WikiLeaks: RSF is peeved over reactio... Politics Explained FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. FASCISM: You have two cows. PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. LIBERTARIAN/ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. (Original source unknown . . . this version expanded and Illuminated by SJ.)
WikiStencil Donald Rumsfeld, “Known and Unknown, A Memoir” « Arturo's space Donald Rumsfeld, “Known and Unknown, A Memoir” Posted on The Rumsfeld Papers www.rumsfeld.com/ – Cached Welcome to the home of The Rumsfeld Papers, Donald Rumsfeld’s archival site released in conjunction with his memoir, Known and Unknown. Known and Unknown: A Memoir [Book] By Donald Rumsfeld – Penguin Group USA (2011) – Hardback – 815 pages – ISBN 159523067X “If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.” – Rumsfeld’s Rules Few Americans have spent more time near the center of power than Donald Rumsfeld. Preview this book on Google Book Search Like this: Like Loading... WikiLeaks: Reporters Sans Fact-checki... Vision of Humanity WikiLeaks New "sick details" emerge about water torture - War Room The official government narrative, as defended by Donald Rumsfeld, is that no prisoners were waterboarded at Guantanamo Bay; the CIA did use waterboarding as an interrogation technique, but only at so-called “black sites”; and only three prisoners were subjected to this treatment. However, new evidence is emerging to the contrary, largely in anecdotal form. As Truthout reported this week, a number of stories have come out about forced water choking and other uses of water for torture at sites including Gitmo. Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill discussed the issue with Keith Olbermann Thursday. Scahill noted President Obama’s “extremely poor record” at holding people accountable for torturous acts and expressed concern that little has changed at Guantanamo. Rumsfeld currently faces a lawsuit over the alleged use of torture, bought by a former military translator held in Iraq for nine months, but Scahill emphasized that the U.S. administration always tends to get its people off the hook.
Like It or Not, WikiLeaks is a Media Entity: Tech News « The past week has seen plenty of ink spilled — virtual and otherwise — about WikiLeaks and its mercurial front-man, Julian Assange, and the pressure they have come under from the U.S. government and companies such as Amazon and PayPal, both of which have blocked WikiLeaks from using their services. Why should we care about any of this? Because more than anything else, WikiLeaks is a publisher — a new kind of publisher, but a publisher nonetheless — and that makes this a freedom of the press issue. Not everyone agrees with this point of view, of course. Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn), the chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, is the one who put pressure on Amazon to remove support for WikiLeaks (although the company claims it removed the organization’s site from its servers because Wikileaks did not own the rights to the content, not because of political pressure). So what makes WikiLeaks different from the New York Times?
Forbes Magazine's List of The World's Most Powerful People Starting in 2009, Forbes Magazine compiles an annual list of the world's most powerful people. The list has one slot for every 100 million people on Earth, meaning in 2009 there were 67 people on the list, in 2010 there were 68, in 2011 there were 70, and in 2012 there were 71. Slots are allocated based on the amount of human and financial resources that they have sway over, as well as their influence on world events.[1] Forbes' Most Powerful People, 2013 (top 10)[2] 2012 list (top 10)[3][edit] 2011 list (top 10)[4][edit] 2010 list (top 10)[edit] 2009 list (top 10 selection)[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
Killing Kids American-Style According to news reports , 15-year-old eighth-grader Jaime Gonzalez, who was shot and killed yesterday by police in his middle school in Brownsville, TX, was hit three times: twice in the chest and once “from the back of the head.” Police say they were called by school authorities because Gonzalez was carrying a gun, which turned out to be a realistic-looking pellet gun, a weapon that uses compressed air to fire a metal pellet which, while perhaps a threat to the eye, does not pose a serious threat to life. There is now a national discussion going on in the media about whether police used excessive force in the incident, and there is, in Brownsville and at Gonzalez’s school, both anger and mourning. The boy had reportedly been a victim of bullying. Let me say unequivocally from the outset that, yes, police used excessive force. intent to kill, and of course, there’s that shot to the back of the head, which is simply unjustifiable under any circumstances.
The Race to Fix the Classification System The massive disclosure of a quarter million diplomatic records by Wikileaks this weekend underscores the precarious state of the U.S. national security classification system. The Wikileaks project seems to be, more than anything else, an assault on secrecy. If Wikileaks were most concerned about whistleblowing, it would focus on revealing corruption. If it were concerned with historical truth, it would emphasize the discovery of verifiably true facts. If it were anti-war, it would safeguard, not disrupt, the conduct of diplomatic communications. But instead, what Wikileaks has done is to publish a vast potpourri of records — dazzling, revelatory, true, questionable, embarrassing, or routine — whose only common feature is that they are classified or otherwise restricted. This may be understood as a reaction to a real problem, namely the fact that by all accounts, the scope of government secrecy in the U.S. These are not cosmetic changes. Finally, we want to ask for your help.
World debt comparison: The global debt clock WikiLeaks I don't have a lot to say about WikiLeaks, but I do want to make a few points. 1. Encryption isn't the issue here. Of course the cables were encrypted, for transmission. Then they were received and decrypted, and -- so it seems -- put into an archive on SIPRNet, where lots of people had access to them in their unencrypted form. 2. 3. 4. 5. EDITED TO ADD (12/10): Me in The Economist: The State Department has learned what the music and film industries learned long ago: that digital files are easy to copy and distribute, says Bruce Schneier, a security expert. Tags: leaks, secrecy, whistleblowers, WikiLeaks