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an exclusive report from the Etopia News Channel, by way of his spokesperson Bill Maile, that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger supports "the concept of unlimited net metering" of electricity in the Golden State, recorded in LA, 12-7-07

Monique Hanis, Communications Director for the Washington, DC-based Solar Energy Industries Association, praises Speakeer Nancy Pelosi and the U.S. House of Representatives for today passing an energy bill that seriously encourages the production of solar electricity, and urges support for the bill in the Senate, in the face of a threatened veto by President Bush

a remote video interview with Peter Meisen, President of the Global Energy Network Institute in California talks about the proposed DESERTEC project for generating massive amounts of solar electricity in the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, using some of it locally and for local desalinization projects, and exporting the surplus to Europe

Washington State Senator Eric Oemig announces the introduction of a joint memorial calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush into the Washington State Senate at a press conference in Olympia, WA, on February 14, 2007

a half-hour recording of a conversation with New Mexico State Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino about New Mexico State Senate Joint Resolution 5, which calls upon the New Mexico Congressional delegation to initiate impeachment proceedings against George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney in the U.S. House of Representatives

a comparison of how both the Vietnam and Iraq wars were incited by lies, exposed by Establishmentarians who were smeared by White House thugs, leading to cover-ups, special prosecutors, indictments, sacrificial fall-guys, and eventual impeachment

in this excerpt from a longer interview, "Yes on 87" Communications Director Yusef Robb acknowledges that a project designed to increase the incidence of telecommuting by encouraging employers to utilize it and jurisdictions to upgrade their broadband networks would be eligible for funding under the provisions of California Proposition 87, as long as it could demonstrate its relative efficacy in reducing dependence on oil

a speech by former U.S. President Bill Clinton in support of California Proposition 87, the "Clean Alternative Energy Initiative," delivered at UCLA on October 13, 2006

a 30-sec TV spot featuring Marcy Winograd, who's challenging incumbent Congressmember Jane Harman in California's 36th Congressional District in the June 6, 2006, primary election

anti-war protesters from the Code Pink--Women for Peace organization demonstrate outside a Beverly Hills fundraiser to educate contributors about their view of U.S. Senator and possible 2008 Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as a "wolf in sheep's clothing" and a "warmonger."

Brian Donnelly, Director of Business Development at leading BPL company Corinex, in British Columbia, talks about the Corinex-Amperion deal to speed the delivery of broadband access over powerlines

Bill Hamm, Managing Director of expert consultancy LECG, talks about a report showing that passing Proposition 82 in California in June would significantly reduce revenues to the state, thereby reducing the provision of educational services to the state's children.

This clip features a discussion with John M. Simpson, Stem Cell Project Director, Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, a Santa Monica, California-based consumer advocacy group, about creating a public corporation to handle the commercialization of any discoveries made with $3 billion in Proposition 71 research money, with almost all the profits going to the California State General Fund.

Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights Stem Cell Project Director John M. Simpson reads his op-ed entitled "Taxpayers must benefit from stem-cell research" and is interviewed about who'll benefit from the taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell research funded by California voters through Proposition 71.

Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Anthony Riddle, Ben Scott, Harold Feld, and Jonathan Rintels talk about the need for "net neutrality."

Verizon spokesperson Bill Kula talks about that company's FiOS fiber-to-the-home project and its relation to the cable franchising process.

an interview with Bob Whitmore, CEO of stimTVNetwork

Veoh CEO Dmitry Shapiro, interviewed at the Digital Hollywood conference at Loew's Santa Monica on March 30, 2006, reveals that Veoh will launch a video blog, of vlog, function, on Monday, April 3, 2006

Caltech professor David Goodstein talks about the end of the age of oil in this discussion of his book, "Out of Gas," accompanied by footage of car burning gas in Los Angeles.

Listen to a 1999 interview with "A Walk to Remember" author Nicholas Sparks while you watch Rachel McAdams, who starred in the film version of that book, meet the press at the February 18, 2006, Tech Oscars(r), both recorded at up-scale hotels in Beverly Hills, California

A panel of high-powered industry players talks about the domination of the digital entertainment space by mobile delivery systems

New Zealand-based speech scientist Mark Forsyth talks about BigEars, Skype-based online survey system

Russell Korobkin, professor of law at UCLA, and senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics, elaborates on his recent "The stem cell initiative, sabotaged"/"An abusive stem-cell lawsuit" op-ed pieces in the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle and addresses the question of how an "Independent" Citizens' Oversight Committee can be under the "exclusive management and control" of the State of California

Life Legal Defense Foundation Executive Director and anti-Proposition 71 lawsuit attorney Dana Cody talks about the case against the California stem cell project

UCLA Professor of Computer Science and Internet pioneer Dr. Leonard Kleinrock lists some of the ways he was using the then newly-emerging Internet in this March 25, 1997, interview recorded at his office on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California.

cinema verite version of a wild ride from Westwood to Studio City on the afternoon of March 12, 2006

Scott Lomond, EVP at SightSpeed, talks about the latest developments regarding his company's family- and personal-oriented videoconferencing solution.

Lee Tsao at Pronto Networks talks about Pronto-Pervasive-Wireless Philadelphia integrated community content Wi-Fi platform, "The Cloud at Wireless Philadelphia," deployed for LIVE 8 concert in Love Park

three views of dramatic cloud formations recorded while driving west on US 101 in the San Fernando Valley

Neil Martin, MD, talks about the RP-6 robot trial in the Neurosurgery ICU at UCLA Medical Center.

Geof Lambert, Chair of the California IPv6 Task Force, talks about that "All Volunteer Effort Working on the Transition to the New Internet"

Kurt Schwenk, General Manager, Digital Cinema Division, NEC Solutions (America), talks about the role of NECSAM's digital cinema projectors in Hollywood's post-production environment

a wild ride down the San Fernando Valley's "Main Street," shot with a handheld video camera right after the 2006 Oscars(r)

Writer-Director Ben Rekhi talks about "Waterborne," an intimate thriller about a waterless Los Angeles that also breaks ground as the first feature film available from the Google Video Store.

Etopia Media Entertainment News Network (EMENN) interviews aspiring members of the APS show biz networking organization and Rock Riddle, President of APS, and Michele Blood, co-author with Riddle of "Hollywood Success," at the hilltop estate of Hollywood legand Jim Myron. Aspiring stars featured are: Ashley Wright, Brian Saunders, Charmagne Saunders, Joel Roman, Jonas Neal, Myrta Molina, Patricia Murphy, Pierre Andre Littee, Sherwin Buydens, Taylor Tracey, and Wendy Winters.

Actress Rachel McAdams expresses her indebtedness to the makers of cinema technology in this exclusive Etopia Entertainment News interview, recorded at Merv Griffen's Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 18, 2006

Sid Ganis. Richard Edlund, Garrett Brown, David Grober, Anatoliy Kokush and Yelena Strokach, and Rachel McAdams are interviewed at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Scientific and Technical Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on February 18, 2006.

Marc Strassman, long a proponent of bringing the most powerful digital tools to bear on the political process, discusses remote Internet voting, Smart Initiatives, the future, failed secession of the San Fernando Valley from the City of Los Angeles, and the possible shape of the digital political space in the year 2004, during this discussion with a group of concerned citizens at Los Angeles Valley Community College in Valley Glen, California, in the year 2000.

Valley Secession mayoral candidate Marc Strassman previews an interview with BBC 5 that was never conducted, just prior to the November, 2002, election in Los Angeles, California, in which he outlines his proposed solutions to pressing issues facing the never-created Valley City.

Digital democracy advocate Marc Strassman is interviewed by IBM's Institute for Electronic Government Director Janet Caldow about then-current plans to move politics into cyberspace in California and elsewhere.

Veoh Founder and CEO Dmitry Shapiro talks about Veoh in this exclusive, March 9, 2006, interview with Marc Strassman, reporter with Etopia Entertainment News Network, at the Hilton Burbank Airport & Convention Center.

video images and haiku of ripe California citrus