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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

21 November - Remembering the Path of War in Today's News

What about the children?Image by moggs oceanlane via FlickrA Nation Covered in Ash

Oregon Senator Wyden effectively kills Internet censorship bill

 Individual Senators can place holds on pending legislation, in this case meaning proponents of the bill will be forced to reintroduce the measure and will not be able to proceed until the next Congress convenes.

ctivist group DemandProgress, which is running a petition against the bill, argued the powers in the bill could be used for political purposes. If the whistleblower Web site WikiLeaks is found to be hosting copyrighted material, for instance, access to WikiLeaks could be blocked for all US Internet users, they suggested.
A group of academics, led by Temple University law professor David Post, have signed a petition opposing COICA.
"The Act, if enacted into law, would fundamentally alter U.S. policy towards Internet speech, and would set a dangerous precedent with potentially serious consequences for free expression and global Internet freedom," Post wrote in the petition letter (PDF).
"Blacklisting entire sites out of the domain name system," explained the Electronic Frontiers Foundation (EFF), a privacy and digital rights advocate group, is a "reckless scheme that will undermine global Internet infrastructure and censor legitimate online speech."
EFF_logo_notype_blackImage by ElectronicFrontierFoundation via Flickr 

North Koreans Unveil Vast New Plant for Nuclear Use

The speed with which it was built strongly suggests that the impoverished, isolated country, which tested its first nuclear device in 2006, had foreign help and evaded strict new United Nations Security Council sanctions imposed to punish its rejection of international controls.
A delegation of American experts that included Dr. Hecker has already reported that it confirmed satellite photographic evidence of another new advance by the North — a light-water reactor being built on the site of a facility the country had dismantled as part of an agreement with the international community to end its nuclear weapons program.
The White House is clearly eager to use the new information to show that North Korea, in violation of United Nations mandates, continues to make significant progress toward advancing its nuclear program, even though it remains under international sanctions for its past violations.
( Go for it : Spheres of InfluenceLogo used by WikileaksImage via Wikipedia
The USA has been at war with Korea through proxy war in South Korea for what, 58 years now without adhering to any agreements it makes to induce North Korea to stop using nuclear power - which is basically the way the USA/UK have perverted and trashed the Nuclear nonProliferation Treaty ; Third Pillar assuring unhampered use of peaceful civilian technology notwithstanding.  If a better demonstration exists that United States/United Kingdom/UN Security Council policies of sanctions, economic warfare, and propaganda fearmongering has instead spurred them to show that they can retaliate for nuclear aggression in kind  I would like to see it. And I'm sure Iran will be taking notes of the outcomes despite its greater interest in getting the Israeli nuclear threat gone. 
Nor is it likely that China has forgotten that it was her interest in preserving North Korea as a buffer zone and throwing out US led UN forces from North Korea that caused the everlasting stalemate. Adding expanding NATO resources openly to the US beck and call since is not likely to provide any reassurance lulling them into a false sense of security.  Taiwan is still a bone of contention as well.
A reality check that I have noted before


Marine whistleblower Franz Gayl: Security clearance removal is retaliation

Senators called him a hero for disclosures that helped get heavily armored vehicles known as MRAPs to the battlefield.

Copyright Expansion Through Misinformation Has Gone On A Long Time... And It Involved Pimps & Ferrets

 Alan Wexellat points us to the news that Anderson has now redone the paper as a book, and has released Pimps and Ferrets: Copyright and Culture in the United States under a Creative Commons license.

 

The financial and human costs of the tough on crime agenda

The Fear Factor, Harper's Tough on Crime Agenda Download address

   

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