Chavez announces internet cutback

Even though President Hugo Chavez initially supported internet, with the enactment of a Presidential Decree in the year 2000 whereby internet was declared a national priority, today he has grown scare of its effects. Now Chavez has recently announced that the internet is a "luxury and must be eliminated from public spenditure". This is just an effort to curtail freedom of expression.

Now, this is just the beginning of the regulation of the internet. The obvious first step is to eliminate public offices and officials from accessing the net, then it will obvious that the regulation must reach private individuals, which mostly feed the internet with not so-Chavez friendly messages. Or better off, without the Chavez government directly or indirectly regulating the content of the internet on Venezuela. This is just a product of Chavez´s frustration with his lack of jurisdiction to regulate the content on internet.

In my opinion, this will slowly transform into the regulation of internet for private individuals (and maybe to yours truly, this humble blogger). Maybe Chavez will outright ban the access to internet to everyone, or either regulate the connection frequency times or perhaps issue a government clearence to whom could access the net.

The days of internet accesss in Venezuela are counted...

First Hispanic in the US Supreme Court

Obama has recently nominated Sonia Sotomayor for the United States Supreme Court, if approved by United States Congress, she will be the first Hispanic ever in the United States Supreme Court.

Sonia Sotomayor (born June 25, 1954) is a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. On May 26, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Judge Sotomayor for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice David Souter.[2][3] Sotomayor is of Puerto Rican descent, and was born in the Bronx. Her father died when she was nine, and she was raised by her mother. Sotomayor graduated with a B.A., Summa Cum Laude, from Princeton in 1976, and received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979, where she was an editor at the Yale Law Journal. She worked as an Assistant District Attorney in New York for a time before entering private practice in 1984. Considered a political centrist, Sotomayor was nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by President George H. W. Bush in 1991 and confirmed in 1992.

Sotomayor has ruled on several high profile cases. In 1995, she issued the preliminary injunction against Major League Baseball which ended the 1994 Baseball Strike. Sotomayor made a ruling allowing the Wall Street Journal to publish Vince Foster's suicide note. In 1997, she was nominated by Bill Clinton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. After more than a year, she was confirmed and joined the court in 1998. Sotomayor was an Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law from 1998 to 2007 and has been a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School since 1999.

CD Review - the Crystal Method - Divided by Night

Just in time for summer, the Crystal Method launched a new CD this past May 12th, 2009, the title Divided by Night...

This is one of my favorite electronic acts, even though the mainly play nowadays, dj live sets, still one of the truest and most innovative sounds in the electronic movement.

The first single, Drown in the Now, features Matisyahu on vocals. This track absolutely rocks, its sort of mantric with deep bass sounds and also recommend Come back clean, a great deep song.

In an interview with The Boston Herald, Scott Kirkland of the Crystal Method said:

“The album is different. There are big, organic live drums and distortion and lots of bass and that sort of bombastic sound that we’ve been doing for so many years. But lots of collaborations have taken it in lots of different directions. I think people are going to be happy with it."