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AFP: US actress Gwyneth Paltrow prefers British dinner talk

Oscar-winning US actress Gwyneth Paltrow feels dinner talk is far more interesting in her adopted homeland Britain than back in her native country.

“I love the English lifestyle, it’s not as capitalistic as America. People don’t talk about work and money, they talk about interesting things at dinner,” she told “NS,” the weekend magazine supplement of daily Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias on Saturday.

“I like living here because I don’t fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans,” the 34-year-old added.

Paltrow, who won a best actress Oscar for 1998′s “Shakespeare in Love,” lives in London with British band Coldplay’s frontman Chris Martin whom she wed in 2003.

Flap really wants to listen to a California high school graduate who got her start in the movie business because of her parents and a pretty face. She is sooooo intellectual.

PLEASE………

But, maybe not since ……

According to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission, Gwyneth Paltrow contributed $1,500 to John Kerry‘s campaign for President in 2004, and also contributed $2,000 to EMILY’s List and $2,500 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The FEC documents also list her home address as being in New York City, though the actress lives in London.

By the way, this is NOT the first time that Gwyneth and her mom have trashed America.

Michelle Malkin notices the rehash of anti-American comments by the shallow ingrate that is Gwyneth Paltrow – all with a high school education.

Guess it is not what you know but who your parents are or who you sleep with……..

Related:

Gwynnie’s husband: I hate capitalism!

The weird world of Gwyneth Paltrow

The most insufferable band of the decade

US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, pictured November 2006, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Hillary Clinton, the wife of former president Bill Clinton, has begun meeting with top party officials, hoping to garner their support for a likely run for the White House in 2008, a report said.

Drudge is reporting: She IS

AP: Adviser: Clinton Actively Weighs ’08 Bid

Democratic jockeying for the White House in 2008 intensified on Sunday with Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh taking the first official step toward a run and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton gauging support among fellow New York lawmakers.

Clinton, who easily won re-election to a second term on Nov. 7, “is reaching out to her colleagues in the New York delegation and asking for their advice and counsel and their support if she decides to make a run,” a top adviser, Howard Wolfson, told The Associated Press.

He noted that Clinton had said she would begin actively considering a run after the election. “That process has begun,” Wolfson said. He said he did not know when she might make a decision or set up an exploratory committee.

Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack already is in the race and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois is among numerous other potential rivals who are expected to decide within a few weeks whether to run.

Of course, she is in the race.

Flap wonders how long it will take for the “POLITICS OF PERSONAL DESTRUCTION” to begin against the other candidates, particularly Barack Obama.

Watch for the leaks……..

Stay tuned……..

Politics as Usual (Click to zoom in on graphic)

After the Virginia Democratic primary, for instance, James Webb hired two of the bloggers who had pushed to get him into the race. The Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont in Connecticut had at least four bloggers on his campaign team. Few of these bloggers shut down their “independent” sites after signing on with campaigns, and while most disclosed their campaign ties on their blogs, some — like Patrick Hynes of Ankle Biting Pundits — did so only after being criticized by fellow bloggers.

The trend seems certain to continue in 2008. Potential presidential hopefuls like Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain already are paying big-name bloggers as consultants, and Julie Fanselow of Red State Rebels said on her blog she would entertain job offers from Howard Dean, Barack Obama, John Edwards or Al Gore.

“This intersection isn’t going away,” Jerome Armstrong of MyDD, an elite blogger hired by campaigns, wrote earlier this year, “and I hope more and more bloggers are able to work to influence how campaigns are run.”

Here is a listing of some of the most influential bloggers who went to work for campaigns this year, what they were paid according to campaign disclosure documents, and praiseworthy posts about their employers or critical ones of their employers’ opponents.

Will it be important MANDATORY for Presidential campaigns to have experienced bloggers working the blogosphere for their candidates?

You bet – A media expense just like an assistant press secretary and/or media advisor.

Will they be able to get a way on the cheap and whore out established independent bloggers who blog about politics?

Doubtful

There is nothing inherently wrong with hiring established bloggers to work a campaign.

But, there must be DISCLOSURE.

And for the record again, Flap pays for this blog and has received NO money from any candidate, business, product or cause.

I do run some ads and bleg for donations.

NOTE TO GOP campaigns – you MUST pay more for blog media relations.

Stay tuned…….

CBC (Via Michelle Malkin): Tool to circumvent internet censorship set to launch

Researchers at University of Toronto plan to introduce a software tool on Friday that aims to help people in countries that censor the World Wide Web.

Psiphon (pronounced sigh-fawn), a web-based utility, lets individuals in a country that censors the internet sign on to a server that gives them secure access to web pages anywhere, bypassing government restrictions.

Its creators plan to launch the software at the Protect The Net conference at the university’s Munk Centre for International Studies, where psiphon emerged as a project of Citizenlab. Researchers at the facility examine the relationship between digital media and politics around the world.

“We’re aiming at giving people access to sites like Wikipedia,” a free, user-maintained online encyclopedia, and other information and news sources, Michael Hull, psiphon’s lead engineer, told CBC News Online.

Citing countries such as China and Iran among some 40 countries that censor the internet, Hull said that the way in which access to information is cut off is troubling.

“My problem with it is that there’s no transparency. Someone is making an arbitrary decision and there is no way to appeal it, even if you feel like you’re doing nothing wrong,” he said.

A good concept but Flap is positive that China and Iran are already working on a blocking hack to this software.

Psiphon works by letting people in uncensored countries download the free software to run a secure, encrypted server or node in the private network. The server administrator would pass the connection information to friends and family in censored countries – psiphonites – who could then log in through a web browser and navigate sites without restrictions.

Totalitarian governments fail with free speech discourse and freedom of expression.

Stay tuned……..let’s see if this works.

You can download the software here.

Flap agrees with Michelle: SPREAD THE WORD.

A new Canadian software tool aims to help people in web-censoring countries like Iran, where this woman was on the internet in a cafe in Tehran in August.

Day By Day by Chris Muir