December 2010
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How To Recognize an Idiot
How To Recognize an Idiot Do you have a New Year’s resolution you wish more people would take? I do. I wish we would stop acting like we know what we’re talking about, even when we don’t. Everyone is so proud of their ignorance in this world that it baffles me. So can everyone just do me a personal favour and make their resolution to stop acting like they know something...
#WikiLeaks It only takes one bad Apple - Opinion -...
Apple fell into line with other corporate giants by removing an ipad WikiLeaks application earlier this week [GETTY] It was hard enough getting through the holiday season already. With Master Card, Visa, PayPal and Amazon.com, all ending their relationships with WikiLeaks, it has become almost impossible for someone who cares about free speech, press freedoms as well as government and...
WikiLeaks reveals true face of Israel: Military...
WikiLeaks reveals true face of Israel: Military intelligence chief sought Hamas takeover to declare Strip as hostile entity, turning it into a large prison camp by blocking it from land, air and sea (ynetnews.com) submitted 5 hours ago by schnuck 21 comments sharecancelvia reddit.com Posted via email from (P)³ | Comment »
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News Black-Out in DC: Pay No Attention to Those...
via thiscantbehappening.net Why I don’t trust American news outlets any more. Not one of them found this newsworthy. Posted via email from (P)³ | Comment »
It's droopy dog!
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Mexico Oil Pipeline Blast
via msnbc.msn.com Sad for loss of life. I heard it may have been caused by an illegal “tap” where oil is siphoned off by crooks. Crazy stupid. Posted via email from (P)³ | Comment »
Mexico Oil Pipeline Blast
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#WikiLeaks - Funding illegal Israeli settlements?...
Visa, Mastercard and PayPal all enable donations to be made to US-registered groups funding illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank in defiance of international law. It appears at least one of the major credit cards also enables donations to an extremist Jewish group that has placed a bounty on the lives of Palestinians. All three have in the last week ceased enabling donations to...
Big Sis Napolitano on Wal-mart Telescreens 2010
via youtube.com This is the creepiest and most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen. I want my country back God damnit! It’s been overrun by the Goa’uld! Posted via email from (P)³ | Comment »
Net freedom 'at stake' on WikiLeaks - Opinion - Al...
Internet service providers are cutting access to the whistleblower site, raising broader concerns about online freedom. Jillian York Last Modified: 08 Dec 2010 08:07 GMT Email Article Print Article Share Article Send Feedback The US has praised the internet as a tool for making governments more accountable, but they do not like...
15 yo Tells It How It Is! ☆☆☆ School Student Gives...
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TSA admits to punishing travelers
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been a lightning rod for abusive and intrusive security checks since 9/11 — mainly because this is the “security” organization that much of the American public sees perhaps even more than the local police. TSA, unfortunately, also resorts to prevarication in the name of security. I woke up to a headline on Sunday morning that announced...
Revealed: Assange ‘rape’ accuser linked to...
One of the women that is accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes appears to have worked with a group that has connections to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). James D. Catlin, a lawyer who recently represented Assange, said the sex assault investigation into the WikiLeaks founder is based on claims he didn’t use condoms during sex with two Swedish women. ...
Peixe elétrico mata Jacaré
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Defend WikiLeaks or lose free speech - Dan Gillmor
iStockphoto/Salon Journalists cover wars by not taking sides. But when the war is on free speech itself, neutrality is no longer an option. The WikiLeaks releases are a pivotal moment in the future of journalism. They raise any number of ethical and legal issues for journalists, but one is becoming paramount. As I said last week, and feel obliged to say...
Nobody represents the American people - War Room
iStockphoto/Salon The disconnect between the actions of the government and public opinion is the central fact of American politics today. It doesn’t seem to matter whether liberal Democrats or conservative Republicans are in power. Only minor, marginal reforms ever take place. The basic outlines of American economic policy and foreign policy remain the same, even as...
Anti-WikiLeaks lies and propaganda - from TNR,...
AP WikiLeak’s Julian Assange. (updated below - Update II) (1) In The New Republic today, Todd Gitlin writes an entire anti-WikiLeaks column that is based on an absolute factual falsehood. Anyone listening to most media accounts would believe that WikiLeaks has indiscriminately published all 250,000 of the diplomatic cables it possesses, and Gitlin...
Talktatone Makes Free Google Voice/Gmail VoIP...
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Hillary Clinton's Remarks on Internet Freedom
The spread of information networks is forming a new nervous system for our planet. When something happens in Haiti or Hunan, the rest of us learn about it in real time – from real people. And we can respond in real time as well. Americans eager to help in the aftermath of a disaster and the girl trapped in the supermarket are connected in ways that were not even imagined a year ago, even a...
Is Julian Assange’s Arrest Really An Attempt To...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London Tuesday on a Swedish warrant based on allegations of sexual assault, according to Scotland Yard. The handover of Assange, who has been in hiding since his website released secret U.S. diplomatic cables, was pre-arranged. He appeared at Westminster Magistrate’s Court hours later and rejected voluntary extradition to...
Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable...
WIKILEAKS deserves protection, not threats and attacks. IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide’s The News, wrote: “In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win.” His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch’s expose that Australian troops were...
Wikileaks: Julian Assange's 2 one-night stands...
The Wikileaks sex files: How two one-night stands sparked a worldwide hunt for Julian Assange By Richard Pendlebury Last updated at 10:44 AM on 7th December 2010 Comments (37) Add to My Stories A winter morning in backwoods Scandinavia and the chime of a church bell drifts across the snowbound town of Enkoping. Does it also toll for WikiLeaks founder Julian...
Texas Tea Partiers Want To Oust House Speaker...
Texas House Speaker Joe Straus (pictured) is a Republican, but he is also Jewish, and that is why members of his own party want him out of office (via Think Progress). Several tea party activists in the groups Americans for Prosperity, the Austin Tea Party Patriots, the Texas Pastor Council, and Texas Eagle Forum have organized to oust him because he is not a Christian. Ugly...
Payback: Bank That Froze Julian Assange's Bank...
It’s war! Earlier today we noted how the Swiss bank Switzerland Post Finance (a bank associated with the Swiss post office) had frozen Julian Assange’s bank account for his defense fund. Well, payback. As NYT reports, their site has now been taken offline, and a group calling itself Operation Payback on Twitter claims credit for the DDOS. Click here for more on the tension...
The Weakest Link: What Wikileaks Has Taught Us...
After moving to Amazon Web Services at one point, presumably to better handle the traffic, the site was summarily booted on Wednesday, shortly after Senator Joe Lieberman condemned Amazon with a “providing comfort to the enemy” sort of rationale. In justifying its actions, Amazon pointed to its Terms of Service, and challenged Wikileaks’ rights to and ownership...
Defend WikiLeaks or lose free speech - Dan Gillmor
iStockphoto/Salon Journalists cover wars by not taking sides. But when the war is on free speech itself, neutrality is no longer an option. The WikiLeaks releases are a pivotal moment in the future of journalism. They raise any number of ethical and legal issues for journalists, but one is becoming paramount. As I said last week, and feel obliged to say...
Just in time for the holidays: Security Theatre...
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#tcot #p2 #tlot • FAIR Blog » #WikiLeaks Hasn't...
WikiLeaks Hasn’t ‘Leaked’ Anything 12/01/2010 by Jim Naureckas If a single foreign national is rounded up and put in jail because of a leaked cable, this entire, anarchic exercise in “freedom” stands as a human disaster. Assange is a criminal. He’s the one who should be in jail. —Joe Klein, Swampland (12/1/10) Actually, Julian Assange...
Tension grows between Calif. Muslims, FBI after...
Since the 2001 terrorist attacks, the FBI has used informants successfully as one of many tactics to prevent another strike in the United States. Agency officials say they are careful not to violate civil liberties and do not target Muslims. But the FBI’s approach has come under fire from some Muslims, criticism that surfaced again late last month after agents arrested an Oregon man...
Wikileaks Shows Rumsfeld and Casey Lied about the...
Recent revelations by WikiLeaks show how top American leaders lied, knowingly, to the American public, to American troops, and to the world. Ellen Knickmeyer on the carnage she saw as Baghdad bureau chief. In the dark morning hours of Feb. 22, 2006, a group of unknown attackers detonated bombs in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra, bringing down the golden dome of a revered Shia...
NY Times Public Editor Explains Why WikiLeaks...
Arthur Brisbane, the New York Times pubic editor, shows why information obtained from WikiLeaks is helpful in a democratic society. Among other revelations, these help our understanding: North Korea: The Chinese don’t know what’s going on with Kim Jong-il’s nuclear program, a surprising revelation for anyone who thought the Chinese could, as a last resort, put a lid on little...
TIL Glenn Beck isn't just stupid... he's actually...
From a Salon.com article about Beck, regarding a rivalry with a competing morning radio host, pre-Fox- “A couple days after Kelly’s wife, Terry, had a miscarriage, Beck called her live on the air and says, ‘We hear you had a miscarriage,’ ” remembers Brad Miller, a former Y95 DJ and Clear Channel programmer. “When Terry said, ‘Yes,’ Beck...
Preserving Bush Tax Cuts For Rich Costs $60...
David Leonhart in the New York Times looks at what could be paid for with the $60 billion per year the Bush tax cuts, now being preserved. •A tripling of federal funding for medical research. •Universal preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds, with relatively small class sizes. •A much larger troop surge in Afghanistan, raising spending by 60 percent from current levels. •A...
AndroidSPIN » Hardware Review: Jabra Halo – Stereo...
Jabra Halo – Stereo Bluetooth Headset Specifications/Features: Wireless music and calls or corded from your Mp3 Great sound experience with A2DP and DSP technology Remote control your music via touch sensors Easy to use – answer/end and volume touch control on one side of headset Intuitive on/off – Fold to turn off, unfold to turn on Ideal for all day usage – Up to 6 hours...
UK Uncut targets Topshop and Vodafone over tax...
Demonstrators from the UK Uncut group inside Topshop on Oxford Street, central London, during a demonstration against the tax arrangements of Arcadia group owner Sir Philip Green. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA With superglue and megaphones, pop-up protests forced several branches of Topshop and Vodafone around the country to close today on one of...
WikiLeaks cables blame Chinese government for...
Google pulled out of China amid a row over government censorship and hacking of its systems, including Gmail accounts used by activists. Photograph: Bao Fan/Getty Images/Chinafotopress The hacking of Google that forced the search engine to withdraw from mainland China was orchestrated by a senior member of the communist politburo, according to...
The El-Masri Cable—By Scott Horton (Harper's...
Archive > 2010 > Jan · Feb · Mar · Apr · May · Jun · Jul · Aug · Sep · Oct · Nov · DecNovember 29, 5:23 PM, 2010 · No Comment · Previous · Next The El-Masri Cable By Scott Horton From the small mountain of diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks is now slowly putting up at their website, one significant historical document has so far gotten only scant mention. It’s dated...
Ron Paul: ‘What we need is more WikiLeaks’ | Raw...
Ron Paul: ‘What we need is more WikiLeaks’ Popular Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul is no stranger to breaking with his party, but in a recent television appearance the libertarian-leaning Rep. went even further than any member of Congress in defending whistleblower website WikiLeaks. Speaking to Fox Business host Judge Napolitano on Thursday about recent...
Labor Department Does Job: Conservatives Not Happy
by Stuart Shapiro While the world focuses not unjustifiably on the battles on Capitol Hill, the Obama Administration continues to rebuild the executive branch and return it to its constitutional function of enforcing the laws. The Bush Administration relied a great deal on “voluntary compliance,” and industry is not happy with the return to what I call “real enforcement.” On...
Republicans Win Fight To Keep Tax Cuts For The...
Democrats couldn’t muster enough votes to avoid a Senate filibuster that would have reverted tax rates for the wealthiest Americans to pre-Bush-43 levels. The Senate took the two votes on bills that would have permitted tax cuts to remain in effect at most incomes. A proposal to let tax rates rise on Jan. 1 on incomes over $200,000 for individuals and $250,000 for couples...
Bush Communications Director Admits They Set...
Dan Barlett, the communications director in the George W. Bush administration, admitted to Howard Kurtz at The Daily Beast that making tax cuts temporary was a conscious effort to make a problem for the following administration. “We knew that, politically, once you get it into law, it becomes almost impossible to remove it,” says Dan Bartlett, Bush’s former communications...
Traffic tickets feed the Georgia State Patrol...
Times are tough for the Georgia State Patrol. Just last week it announced that to save money on gas — and to avoid employee furloughs — more officers would be parked rather than actively patrolling the highways over the travel-heavy Thanksgiving weekend. Operating expenses have been reduced to a single digit percentage of the agency’s overall budget, and when federal stimulus...
Close the Washington Monument
Schneier on Security A blog covering security and security technology. « Brian Snow Sows Cyber Fears | Main December 2, 2010 Close the Washington Monument Securing the Washington Monument from terrorism has turned out to be a surprisingly difficult job. The concrete fence around the building protects it from attacking vehicles, but there’s no...
Bomb Squad Detonates 8-inch Toy Robot After...
Bomb Squad Detonates 8-inch Toy Robot After Terrorizing Rush Hour Traffic Score one for the good guys! A minuscule model robot shut down Denver traffic for hours after someone glued it to the base of a bridge—it was deemed “suspicious.” So the police blew it up into “several chunks.” If you’re wondering why a child’s toy was...
Republicans Block Child Nutrition Bill
House Republicans are blocking legislation that would feed meals to thousands of hungry children. Republicans used a procedural maneuver Wednesday to try to amend the $4.5 billion bill, which would give more needy children the opportunity to eat free lunches at school and make those lunches healthier. First lady Michelle Obama has lobbied for the bill as part of her “Let’s...
Woman In Wheelchair Strips To Lingerie, Still Gets...
In protest of the enhanced TSA pat-down, a woman arrived at the airport this week wearing only lacy black lingerie and holding her white poodle. She had hoped that if she “had nothing to hide” then she could avoid a pat-down. She failed in this endeavor. Naturally, it was captured by a fellow passenger and uploaded to YouTube. The woman...
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REPUBLICANS TO FILIBUSTER TAX CUTS FOR **98%** OF...
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