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Name: | lisajoypatterso | Time: | 12/31/2012 at 9:49am (UTC) | Message: |
The real surveillance story
The Senate over the last couple of days has , giving the government continued ability to spy on Americans without limitations urged by supporters of civil liberties. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Reuters)The puzzle here isn t why Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) and a relatively small group of Senate Democrats have opposed amendments to strengthen citizen protections against government overreach for better or worse, they have the same position that they did when George W. Bush was president. Nor is the puzzle why Barack Obama flipped after becoming president (or, actually, ); anyone waiting for a president who stands up strongly for civ <a href={url}>{keyword}</a> il liberties during wartime, or really at all, is going to wait a long, long, time, or at least until James Madison returns. This is not to say that opponents of these policies shouldn t be attacking Obama, Feinstein and other Democrats who support them. It s just not hard to explain why they do.No, the mystery here is on the Republican side. Only Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah opposed final passage and supported limiting amendments. The rest of the Republicans continued their previous support for an intrusive government. And yet not only did tea partiers supposedly care about this sort of thing, but also even without that one would suppose that many Republicans would simply reflexively oppose whatever the Obama administration proposed. Even if they had supported it when Bush was president. Even if Bush administration officials still sup <a href={url}>{keyword}</a> port it. I don t really have an explanation to propose; I just think it s worth paying some attention to. The truth is that if we assume that the chief executive is always going to tend to favor executive branch ability to do what it wants, then <a href={url}>{keyword}</a> it s up to Congress to do something about it. But if one political party is virtually unanimous in favor of it no matter what the political situation, then it s going to be very hard to find the votes to rein in the executive. A lot of people hate reflexive partisanship, but this is one case which demonstrates why sometimes a dose of it can be a pretty good thing.
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Name: | coryperez | Time: | 12/30/2012 at 7:45pm (UTC) | Message: |
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Name: | kellyperrea | Time: | 12/30/2012 at 2:49am (UTC) | Message: |
Some top users of Instagram, including Kim Kardashian and magazine, said they would stop using the service after the new rules were announced on Monday.Language that had appeared to allow Instagram advertisers to display user photos without compensation have been removed from updated terms of service posted on Thursday.The updated terms also do not appear to contain a controversial provision which had stated that if a child under the age of 18 used the service, it implied his or her parent had tacitly agreed to Instagram's terms.However, the new terms still contain a mandatory arbitration clause, which is not included in terms of service for other leading social media companies like , , or even Facebook itsel <a href={url}>{keyword}</a> f. That immunizes Instagram from many forms of liability, according to legal experts.Internet experts said Instagram had been very aggressive in asserting its rights to user information and inviting anyone who did not agree to delete their accounts within a few weeks.The updated terms still say that anyone who accesses Instagram agrees to be bound by the new terms which are slated to go into effect on January 19.Also, Instagram&n <a href={url}>{keyword}</a> bsp;kept language which gave it the ability to place ads in conjunction with user content, and that we may not always identify paid services, sponsored content, or commercial communications as such. Instagram representatives could not immediately be reached for comment.Systrom stressed in the blog post that the company had no intention of selling the photos that users post on the service. Many users had read the new terms of service as an indication that the company was reserving the right to do that. Going forward, rather than obtain permission from you to introduce possible advertising products we have not yet devel <a href={url}>{keyword}</a> oped, we are going to take the time to complete our plans, and then come back to our users and explain how we would like for our advertising business to work, Systrom said.
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Name: | lisajoypatterso | Time: | 12/29/2012 at 4:27pm (UTC) | Message: |
Michael Gerson: In Pakistan, Taliban makes healers the targets
in the head and neck and beheading 17 men and women in the Musa Qala district of Afghanistan s Helmand province. Vaccination has been a long-standing obsession. In June, a Taliban warlord declared, Polio drops will be banned in North Waziristan until U.S. drone strikes cease. It is a strategy both cruel and typical: the intentional infliction of paralysis on Pakistani children as a negotiating ploy.Yet some blandly talk of negotiations with the Taliban in Afghanistan, even contemplating their return to power. It would be a nightmare of oppression, misogyny and revenge. There is also, however, a complex issue here for Americans to consider. The Taliban and associated groups are exploiting a broad suspicion of vaccines in Pakistan, t <a href={url}>{keyword}</a> o which the U.S. war on terrorism has unintentionally contributed. Part of the effort to confirm Osama bin Laden s location involved a fake CIA hepatitis vaccination program, designed to extract DNA samples from people living in his Abbottabad compound. The Taliban have used this revelation to raise suspicions about all vaccination programs being a cover for U.S. intelligence. In retrospect, the CIA operation was a mistake. Exploiting the unique social standing of health workers in the preparation for a military raid was bound, if revealed, to undermine vaccination efforts. And such things are often revealed. The CIA does not appear to have adequately considered the downsides of, and alternatives to, this particular action. Health and development efforts in Pakistan on which the United States spends billions each year are also part of the fight against extremism. But the effects of a single CIA operation should not be overestimated. The conspiratorial rumors about vaccines in some Muslim societies that they are unclean under Islamic law, that they contain the AIDS virus, that they are designed to sterilize Muslim minority groups existed before the bin Laden ra <a href={url}>{keyword}</a> id. And even in an <a href={url}>{keyword}</a> atmosphere of suspicion in Pakistan, parental refusal of the polio vaccine for their children is a relatively small part of the problem accounting for less than 2 percent of the children approached in most of the country. The bigger issue to tackle, says Jay Wenger, director of the Gates Foundation s polio program, is the effectiveness and efficiency of the vaccine delivery program. . . . Improving its quality is still the biggest barrier. That delivery program is precisely what the Taliban is targeting in its recent escalation. And it would make use of any excuse. The Taliban sacks the world and history for grievances to justify murder. And now they intentionally paralyze children as a strategy of war.
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Name: | jenniferheff | Time: | 12/26/2012 at 2:08pm (UTC) | Message: |
Police searched the mall but did not find anyone who had been injured by the shots, which were apparently fired either into the air or at the ground.More than 50 rounds from a handgun were recovered at the scene, said Deputy Chief David McGill. A handgun was also recovered at the scene, but police did not reveal any more details about the weapon. The state's landmark assault-weapons law, which went into effect in 2000, banned the use of handgun magazines with more than 19 bullets.The mall was crowded with holiday shoppers at the time of the shooting. Some stores were immediately locked down, and many shoppers posted messages on Facebook and Twitter saying they were locked inside.Shopper Dena Nassef said she and another person were walking toward Macy's when people started yelling and running."With what happened in Connecticut, we were freaking out," she said. "It was like crazy, people leaving stores."Ann Butcher, an employee at Macy's, said she was on the patio at Whole Foods when people started running and screaming. She said some women left their purses and fled."That was very scary," she said.Shopper Eric Widmer said he was at the Barnes & Noble bookstore when he saw a mother and daughter rush in crying. He said he heard someone scream, "Shooter!"He said he managed to leave the bookstore and go to Macy'-<a href=http://www.downmonclerjacket.com/58-men-short-down-jackets>Women Fox Collar Down Jacket</a>-s, which he could not leave."I thought, 'Great, I get to be scared twice,'" he said. "Lightning strikes twice."One person was hurt fleeing the scene, but the injury was not considered serious.
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Name: | devonrobinson | Time: | 12/24/2012 at 12:15pm (UTC) | Message: |
Indonesian officials say a four-year-old boy has died from bird flu, the 10th fatal case in the country this year.The health ministry said Tuesday the boy likely contracted the H5N1 virus after playing with dead birds outside his home west of the capital, Jakarta.Almost half the estimated 360 people worldwide who have died from avian influenza since 2003 have been in Indonesia.Last week, fears were raised after the government said a new, highly pathogenic strain of the disease recently killed more than 300,000 ducks on the densely populated island of Java.The virus usually only infects humans who come into direct contact with diseased birds. Some scientists fear H5N1 could mutate into a form readily transmissible between humans, with the potential to cause millions of deaths.
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Name: | devonrobinson | Time: | 12/23/2012 at 1:35pm (UTC) | Message: |
Activists in Egypt have created a makeshift museum to chronicle the last two years of uprisings and political protest. A branch of the museum has been set up across the street from the presidential palace in Cairo.Opposition protests continue several nights a week in front of the presidential palace. But during the day, when the street is more quiet, anyone passing by can stop in at the Museum of the Egyptian Revolution, a roofless collection of wooden frames draped with plastic-covered photos and written memories.Wael Abu el-Leil is one of the museum s founders. If you will see from here, it s the first day. All the cars and the police when they attacked the people. And after that the battle of camel, he said.He is proud of the collection, and said it serves an important purpose for Egyptians who come by to see it. It s the Facebook and Twitter for everybody, because about 80 percent of Egyptian people haven t got an account on Facebook and Twitter, and they didn t have a connection with the young people who made the revolution, and they didn t think about how they feel, said el-Leil. Anyone who wants to write anything, he goes inside. We have a designer. He can say what he wants and we will put it on the paper. And if he wants to put it on the wall we will put it for him. The day after, he will come with family, and the family will write also. It s the same way as the Facebook and Twitter. For Abu el-Leil, the most emotional item in the museum is one of the newest. It s a poster showing his friend and fellow-activist el-Husseini Abu Deif, who was killed just a few days earlier in a clash with supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood during a protest over the new draft constitution. He is like our brother. He collected everything for us, like films. He died. They chose the better in the revolution and shot them. He made something for good. And we say to Husseini, we will complete the road until we get your rights, or we die with you, said el-Leil.For liberal activists like el-Leil, the revolution is not over, and the museum s collection will continue to grow. It can be a cathartic experience for visitors, and a chance to share memories and emotions of a momentous period in Egypt s long history.
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