Image by Bogart Handsome Devil via FlickrThe Serial Killer called Foreign Policy
- You are in power, either elected, civil service, intel/military, corporate or appointed by patronage.
- Your crimes advance the interests of the ruling class.
- All rapes, killings, tortures are committed through a chain of authority with no one decision maker directly performing the atrocities.
Also handy is on the rare occasion you have to explain yourself you say things like‘realist’ ‘pragmatic’ ‘security’ terrorism’ ‘allies’. These are magic talismans that neuter all the powers of your access craving journalist inquisitor, also suits, always suits, women must be smart corporate, men always conservative, open neck is still a bit too daring for steely authority mode (reserve it for appearing friendly to the slow of thinking). Do not at any price attend media engagements soaked in blood and then recount particularly enjoyable and profitable rape and murder sessions on air. This is usually avoided by the third clause, chain of authority, no direct performance, however as Suleiman shows sometimes the temptation is too high and you may inadvertently find yourself chatting to Andrew Neil with some speck of shredded genitalia on your collar. This also breaks the golden rule of realism, pragmatist etc talismans, the illusion is based upon nice speaking people, in expensive clothes, lying a lot. If for a moment the reality that privilege and power rest upon rape, murder and torture the game is blown and ‘moral’ authority is lost.Yasmin Raashid is the secretary general of the Punjab chapter of the party of former cricketer Imran Khan. Raashid says many Pakistanis do not believe Davis is a diplomat as the Americans say, but more likely a security operative along the lines of the much-loathed Blackwater, now called Xe. "There is a lot of resentment that Blackwater, or whatever security people they are around here in Pakistan ... are trying to undermine our sovereignty," says Raashid. She says it appears that someone like Davis "takes the law into his own hand and shoots to kill."Mice trained to detect terrorists at airports
BioExplorers, the company behind the idea, say that the little critters are even better at detecting bombs that full-body scanners or security pat-downs.
Also handy is on the rare occasion you have to explain yourself you say things like‘realist’ ‘pragmatic’ ‘security’ terrorism’ ‘allies’. These are magic talismans that neuter all the powers of your access craving journalist inquisitor, also suits, always suits, women must be smart corporate, men always conservative, open neck is still a bit too daring for steely authority mode (reserve it for appearing friendly to the slow of thinking). Do not at any price attend media engagements soaked in blood and then recount particularly enjoyable and profitable rape and murder sessions on air. This is usually avoided by the third clause, chain of authority, no direct performance, however as Suleiman shows sometimes the temptation is too high and you may inadvertently find yourself chatting to Andrew Neil with some speck of shredded genitalia on your collar. This also breaks the golden rule of realism, pragmatist etc talismans, the illusion is based upon nice speaking people, in expensive clothes, lying a lot. If for a moment the reality that privilege and power rest upon rape, murder and torture the game is blown and ‘moral’ authority is lost.
Yasmin Raashid is the secretary general of the Punjab chapter of the party of former cricketer Imran Khan. Raashid says many Pakistanis do not believe Davis is a diplomat as the Americans say, but more likely a security operative along the lines of the much-loathed Blackwater, now called Xe. "There is a lot of resentment that Blackwater, or whatever security people they are around here in Pakistan ... are trying to undermine our sovereignty," says Raashid. She says it appears that someone like Davis "takes the law into his own hand and shoots to kill."
Mice trained to detect terrorists at airports
BioExplorers, the company behind the idea, say that the little critters are even better at detecting bombs that full-body scanners or security pat-downs.
Homeland Security Tries And Fails To Explain Why Seized Domains Are Different From Google
John Moe asked Agent Hayes a very simple question: given that these domains were all seized based solely on the fact that they link to infringing content hosted elsewhere, and all of the same content is also linked from Google, will the Feds seize Google's domain name? Well, more specifically, Moe asks if ICE could seize Google's domain name. Amusingly, right after being asked, Hayes conveniently gets cut off, but he does call back and the question is asked again.
People have been asking: what the hell does Immigration and Customs have to do with a foreign website? The answer, apparently, is that ICE's mission is to protect the US Treasury and one part of that is to protect tax revenue.
Moe asks: if a site links and embeds to all the same content, but does not profit from it (i.e., does not have advertising), is it criminal? Hayes totally punts and says he'd have to check the law.
( LOL My Google AdSense is set on Public Service. You'd think I should be good to go ! )
NBC Fires Guy Who Posted The Bryant Gumbel/Katie Couric 'What Is Internet' Video
YouTube that showed Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel, back in 1994, very confused about the internet. The video went viral because it's a human interest sort of thing -- a reminder of how quickly the internet went from something people didn't understand at all, to something that's central to so many people's lives. We all forget what it was like when we first discovered the internet (at least those of us who grew up without the internet), and the video sort of brought all that back. I'd argue that NBC firing the guy for posting this video to YouTube suggests an organization even more confused about the internet than either Courcic or Gumbel in this clip (which, yes, is still widely available).
Leaked State Department Cables Confirm That ACTA Was Designed To Pressure Developing Nations
State Department cables that confirm what many people said from the beginning about ACTA: that it was designed by US special interests as an "end run" around existing international intellectual property groups, since those groups had actually started listening to the concerns of many other nations about how overly strict intellectual property laws were stifling innovation, economic growth and were, at times, a threat to human safety. This point had been made by ACTA criticsfor quite some time, but now the leaked State Department cables effectively confirm it:
One of the core objectives is to circumvent international organizations in charge of "intellectual property", where maximalist countries such as the US and the EU have been facing growing opposition from developing countries. Not just WIPO and WTO, but also the OECD: Initially, the Japanese proposed to ask the OECD for some help in drafting the agreement, but US officials suggest a different process, stressing that that they have sufficient in-house expertise, and insist on avoiding any collaboration with international organizationsThe full cable on this matter makes it clear that the US had a big plan and that plan involved bringing together only "like-minded" countries, and Japan was gleeful about this, but had originally expected the OECD would help.
Q+A-US jobless rate drops even as job growth disappoints
The employment report is compiled from two different surveys. Economists tend to look at the bigger and less-volatile survey of non-farm employers.
The jobless rate is derived from a separate survey of households.
For its establishment survey, the Labor Department polls about 140,000 businesses and government agencies. In contrast, it polls only about 60,000 households for its household survey -- one reason economists rely more heavily on the poll of employers.
( 'Figures don't lie...but liars do figure' )
Ontario’s Deficit Quandary
When Politics Trump Economics
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As it prepares its budget for 2011 — an election year — the Ontario government faces a strategic choice between two general paths.
One path would be responsive to the government’s apparent short-term election year political needs. The other would be consistent with the economic health of the province, both short- and long-term.
Some might argue the path of least resistance politically would be to focus on deficit reduction, to follow the federal government in withdrawing economic stimulus, to bandon plans to rebuild public services on which it campaigned in 2007 and to unleash a wave of service-cutting austerity measures.
Given the size of the provincial deficit and growing public concern about both public and private indebtedness, the pressure on the government to hunker down and retrench in n effort to protect itself from conservative critics is real. To bend to that pressure, however, would be a mistake — with significant negative implications for Ontario long into the future.
Europeans Continue To Push For 'Right To Be Forgotten'; Claim Americans 'Fetishize' Free Speech
A privacy issue is about protecting private information. The right to be forgotten is the opposite of that. It's asking websites to delete public information, including factual news information about a person. That's not about privacy. That's about pretending public information is really private.
And that brings up the second point, which is that the concept of a "right to be forgotten" isn't just silly because of the free speech restriction, but because it's impossible. You might be able to force some information off of some websites, but it will simply be impossible to erase that information completely -- especially on a global internet, where large segments of that internet will not exist in countries that abide by any "right to be forgotten." But even beyond that, once information is public and in people's brains, it's impossible to force them to forget it and equally impossible to realistically tell them they cannot ever speak about it again. From a sheer logistical angle, the whole idea of a "right to be forgotten" is so laughable that it's a waste to even seriously consider implementing such a thing.
And that brings up the second point, which is that the concept of a "right to be forgotten" isn't just silly because of the free speech restriction, but because it's impossible. You might be able to force some information off of some websites, but it will simply be impossible to erase that information completely -- especially on a global internet, where large segments of that internet will not exist in countries that abide by any "right to be forgotten." But even beyond that, once information is public and in people's brains, it's impossible to force them to forget it and equally impossible to realistically tell them they cannot ever speak about it again. From a sheer logistical angle, the whole idea of a "right to be forgotten" is so laughable that it's a waste to even seriously consider implementing such a thing.
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Metal Penguin, Feb 4th, 2011 @ 11:54am
Marcus, I wish that was the case. See Zeran vs. AOL for the first case where that was decided. The DMCA applies to copyright issues ONLY, and it is completely out of the scope of what I meant.
The irony of this is huge: if you own the copyright to a homemade porn movie, you can use the DMCA to force sites to take it down. If you happen to be the sorry lady depicted there with no consent whatsoever, you cannot use the DMCA and CDA 230 prevents you from getting an order from a court forcing the site to take it down.
The irony of this is huge: if you own the copyright to a homemade porn movie, you can use the DMCA to force sites to take it down. If you happen to be the sorry lady depicted there with no consent whatsoever, you cannot use the DMCA and CDA 230 prevents you from getting an order from a court forcing the site to take it down.
Eliminate the Witnesses: Committee to Protect Journalists Criticizes Mubarak’s Policy of Attacking and Silencing Journalists in Egypt
The Mubarak regime’s violent crackdown has included deliberate targeting of journalists covering the protests across Egypt. News outlets including Al Jazeera, CBS News, ABC News, Fox News, CNN, BBC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Australian Broadcasting, Danish TV2 News and Swiss television have reported assaults, intimidation or arrests of their workers. We speak to Frank Smyth with the Committee to Protect Journalists, who reports there has been a record of 100 attacks on journalists, 30 detentions, 26 assaults, and eight cases of media equipment seized. “This is worst case of the most blatant violence against the press that I’ve seen in my 24 years or so reporting and my 10 years at CPJ,” Smyth says. “Clearly the Mubarak regime is responsible. They are implementing a policy to eliminate witnesses to what is occurring. It seems that the Mubarak regime is attempting to literally unplug Egypt from the world.”
Fury Builds Over Blackouts Caused By De-Industrialization Of America
Fury is building over rolling nationwide blackouts triggered by the Obama administration’s deliberate agenda to block the construction of new coal-fired plants, as local energy companies struggle to meet Americans’ power demands amidst some of the coldest weather seen in decades.
- As we reported yesterday, four hospitals in Texas reacted furiously after they were hit with planned outages despite being promised they would be spared even as power to Super Bowl venues remains uninterrupted.
Cold Virus May Trigger Type 1 Diabetes
Children With Diabetes 10 Times More Likely to Have Enterovirus Infection
The analysis of 26 studies published today in the journal BMJ Online First revealed that children with type 1 diabetes are almost 10 times more likely to show signs of enterovirus infection than children without the disease.
Boosting Body's Immune Response May Hold Key to HIV Cure
A team led by Dr Marc Pellegrini from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute showed that a cell signaling hormone called interleukin-7 (IL-7) reinvigorates the immune response to chronic viral infection, allowing the host to completely clear virus. Their findings were released in the February 3 edition of the journal Cell.
Ant Harm: Can Genetic Weapons Roll Back the Expansion of Argentine Ant
In 1907 Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) arrived in Los Angeles via a cargo ship. Within just a few years of their arrival the six-legged stowaways formed a single, massive colony—known as a supercolony—that stretched through California from south of the Mexico border to San FranciscoA liberal spraying of pesticides in the past century has done nothing to diminish the ants' numbers—L. humile infestations are the most common cause of pest control calls in southern California. The Argentine ant's takeover of coastal California is marked by small shifts in the local, native ecosystem. Populations of the coast horned lizard (Phrynosoma coronatum) have declined sharply in recent years due to the displacement of native ants the lizard depends on for food. Citrus farmers have required increasing quantities of pesticides to cope with rising numbers of aphids, scale insects and other pests that the Argentines actively protect in exchange for the sweet honeydew they produce.
Frequent flooding of their native Paraná River selected for ants over time that were adapted to invading disturbed habitat and to easily moving their nests.
Mars sand dunes shift and change annually, images show
Giffords' husband Kelly to lead last shuttle mission
Mark Kelly's twin brother Scott Kelly is currently the commander of the International Space Station.
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