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. Online advocates, fresh off their victory against the Stop Online Piracy Act, are now gearing up to oppose CISPA because of the disastrous effect the bill could have for private information on the internet.
The bill’s opponents argue that it goes too far in the name of cybersecurity, endangering citizens’ personal online information by giving the government access to anything from users’ private emails to their browsing history. 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. What would Iran do? We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists. Students for a Democratic Society. Globalrevolution. Portland Occupier | News From The Occupation. Occupy the SEC Comment Letter on the Volcker Rule. OccupyME TV. The Occupied Wall Street Journal | We write for the 99% ‘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): Citizens of the World. We are Anonymous.Just a few weeks ago, we declared our crusade against the government of Israel and all supporting counterparts for their involvement in war propaganda, crimes against humanity, and the systematic genocide and expulsion of minorities.
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.’” At the Times’ request, PayScale sorted through the responses to help answer that question. And the results are a little surprising. However, before we look at Payscale’s answer to the “who thinks their job is destroying humanity” question, a few things should be said about the survey.
As any Blaze reader who follows the business portion of the site knows, all surveys and polls must be viewed with a certain amount of skepticism. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Good gravy, 42.3 percent? Capitalism Works For Me! True/False | Steve Lambert. 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 InginuityFest, Cleveland OH Spring 2012 deCordova Biennial, Lincoln MABoston MA Summer 2012 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe NMSan Diego Art Museum, San Diego CA Fall 2012 Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles CAIncubate, Tilburg, Holland Summer 2013 Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, IAFACT, Liverpool, England Fall 2013 – Spring 2014 Times Square, New York City (as part of the Crossing The Line Festival)Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga NYGreat Hall @ the Sheldon Museum March – May 25 Video An 8 minute presentation on the project from the Creative Time Summit Response interviews from Times Square Response interviews from around the Boston Area These two video excerpts are taken from a video shown at the deCordova Biennial.
About The Project (from the SPACES catalog) The word “capitalism” is a red flag. But what to do? This is what art is for. Credit Book. 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. And so the question would be, what would happen if we organized homeowners in mass to do a mortgage strike. There are four things we can do that could really upset Wall Street. The second thing is there’s a whole question in New York now about austerity and student’s rates and the question of the debt structure. Labor can’t lead it, but we can be a critical part of it. So, a bunch of us around the country are thinking about who would be a really good company to hate?
S. 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. The democratic process relies on the assumption that citizens (the majority of them, at least) can recognize the best political candidate, or best policy idea, when they see it. But a growing body of research has revealed an unfortunate aspect of the human psyche that would seem to disprove this notion, and imply instead that democratic elections produce mediocre leadership and policies. The research, led by David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell University, shows that incompetent people are inherently unable to judge the competence of other people, or the quality of those people's ideas.
For example, if people lack expertise on tax reform, it is very difficult for them to identify the candidates who are actual experts. They simply lack the mental tools needed to make meaningful judgments. As a result, no amount of information or facts about political candidates can override the inherent inability of many voters to accurately evaluate them. 'American Spring' of economic revolt coming. Robespierre, the architect of the reign of terror in revolutionary France, is reported to have said, "If you want to make an omelet, you must be willing to break a few eggs. " We need to remember this as we enter a period that will probably be called "the American Spring. " It will not be as violent as the revolution in France. Nor will it be as violent as the Arab Spring we have been witnessing in the last year. We already have the freedoms people sought in revolutionary France. We already have the freedoms people seek today in the Middle East. But the scent of tear gas is in our future.
The coming American Spring is going to be tough. That hasn't happened yet. Here are some, but just some, of the eggs that will go into the new American omelet: Break the back of the finance/banking complex. Whip the insurance/medical complex. Get real about unlimited health care entitlement. Admit, and share, adversity. Want to be a member of the USA? Higher tax rates for the very well-off.