, and five feet away from civil rights activist Jesse Jackson. —Microsoft is trying to figure out a strategy to clean up the mess that is healthcare information technology. They see a future of personalized medicine in which consumers take control over their health information. A panel of life sciences executives, pulled together by the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association, didn’t sound so sure. —We had a little announcement of our own at Xconomy. We unveiled plans for our first event in Seattle, which will concentrate on a new breed of vaccines. The event will be held Dec. 11 at the Institute for Systems Biology, and features a panel discussion of scientists and entrepreneurs, including Steve Reed, CEO of Immune Design, Chris Elias, CEO of PATH, Denise Galloway, a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Todd Patrick, the former president of ID Biomedical. Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

wwwade, Gay Rights, Marriage Wade Roush wrote: If you’re trying to decide where to build your new tech startup, California obviously has a lot of attractions. You’ll be close to the heart of the venture capital community. Non-compete agreements, which are said to slow innovation in states like Massachusetts, are illegal in the Golden State. The weather is beautiful year-round. And let’s face it, it’s where all the cool kids live. But now there’s a reason to rethink going to California. If you do, you’ll be sending your employees to a state where a majority of the voting population says gay people aren’t entitled to equal rights under the law. On Election Day, 52 percent of California voters approved a ballot measure called Proposition 8, which adds a single line to the state’s constitution: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” The proposition overturns a State Supreme Court decision this May that gave gay and lesbian couples full rights to marry. As far as I know, it’s the first time a group of citizens has fought for and won the right to marry, only to have that right taken away. So, despite the fact that some 18,000 gay and lesbian couples have married in California since June without incident, residents have decided that only heterosexual couples are entitled to have their unions recognized and protected by the state. That means Massachusetts—and, as of this week, Connecticut—are now the only two U.S. states where gay people have full marriage rights, forming the country’s strongest bastion against one of the last acceptable prejudices, homophobia. I am gay. It hasn’t come up here before, but it’s no secret. For almost 10 years, California was my adopted home state—but boy, am I happy that I came back to Boston last year to work for Xconomy. It makes a huge difference to live in a place where I feel welcomed—to know that if I had a life partner, all of the public and private benefits of marriage (except those still denied under Federal law) would be available to us automatically, just as they are to straight couples. This, after all, is the place where the state’s highest court, in the 2003 decision that legalized gay marriage, declared that “without the right to marry…one is excluded from the full range of human experience” and that the state constitution “forbids the creation of second-class citizens.” It’s time for Massachusetts and Connecticut to turn that recognition into a marketing advantage. As we reported a few days before the election, a group of 22 biotech executives in San Diego teamed up to urge their regional trade-industry group, Biocom, to oppose Proposition 8 as a drag on recruiting. “The governor of Massachusetts has made it very clear that he recognizes this is a competitive and lucrative industry and he’d do everything he can to attract companies,” Laurent Fischer, CEO of Ocera Therapeutics, told the San Diego Union-Tribune . “And this is a sure opportunity for Massachusetts to feature its benefits that are not available in California should Proposition 8 pass.” Fischer was absolutely right. And now the ball is in New England’s court. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Office of Business Development, which does a great job of pitching the benefits of locating in the state, should stress the state’s gay-friendly credentials to technology and life sciences companies in its brochures and PowerPoints, and maybe even take out a few ads in places like the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. Governor Deval Patrick—whose 18-year-old daughter came out as gay this summer—should go on a trade mission to California and see if he can lure a few progressive companies away from places like San Francisco and Silicon Valley. And Boston’s venture capital firms and angel investors should lean on their portfolio companies to pick a home state where all of their employees will be treated equally. Now, one can make the argument that if technology companies left or avoided California and the other states that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, it would simply drain those states of the liberal voters who will eventually be needed to help reverse measures like Proposition 8. But all I’m saying is that company founders who have a choice of locations—and this includes most of the young entrepreneurs coming out of incubators like Y Combinator or DreamIt Ventures—should think about what kind of environment they want to provide for their employees. If they want to send a message of inclusion and equality, they should either set up shop in Massachusetts or Connecticut, or join the legal and political battles to overturn same-sex marriage prohibitions in the states where they do locate. What makes the passage of Proposition 8 and similar gay-marriage bans in Arizona and Florida all the more mystifying, of course, is that it came on the same day that Americans turned the corner on centuries of racial prejudice by electing an African-American as President. Like many others around the world, I’m inspired by Barack Obama’s historic victory. But inspiration aside, it’s hard for me to understand how Obama himself can be in favor of separate-but-supposedly-equal civil unions for gay people, as opposed to full marriage rights. Obama came out against Proposition 8, but he did little to campaign against it. What particularly puzzles me is how someone whose own parents would not have been allowed to marry under the anti-miscegenation laws still in force in many states in the 1960s can take the position Obama has; I can only surmise that it’s an act of political pragmatism. Eventually, I have no doubt, Americans from the White House on down will stop differentiating between civil rights for racial minorities and civil rights for gay people. Meanwhile, Californians and people in the 28 other states with constitutional gay-marriage bans need to learn that there’s a price for their prejudice. Progressive entrepreneurs and investors should vote with their feet and their dollars—and send their startups to Massachusetts and Connecticut. Comments (1) | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

wwwade, Gay Rights, Marriage Wade Roush wrote: If you’re trying to decide where to build your new tech startup, California obviously has a lot of attractions. You’ll be close to the heart of the venture capital community. Non-compete agreements, which are said to slow innovation in states like Massachusetts, are illegal in the Golden State. The weather is beautiful year-round. And let’s face it, it’s where all the cool kids live. But now there’s a reason to rethink going to California. If you do, you’ll be sending your employees to a state where a majority of the voting population says gay people aren’t entitled to equal rights under the law. On Election Day, 52 percent of California voters approved a ballot measure called Proposition 8, which adds a single line to the state’s constitution: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” The proposition overturns a State Supreme Court decision this May that gave gay and lesbian couples full rights to marry. As far as I know, it’s the first time a group of citizens has fought for and won the right to marry, only to have that right taken away. So, despite the fact that some 18,000 gay and lesbian couples have married in California since June without incident, residents have decided that only heterosexual couples are entitled to have their unions recognized and protected by the state. That means Massachusetts—and, as of this week, Connecticut—are now the only two U.S. states where gay people have full marriage rights, forming the country’s strongest bastion against one of the last acceptable prejudices, homophobia. I am gay. It hasn’t come up here before, but it’s no secret. For almost 10 years, California was my adopted home state—but boy, am I happy that I came back to Boston last year to work for Xconomy. It makes a huge difference to live in a place where I feel welcomed—to know that if I had a life partner, all of the public and private benefits of marriage (except those still denied under Federal law) would be available to us automatically, just as they are to straight couples. This, after all, is the place where the state’s highest court, in the 2003 decision that legalized gay marriage, declared that “without the right to marry…one is excluded from the full range of human experience” and that the state constitution “forbids the creation of second-class citizens.” It’s time for Massachusetts and Connecticut to turn that recognition into a marketing advantage. As we reported a few days before the election, a group of 22 biotech executives in San Diego teamed up to urge their regional trade-industry group, Biocom, to oppose Proposition 8 as a drag on recruiting. “The governor of Massachusetts has made it very clear that he recognizes this is a competitive and lucrative industry and he’d do everything he can to attract companies,” Laurent Fischer, CEO of Ocera Therapeutics, told the San Diego Union-Tribune . “And this is a sure opportunity for Massachusetts to feature its benefits that are not available in California should Proposition 8 pass.” Fischer was absolutely right. And now the ball is in New England’s court. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Office of Business Development, which does a great job of pitching the benefits of locating in the state, should stress the state’s gay-friendly credentials to technology and life sciences companies in its brochures and PowerPoints, and maybe even take out a few ads in places like the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. Governor Deval Patrick—whose 18-year-old daughter came out as gay this summer—should go on a trade mission to California and see if he can lure a few progressive companies away from places like San Francisco and Silicon Valley. And Boston’s venture capital firms and angel investors should lean on their portfolio companies to pick a home state where all of their employees will be treated equally. Now, one can make the argument that if technology companies left or avoided California and the other states that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, it would simply drain those states of the liberal voters who will eventually be needed to help reverse measures like Proposition 8. But all I’m saying is that company founders who have a choice of locations—and this includes most of the young entrepreneurs coming out of incubators like Y Combinator or DreamIt Ventures—should think about what kind of environment they want to provide for their employees. If they want to send a message of inclusion and equality, they should either set up shop in Massachusetts or Connecticut, or join the legal and political battles to overturn same-sex marriage prohibitions in the states where they do locate. What makes the passage of Proposition 8 and similar gay-marriage bans in Arizona and Florida all the more mystifying, of course, is that it came on the same day that Americans turned the corner on centuries of racial prejudice by electing an African-American as President. Like many others around the world, I’m inspired by Barack Obama’s historic victory. But inspiration aside, it’s hard for me to understand how Obama himself can be in favor of separate-but-supposedly-equal civil unions for gay people, as opposed to full marriage rights. Obama came out against Proposition 8, but he did little to campaign against it. What particularly puzzles me is how someone whose own parents would not have been allowed to marry under the anti-miscegenation laws still in force in many states in the 1960s can take the position Obama has; I can only surmise that it’s an act of political pragmatism. Eventually, I have no doubt, Americans from the White House on down will stop differentiating between civil rights for racial minorities and civil rights for gay people. Meanwhile, Californians and people in the 28 other states with constitutional gay-marriage bans need to learn that there’s a price for their prejudice. Progressive entrepreneurs and investors should vote with their feet and their dollars—and send their startups to Massachusetts and Connecticut. For a full list of my columns, check out the World Wide Wade Archive. You can also subscribe to the column via RSS or e-mail. Comments (2) | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

Those of you who think Obama is the first Black President are deluding yourselves. Obama is the 8th? [if you exclude mixed breeds[. The first 7 are a well kept secret. The First 7 were Black and lost to history. Ask yourselves why the 7 missing Preients were lost to hitory. Do you know your history? Do you know who created the Great Seal of the USA and why all Presients must include this seal 0n all official documents? 44th Presient | 1st black President | 1st seven Presidents | Black Presidents | John Hansen Less

Film/tv actor and registered independent Jimmy Flowers talks about politics, life, and more with an emphasis on solutions. Call in with your topics, everything is fair game. This episode: The people of the former Yugoslavia -- talking with two former Yugoslavia residents who have emmigrated to the U.S. Their perspective on the election, life in the U.S., and misconceptions about their respective countries. politics | movies | entertainment | humor | life Less

A coalition of artist-activists led by The Yes Men prank commuters and hack the media with fake copies of the New York Times. NYTimes Special Edition News Release, NY1 In The Papers 11/13/2008, Russia Today: ‘War in Iraq is over’, Gefälschte Zeitung erklärt Ende des Irak-Kriegs, Google News results for fake new york times,  The Anti-Advertising Agency, CODEPiNK, Not An Alternative, UFPJ, May First, Improv Everywhere, and Cultures of Resistance. Music: Storie di Mose by Arthur Cravan. Less

A coalition of artist-activists led by The Yes Men prank commuters and hack the media with fake copies of the New York Times. NYTimes Special Edition News Release, NY1 In The Papers 11/13/2008, Russia Today: ‘War in Iraq is over’, Gefälschte Zeitung erklärt Ende des Irak-Kriegs, Google News results for fake new york times,  The Anti-Advertising Agency, CODEPiNK, Not An Alternative, UFPJ, May First, Improv Everywhere, and Cultures of Resistance. Music: Storie di Mose by Arthur Cravan. Less