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Insite ruling could affect Canada's anti-prostitution laws
U.S. wanted Vancouver's supervised injection site closed
local and provincial authorities have embarked on a number of so-called 'harm-reduction' programs," reads the cable, "including a drug injection site and distribution of drug paraphernalia to chronic users."The document notes the federal government "continues to deliver a sharp message" to cities and provinces about the programs, but called for stronger action.
"Canada, or, as appropriate, municipalities such as Vancouver and Ottawa, should implement the (International Narcotics Control Board's) recommendations to eliminate drug injection sites and drug paraphernalia distribution programs," the cable reads, "because they violate international drug control treaties."
"Canada, or, as appropriate, municipalities such as Vancouver and Ottawa, should implement the (International Narcotics Control Board's) recommendations to eliminate drug injection sites and drug paraphernalia distribution programs," the cable reads, "because they violate international drug control treaties."
Ex-regulators say US banks played big role in causing Europe's financial crisis by writing debt off balance sheets. Al Jazeera's Patty Culhane investigates the morality versus legality of who is to blame for the financial crisis that is scaring the world.
Many are discovering a #crime as the true source of the worsening global #financial crisis | aje.me/oeiE9z
Gingrich: #occupywallstreet is "a natural outcome of a bad education system teaching them really dumb ideas" thkpr.gs/nzxEWJ
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John McManus on the John Birch Society, What It Stands For and Why It's Been Attacked
Daily Bell: Why is the society disliked by the mainstream press? *John McManus: Actually, there are two reasons why they don't like us, and the first one is they don't like to be shown as deficient and second is they want to be the leaders of those who are informing the American people. John Birch Society is actually a new medium of information in competition with all of these others. What we say is different than what they say about almost every issue and consequently that's why they don't like us. They'll do whatever they can to make us seem like fools or extreme, or whatever nasty adjective they choose to throw around like candy to children, and that's why we are not liked by the mainstream media. We are, however, quite frequently liked by the local media, newspapers, small town newspapers where our members are busy, and gain a lot of influence but I don't expect to be treated fairly by the New York Times or Time Magazine for a good long while.
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Nation's media hands full editorial control to Daily Mail
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9 Aug 2011 – In a surprisingly popular move, the entire British media moved overnight to hand full editorial control to the Daily Mail.Governors of Spain's Public Broadcaster Move to Take Editorial ...
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Governors of Spain's Public Broadcaster Move to Take Editorial Control of News. [Media News]. Thursday, September 22, 2011. Guardian By Giles Tremlett ...FT.com / Media - MySpace cedes editorial control to users
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19 Apr 2007 – The service, which could be announced as early as Thursday, effectively cedes editorial control of news selection to the MySpace user base ...Media Censorship in China - Council on Foreign Relations
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7 Mar 2011 – This has often entailed, watchdog groups say, strict media controls using ... with punishment when they published a joint editorial calling for the ...LEADER: Media influence should not mean editorial control ...
www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/.../LEADER-Media-influence-not-m...Freeland takes editorial control of Thomson Reuters digital news ...
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8 Apr 2011 – Chrystia Freeland to take editorial control of Thomson Reuters' consumer ... Media scraps print editions of Design Week and New Media Age ...Saddam's 'Snuff Video' Signals the End of Editorial Control -- china ...
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With the Internet release of the videophone footage, whatever editorial control the media had initially was swept away. This is now a familiar story: from the ...Editorial Control | Earlin' PR abuse
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31 Aug 2011 – Now media is becoming two-way. The audience can answer back, can contribute ... Tags: comment streams, editorial control, journalism, media ...Global Media Ethics | Center for Journalism Ethics
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Global media ethics aims at developing a comprehensive set of principles and ... the world with unprecedented speed and varying degrees of editorial control. ...BBC - Commissioning TV - Code of Practice
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2.1 The BBC will have final editorial control over all BBC versions of programmes ... extracts and previews) for the BBC's promotional purposes in any media. c. ...War, Propaganda and the Media — Global Issues
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22 Jan 1999 – The military recognizes the values of media and information control ..... “an editorial or ideological pursuit but an empirical and investigative ...Is the US Military in control of the mainstream media?
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8 Mar 2009 – Many people are learning that the media is simply a tool used to promote wartime propaganda. People are still being blown away by ...Media / Culture - The Globalist Agenda
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Over the past 50 years the ownership of the media has become increasingly ... Through editorial control they have created a socially engineered construct or a ... to violence so that they might be more effective military soldiers in the future. ...Vladimiro Montesinos
Vladimiros Montesinos was born in the city of Arequipa, the capital of the Arequipa Region in southern Peru. His parents, who were of Greek descent and communists, named him after Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union.In 1965, Montesinos graduated as a military cadet at the US Army's School of the Americas in Panama. A year later, he graduated from the Military School of Chorrillos, in Lima, Peru.
He became notorious for representing a number of Colombian and Peruvian members of the illegal drug trade, as well as police officers accused of being involved in drug trafficking. Between 1978 and 1979, he represented Colombian drug lords Evaristo "Papá Doc" Porras Ardila and Jaime Tamayo. In addition, he acted as guarantor on Tamayo's lease of several offices and warehouses used to manufacture cocaine.
Between 1980 and 1983, Montesinos revealed sensitive information related to military wiretapping and assassinations to the newspaper Kausachum, run by Augusto Zimmerman, ex-spokesperson of deposed president Juan Velasco Alvarado. General Carlos Briceño, the Commander of the Peruvian Army, re-opened the investigation into Montesino's alleged treason.
Montesinos came to control the Peruvian Armed Forces. During the course of the decade, he established a network of corruption that permeated media, business, political parties, and government. Toward the end of the Fujimori years, it was reported that Montesinos' tax records indicated he was making $600,000 a year, even though his official salary was $18,000.
he supervised a death squad known as the Grupo Colina, part of the National Intelligence Service, which was thought to have been responsible for the Barrios Altos massacre and the La Cantuta massacre, actions intended to repress the Shining Path (Senderoso Luminoso), the major Communist insurgency that had been operating since the 1980s. Four officers who were tortured during interrogation after plotting a coup d'état against Fujimori in November 1992 later stated that Montesinos took an active part in torturing them. On March 16, 1998, former Peruvian Army Intelligence Agent Luisa Zanatta accused Montesinos of ordering illegal wiretaps of leading politicians and journalists
One of the country's two cable channels, Channel 10 had been secretly purchased by the armed forces. That left just one independent station in Peru: Channel N, a twenty-four-hour cable news outlet that reached barely 5% of the population.
Allegations circulated that Montesinos and Gen. Nicolás Hermoza Ríos, the chairman of Peru's joint chiefs of staff, were taking protection money from drug traffickers. Documents declassified later by the US government showed that in 1996 the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was aware of the allegations.[6] Despite evidence that Montesinos was in business with Colombian narco-traffickers, the CIA paid Montesinos's intelligence organization $1 million a year for 10 years to fight drug trafficking.
Demetrio Chávez Peñaherrera, known as "El Vaticano", testified that Montesinos was a protector of drug traffickers.
Subsequent investigations revealed Montesinos to be at the centre of a vast web of illegal activities, including embezzlement, graft, gunrunning, and drug trafficking. He has been tried, convicted and sentenced for numerous charges. Montesinos had strong connections with the CIA, the United States international intelligence Agency, and was said to have received some $10 million from the agency for his government's anti-terrorist activities.[1]
You're invited to Wikipedia Loves Libraries, a program of events at libraries and archives across North America around October 2011.The army started the battle, then withdrew and is leaving muslims & christians fighting. #maspero #egypt ( Those are Twitter hashtags which each lead to a pipe on the topic )
Clashes in Cairo over Coptic protest http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/10/2011109155853144870.html via @ajenglish #egypt
Globalisation's government
In high-income countries, notably the US, Europe, and Japan, the biggest losers are workers who lack the education to compete effectively with low-paid workers in developing countries. Hardest hit are workers in rich countries who lack a college education. Such workers have lost jobs by the millions. Those who have kept their jobs have seen their wages stagnate or decline.
For 30 years, the US has been going in the wrong direction, cutting the role of government in the domestic economy rather than promoting the investments needed to modernise the economy and workforce. The rich have benefited in the short run, by getting massive tax breaks. The poor have suffered from job losses and cuts in government services. Economic inequality has reached a high not seen since the Great Depression.
The world’s most successful economies today are in Scandinavia. By using high taxes to finance a high level of government services, these countries have balanced high prosperity with social justice and environmental sustainability. This is the key to well-being in today’s globalised economy.
Syria's protesters turn to Facebook to expose 'citizen spies'
Activists use the internet to find and unmask those they suspect of reporting their neighbours to security forces
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Why Do Some People Learn Faster?
The physicist Niels Bohr once defined an expert as “a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” Bohr’s quip summarizes one of the essential lessons of learning, which is that people learn how to get it right by getting it wrong again and again. Education isn’t magic. Education is the wisdom wrung from failure.A new study, forthcoming in Psychological Science, and led by Jason Moser at Michigan State University, expands on this important concept. The question at the heart of the paper is simple: Why are some people so much more effective at learning from their mistakes? After all, everybody screws up. The important part is what happens next. Do we ignore the mistake, brushing it aside for the sake of our self-confidence? Or do we investigate the error, seeking to learn from the snafu?
Praising kids for intelligence encourages them to “look” smart, which means that they shouldn’t risk making a mistake.
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The Necessity of Funding Failure
If we could just stop playing gotcha for a second, we might realize that federal loan programs — especially loans for innovative energy technologies — virtually require the government to take risks the private sector won’t take. Indeed, risk-taking is what these programs are all about. Sometimes, the risks pay off. Other times, they don’t. It’s not a taxpayer ripoff if you don’t bat 1.000; on the contrary, a zero failure rate likely means that the program is too risk-averse.
If anything, government investment in science and technology is too afraid of risk, too unwilling to fund innovative projects that can’t get private capital. In fact, there’s good evidence that scientific funding programs with a bigger appetite for risk (and thus a higher tolerance for failure) are also better at producing major breakthroughs.
The Psychology Of Yogurt
One of the deepest mysteries of the human mind is that it doesn’t feel like part of the body. Our consciousness seems to exist in an immaterial realm, distinct from the meat on our bones. We feel like the ghost, not like the machine.
When probiotic-fed animals were put in stressful conditions, such as being dropped into a pool of water, they were less anxious and released less stress hormone. How did the food induce these changes? The answer involves GABA, a neurotransmitter that reduces the activity of neurons.
...presence of gut bacteria shapes the development of the mouse brain, while French researchers found that treating human subjects with large doses of probiotics for 30 days reduced levels of “psychological distress.” There’s nothing metaphorical about “gut feelings,” for what happens in the gut really does influence what we feel.
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California governor signs controversial "Dream Act"
allow illegal immigrants to receive public funds for college education.
A federal Dream Act that would have created a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants who attend college or serve in the military failed in the Senate last year.
In One Alabama Town, Water Service Threatened Without Immigration Papers
“To be compliant with new laws concerning immigration you must have an Alabama driver’s license …”
And then comes the hit: “… or you may lose water service.”Bangkok's neighbours shoulder flood burden in Thailand
The annual monsoon floods are causing more material fallout with each passing year, according to the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, a UN body.Houses and crops have been destroyed, schools and hospitals ruined and tens of thousands of families displaced, not only in Thailand but also in Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos.
Uncontrolled urbanisation is at least partly to blame, Hang Thi Thanh Pham, UNISDR programme officer for Southeast Asia, told AFP.
"The linkage between rising disaster risks and poorly governed urbanisation is obvious," she said.
"More and more people are settling in flood-prone zones and high population density is a risk driver where the quality of housing, infrastructure and services is poor."
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