The Startup Visa, supported by Brad Feld, Paul Graham and other well-known gurus and organizations, has now been introduced to the US Senate. It was since sent to the Judiciary Committee, which handles immigration issues. If it makes its way through there, it will be read again in the Senate and then voted on.

What is the Startup Visa?

• A 2-year visa for immigrant founders who have raised at least $250k or $100k per founder for their startup
• A green card after two years if the startup has at least: $1M in revenue, $1M in investor funding, or has hired 5 or more employees

Who is this useful for? Companies started by:

• Students in American universities on F visas
• Open-source contributers who have never met IRL before
• YCombinator applicants

Source: Startup Visa on Tumblr

Hopeful, huh?

More on http://www.startupvisa.com/ or http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-Startup-Visa-Act/335892766908 or http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2011/03/the-startup-visa-act-of-2011.html

I’m not sure if this is intended as a joke or not. I know their finance is a bit screwed, but do they really want to go this far?

Check the link:
http://www.petitiononline.com/lugums18/petition.html

Wiretapping Sweden from Wiretapping Sweden on Vimeo.

This is a documentary, produced by Urban Lifestyle, is about the new surveillance law in Sweden. The law allows the FRA to monitor any phone and internet traffic in Sweden without a warrant. So that means the FRA doesn’t need any proof that identifies you as a suspect in order to spy on you.

So what is it and why are people protesting against it? Check it out (above)!

The Global Election

Ola Rynge of The Rynge Group has started a website where you can have your say in global elections. It is called The Global Election and is 2 days ahead of the actual election the result is sent out to the candidates/parties, the press and those that are subscribed to the newsletter or RSS feed or members of the political forum.

I think it’s a very cool thing!