What Everyone Who Uses The Internet Needs To Know About CISPA. By Annie-Rose Strasser and Scott Keyes on April 27, 2012 at 5:10 pm "What Everyone Who Uses The Internet Needs To Know About CISPA" Congress is on the cusp of passing a new bill that could threaten any internet user’s civil liberties.
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, a digital equivalent of allowing the government to fight perceived threats by monitoring which books citizens check out from the library, passed the House yesterday and will now be taken up by the Senate. What if Israel bombs Iran? Israelis demonstrate on Saturday in Tel Aviv against war with Iran.
"Bibi" is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Gary Sick: If Israel bombed Iran nuclear sites, most of the world would believe U.S. was involvedSick: Europe would support a U.N. resolution condemning it and likely end Iran sanctionsIran would be justified in having nukes, he says; U.S. would likely enter another Mideast warFragile world economies would collapse under skyrocketing oil and gas prices, he writes Editor's note: Gary Sick served on the National Security Council staff under Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan, and was the principal White House aide for Iran during the Iranian Revolution and the hostage crisis. Sick is a senior research scholar and adjunct professor of international affairs at Columbia University, a member of the board of Human Rights Watch in New York, and founding chair of its advisory committee on the Middle East and North Africa. On that first morning, the U.N. We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists.
Students for a Democratic Society. Globalrevolution. News From The Occupation. Occupy the SEC Comment Letter on the Volcker Rule. OccupyME TV. The Occupied Wall Street Journal. ‘Make Them Pay for Their Crimes’: Hacker Group Anonymous Issues Chilling Warning to Israel Conference. The hacker collective known as Anonymous on Sunday took credit for crashing the website of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the same day it released a chilling video declaring the pro-Israel group its “enemy.”
The AIPAC website went down about an hour before President Barack Obama took the stage at organization’s annual policy conference in Washington, D.C., around the same time the group’s Twitter account said in a post: “Gosh, the AIPAC website sure looks TANGO DOWN to us. Wonder why?” Several hours later, Anonymous released a video calling for “an occupation of AIPAC and the destruction of their websites.” Watch below (transcript follows): Five Jobs Where Employees Say They Are Making the World a ‘Worse Place’ PayScale, the online compensation data website, spent last year surveying approximately 30,000 workers and asked the simple, albeit loaded*, question: “Does my job make the world a better place?”
Possible answers included “very much so,” “yes,” “a little,” “no,” and “my job makes the world a worse place.” “Only about 1 percent of respondents gave that last answer,” writes The New York Times’ Catherine Rampell, “I was curious to know…what kinds of workers thought they were destroying humanity rather than ‘doing God’s work.’” Capitalism Works For Me! True/False Capitalism Works For Me!
True/False 9 ft x 20 ft x 7 ft Aluminum and electrical Images Exhibition/Tour: Summer 2011 Cleveland, OHSPACES in Cleveland OH Fall 2011. Revealed — The Left’s Economic Terrorism Playbook: The Chase Campaign by a Coalition of Unions, Community Groups, Lawmakers and Students to Take Down US Capitalism and Redistribute Wealth & Power. Transcript: W: We’re going to hear from Steve Lerner next, of SEIU, the Architect of the Justice for Janitors campaign.
Currently, he’s working on partnering with unions and groups in Europe and South America, it’s building campaigns to hold financial institutions accountable. S. Lerner: It seems to me that we’re in a moment where we need to figure out in a much more, through direct action, much more concrete way how we really are trying to disrupt and create uncertainty for capital, for how corporations operate. Incompetent People Too Ignorant to Know It. A growing body of psychology research shows that incompetence deprives people of the ability to recognize their own incompetence.
To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it. Similarly, unfunny people don't have a good enough sense of humor to tell. This disconnect may be responsible for many of society's problems. With more than a decade's worth of research, David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell University, has demonstrated that humans find it "intrinsically difficult to get a sense of what we don't know. " Whether an individual lacks competence in logical reasoning, emotional intelligence, humor or even chess abilities, the person still tends to rate his or her skills in that area as being above average. The results are uniform across all the knowledge domains: People who actually did well on the test tend to feel more confident about their performance than people who didn't do well, but only slightly.
If only we knew ourselves better. People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say. 'American Spring' of economic revolt coming.