Does anyone else find it interesting that Google has the best coverage of these results? I think it kinda plays into Mondo 2000’s cyberpunk projection of a future wherein corporations are the new government.

On the eve of the 2008 presidential elections, forerunner candidate Barack Obama has announced a groundbreaking technology plan showing his presidency will be setting us in the right direction.

In a promising step for a newborn simulacrum, Obama has released a video showing that he will open up the federal process to the people. As Cicero says, any with a voice to express themselves can be part of the government. Likewise, Obama’s plan plans to allow citizens to offer policy advise and comment on legislation before it is passed.

He also wants universal broadband - groundbreaking because its equating the internet with the forum. This is apt in a pivotal time in the evolution of consciousness having progressed from an agrarian state into the global informational age (see Ken Wilbur’s Integral Theory of Consciousness). It’s also a better direction to go in that its dissolution in world war.

Obama is also making a move for transparency, making all public data available, government grants, earmarks, funds and lobbying information available, meaning that citizens willl also have the information requisite to make even judge on these issues.

This allows a person to set for the policy on an issue,

(e.g. “Platonic, classical and current international policy forbids war under these circumstances,”

or 

Cicero might agree that doing drugs is a victimless crime and a personal choice, and thus outside of the public sphere, and we would hope that federal jurisdiction would be respected here…”)

which can then be backed up with concrete fact: 

“According to these public figures, money from the war on drugs has gone to prop up a system of oil refineries in Colombia, and this is the type of unsustainable energy we’re trying to get off of, according to Obama’s Blueprint for Change, and also this is a crass, corruption, a squirrling away of public funds, exactly the kind of leveraging of the republic to turn it into just gold that we don’t want.”

The implacations of this transparency in the fight against corruption is just mind boggling. Here’s to a new kind of citizen journalism.

The McCain campaign continues to repeat accusations against the Obama campaign about the alleged ACCORNE voting scandal. With the elections coming up in a few months, the integrity of the voting system should be a big issue, but not in the way he says.

According to the spokesman Brian Kettenring, ACORN told the local officials the cards were bogus, but was required to turn them in due to state laws stating all registrations be submitted to the election director.

ACORN observed the law, passing the ballots on to the local voting officials, where the controversy started. The real fraud is the McCain campaign’s attacks against the Obama campaign, insinuating their ties to the organization constituted an attempt to steal the election.

The truth is, while ACORN was a fake election fraud scandal, Diebold presents a real threat, and has knowingly caused problems in the past, according to the La Times. A recent experiment shows that Diebold’s machines are still a real concern for elections in 2008.

This video shows from the Princeton Center for Information Technology shows how easy it is to hack Diebold’s machines. The Accuvote TS can be hacked in under one minute, and once infected, a virus passes instantaneously to all machines.