19 Shocking Statistics That Change The Way You See America. 22 Problems Only English People Completely Understand. St George's Day is upon us, like some sort of huge dragon. And we can think of no finer way to celebrate England, our England, than to think about what's wrong. And to think about the weather. And to think about what's wrong with the weather. Yes, it might be glorious sunshine out there right now - but the poor English still have to face problems every day. Problems like these...
Being unable to cope with bad weather We blame Canada. Close Inability to take fire alarms seriously at work or in public places. Ask.com Toolbar Can Hijack Your Computer Through Java Updates. The Ask.com toolbar is not a handy tool — it’s a Curse because it never goes away. Apparently, Ask.com toolbar hijacks your computer entirely. It usually skulks into computer systems on the coattails of some necessary software, normally Java updates. — Then it becomes virtually impossible to uninstall the toolbar however; we have a solution for you. Researchers at Symantec identified that around 317million computer viruses and/or salient malicious programs were launched by hackers in 2014.
However, not all hack-attacks are launched by hackers and some high-profile tech companies also perform such acts. People who got their computers hijacked by the Ask.com toolbar would definitely agree with this statement. Gary More, a West Hollywood resident, shared his feelings: “It’s like a bad houseguest—It will not Leave.” So what’s up with this Ask.com toolbar curse? However, if you somehow ignore this box then Ask.com program will be installed on your computer. “Yeah- I’d describe it as evil.”
Ancient History. Even This Cuddly Teabagger Dude Might Vote For Hillary, So He Can Keep His Beloved Obamacare. Tyrant Obama sure did set a mighty fine trap for the Republican Party, with their constant efforts to repeal Obamacare! With the full benefits of the Affordable Care Act starting to come to fruition in 2014, and even more this year, people around the country — even those who don tri-cornered hats and hold Gadsden Flags at Koch Bros. -funded tea party rallies — are starting to realize, well, goddamn, look at my general healthcare situation getting better! Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers learned this the hard way when her FaceSpace call for “Obamacare horror stories” was met with a whole lot of “my healthcare is cheaper!” Exhibit A: THIS GUY. “If it wasn’t for Obama, and that Obamacare,” he says, “I would still be working.” Not only are his healthcare needs taken care of, but evil, tyrannical socialist Obamacare is NOT death-paneling him!
So, James Webb is looking back and going HUH, those Republicans haven’t done jackshit for me over the last 20 years, have they? We are glad that Mr. Top tax rates: Why it’s absolutely crazy that we don’t ask millionaires to pay more. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Thinkstock This is just a stray, late-on-April 15 thought, but isn’t it kind of insane that we don’t ask millionaires to pay more in taxes? I mean, much, much more? Today, the top marginal income tax rate is 39.6 percent. Why not go to 50? Or higher? Jordan Weissmann is Slate's senior business and economics correspondent. Obviously, this is not a politically viable idea.
And it’s not at all clear that steeping the wealthy, so to speak, would significantly slow down the economy. Which is stronger? In reality, however, it’s just not clear how strongly taxes influence the overall direction of the economy, given how many other factors are at play. A conservative will counter here that the astronomical tax rates of midcentury America were basically a fiction, or as commentators put it at the time, “a colossal illusion” riddled with loopholes.
So, what would the ideal top marginal rate on the rich be now? What if your goal isn’t just to maximize revenue? The officer who refused to lie about being black - BBC News. Today it's taken for granted that people of all ethnic groups should be treated equally in the armed forces and elsewhere. But as Leslie Gordon Goffe writes, during World War One black officers in the British armed forces faced a system with prejudice at its core. When war was declared in 1914, a Jamaican, David Louis Clemetson, was among the first to volunteer. A 20-year-old law student at Cambridge University when war broke out, Clemetson was eager to show that he and others from British colonies like Jamaica - where the conflict in Europe had been dismissed by some as a "white man's war" - were willing to fight and die for King and Country. He did die. Just 52 days before the war ended, he was killed in action on the Western Front. Clemetson's first taste of combat was in 1916 on the Macedonian Front, in Salonika.
"It is as much like hell as anything you can think of," wrote a soldier who served alongside the Jamaican. But Clemetson took a different approach. More from the Magazine. MH17 crash: My revealing fragments from east Ukraine - BBC News. When a journalist investigates a crime scene something is wrong. It is not his job. We leave the search for evidence in the hands of the police for a good reason. But on 17 July 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 exploded over eastern Ukraine and the remains of 298 passengers and crew fell in a warzone with frontlines instead of police lines.
I visited the site several times and, after months of seeing evidence lying at the scene undisturbed, I decided to take some small fragments with me. At least three of them were later linked to a surface-to-air missile by forensic analysis and experts. Men with guns The victims came from several countries; 196 were Dutch citizens and my country was in shock. The wreckage of MH17 was spread over more than 35 sq km (13.5 sq miles) and, when I first arrived, flags had already been put in place locating where the body parts were.
There was no order, just men with guns. Everywhere lay desolate parts. Soon the Dutch investigators were pulled out. What Ferguson Means: The View From Abroad. Violent protests that erupted after a grand jury's failure to indict a white police officer for shooting to death an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, are making world headlines, with editors and reporters reflecting on the state of American justice and race relations. Spain’s El Pais reports that the grand jury decision “confirmed the town’s worst fears and unleashed a new wave of anger,” rendering Ferguson a “ghost town under police blockade.” The newspaper also profiles the activists who have gained prominence in Ferguson in the wake of Michael Brown's death Aug. 9. “Most are led by young blacks and while many didn’t know the deceased, the case has united them, ” the newspaper writes.
"This is not America’s or the black community’s problem. Also in the U.K., The Guardian notes the dilemma faced by U.S. “Officers in Ferguson are also not alone in shooting unarmed black men,” the Economist writes, looking at similar cases across the U.S. More On Ferguson From HuffPost: St. Chomsky: 'I Don't Look at Twitter Because It Doesn't Tell Me Anything' | Seung-yoon Lee. This is an interview for Byline, a crowdfunded independent media platform that gives you a personalized newspaper. The platform beta-launched on April 14th. You can read the original interview here. Seung-yoon Lee is co-founder and CEO of Byline. He was the first East Asian President of the Oxford Union, the world's prestigious debating society, and is a contributing editor to The WorldPost.
Three decades ago, Prof. Noam Chomsky, who is seen by some as the most brilliant and courageous intellectual alive and by others as an anti-U.S. conspiracy theorist, penned his powerful critique of the Western corporate media in his seminal book "Manufacturing Consent," with co-author Edward S. Herman. In "Manufacturing Consent," Noam Chomsky posits that Western corporate media is structurally bound to "manufacture consent" in the interests of dominant, elite groups in society. As far as we can see, the basic analysis is essentially unchanged. "I use Google all the time, I'm happy it's there. BBC Foreknowledge of 9/11 Collapse of WTC Building Seven: British Man Won Law Suit against BBC for 9/11 Cover Up | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization.
By EV Horsham, UK, 2013 – Tony Rooke, in an act of civil disobedience, refused to pay the mandatory £130 TV license fee claiming it violates Section 15 of the Terrorism Act. Rooke’s accusation was aimed at the BBC who reported the collapse of WTC 7 over 20 minutes before it actually fell, and the judge accepted Rooke’s argument. While it was not a public inquiry into 9/11, the recognition of the BBC’s actions on September 11th are considered a small victory, one that was never reported in the US. “Today was an historic day for the 9/11 truth movement,” Peter Drew of AE911Truth UK told Digital Journal, “with over 100 members of the public attending, including numerous journalists from around the UK as well as from across other parts of Europe.” Under Section 363 of the Communications Act, citizens of the UK are required to purchase an annual license in order to use a television receiver. Rooke refused to pay the license fee due to a section of the Terrorism Act that states: Clear picture:
MH17 Witnesses Tell BBC They Saw Ukrainian Jet. BBC Deletes Video. On July 23, two days after the Russian Ministry of Defense presented a radar track of a Ukrainian SU-25 fighter climbing to within three kilometers of MH17, the BBC’s Russian service aired a report by correspondent Olga Ivshina. The report originated when Ivshina and her cameraman went in search of the field outside the town of Torez, where the US government claims an SA-11 BUK surface to air missile was launched at the Boeing 777 on July 17.
Instead of finding witnesses who saw or filmed with camera phones a SAM launch plume that would look like this test firing of an SA-11 in Russia, what Ivshina found instead were people who heard two loud explosions in the sky and described Ukrainian fighter jets near the MH17 crash scene. As Ivshina described in the opening of her report, these Donbas locals were certain the Boeing airliner was shot down by the Ukrainian Air Force. Israeli lies unchecked, Palestinian perspectives censored on BBC | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization.
Israeli oppression of Palestinians not suitable for broadcast by BBC. (Ryan Rodrick Beiler) One of the most obvious examples of bias by the BBC is the taxpayer-funded broadcaster’s habit of inviting Israeli politicians or the Israeli government spokesperson, Mark Regev, onto its programs to speak without challenge. Meanwhile, Palestinians and those who would convey a Palestinian perspective are not given the same opportunity. Film director Ken Loach recently learned that for the BBC, Palestine remains a taboo. On 23 July, Loach was at the Royal Albert Hall in London to listen to a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, performed by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. The orchestra consists of Israeli, Palestinian and other Arab musicians, and is conducted by Daniel Barenboim, who formed the orchestra in 1999 with the late Palestinian academic and activist Edward Said. BBC admits to censorship “Thank you for letting me know about the broadcast and the need to shorten the interview.
Her Majesty’s BBC’s Syria Coverage: “Sorry for the Lies”… | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization. “Creativity is the lifeblood of our organisation.” (BBC Mission statement.) As the sabre rattling towards Iran and the ongoing tragedy in Syria become increasingly hard to unravel, “media errors” or perhaps even “obfuscation” create their own navigational complexities.
One example: on Sunday July 1st, BBC news programmes repeatedly stated that Syrian troops had fired at mourners at a funeral in or near Damascus (i.) Para 4: “…Meanwhile, activists said a funeral procession in a suburb of Damascus came under mortar attack and 30 people died. However the Los Angeles Times had an entirely different take on exactly the same event (ii.) “The car bomb went off as the procession passed a mosque. Whilst, clearly in shock, not citing facts, the witness quoted by the Los Angeles Times also blamed the government. These are two incidents, among many others, which leave an impression of biased coverage and media maniupulation. Notesi. The Media War on Libya: Justifying War through Lies and Fabrications | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization. The War on Libya – PART II In the first part of this text , the events that led to the conditions that set the backdrop for the present conflict in Libya were discussed. The present text examines the events which were conducive to the NATO-led war on Libya.
Media distortion and misinformation have played a major role in opening the door to war in North Africa. The media has done nothing less than create a justification for war through a series of lies. Libya and the Imperial Re-Division of Africa The Imperialist Powers’ Odyssey of “Return” into Africa - by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – 2011-04-26 The Violence in Benghazi The starting epicentre of the violence in Libya was Benghazi, which is located within the boundaries of the coastal region of Cyrenaica or Barqa.[1] According to the U.S. government’s own sources: The maelstrom erupted in Benghazi after a group of protesters entered into a local barrack to take the weapons in the armoury. A pause is in order and has to be taken here.
Left: N. BBC and Fallujah: War Crimes and Media Lies | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization. November 9, 2005 on the BBC News website, under the title US ‘uses incendiary arms’ in Iraq I could still read: Italian state TV, RAI, has broadcast a documentary accusing the US military of using white phosphorus bombs against civilians in the Iraqi city of Falluja.Rai says this amounts to the illegal use of chemical arms, though the bombs are considered incendiary devices.Eyewitnesses and ex-US soldiers say the weapon was used in built-up areas in the insurgent-held city.The US military denies this, but admits using white phosphorus bombs in Iraq to illuminate battlefields.
Yesterday I wrote on why the BBC NEWS is wrong when (in its article: “though the bombs are considered incendiary devices” and with an email to me: “White Phosphorous is not a chemical weapon”) it denies that the white phosphorus is a chemical weapon. According to international law, any chemical used to harm or kill people or animals is considered a chemical weapon.
The BBC NEWS article goes on 9. Captain James T. 9. The Media War on Libya: Justifying War through Lies and Fabrications | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization. The faces of prostitution in Australia - BBC News. What kind of people are sex workers? In Australia, hundreds of them are telling the world about themselves using social media. "College student. Aspiring lawyer. Activist. Daughter, sister, sex worker. I don't need rescuing". These are the kinds of statements that hundreds of Australian sex workers are making about themselves using the #facesofprostitution hashtag. Tilly Lawless was angered by the way the piece "generalised sex workers" and "depicted all prostitution as harmful". Shortly after, Tilly was contacted via the Scarlett Alliance - the Australian Sex Worker's Association - who asked if she would post the hashtag on Twitter.
"I was really pleasantly surprised," Lawless told BBC Trending, because sex workers "are very rarely humanised as individuals, so often our bodies are spoken about but putting our faces on social media is such a powerful thing". Many of those joining in shared her objection to the original article. Reporting by Gemma Newby. 9 Things Many Americans Just Don’t Grasp (Compared to the Rest of the World)
Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links - 28 February 2015. How Muslim Azerbaijan had satire years before Charlie Hebdo. Could we please not forgive Sarah Palin? She is an unrepentant nightmare. The Internet Is A 'Black Hole' Of History Says Vint Cerf.