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“In war planning as in everything else, human beings often get it wrong. It can be tragic to be wrong; it isn’t shameful. What is shameful is to possess the capacity to recognize and fix mistakes but to fail to do so, out of pride, politics, or indifference to the suffering of others…”
— The New Yorker
12:02 pm • 14 March 2012 • 5 notes • #quote #Afghanistan #news #war
What Would SOPA and PIPA Do?
The bills targets websites that use the Internet for two things: helping people transfer copyrighted content, or selling counterfeit goods.
Once an offending site is identified, the bills target all the pieces of an ecosystem many websites need to survive. Companies from Internet service providers and advertising services to payment networks like PayPal would be forbidden from doing business with the site. The bills would also force search engines to not link to sites deemed to contain pirated content.
The SOPA bill contains a clause promising, “Nothing in this Act shall be construed to impose a prior restraint on free speech or the press protected under the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.”
But that caveat has not placated critics, who are alarmed by what they call the bills’ aggressive measures and ambiguous language. Both bills are meant to target foreign entities — but they also state that any site “facilitating” violations of the law is punishable.
SOPA was introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, along with a bipartisan group of 12 co-sponsors. PIPA was introduced by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., along with 11 co-sponsors from both parties. After their introduction, both bills gained more supporters — until protests against them became more public, in December.
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12:56 am • 19 January 2012 • 8 notes • #SOPA #joyce su loves you #news
While America nurses hangovers and revels in rose parades and football, President Obama snuck behind the distractions to sign the NDAA into law Saturday. Although he has made it clear that he reluctantly does so, no one is more reluctant about the act then the socially conscious Americans who recognize the potentially damaging ramifications of “Section D: Counter-terrorism.”
This law leaves wide open a gray area where the federal government can INDEFINITELY DETAIN terrorism suspects without trial. I am not meaning to be alarmist here, but I do aim to educate. What the President is signing has long been declared unconstitutional because it foregoes due process of the law. All in the name of the War on Terrorism, which basically means, the government can do whatever the fuck they want (for your safety, of course).
The NDAA scares me for a number of reasons, but none moreso than the Japanese-Americans’ experience during World War II. Although the United States profusely apologized for it later and vowed for it to never happen again, American citizens (just like me, with Asian features) were uprooted and confined to internment camps because they were suspected of being in cahoots with the enemy. WITHOUT TRIAL.
There is a reason why we have due process, why our founding fathers wrote checks and balances into our Constitution, why Americans have been blessed with civil liberties, which are to be upheld to experience true liberty and freedom.
Shame on you Mr. President. Oh hey, you dropped your backbone.
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MEDIA BLACKOUT !!! The mainstream news is NOT covering this story — please REBLOG and share this with as many of your followers as possible, IF you are adequately educated on the subject and agree with my sentiments above.
To further inform yourself on the NDAA, you can read the differing viewpoints through the following links and make your own decision. Thanks for reading.
The ACLU:
http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/president-obama-signs-indefinite-detention-law
The Guardian (UK):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/02/ndaa-historic-assault-american-liberty?newsfeed=true
S. Floyd Mori, Mercury News (Head of the Japanese American Citizens League):
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_19413004
Lawfare:
http://www.lawfareblog.com/2011/12/ndaa-faq-a-guide-for-the-perplexed/
![“[Gadhafi] was an erratic, provocative dictator with the wardrobe and looks befitting an aging rock star. To thwart potential rivals at home, he sanctioned spasms of grisly violence and frequent bedlam, while on the world stage he sought to leverage his nation’s immense oil wealth into an outsized personal role.” NYT](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltf88w8kA81qckeqdo1_1280.jpg)
“[Gadhafi] was an erratic, provocative dictator with the wardrobe and looks befitting an aging rock star. To thwart potential rivals at home, he sanctioned spasms of grisly violence and frequent bedlam, while on the world stage he sought to leverage his nation’s immense oil wealth into an outsized personal role.” NYT
10:58 am • 21 October 2011 • #news #Libya #photo #black and white
When is Palestine’s Arab Revolution? | Although Palestine seems absent from the Arab Spring, the unjust occupation was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
2:44 pm • 8 August 2011 • 143 notes • #Palestine #al jazeera #aljazeera #news
Two Cents
Cent 1: Check Twitter for sources.
Cent 2: Obama just secured his presidency for 2012.
Obama’s approval ratings must be at an all-time high right now.
3:59 am • 2 May 2011 • 21 notes • #news #joyce su loves you thoughts
First pictures emerge of the Fukushima Fifty
The Fukushima Fifty - an anonymous band of lower and mid-level managers - have battled around the clock to cool overheating reactors and spent fuel rods since the disaster on March 11.
Despite sweltering heat from the damaged reactors, they must work in protective bodysuits to protect their skin from the poisonous radioactive particles that fill the air around them.
But as more radiation seeps into the atmosphere minute by minute, they know this job will be their last.
Five are believed to have already died and 15 are injured while others have said they know the radiation will kill them.
The original 50 brave souls were later joined by 150 colleagues and rotated in teams to limit their exposure to the radiation spewing from over-heating spent fuel rods after a series of explosions at the site. They were today joined by scores more workers.
Japan has rallied behind the workers with relatives telling of heart-breaking messages sent at the height of the crisis.
A woman said her husband continued to work while fully aware he was being bombarded with radiation. In a heartbreaking email, he told his wife: ‘Please continue to live well, I cannot be home for a while.’
A rebel fighter supporter shoots into the air as she reacts to the news of the withdrawal of Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy’s forces from Benghazi March 19. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
Libya: UN Air Strikes Aid Rebels (Boston)
2:46 pm • 22 March 2011 • 4 notes • #news #libya #photo #black and white
Philosophiae Naturalis: What may come...
The most devastating earthquake in recent times caused a huge Boxing Day tsunami killing an estimated 250,000 people in 14 different countries.
An earthquake measuring between 8.9 and 9.3 on the Richter scale in the Indian Ocean created waves of up to 100 feet high devastating communities in…
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“Soldiers in Libya are using .50 bmg bullets on civilians.”
This is a .50 cal ( the picture is Ryan and Richburg on the range before their deployment..) Its a war crime to kill anyone with this weapon. This is what Libya is using on its civilians. They typically have to be mounted onto a vehicle, or a tripod (like pictured)
Click through on that top link to see how big the round is.
The thought of someone aiming and firing this at another human being turns my stomach.
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[Picture is of three soldiers surrounding a gun on a tripod. I pile of large ammunition lays on the ground.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgztoar2Ji1qcmy2so1_500.jpg)
In response to this post
“Soldiers in Libya are using .50 bmg bullets on civilians.”
This is a .50 cal ( the picture is Ryan and Richburg on the range before their deployment..) Its a war crime to kill anyone with this weapon. This is what Libya is using on its civilians. They typically have to be mounted onto a vehicle, or a tripod (like pictured)
Click through on that top link to see how big the round is.
The thought of someone aiming and firing this at another human being turns my stomach.
Bolded for emphasis.
[Picture is of three soldiers surrounding a gun on a tripod. I pile of large ammunition lays on the ground.]
(Source: sweetupndown9, via absurdreasoning)
“I quit because a crime against humanity is going on now in Libya.”
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Ali al-Essawi, the former Libyan Ambassador to India, speaking on AJE. Al-Essawi resigned his post on Monday. (via pantslessprogressive)
Gaddafi is done. He is relying on mercenaries now, which harbor no loyalty to Gaddafi, they are only loyal to capital. Gaddafi cannot win this war, he may have victories but he is now swimming upstream. Gaddafi has maybe 48 hours, his son only prolongs what now seems like the inevitable.
(via thenoobyorker)
3:27 pm • 21 February 2011 • 66 notes • #news #quote #gaddafi #libya
