Zuckerberg, who turns 29 today [5/14], is using his Facebook fortune to create and promote advertisements for fracking companies, the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline, and for oil companies that want to drill in such delicate places as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! And of course, his success as an entrepreneur has always been contentious, since we know that he’s stepped over a lot of people, including his friends, stealing ideas and playing hardball, to get where he is today – one of the world’s youngest billionaires .. Zuckerberg is moving boldly into the political arena. The new lobbying group that he co-founded with other technology executives in the Silicon Valley is called FWD.US. “Their first moves,” writes Steven Rosenfeld for AlterNet, mark a resurrection of “old-school libertarian values: [] trashing health care reform and backing the Keystone XL pipeline.”

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[on Boston PD refusing to give up their cell phones to the FBI at the boat scene] there’s something funny about the story. Why would cell phone pictures of the manifesto matter if the FBI had properly documented photos taken immediately after the arrest when the chain of custody was intact? I mean, I could see worrying about tainting the jury pool, but the leaked content of the interrogations already said all this stuff anyway … [and then this from the comments] “It’s like they’re testing public credulity: scenery-chewing ham actor[s]; victims stomping around with their clothes blown off like a Sid Ceasar skit; stories changing with laugh-out-loud contradictions. They’re making it cornier and cornier, but the media is just too gullible for them. They should reveal that Osama bin Laden is alive, and he did it, and let him escape on a jetpack with his evil laughter enchoing triple-tracked over Faneuil Hall”

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