A slippery slope... US Constitution vs. The Patriot Act. FREEDOM FROM SCRUTINY. TARIQ RAMADAN | September 11th 2008 On the anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Tariq Ramadan laments what's been lost in our pursuit of security ...
From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Autumn 2008 Intelligent Life asked 11 eminent people from different walks of life to look back over their adult lifetime and name the freedom we have gained and lost that means the most to them. They were free to take freedom in any sense, political or cultural, social or technological. What mattered was that it mattered to them. Aged 45, professor of Islamic Studies at Oxford University and author of "Islam, the West and the Challenge of Modernity"FREEDOM LOST: As we are celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the UN Declaration, one remains doubtful regarding the progress in the field of our freedoms. Security measures are producing new discriminations and, with their privacy, some are losing their dignity, if not their personal integrity. FREEDOM GAINED (with a condition): Picture credit: Larsz/flickr. Paid "Personas" Infiltrate Social Networks.
As I wrote yesterday , there is a leaked email that has gotten surprisingly little attention around here.
It's the one where Aaron Barr discusses his intention to post at Daily Kos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group. But that's not the email I'm talking about here. As I also mentioned yesterday, in some of the emails, HBGary people are talking about creating "personas", what we would call sockpuppets. This is not new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars and coffee houses. But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA - whose enemies are labor unions, progressive organizations, journalists, and progressive bloggers, a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet.
Yes!!! In another Word document, one of the team spells out how automation can work so one person can be many personas: Really? The Book That Coined "Big Brother" - Nineteen Eighty-Four. History and title[edit] A 1947 draft manuscript of the first page of Nineteen Eighty-Four, showing the editorial development.
The Last Man in Europe was an early title for the novel but in a letter dated 22 October 1948 to his publisher Fredric Warburg, eight months before publication, Orwell wrote about hesitating between The Last Man in Europe and Nineteen Eighty-Four.[14] Warburg suggested changing the main title to a more commercial one.[15] Copyright status[edit] The novel will be in the public domain in the European Union and Russia in 2021 and in the United States in 2044.[21] It is already in the public domain in Canada;[22] South Africa,[23] Argentina[24] Australia,[25] and Oman.[26] Background[edit] The banner of the Party in the 1984 film adaptation of the book (I) the upper-class Inner Party, the elite ruling minority, who make up 2% of the population. As the government, the Party controls the population with four ministries: Plot[edit] Characters[edit] Principal characters[edit] FBI. The FBI’s Reading Room contains many files of public interest and historical value.
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