All Discussions Tagged 'years' - 12160 Social Network2024-03-28T23:21:29Zhttps://12160.info/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=years&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThe Club of Rome at 50 years oldtag:12160.info,2022-12-13:2649739:Topic:22376522022-12-13T19:35:46.488ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<p>Here are the doctrines of the Club of Rome, circa 1972. Look familiar?</p>
<p><strong>“The Limits to Growth” contains six main messages:</strong></p>
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<li>Firstly, that the environmental impact of human society had become heavier between 1900 and 1972 due to both an increase in the number of humans and the amount of resources consumed and pollution generated per person per year.</li>
<li>That our planet is physically limited, and that humanity cannot continue to use more physical…</li>
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<p>Here are the doctrines of the Club of Rome, circa 1972. Look familiar?</p>
<p><strong>“The Limits to Growth” contains six main messages:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Firstly, that the environmental impact of human society had become heavier between 1900 and 1972 due to both an increase in the number of humans and the amount of resources consumed and pollution generated per person per year.</li>
<li>That our planet is physically limited, and that humanity cannot continue to use more physical resources and generate more emissions than nature is capable of supplying in a sustainable manner. In addition, it will not be possible to rely on technology alone to solve the problem as this would only delay reaching the carrying capacity of the planet by a few years.</li>
<li>The authors cautioned that it is possible, and even likely, that the human ecological footprint will overshoot the carrying capacity of the planet, further explaining that this would likely occur due to significant delays in global decision making while growth continued, bringing the human footprint into unsustainable territory.</li>
<li>Once humanity has entered this unsustainable territory, we will have to move back into sustainable territory, either through “managed decline” of activity, or we will be forced to move back through “collapse” caused by the brutal inherent processes of nature or the market.</li>
<li>The fifth message is one of hope. The authors state that: “The challenge of overshoot from decision delay is real, but easily solvable if human society decided to “act”, meaning that forward looking policy could prevent humanity from overshooting the aforementioned planetary limits.</li>
<li>Lastly, the authors advocated for an early start – in 1972 that was 1975 – to achieve a smooth transition to a sustainable world without needing to pass through the overshoot and contraction phases.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>The World Economic Forum</strong> and <strong>Klaus Schwab</strong> have followed as night follows day. They key assumptions are that the current population/ resource consumption mix is unsustainable, and the second is that a process of managed decline can smooth the transition to sustainability. I am about to say something at once paradoxical and true:</p>
<p><em>Humans have more to fear from the managers of population reduction than we do of civilizational collapse.</em></p>
<p>Because the population reduction is being planned by people who think they are doing good and the old adage of C. S. Lewis applies, that the robber barons might have their greed satiated, and stop, but the person who tortures for you own good does so with a clean conscience and will not stop. Hence Stalin. Hence Klaus Schwab, and his minions and acolytes.</p>
<p>Collapses are random and bring their own correctives. They are chaotic. <em>If the Roman Empire has to fall, it is better that it occurs without central planning, administered by mad tyrants.</em> I realize this is offensive to those who believe that civilizational change can be planned, <em>but it cannot.</em></p>
<p>The assumption that needs to be challenged the most is that collapse is somehow inevitable because we have gone beyond limits set by Gaia, that this unsustainability is somehow new, and that we can plan our way out of it.</p>
<p>We went beyond the limits set by Gaia since we domesticated animals, invented agriculture and mined metals. I would not wish to say there are no limits, but I would say that the collective intelligence of mankind has continually found solutions to the problems we have ourselves created. We went into the realm of the “unsustainable” tens of thousands of years ago. We are still in “unsustainablity”. There is no stable state.</p>
<p>The Club of Rome published its manifesto in 1972. It had a tremendous negative effect over time. <em>It resuscitated the idea of a centrally planned economy when the central conceit of Marxism had collapsed</em>: that a planned economy could prevail over the chaotic forces of the market, or of nature.</p>
<p>The close relationship between the idea of sustainability and the tyranny of all-wise central planners needs to be made clear.</p>
<p><strong>The population bomb is diffusing itself anyway…</strong></p>
<p>Regarding solutions that appear without planning, <em>population growth is collapsing through the very process of wealth generation that has come from burning fossil fuels</em>. Women reach a level of prosperity where their kids will survive until adulthood, and – bingo! – they produce at most two children. It is enough to make the most hardened eco-doomist pause and reconsider.</p>
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<p>Between 1943 and 1945, Ukrainian nationalists attacked 99 Polish towns and villages in Wolyn, a Nazi-occupied region of Poland and is now part of Ukraine, and massacred thousands of Poles. It is estimated that around 100,000 Poles died at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists.</p>
<p>The killings were initiated and directed by a radical Ukrainian…</p>
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<p>Between 1943 and 1945, Ukrainian nationalists attacked 99 Polish towns and villages in Wolyn, a Nazi-occupied region of Poland and is now part of Ukraine, and massacred thousands of Poles. It is estimated that around 100,000 Poles died at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists.</p>
<p>The killings were initiated and directed by a radical Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera and his Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and its military arm, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Ukrainian villagers eagerly participated in the massacre. Their goal was to purge all non-Ukrainians from a future Ukrainian state. They wanted not only to purge Polish civilians, but also to erase all traces of Polish presence in the area.</p>
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<p>On 11 July 1943 at the crack of dawn Ukrainian insurgent detachments and ruthlessly slaughtered Polish civilians in 99 Polish villages. Researchers estimate that on that day alone, known as Bloody Sunday, the number of Polish victims may have amounted to some 8,000 people, mostly women, children, and the elderly. However, the massacres continued for two years. Between 1943 and 1945, around 100, 000 Poles were murdered in 1865 places in Wołyń.</p>
<p>The murders were committed with incredible cruelty. Many were burnt alive or thrown into wells. Axes, pitchforks, scythes, knives and other farming tools rather than guns were used in an attempt to make the massacres look like a spontaneous peasant uprising. In the blood frenzy, the Ukrainians tortured their victims with unimaginable bestiality. Victims were scalped. They had their noses, lips and ears cut off. They had their eyes gouged out and hands cut off and they had their heads squashed in clamps. Woman had their breasts cut off and pregnant woman were stabbed in the belly. Men had their genitals sliced off with sickles.</p>
<p>According to historians, the massacres were ethnic cleansing, but they also meet the definition of genocide. in 2016 the Polish parliament instituted the National Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists against citizens of the Second Republic of Poland, at the same time labelling the massacres an act of genocide.</p>
<p><a href="https://justiceforpolishvictims.org/polish-experience/the-wolyn-massacre-77-years-ago-around-100000-poles-were-slaughtered-with-utmost-cruelty-by-ukrainian-nationalists/">The Wolyn Massacre. 77 years ago, around 100,000 Poles were slaughtered with utmost cruelty by Ukrainian nationalists - Justice For Polish Victims</a></p> THE PLAN - WHO plans for 10 years of pandemics, from 2020 to 2030tag:12160.info,2022-05-15:2649739:Topic:22013762022-05-15T14:57:59.224ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
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<p><span>BALTIMORE (</span><a class="themeColorForLinks" href="https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/city-student-passes-3-classes-in-four-years-ranks-near-top-half-of-class-with-013-gpa" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/city-student-passes-3-classes-in-four-years-ranks-near-top-half-of-class-with-013-gpa">WBFF</a><span>) – A shocking discovery out of a Baltimore City high school, where Project Baltimore has found hundreds of…</span></p>
<p><span>BALTIMORE (</span><a href="https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/city-student-passes-3-classes-in-four-years-ranks-near-top-half-of-class-with-013-gpa" target="_blank" title="https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/city-student-passes-3-classes-in-four-years-ranks-near-top-half-of-class-with-013-gpa" class="themeColorForLinks" rel="noopener">WBFF</a><span>) – A shocking discovery out of a Baltimore City high school, where Project Baltimore has found hundreds of students are failing. It’s a school where a student who passed three classes in four years, ranks near the top half of his class with a 0.13 grade point average.</span></p>
<p><span>Tiffany France thought her son would receive his diploma this coming June. But after four years of high school, France just learned, her 17-year-old must start over. He’s been moved back to ninth grade.</span></p>
<p>“He's stressed and I am too. I told him I'm probably going to start crying. I don't know what to do for him,” France told Project Baltimore. “Why would he do three more years in school? He didn't fail, the school failed him. The school failed at their job. They failed. They failed, that's the problem here. They failed. They failed. He didn't deserve that.”</p>
<p>France’s son attends Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in west Baltimore. His transcripts show he’s passed just three classes in four years, earning 2.5 credits, placing him in ninth grade. But France says she didn’t know that until February. She has three children and works three jobs. She thought her oldest son was doing well because even though he failed most of his classes, he was being promoted. His transcripts show he failed Spanish I and Algebra I but was promoted to Spanish II and Algebra II. He also failed English II but was passed on to English III.</p>
<p>“I'm just assuming that if you are passing, that you have the proper things to go to the next grade and the right grades, you have the right credits,” said France.</p>
<p>As we dig deeper into her son’s records, we can see in his first three years at Augusta Fells, he failed 22 classes and was late or absent 272 days. But in those three years, only one teacher requested a parent conference, which France says never happened. No one from the school told France her son was failing and not going to class.</p>
<p>“I feel like they never gave my son an opportunity, like if there was an issue with him, not advancing or not progressing, that they should have contacted me first, three years ago,” said France.</p>
<p>In his four years at Augusta Fells, France’s son earned a GPA of 0.13. He only passed three classes, but his transcripts show his class rank is 62 out of 120. This means, nearly half his classmates, 58 of them, have a 0.13 grade point average or lower.</p>
<p>“He's a good kid. He didn't deserve that. Where's the mentors? Where is the help for him? I hate that this is happening to my child,” said an emotional France.</p>
<p>Project Baltimore talked with a City Schools administrator, who works inside North Avenue, but asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation. That administrator says the school system absolutely failed France’s son.</p>
<p>The administrator told FOX45 News, City Schools failed because it has protocols and interventions set up to help students who are falling behind or have low attendance. In France’s son’s case, they didn’t happen.</p>
<p>“I get angry. There's nothing but frustration. We see on the news the crime that occurs, the murders, the shootings, we know that there are high levels of poverty in Baltimore. Things like this are adding to that. His transcript is not unusual to me. I've seen many transcripts, many report cards, like this particular student,” said the City Schools administrator.</p>
<p>Dr. Sonja Santelises was the City Schools CEO four years ago when France’s son was a freshman. But she will not interview with FOX45 News. Instead, we received a two-page statement, which explains what should happen when a student is chronically absent or failing.</p>
<p>The district says students received a letter about their academic status this past summer, and records can be accessed through the campus portal. When a student is absent, an automated call is placed to the number on file. The statement also said the school conducted recent home visits and the student’s parent visited the school. France says none of that happened.</p>
<p>What the statement does not address, is why France’s son was promoted despite failing classes. It doesn’t discuss his class rank, or the 58 other students with a GPA of 0.13 or lower. But it does say North Avenue is “reviewing actions that impacted student outcomes” at the school prior to this year.</p>
<p>“It took a lot for me to just build the courage to do this,” France told Project Baltimore.</p>
<p>Project Baltimore asked the City Schools administrator what they would say to France. The administrator replied, “I didn't have a hand on this student, but I worked for City Schools. So, he is one of my kids. I would hug her, and I would apologize profusely.”</p>
<p>“He feels embarrassed, he feels like a failure,” France said of her son. “I'm like, you can't feel like that. And you have to be strong and you got to keep fighting. Life is about fighting. Things happen, but you got to keep fighting. And he's willing, he's trying, but who would he turn to when the people that's supposed to help him is not? Who do he turn to?”</p>
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<p>Note: Democrat Mayors since 1967</p> McDonald’s meal purchased 10 years ago shows no signs of decompositiontag:12160.info,2019-11-02:2649739:Topic:19718042019-11-02T16:20:05.616ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<p><span class="dateline"><strong><img src="https://images.foxtv.com/static.fox4news.com/%3Ca%20href="></img> www.fox4news.com/content/uploads/2019/11/932/524/Iceland-Burger.jpg?ve=1&tl=1"/></strong></span></p>
<p><span class="dateline"><strong><span>A hostel in Iceland has the last remaining McDonald's meal on display, purchased 10 years ago.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span class="dateline"><strong>HELLA, Iceland</strong><span> </span>-<span> </span></span>Most people visit Iceland for its breathtaking landscapes and beautiful Northern Lights.…</p>
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<p><span class="dateline"><strong><span>A hostel in Iceland has the last remaining McDonald's meal on display, purchased 10 years ago.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span class="dateline"><strong>HELLA, Iceland</strong><span> </span>-<span> </span></span>Most people visit Iceland for its breathtaking landscapes and beautiful Northern Lights. But if you find yourself visiting the land of fire and ice, your trip wouldn’t be complete without catching a glimpse of the country’s last remaining McDonald’s meal, which was purchased 10 years ago and doesn’t seem to be decomposing. </p>
<p>The burger and fries combo is currently being livestreamed from its location in a glass case at the Snotra House, a hostel in southern Iceland. </p>
<p>Hjörtur Smárason bought the meal when the last remaining McDonald's location in Iceland closed its doors in 2009. He kept the food in a plastic bag in the years to come, during which it showed no signs of decomposition, according to the<span> </span><a href="https://snotrahouse.com/last-mcdonalds/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hostel's website.</a> </p>
<p>Smárason donated the burger and fries to the National Museum of Iceland in 2012, where a museum specialist reportedly brought up concerns about preserving the meal. </p>
<p>Smárason was asked by museum staff as to whether or not the burger should be thrown away, but he considered the item to be “of great historic value.” </p>
<p>“I had heard something about McDonald’s never decaying so I just wanted to find out for myself whether this was true or not,” said Smárason.</p>
<p>He decided to find a new home for the indestructible meal at his friend’s hostel, the Snotra House, where the burger and fries appear to look just as they did a decade ago.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fox4news.com/news/mcdonalds-meal-purchased-10-years-ago-shows-no-signs-of-decomposition-on-livestream-from-iceland">www.fox4news.com/news/mcdonalds-meal-purchased-10-years-ago-shows-no-signs-of-decomposition-on-livestream-from-iceland</a></p> Rep. Jerry Nadler tells crowd full of kids that humans may see ‘MASS EXTINCTION’ within FIFTY yearstag:12160.info,2019-09-23:2649739:Topic:19540392019-09-23T00:47:36.079ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<p>If you thought you had seen the worst of the remarks delivered at #ClimateStrike on Friday, guess again. Rep. Jerry Nadler, talking to the crowds in D.C. consisting of, and “led” by, hundreds of kids, teens, and young adults, foretold their doom within their own lifespan.</p>
<p>Yes, a Democrat (whose party is trying to win an election) claimed that ALL LIFE ON EARTH could be<span> </span><strong>EXTINCT</strong><span> </span>within fifty years. But hey, GUESS WHAT! You can PREVENT it by…</p>
<p>If you thought you had seen the worst of the remarks delivered at #ClimateStrike on Friday, guess again. Rep. Jerry Nadler, talking to the crowds in D.C. consisting of, and “led” by, hundreds of kids, teens, and young adults, foretold their doom within their own lifespan.</p>
<p>Yes, a Democrat (whose party is trying to win an election) claimed that ALL LIFE ON EARTH could be<span> </span><strong>EXTINCT</strong><span> </span>within fifty years. But hey, GUESS WHAT! You can PREVENT it by VOTING DEMOCRAT!!!!!</p>
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<p>Nothing left but bacteria and a few plants unless you vote for Democrats.</p>
<p>But hey, remember, it’s the REPUBLICANS who are fear-mongering, right?</p>
<p>The climate panic is a cult. And a scam. It doesn’t matter what the science says about the climate, because that’s not why they are doing it. And it doesn’t matter what the science says about how to save the future, because they aren’t trying to save that, either.</p>
<p>This a political movement and ideological cult. And it’s getting more dangerous every day.</p>
<p>therightscoop.com/rep-jerry-nadler-tells-crowd-full-of-kids-that-humans-may-see-mass-extinction-within-fifty-years/</p> 2017 NDAA: Obama Signs “Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act” It expired Dec 2018 $160 million / 2 years / 1000 journalist laid off.tag:12160.info,2019-01-28:2649739:Topic:18756092019-01-28T13:03:29.502ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<h1 class="entry-title"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><strong>Is it a coincidence that all those "journalists" from Huffington Post and Buzzfeed happened now?</strong></em></span></h1>
<h1 class="entry-title">2017 NDAA: Obama Signs “Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act”</h1>
<p>21st Century Wire says…</p>
<p>In typical NDAA signing fashion, Obama signed the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) quietly and with little fan fare as Americans are distracted by the mholiday…</p>
<h1 class="entry-title"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><strong>Is it a coincidence that all those "journalists" from Huffington Post and Buzzfeed happened now?</strong></em></span></h1>
<h1 class="entry-title">2017 NDAA: Obama Signs “Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act”</h1>
<p>21st Century Wire says…</p>
<p>In typical NDAA signing fashion, Obama signed the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) quietly and with little fan fare as Americans are distracted by the mholiday festivities. What dirty tricks can we expect to see in the 2017 NDAA? Coming from the policy makers that struck down the Smith Mundt Act and legalized indefinite detention of Americans in past iterations, we’re sure it can’t be benign this year.</p>
<p>The Hypocrisy of legalizing propaganda (overturning the Smith Mundt Act) then creating an act to counter propaganda: What are we to make of this new “Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act” included in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act? The politicians and the mainstream media outlets have shown their cards yet again with a massive contradiction in policy.</p>
<p>In one iteration of the NDAA policy makers overturn Smith Mundt thereby legalizing state sponsored propaganda to be used on the citizens of the United States and in the latest iteration we see the NDAA include an act to counter disinformation and propaganda. We can easily make the connection that in the wake of the “Fake News” hash tag war that has been unleashed upon independent media, with FaceBook partnering with government sponsored “Fact Checking” sites and algorithms being put in place to remove so-called “Fake News” from social media feeds, that this latest addition to the NDAA does not bode well for independent media and has massive potential to be abused for political purposes.</p>
<p><img src="https://36s81n24kn0c1i9se62v6acw-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/NDAA-Header-e1482657481292.png" alt="ndaa-header"/><br/> Tyler Durden<br/> Zero Hedge</p>
<p>Late on Friday, with the US population embracing the upcoming holidays and oblivious of most news emerging from the administration, Obama quietly signed into law the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes $611 billion for the military in 2017.</p>
<p>In a statement, Obama said that:</p>
<p>Today, I have signed into law S. 2943, the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017.” This Act authorizes fiscal year 2017 appropriations principally for the Department of Defense and for Department of Energy national security programs, provides vital benefits for military personnel and their families, and includes authorities to facilitate ongoing operations around the globe. It continues many critical authorizations necessary to ensure that we are able to sustain our momentum in countering the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and to reassure our European allies, as well as many new authorizations that, among other things, provide the Departments of Defense and Energy more flexibility in countering cyber-attacks and our adversaries’ use of unmanned aerial vehicles.”</p>
<p>Much of the balance of Obama’s statement blamed the GOP for Guantanamo’s continued operation and warned that “unless the Congress changes course, it will be judged harshly by history,” Obama said. Obama also said Congress failed to use the bill to reduce wasteful overhead (like perhaps massive F-35 cost overruns?) or modernize military health care, which he said would exacerbate budget pressures facing the military in the years ahead.</p>
<p>But while the passage of the NDAA – and the funding of the US military – was hardly a surprise, the biggest news is what was buried deep inside the provisions of the Defense Authortization Act.</p>
<p>Recall that as we reported in early June, “a bill to implement the U.S.’ very own de facto Ministry of Truth had been quietly introduced in Congress. As with any legislation attempting to dodge the public spotlight the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016 marks a further curtailment of press freedom and another avenue to stultify avenues of accurate information. Introduced by Congressmen Adam Kinzinger and Ted Lieu, H.R. 5181 seeks a “whole-government approach without the bureaucratic restrictions” to counter “foreign disinformation and manipulation,” which they believe threaten the world’s “security and stability.”</p>
<p>Also called the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S. 2692), when introduced in March by Sen. Rob Portman, the legislation represents a dramatic return to Cold War-era government propaganda battles. “These countries spend vast sums of money on advanced broadcast and digital media capabilities, targeted campaigns, funding of foreign political movements, and other efforts to influence key audiences and populations,” Portman explained, adding that while the U.S. spends a relatively small amount on its Voice of America, the Kremlin provides enormous funding for its news organization, RT.</p>
<p>“Surprisingly,” Portman continued, “there is currently no single U.S. governmental agency or department charged with the national level development, integration and synchronization of whole-of-government strategies to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation.”</p>
<p>Long before the “fake news” meme became a daily topic of extensive conversation on such discredited mainstream portals as CNN and WaPo, H.R. 5181 would task the Secretary of State with coordinating the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to “establish a Center for Information Analysis and Response,” which will pinpoint sources of disinformation, analyze data, and — in true dystopic manner — ‘develop and disseminate’ “fact-based narratives” to counter effrontery propaganda.</p>
<p>In short, long before “fake news” became a major media topic, the US government was already planning its legally-backed crackdown on anything it would eventually label “fake news.”</p>
<p>* * *</p>
<p>Fast forward to December 8, when the “Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act” passed in the Senate, quietly inserted inside the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report.</p>
<p>And now, following Friday’s Obama signing of the NDAA on Friday evening, the Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act is now law.</p>
<p>* * *</p>
<p>Here is the full statement issued by the generously funded Senator Rob Portman (R- Ohio) on the singing into law of a bill that further chips away at press liberties in the US, and which sets the stage for future which hunts and website shutdowns, purely as a result of an accusation that any one media outlet or site is considered as a source of “disinformation and propaganda” and is shut down by the government.</p>
<p>President Signs Portman-Murphy Counter-Propaganda Bill into Law</p>
<p>Portman-Murphy Bill Promotes Coordinated Strategy to Defend America, Allies Against Propaganda and Disinformation from Russia, China & Others</p>
<p>U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) today announced that their Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act – legislation designed to help American allies counter foreign government propaganda from Russia, China, and other nations – has been signed into law as part of the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report. The bipartisan bill, which was introduced by Senators Portman and Murphy in March, will improve the ability of the United States to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation from our enemies by establishing an interagency center housed at the State Department to coordinate and synchronize counter-propaganda efforts throughout the U.S. government. To support these efforts, the bill also creates a grant program for NGOs, think tanks, civil society and other experts outside government who are engaged in counter-propaganda related work. This will better leverage existing expertise and empower our allies overseas to defend themselves from foreign manipulation. It will also help foster a free and vibrant press and civil society overseas, which is critical to ensuring our allies have access to truthful information and inoculating people against foreign propaganda campaigns.</p>
<p>“Our enemies are using foreign propaganda and disinformation against us and our allies, and so far the U.S. government has been asleep at the wheel,” Portman said. “But today, the United States has taken a critical step towards confronting the extensive, and destabilizing, foreign propaganda and disinformation operations being waged against us by our enemies overseas. With this bill now law, we are finally signaling that enough is enough; the United States will no longer sit on the sidelines. We are going to confront this threat head-on. I am confident that, with the help of this bipartisan bill, the disinformation and propaganda used against us, our allies, and our interests will fail.”</p>
<p>“The use of propaganda to undermine democracy has hit a new low. But now we are finally in a position to confront this threat head on and get out the truth. By building up independent, objective journalism in places like eastern Europe, we can start to fight back by exposing these fake narratives and empowering local communities to protect themselves,” said Murphy. “I’m proud that our bill was signed into law, and I look forward to working with Senator Portman to make sure these tools and new resources are effectively used to get out the truth.”</p>
<p>NOTE: The bipartisan Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act is organized around two main priorities to help achieve the goal of combatting the constantly evolving threat of foreign disinformation from our enemies…</p>
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<p>21stcenturywire.com/2016/12/25/2017-ndaa-obama-signs-countering-disinformation-and-propaganda-act/</p> MS-13 gang member nicknamed ‘Animal’ sentenced to 40 yearstag:12160.info,2018-05-23:2649739:Topic:17806772018-05-23T00:50:43.637ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<p>An MS-13 member who goes by the gang name “Animal” received a 40-year prison sentence this week for a conspiracy that included the murder of a 15-year-old boy, the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts said Tuesday.</p>
<p>The nickname, which the prosecutors highlighted in the headline of a press release, is particularly telling, coming just a week after President Trump called members of the violent, immigrant-fueled MS-13 gang “animals.”</p>
<p>Joel Martinez, 23, admitted he murdered the…</p>
<p>An MS-13 member who goes by the gang name “Animal” received a 40-year prison sentence this week for a conspiracy that included the murder of a 15-year-old boy, the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts said Tuesday.</p>
<p>The nickname, which the prosecutors highlighted in the headline of a press release, is particularly telling, coming just a week after President Trump called members of the violent, immigrant-fueled MS-13 gang “animals.”</p>
<p>Joel Martinez, 23, admitted he murdered the 15-year-old as part of his initiation as a “homeboy” in Mara Salvatrucha, the gang’s full name.</p>
<p>“I stabbed the culero three times,” Mr. Martinez said, according to prosecutors. “He stared at me and he asked me if I was going to, if I was going to stab him. I told him, ‘Yes, the Mara rules you.’”</p>
<p>Culero is a derogatory MS-13 members use for a rival gang. Killing a rival gang member was a requirement for achieving full status in MS-13 in Massachusetts, the FBI says.</p>
<p>The White House says incidents like Martinez‘ murder-initiation back up Mr. Trump’s comment during a roundtable on sanctuary cities last week in which he said “these aren’t people, these are animals.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/22/ms-13-gang-member-nicknamed-animal-gets-40-years//news/2018/may/22/ms-13-gang-member-nicknamed-animal-gets-40-years/">www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/22/ms-13-gang-member-nicknamed-animal-gets-40-years//news/2018/may/22/ms-13-gang-member-nicknamed-animal-gets-40-years/</a></p> Iranian woman who removed headscarf jailed for two yearstag:12160.info,2018-03-08:2649739:Topic:17585432018-03-08T01:40:01.819ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<p>Prosecutor says woman took off obligatory hijab in Tehran street to ‘encourage corruption’</p>
<p>An Iranian woman who publicly removed her veil in protest against Iran’s compulsory headscarf law has been sentenced to two years in prison, the judiciary said on Wednesday.<br></br>Tehran’s chief prosecutor, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, who announced the sentence, did not give the woman’s identity but said she intended to appeal against the verdict, the judiciary’s Mizan Online news agency reported.…</p>
<p>Prosecutor says woman took off obligatory hijab in Tehran street to ‘encourage corruption’</p>
<p>An Iranian woman who publicly removed her veil in protest against Iran’s compulsory headscarf law has been sentenced to two years in prison, the judiciary said on Wednesday.<br/>Tehran’s chief prosecutor, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, who announced the sentence, did not give the woman’s identity but said she intended to appeal against the verdict, the judiciary’s Mizan Online news agency reported. <br/>Dolatabadi said the unidentified woman took off her headscarf in Tehran’s Enghelab Street to “encourage corruption through the removal of the hijab in public”.<br/>The woman will be eligible for parole after three months, but Dolatabadi criticised what he said was a “light” sentence and said he would push for the full two-year penalty.<br/>More than 30 Iranian women have been arrested since the end of December for publically removing their veils in defiance of the law. <br/>Most have been released, but many are being prosecuted. <br/>Women showing their hair in public in Iran are usually sentenced to far shorter terms of two months or less, and fined $25.<br/>Iranian law, in place since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, stipulates that all women, Iranian or foreign, Muslim or non-Muslim, must be fully veiled in public at all times. <br/>But the zeal of the country’s morality police has declined in the past two decades, and a growing number of Iranian women in Tehran and other large cities often wear loose veils that reveal their hair. <br/>In some areas of the capital, women are regularly seen driving cars with veils draped over their shoulders. <br/>Dolatabadi said he would no longer accept such behaviour, and had ordered the impound of vehicles driven by socially rebellious women. <br/>The prosecutor said some “tolerance” was possible when it came to women who wear the veil loosely, “but we must act with force against people who deliberately question the rules on the Islamic veil”, according to Mizan Online.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/07/iranian-woman-who-removed-headscarf-sentenced-to-two-years?CMP=twt_gu">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/07/iranian-woman-who-removed-headscarf-sentenced-to-two-years?CMP=twt_gu</a></p> Unabomber’s anti-technology manifesto published 20 years agotag:12160.info,2015-09-21:2649739:Topic:15894082015-09-21T21:13:07.332ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<div class="entry-content"><hr/><p>() It was 20 years ago Saturday that the world awoke to a strange treatise published in print by <em>The Washington Post. </em>The piece espoused extreme hatred for technology, what the manifesto’s author described as the “industrial-technological system” that would someday end up “<a href="http://cyber.eserver.org/unabom.txt">depriving people of dignity and autonomy</a>.”</p>
<p>The author turned out to be Theodore John Kaczynski, the Unabomber. He infamously sent the manuscript to the <em>Post</em> and <em>The New York Times</em>, saying if they published his rant against technology, he would stop killing and maiming people with letter bombs. After consulting with the FBI, the newspapers jointly published the manuscript, a move based largely on the belief that doing so could end the nearly two-decade long killing spree and perhaps lead to the author’s capture.</p>
<p>The Unabomber’s brother, David, read the published manuscript, realized it was his brother, and turned him in. Suddenly, the nation’s longest and costliest manhunt for a domestic terrorist was over. The Unabomber is serving three life terms in connection to a nearly two-decade terror spree that injured 23 people and killed three others in the United States between 1978 and 1995. He was labeled the Unabomber because his main targets were university scholars and others associated with science and technology.</p>
<p>“In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we had to kill people,” the manifesto said.</p>
<p><em>The Post</em> on Friday <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/rweb/life/how-a-35000-word-manifesto-led-to-the-unabomber/2015/09/19/e55229e0-5cac-11e5-9757-e49273f05f65_story.html">recounted</a> the internal machinations behind the decision to publish the 35,000-word manuscript. One particular paragraph in the story points out a larger theme, one essentially having nothing to do with the Unabomber but everything to do with technology:</p>
<blockquote><p>Two decades later, the events surrounding the publication of the Unabomber’s manuscript seem both distant and eerily familiar. Some elements suggest a bygone age. The manifesto, for example, was perhaps one of the last newsworthy documents to appear only in print. Although the Internet was starting to seep into everyday life, few Americans relied on it for news. Within a few years, that would change irrevocably.</p>
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<p>Fast forward to today, Kaczynski clearly wouldn’t need the <em>Post</em> or <em>Times</em> to spread his philosophy. Thanks to technology that the Unabomber railed against, the Internet of today would have provided him a forum for his rants—just like it does now for stodgy news agencies, political protesters, tech sites, the mom and pops of the world, bloggers, and even the ISIS crazies.</p>
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<p>The <em>Post</em>‘s reflection on the Unabomber also sparked a reflection of sorts of my own dealings with the Unabomber. The anniversary prompted me to look for my own Unabomber files, the ones I maintained when I covered the Unabomber’s court appeals for The Associated Press. As time passed, I think I must have thrown away most of the files, but I did find a three-page, photocopied letter the Unabomber addressed to me at my former press room office in the San Francisco federal building 15 years ago. Where that original letter is, I haven’t a clue. There were also others that I cannot find.</p>
<p>Still, I did discover this Unabomber hand-written correspondence that has not yet been published on the Internet. I found it late Saturday in a file marked “Sadie,” the folder I maintain with updated health information about my black Labrador dog.</p>
<p>As far as I can remember, this <a href="http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/unaletter.pdf">letter</a> (PDF) was sent to me unsolicited from the Unabomber while he was in prison. At the time, he was demanding that he be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea. He claims he was coerced by his attorneys to plead guilty—in exchange for a life sentence instead of a death sentence—to avoid a trial where his attorneys would focus on him being mentally ill.</p>
<p>J. Tony Serra, a prominent San Francisco lawyer who would later <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Attorney-Tony-Serra-sentenced-to-prison-2651759.php">go to prison on tax evasion charges</a>, told me 15 years ago that if Kaczynski won a new trial, he would put on a so-called “political defense.”</p>
<p>“He always wanted to go to trial. He wanted to air his principles, his ideology behind his actions,” Serra said. The Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh, was executed after his political defense flopped, one in which he said he blew up the building and killed 168 people as retribution for the FBI’s Branch Davidian attack in Waco, Texas.</p>
<p>The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in 2001 <a href="http://napavalleyregister.com/news/appeals-court-rejects-unabomber-s-demand-for-trial/article_be1e760b-800c-5a05-9427-f28a54786271.html">declined</a> to allow Kaczynski to withdraw his guilty plea. If allowed a new trial, in which he said he would have accepted the death penalty if he lost, Kaczynski said in his letter to me that his defense would surround “dishonesty and incompetence of the FBI.” The letter also said I mischaracterized his relationship with Michael Mello, the author of<em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/United-States-America-Theodore-Kaczynski/dp/1893956016">The United States of America versus Theodore John Kaczynski</a></em>.</p>
<p>But on the anniversary of this unusual op-ed printing, I wonder how different this Unabomber episode might have turned out had Kaczynski been privy to today’s Internet society and culture. Perhaps the answer to this question is worthy of a treatise in and of itself—print or online?</p>
<p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/unabombers-anti-technology-manifesto-published-20-years-ago/" target="_blank" rel="author">David Kravets</a></p>
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