Syria Comment Small Wars Journal Ang Bagong Filipino Concurring Opinions: Internet Censorship and the US Military If you learned that certain blogs and websites are being censored for having political content, you’d say: “That’s no surprise. China does it all the time.” Well, it’s not just China . . . the US Military appears to be taking some lessons from the Chinese government. Just to let you know, the US Marines have blocked access to “Wonkette” along with numerous other sites such as personal email (i.e. Another email posted recently on Wonkette is even more troubling: Anyway, I had a few minutes today and thought I’d look and see what else was banned on the Marine web here. If this email is true, I find it to be quite troubling.
To Inform is to Influence Gunpowder & Lead The Digital Pinoy - Online Tambayan Declan Butler, reporter » Avian flu maps in Google Earth [2007: NOTE THAT THE MAP BELOW IS NOW OLD: MORE RECENT AND UPDATED TIME SERIES MAPS ARE AVAILABLE AT THIS LINK -- ] Nature has a Google Earth map of avian flu outbreaks online tonight. Download the network link directly from here. It accompanies an article I’ve published in Nature: “Mashups mix data into global service.” The visualization of avian flu outbreaks is the first online map, to my knowledge, of each of the more than 1800 individual outbreaks of avian flu in birds that have been reported over the past two years. Data The FAO supplied me with an Excel table containing information on some 1800 H5N1 outbreaks in animals from Dec 2003 to Dec 15 2005. I compiled data on human cases from World Health Organization bulletins. Mapping the FAO data posed several challenges. Also, for many outbreaks, no precise location name was available, but at best, the name of the local ‘district’ where it occured. This for example will generate correct kml.
iRevolutions Security (U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice delivers the infamous "talking points") On Wednesday, just days after Congress held hearings claiming that the Obama administration misled the public in the aftermath of the Sep. 11, 2012 attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the White House released 100 pages of emails that seem to undermine GOP claims that the White House orchestrated a “cover-up.” The e-mails between the White House, CIA, State Department, Justice Department, and the FBI were part of an effort to draft unclassified talking points for lawmakers to use during media appearances and formed the basis of U.N. GOP Claim: The Obama administration struck references about Al Qaeda for political reasons. In the very first of the declassified emails in the set, the CIA is revealed to have willingly struck references to Al Qaeda’s involvement in the attack, a deletion that conservatives have previously slammed as political in nature. Read all of the emails here . Update Rep.
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