The Electronic Frontier Foundation: The COICA Internet Censorship and Copyright Bill
The Electronic Frontier Foundation: The COICA Internet Censorship and Copyright Bill
The case began in August 2009 when Mohamud was in e-mail contact with an unindicted associate overseas who was believed to be involved in terrorist activities. In December 2009, while the unindicted associate was in a frontier province of Pakistan, Mohamud and the associate discussed the possibility of Mohamud traveling to Pakistan to participate in jihad.
Mohamud allegedly told the FBI operative that he had written articles that were published in Jihad Recollections, an online magazine that advocated holy war.
Mohamud allegedly responded he was looking for a "huge mass that will ... be attacked in their own element with their families celebrating the holidays."
Yellow bananas 2.05 lb. @ .49/lb.
Packaged salad 3.69
Non-fat Milk 1 Gal. 3.40
Low Milk 1 Gal. 3.24
OJ 3.59
11/14/10
Packaged salad 3.69
Low Milk 1 Gal. 3.24
11/27/10
Non-fat Milk 3.70
Low-fat Milk 3.40
11/28/10
O.J. Gal. 3.59
12/12/10
Yellow bananas 1 batch, .49 lb.
Packaged Salad 3.69
Skim milk 3.54
Low fat 3.40
Not surprisingly, the latest Consumers Union poll released on September 30 shows almost two-thirds of parents will withhold vaccinating their children; fifty percent of respondents’ rationale is that the vaccine has not been tested thoroughly for safety.[3] The NVIC (National Vaccine Information Center) provides updated and accurate information regarding the swine flu and vaccinations.
Cf. 1. Doshi, Peter. “Viral Marketing: The Selling of the Flu Vaccine.” Harpers Magazine. March. 2006.
2. “MIT grad student’s study challenges notions of pandemic flu” MIT Tech Talk. April 16, 2008.
3. “Majority of US parents wary of H1N1 vaccine: poll” Reuters Health. October 1, 2009.
Prezi could be useful as a presentation tool. The examples on Greece and Rome might be adaptable for many K-12 applications.
Cf. http://clifmims.wetpaint.com/page/Using+Prezi+as+a+Presentation+Tool
Yodio might be handy since you can record anywhere by using a phone.
An organization, WeAreChange Ohio, traveled to Newport, Kentucky to investigate the military checkpoints that appeared around the downtown area on 6 September 2009. Officially, this was done for traffic control purposes during the annual Riverfest celebration that is held on both sides of the Ohio River.
Military Police from the U.S. Army National Guard performed a series of tasks throughout the day, which included aiding the local police to close bridges across the river, and to reverse traffic along Monmouth Street in Newport.
Two Military Police officers were located at each corner of Monmouth from the Ohio River to 11th Street, while two Humvees were strategically placed to block traffic onto the Taylor-Southgate Bridge. One of the National Guard members indicated that there were also Marines in the area.
WeAreChange Ohio spoke with a thirty-year veteran of the Newport Police Department, who wished to remain anonymous. He stated that the local municipalities were desperately strapped for funds and that the city had been cutting back his division at the department.
While he welcomed the help from the National Guard, he recognized that funding was being systematically shifted away from local governments in favor of Washington.
The officers interviewed at the festival stated that they were on duty to help the local police. They did make it clear that they would follow orders. They are simply soldiers doing their duty.
The LRAD war device was deployed in combat situations as crowd control; it is now used by U.S. police forces.
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Warning to Muslims who believe that the public space can be invaded without consequences.
For a number of years, certain of you muslim gentlemen dare to regularly occupy the public space for your prayers.
This occupation, as you well know, is illegal, and is, as we well know, a provocation and a demonstration of force designed to show your domination in certain parts of France and your contempt for our laws and the secular nature of our country.
These politico-cultural demonstrations are in defiance of our institutions and our culture, they put our territorial integrity under pressure with the aim of forcing the construction of mosques, which are often financed by the money of non-muslims who then find themselves victims of gigantic rackets in which our elected officials are complicit.
Muslim militias and certain muslims totally illegally block the streets to non-muslims, preventing the citizens and residents from circulating, returning home or leaving their houses and the mayors say nothing, the police say nothing, the State says nothing.
Thus it remains for the French Nation, to the citizens themselves to take over because all their representatives have spinelessly bent over in the face of intimidation.
The message sent out by the French nation to the “praying” is clear:
Stop praying immediately on the public highway, it is illegal. Pray elsewhere, or don’t pray, we couldn’t care less about that. Nothing gives you the right to occupy our streets, you must respect our laws.
You are extremely lucky that the French (of all confessions and origins) are so patient and indulgent with you but in the face of your arrogant provocations, one day the limit will be reached.
Then there will no longer be time to whine about discrimination. You will have been the sole cause of your inevitable future troubles if you continue to defy our laws.
Who sows the wind reaps the storm. Stop sowing discord in France, stop occupying our streets and our towns with your inopportune prayers.
“UNIFIED QUEST 2011″
* Army Studying implications of “large scale economic breakdown”
* Would force the Army to keep “domestic order amid civil unrest.”
* Army to deal with fragmented global power and drastically lower budgets
Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise.
The U.S. military might have been caught napping for a second time. Three years to the date exactly the Chinese popped up in a naval exercise.
The Chinese do have a stealth submarine. The stealth submarine is a modified version of the Type 041 Yuan-class submarine. According to military experts, the Yuan-class’s technology borrows heavily from Russian designs. The Yuan-class is reported to use a new air-independent propulsion (AIP) system based on the concept of the Swedish Stirling engine. Chinese naval research institutes are known to have been investigating fuel cell and exhaust recycling AIP designs similar to the French MESMA (Module d’Energie Sous-Marine Autonome) (Jane’s Defense Weekly, October 7; Wen Wei Po [Hong Kong], October 12).
Paul's legislation, H.R. 6416, is just two sentences long, stating:
No law of the United States shall be construed to confer any immunity for a federal employee or agency or any individual or entity that receives federal funds, who subjects an individual to any physical contact (including contact with any clothing the individual is wearing), X-rays, or millimeter waves, or aids in the creation of or views a representation of any part of a individual's body covered by clothing as a condition for such individual to be in an airport or to fly in an aircraft. The preceding sentence shall apply even if the individual or the individual's parent, guardian, or any other individual gives consent.
Rep. John Duncan, R-Tenn., took to the House floor to say, "A nationwide revolt is developing over the body scanners at the airports, and it should."
A man undergoes a pat-down during TSA security screening, Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
3 Year old searched at checkpoint
TSA pat-down leaves traveler covered in urine.
Flight attendant and cancer survivor forced to show her prosthetic breast during pat-down
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The Fourth Amendment
SEN. JAY ROCKEFELLER (D-WV): "There's a little bug inside of me which wants to get the FCC to say to FOX and to MSNBC: 'Out. Off. End. Goodbye.' It would be a big favor to political discourse; our ability to do our work here in Congress, and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and more importantly, in their future."
Rep. John J. Duncan Jr., former Chairman of the House Aviation Subcommittee and the current top Republican on the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, blasts TSA's invasive "pat downs" during a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives on November 17, 2010. Duncan also questions the role of lucrative government contracts in TSA's new naked body scanning machines. The text of the speech is copied below:
"Mr. Speaker:
A nationwide revolt is developing over the body scanners at the airports, and it should.
Hundreds of thousands of frequent fliers who fly each week are upset about getting these frequent doses of radiation.
Parents are upset about being forced to have their children radiated or being touched inappropriately by an unrelated adult.
There is already plenty of security at the airport, but now we are going to spend up to $300 million to install 1,000 scanners.
This is much more about money than it is about security.
The former secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, represents Rapiscan, the company which is selling these scanners to his former department.
Far too many federal contracts are sweetheart, insider deals.
Companies hire former high ranking federal officials, and then magically, those companies get hugely profitable federal contracts.
The American people should not have to choose between having full-body radiation or a very embarrassing, intrusive pat-down every time they fly, as if they were criminals.
We need a little more balance and common sense on this."
"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny."
---Thomas Jefferson---
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
---George Washington---
And, an interesting sidelight is the background of Cinco de Mayo as a beer promotion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToiZ7N9GEvg
Obama arrived at the G-20 economic summit confident that his free trade agreement with South Korea was in the bag. But as Chip Reid reports, the president walked away empty-handed after South Korea refused to open its market to U.S. automobiles.
芮成钢G20峰会提问奥巴马CCTV版
芮成钢是CCTV2"财经频道"的记者和主持人,所以那些恨党的愤青们不要在这丢自己的脸了,要骂上优酷土豆骂去,家丑也不能这么赤裸裸的外扬呀~如果知道一点全球经济新闻的人就不会这么愚昧的骂自己人了。自称"中华民国"的人也少在那边落井下石,你认为你不是中国人可你们的祖先总是中国人吧?
(composite video) "I hate to disappoint you, President Obama, I am actually Chinese. But I think I get to represent entire Asia, part of the family on this side of the world..."
During President's Obama's press conference CCTV anchor Rui Chenggang seized the chance to ask the last question given to the Korean press..... there was almost no chance for reporters outside of Unite States to ask questions..... and these questions were all from Barack Obama named members of the White House press..... he decided to add one more question, but stressed that a question from the Korean press..... however there was not one Korean reporter raising their hands..... this was a rare scene for president Obama and also quite embarrassing.....
China's CCTV anchor Rui Chenggang:-
Rui: "How about if Korean press allow me to ask a question on your behalf? Yes?"
Obama: "Depends if a Korean reporter will rather have the question..." Pause..... "No? No takers? This is getting more complicated than I expected..."
Rui: "Take one quick question from Asia, President Obama."
Obama: "...go ahead ask your question, I want to make sure the Korean press gets a question as well..." (maybe pretending that Rui was actually Korean...???)
Rui: My question is very simple, you mentioned interpretation, I know part of the difficulties of being the American President is some of the decisions that you take, actions that you make will be Interpreted in a way that are not what you thought it would be or what you meant it would be. For instance some of the actions you have taken were interpreted as anti-business domestically in the United Sates. And as someone just mentioned some of the action taken by the US government that you represent as well were interpreted as sacrificing other country's interest for America's own benefit. You find yourself constantly being interpreted thousands of ways, how do you address these interpretations? http://www.chinahush.com/2010/11/14/c... (see VIDEO + PIC)
Join John Bush the Executive Director of Texans for Accountable Government and Catherine Bush the Executive Director of The Liberty Restoration Project talk about the use of fusion centers and information sharing. Originally set up to keep information on terrorists these information centers are now being used to track criminals as well private citizen who might be considered a risk.
A Fusion Center is a terrorism prevention and response center that was started as a joint project between the Department of Homeland Security and the US Department of Justices Office of Justice Programs between 2003 and 2007.
The fusion centers gather information not only from government sources, but also from their partners in the private sector.
Visit the Operation Defuse Website at;
http://www.operationdefuse.com/
Visit the Texans For Accountable Government Website at;
http://www.tagtexas.org
Visit the Liberty Restoration Project Website at;
http://www.libertyrestorationproject....
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Ian Hunter and the Rant Band play for 375 fans. This was the encore number. Ian played all mellow songs & ballads at this show. Video copyright Ian Hunter/Tamara Guo/Redlands Video
Ian Hunter in New York and New Jersey: It’s a bloody long way
David Johansen - Well, I've Been To Memphis - (live) At The Tabernacle - 11.13.10
David Johansen and Brian Koonin open the show for Ian Hunter At The Tabernacle in Mt. Tabor, NJ. This was a very small gig for only 375 people. This song was from the Harry Smith's album.
http://www.ted.com David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may just change the way we see the world.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
The Obama Administration has handed out 111 Obamacare waivers to US companies... And, they're hiding this from the American public. It takes 6 clicks to find out this information on the Health Care website. Unfortunately, if you're a small business or don't have connections you can't get a waiver for your company. That's the new reality under the Obama-Pelosi regime.
Part 1
Part 2
Airport body-scan radiation under scrutiny.
Full-body scanners are waste of money, Israeli expert says.
Passengers are opting out with a we-won't-fly campaign. In the meantime, the lobbyists have done their best for clients and highly connected companies have made significant income from the deal.
A bit 'o:
A snippet of:
ATYD
Opening act Joe Hurley & the Gents ~ Irish Breakfast in a Greek Diner
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/11/13/dem_strategist_doug_schoen_obama_shouldnt_seek_second_term.html
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A tax on toilet paper; I kid you not. According to the sponsor, "the Water Protection and Reinvestment Act will be financed broadly by small fees on such things as . . . products disposed of in waste water." Congress wants to tax what you do in the privacy of your bathroom.