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This brings us to the positive, forward-looking part of my little editorial: how to channel all these worries into constructive action. I've already begun talking about security techniques and tools, and I'm not going to go much further with those right now—that's what my technical articles are for. Rather, I'd like to conclude here with my recipe for converting worry into action.
Step one in securing any computer system or network is to define its function. What will it do? What data will it store, process and serve to users? Who are the intended users? How will those users interact with the system? As any fan of Sun Tzu can see, this is none other than the ancient technique of analyzing the terrain you need to defend.
Step two is to identify, in general terms, the types of attackers you need to defend against. Start with all possible, but prioritize the most likely.
Step three is to think of what data or resources these attackers are most likely to attack on your system, and what sorts of vulnerabilities they might try to exploit in conducting those attacks. Once you've considered the most likely attacks, be sure also to consider less likely but still-plausible attacks, particularly those that are easy to mitigate.
Let's walk through this process with an example scenario. Suppose I've just built a Debian-based Web server. In step one, I determine that the server's function will be to host a simple "brochureware" Web page containing information about my accordion shop (hours of operation, address and so on). The Web server will have only a handful of local user accounts. Most access will be by anonymous Web clients. No sensitive data will be housed on it. No other network services (SMTP, DNS, IRC and so on) will be provided by this particular box, although I will need to administer it via Secure Shell (SSH).
In step two, I decide that because there will be no nonpublic data on the server, it will not be a likely target of corporate spies. I've got a small operation, and in fact, I'm friendly with my town's only other accordion dealer. She's highly unlikely to hire a professional system cracker to hack my Web site. My main worry, therefore, will be less-discriminate attackers: resource thieves, malicious code in general and vandals. It's also possible, though, that some more focused type of attacker may attack my system in order to use it to attack other systems, so I won't focus exclusively on automated attack vectors.
In step three, I decide that my system itself is the most likely attack target, and that automated attacks are the likeliest vector, and that software bugs and configuration settings are the likeliest vulnerabilities to be targeted. What I appear to have before me is a very generic system-hardening exercise. I need to apply all current software/system patches (maybe including running apt-get as a cron job), identify and remove extraneous software and user accounts, configure Apache as securely as possible and at least consider using some add-on tools like Tripwire, Snort and syslog-ng to help monitor my system's security status.
I may decide not to bother running Apache in a chroot jail. The whole purpose of this box is to run Apache, so if someone compromises Apache, the system is for all intents and purposes hosed. On the other hand, if the attacker manages to escalate an Apache compromise into a full system (root) compromise, he or she may have a much easier time using my Web server to attack other systems, so maybe a chroot jail (for example, using mod_security) would be worth the extra hassle after all.
The point of this exercise is that I've thought in an organized way about my defense goals, about the attackers that worry me most and about how best to prioritize the time and effort I spend on securing my system. Sure, I may get some or even all of it wrong, but such a mistake is apt to be much less calamitous than applying security controls in a haphazard or reactive manner.
Besides, knowing me, I'm going to worry regardless. Isn't it better to worry in an organized, constructive fashion?
Mick Bauer (email@example.com) is Network Security Architect for one of the US's largest banks. He is the author of the O'Reilly book Linux Server Security, 2nd edition (formerly called Building Secure Servers With Linux), an occasional presenter at information security conferences and composer of the "Network Engineering Polka".
Expense of snort?
I've always considered Snort a hard-to-justify expense to clients. I'm surprised to see you recommend it WRT to your article's example.
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By Ty Beaver, Tri-City Herald
Like many Columbia Basin College students, Amjad al-Sharkarji and Shwe Zin have high expectations for their future.
The 19-year-old Amjad wants to become an electrical engineer and is looking at attending Washington State University Tri-Cities or a university in Seattle.
Shwe, 18, is a Southridge High School senior in the Running Start program and plans to become a pediatrician.
Both have been selected as the college's All-USA Academic All Stars for the 2013-14 school year. They'll head to South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia today to be honored at a banquet. Each will receive a $2,500 scholarship from Phi Theta Kappa, the honor society that organizes the contest.
"They both are totally unabashed," said Terry Marie Fleischman, adviser to the honor society's CBC chapter and adjunct faculty member. "The sky's the limit."
But knowing how Shwe and Amjad and their families fled political oppression to seek a better life in the U.S., arrived in the Tri-Cities with very little and worked hard to establish themselves makes their success and goals that much grander, the students and others said.
"It's crazy to think I'm going to be a doctor," Shwe said. "I grew up in a hut. I played in the dirt."
Shwe's family came to the U.S. in 2005 from Thailand where they'd been living in a refugee camp. They fled their homeland of Burma because Shwe's father was involved in a student anti-government group, she said. He died after the family's arrival in Thailand and her mother remarried. Shwe was 9 when the family came to the U.S.
"I just remember being scared," she said of arriving at a California airport where there was no translator available.
Amjad's father, an Iraqi, fled his home country for Syria in the late 1980s and started his family there. The Syrian government wouldn't recognize his dad's engineering degree earned at an Iraqi university and wouldn't grant him or his children citizenship, he said. That prompted the family to seek political asylum in the U.S. in 2000 when Amjad was 4.
"I didn't know much when we first came here," he said.
Upon arrival in the Tri-Cities, Shwe's mother worked as a housemaid and her stepfather biked to his job at Walmart each day because they didn't have a car. Amjad's father couldn't get his academic transcripts so he first worked as a janitor at Energy Northwest. He is now a mechanical engineer there.
The young immigrants didn't speak English and Shwe spent her initial grade school years in a transitional classroom.
"I remember being amazed," Shwe said. "It was like a movie. Everyone had their own desk."
Amjad and Shwe said when their families arrived in the Tri-Cities, there wasn't a strong cultural community to support them. And after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Amjad said his family faced some prejudice because of their Middle Eastern heritage.
"There weren't a lot of Muslims here when we arrived," he said.
Those challenges didn't hold the students back, though. Amjad said his parents pushed him to do well in school and that was reinforced by seeing his father take classes at CBC to become a draughtsman. He graduated from Chiawana High School last year where he was in Running Start and enrolled at CBC to finish two associate degrees.
Shwe said her parents received the equivalent of a sixth-grade education in Burma but they also stressed academic achievement.
"My biggest motivation is to make my parents proud," she said.
About 20 students applied for the award this year, said CBC spokesman Frank Murray.
While Phi Theta Kappa organizes the contest, non-society members are eligible but all must meet specific criteria, such as having at least a 3.5 grade-point average, be enrolled in school and on track to earn an associate degree.
CBC President Rich Cummins selects the college's two winners, who are now eligible for a national award.
Fleischman has gotten to know the students since becoming the Phi Theta Kappa adviser in the fall, she said. Amjad is active in honor society, coordinating quarterly "study days" on campus so students can meet with their professors ahead of finals and has worked to set up a knowledge bowl competition on CBC's Pasco campus.
Shwe hasn't been as involved but only because she has family commitments and is also involved in activities at Southridge High, where she's captain of the gymnastics team.
Both students have impressive academic resumes. Amjad wants to use the engineering degree he intends to earn to better the world through technology, while Shwe wants return to her native Burma to treat children as doctor.
"They are totally unscathed by what they had to go through," Fleischman said. "Those are the skill sets that are going to take our country into the future and make the globe a better place."
Despite the circumstances that brought them here, Amjad and Shwe said they view the Tri-Cities as home, with Shwe adding that her childhood in Burma and Thailand "feels like a different lifetime."
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A third candidate has entered the race for New Haven's open state Senate seat: Juan Candelaria.
Candelaria would become New Haven's first Latino state senator if he were to win the seat. Candelaria has served as a state representative for the past 11 years.
A special election for the 10th Senate District seat will take place Feb. 25. The seat became vacant this month when Toni Harp resigned from it to begin her duties as New Haven's new mayor. (Candelaria is pictured above at a rally on behalf of allowing undocumented immigrants to apply for driver's licenses.)
Candelaria joins another New Haven state representative, Gary Holder-Winfield, in the race. Former West Rock Alderman Darnell Goldson said he, too, plans to run.
Like Holder-Winfield, Candelaria stressed his experience for the job. The city lost a powerful senator when Harp resigned; she had served for 21 years and co-chaired the legislature's Appropriations Committee.
"I understand the process. I built the relationships. It's not stepping in as a new legislator, not understanding the process, not having the relationship with leadership. It will be a smooth transition," Candelaria said in an interview Sunday.
Candelaria identified crime and jobs as top issues. As chair of the legislature's Black and Puerto Rican Caucus, he helped secure $7 million in violence-prevention money for cities as part of last year's gun-control bill, he said. He said he'd like to see more crime-prevention and job-training money get to New Haven, including training for manufacturing jobs.
A convention of 10th District Democrats is scheduled to meet later this week to endorse a candidate for the seat. Candelaria is seeking that endorsement. If he fails to get it, he doesn't know if he will seek to petition his way on the ballot, he said.
Holder-Winfield (pictured) said he "absolutely" plans to petition his way onto the ballot if he fails to win the party nomination, just as he has said since first declaring his intention to run months ago.
"Nothing has changed," Holder-Winfield said.
"I'd rather not be facing one of my colleagues. But everyone has a right to run We'll see who wins in the end."
Goldson (pictured) said Sunday he will definitely petition, too. He said he plans to "pick up my petitions on Monday."
"I'm not going to make many friends, as usual, but I'm going to have lots of fun" in the campaign, Goldson said.
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posted by: Xavier on January 12, 2014 3:16pm
I am chuckling.
Because you all know what I am thinking. One City Henry could find himself running for Candelaria's seat!
Wow, maybe I have found a new lease on life and a new reason to hope that the most interesting man in New Haven, a perhaps the world, one who police stop not because he has done anything wrong, but that they find OneCity Henry simply too fascinating.
posted by: Anderson Scooper on January 12, 2014 4:52pm
Candelaria has been an anti-gay Liebercrat.
That's right. Fully-endorsed by the noxious Family Institute of Connecticut, and one of the few Democrats who "Stuck with Joe" to the very end.
Besides that, I'm sure he is a great guy…


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Concerning the global extravaganza of graft that was the United Nations Oil-for-Food program, Kofi Annan's line was to blame everyone but the UN itself. "If there was a scandal," was how he tried to spin it when asked about corruption in his own secretariat. Apparently, U.S. federal prosecutors see it differently. This morning, jointly with the Manhattan DA's office, they announced the indictment in New York's Southern District of Annan's handpicked head of the former Oil-for-Food program, Benon Sevan, on charges of bribery and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Also charged is Ephraim Nadler (a.k.a. "Fred Nadler"), a brother-in-law of former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. If that sounds like the UN might be prone to problems at the top, keep going. The web of fathers-sons-sisters-brothers-and-wives is stunning; and there is of course the mystery of the death of Benon Sevan's pensioner aunt, whom Sevan claimed was the source of the $160,000 that the Feds allege he took in Oil-for-Food pay-offs, and who perished after falling into the elevator shaft of her Cyprus apartment block, just as Oil-for-Food investigations were taking shape in early 2004.
Sevan, who denies any wrong-doing, slipped out of New York in 2005, but has been living in plain sight on Cyprus, where I found him settled into his late aunt's penthouse apartment when I paid a surprise visit there last March.
This indictment comes nine years after Sevan allegedly took his first payoff on Oil-for-Food deals, and follows years in which top UN officials denied, stonewalled, dismissed and in some cases lied about the extent of abuse within the UN itself. Billions in taxpayer dollars, as well as enormous amounts of trust, are lavished on this institution by our own government. The question today is not only whether Sevan, now facing an Interpol warrant, might decide to cooperate with the laws of the U.S., where — while working at UN headquarters in New York — he is alleged to have banked stacks of Iraq-begotten cash. The larger questions are why Annan and his top aides and advisers felt they could with impunity deflect blame from their own failings and from the UN itself, and why, apart from perhaps Sevan, they have gotten away with it.
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1. Brian
The larger questions are why Annan and his top aides and advisers felt they could with impunity deflect blame from their own failings and from the UN itself . . .
I can't read anyone's mind, let alone the polluted fog that passes for Mr. Annan's.
But I'd guess he knew full well how corrupt an organization the UN is and has been for many decades. I'm betting he figured he could count on the UN's Cloak of Corruption to shield him, and that nobody would come a'callin'. ("As it was, so will it always be.")
That was his mistake: he didn't factor Claudia into his equation.
Plus, what else would a deer caught in the bright, focussed beam of the Rosett headlights do other than to attempt to deflect, using all the tools at his disposal (obstructing, dissembling, stalling, lashing out, failing to prevent the destruction of evidence, etc.)?
. . . and why, apart from perhaps Sevan, they have gotten away with it.
Again, I suspect that the UN elite have gotten away with it because any honest UN person, a soul unwilling to turn a blind eye towards the the UN's corruption if not willing to take advantage of it themselves, would long ago have had their careers seriously limited to insensitive areas, if not terminated outright.
That's one of the great advantages of an opaque organization which has successfully sold the myth of its own moral purity; which has tons of money; which is staffed by lots of people who enjoy back-scratching and trading favors — and all this with no effective oversight!
So — how you did it, Claudia, I'll never know.
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2. L. Scott Davison
Claudia! Am I the only one who thinks that the war that we are fighting was CAUSED by the UN?
More than a decade of bungled 'peace'; ineffectual weapons inspection; a sanction system that killed hundreds-of-thousands of innocents while the very target of the sanctions was intentionally supported via a devious kick-back set-up. Could Sadaam have been as dangerous if not for the power granted by the body that so many regard (even today) as responsible?
Can it be said now?
So often I hear that we were lied into this war, that there were no WMD. This goes unchallenged.
There were WMD, they were not accounted for by the UN. It should never have been considered to be the responsibilty of the invaders to produce the weapons, that responsibility was incumbent upon the UN and their failure to do so made the invasion necessary.
If a lunatic felon is seen entering a school with a gun, and if that felon is shot by the police, and if the gun is not found, the police are not to be punished for their inability to find the gun.
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3. merkur
About time! I'm glad to see something happening on the long trail towards accountability. The question remains whether the Sevan indictment can be used to identify whether and where there was more widespread corruption in the Programme. Unfortunately the short answer, as Claudia has pointed out before, is 'Yes'…
However this wouldn't be a Pajamas thread without a token loose cannon, and luckily L Scott Davidson has volunteered. I particularly liked:
"If a lunatic felon is seen entering a school with a gun, and if that felon is shot by the police, and if the gun is not found, the police are not to be punished for their inability to find the gun."
Very clearly the police would be punished if they shot somebody who was unarmed. The defence that they are a "lunatic felon" probably wouldn't hold much water, especially if a gun is never found. It makes me really glad that you're not a police officer.
"It should never have been considered to be the responsibilty of the invaders to produce the weapons, that responsibility was incumbent upon the UN and their failure to do so made the invasion necessary."
Um, yes, it was the responsibility of the invaders to produce WMDs, since that was a critical reason for going to war. If WMDs don't exist, the reasons for war are undermined (although not removed, since there were other reasons). If there weren't WMDs, then the UN would hardly be able to produce them, would they? Also worth pointing out: no WMD have been found in Iraq since the fall of Saddam.
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UN did not cause this war. UN did nothing constructive to stop it – but did not cause it. To think this war was caused by anyone other than Hussein and his government is to deny reality. History shows there is no shortage of people willing to deny reality.
Was it the responsibility of "the invaders" to produce WMDs?
No. Not at all. That is equivalent to saying that police have a responsibility to find evidence every time they have a search warrant. That's just not true.
Much more to the point, it was Iraq's responsibility to cooperate with the UN inspectors – which Iraq had every opportunity to do over a lengthy period of time. Iraq's responsibility was either to produce their WMD or produce compelling evidence that their WMD had been destroyed. Iraq did neither.
Some people assert that Iraq never had WMD. But that is false. Hans Blix – the UN chief responsible for WMD inspections – reported to the General Assembly in 2003 that Iraq had failed to account for thousands of litres of chemicals used in manufacture of poison gas and biological weapons, which Iraq was known to have possessed prior to 2003. Iraq of course actually used poison gas on the Kurds, so it's clear that Iraq also possessed the means to weaponize the constituent chemicals. Iraq never accounted even for those chemicals. Instead Hussein chose to play a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game with UN inspectors.
Keep in mind that Iraq ignored 17 UN resolutions in all. Complying with the UN resolutions, especially as regards WMD, might have avoided this war. We'll never know, because of Hussein's decision to flout the UN resolutions, for which the blame lies with Hussein, no one else.
Hussein assumed correctly that UN had not the backbone to enforce its own resolutions. Unfortunately for him, he assumed incorrectly that US would be deterred by UN cowardice. Of course, Hussein's defiance of the UN and his miscalculations were his own responsibility, not that of "the invaders".
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Sevan And Nadler Indicted: Extradition Sought For Both Men
This has been a long time coming, and it's about damn time these indictments were handed down. Anyone who's been following Claudia Rosett's superb investigative reporting on the UN's Oil-For Food Scandal knows that today, an indictment in federal co
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Yes merkur, after listening to years of commentary like yours, my cannon is loosening.
In commenting on my example as well as the real situation in question you refer to the existence of the weapons as something to be questioned.
In the first instance I can assure you that the gun existed because it was a supposition that I created. There is no possibility that the lunatic felon was not lunatic, nor that he was not a felon. The police did not, as you say "shoot somebody who was unarmed" It's my story. He was armed. You don't have to stand in his defense. He would have killed kids.
I am also pretty sure that WMD existed in Iraq since they were used there to kill people.
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Sorry Cousin,
The MSM will never publicise the disgrace that is the UN enough to even approach acountability. They have embraced the concept that enough talk and understanding is all we need to bring about world peace.
While completely ignoring dhafur, Rwanda, and a multitude of islamic sponsered atrocities.
As for WMD, I suggest you google "Georges Sada", the iraqi general charged with moving them to Syria.
There is also an American Colonel quite upset with our government for not opening vaults buried under the tigris river.
Further is the report form the NY Pravda…Sorry, Times about documents the US gov. published/complained about, showing that iraq was 1 year away from producing nuclear weapons when we invaded,
(the NYT article now requires a subscription)
…they have still not explained the disparity between complaining the weapons did not exist and how our government publishing iraqi documents would help other governments create them.
I'm afraid your analogy of the disapearing gun doesn't work for me either.
Here in Denver the police shoot unarmed people in the back 1-2 times a year and claim self defense without repercussions, dating from my first year in denver when an off-duty cop shot an off-duty postman for flipping him off(postman survived) to the killing of an old man with a diet-coke can(silver object in his hand) by a cop crawling thru a second story window in search of a relatives abusive ex-spouse.
Until Katrina and the stupidity displayed by the keystone cops in that city, I would have said they had nothing on our murder and corruption.
But the Dhimmicrats thinking they can bring about peace in the world thru bigger/world government are on serious, strong drugs.January 17, 2007 - 12:42 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
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For a delightful interview with Ms Rossett see the above link.
She meets with M. Sevan in Cyprus
She also talks about the oil for food scandal, the UN, and the war on terror.
She survived the elevator shaft that recently took the life of M. Sevan's spinster aunt, The elevator shaft that adjoins the apartment the M. Sevan currently occupies.
Cue spooky music.
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Yes,the oil for food was not the UN's proudest moment; and Sevon hopefully will go to trial.
But lets put this in perspective as it also answers wht]y the rest of the world is not demanding that the UN be shut down because of this.
The US controled CPA in Iraq lost billions of USD to corruption; far more money than the UN associated corruption here (160,000USD to Sevan!). And the US gov incompetence in dealing (or not)with Katrina has never been matched by the UN.
All insitutions suffer from some level of corruption whether its the US government, the UN or an NGO. The question is, do we place all the blame and froth at the mouth over just the UN or do we try to reform all corruption where ever it may lay?
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L Scott:
In the first instance I can assure you that the gun existed because it was a supposition that I created. There is no possibility that the lunatic felon was not lunatic, nor that he was not a felon. The police did not, as you say "shoot somebody who was unarmed" It's my story. He was armed. You don't have to stand in his defense. He would have killed kids.
In that case, I apologise – I thought I was supposed to be taking your argument seriously. As I now understand, what you're saying is that this is a hypothesis that you've made up in order to prove your point.
Back in the real world, meanwhile, policemen are required to have a good reason for shooting people. The primary requirement in your convenient hypothesis would be that the suspect was armed, and if you can't find a gun post-incident, that reasoning looks pretty weak. The point I was making about labelling somebody a "lunatic felon" is that this would be hard for a police officer to do, since those terms require the judgement of a court. Which is why we have courts in this country, in case you were wondering.
Obviously you don't think so, which is why I'm glad you're not a police officer.
I am also pretty sure that WMD existed in Iraq since they were used there to kill people.
I'm sure that chemical weapons existed in Iraq, since while I was there I met some of the victims of Halabja. The problem is, that was in the 1990s; no significant WMDs have been found post-invasion, as far as I'm aware – but feel free to prove me wrong.
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And the US gov incompetence in dealing (or not)with Katrina has never been matched by the UN.
Sure. 800,000 slaughtered in Rwanda can't possibly compare to Katrina.
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spynverzyon: Your comparison fails slightly since the UN was not the government of Rwanda.
The UN Secretariat (and Annan in particular) were clearly negligent in their duty – but the members of the Security Council (including the US) were largely responsible for failing to provide the political pressure or material support that would have led to a response.
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Yes, the weapons existed. The point I am trying to make is that the world community needed for those weapons to be accounted for. It now appears that the UN, who were trusted to do this, did not do so in good faith. They took advantage of the system that was designed to pressure Hussein's government such that it put billions in his accounts, money in their own pockets and caused the very people that the UN claims to protect, to suffer. (I believe that the Unicef report that came out in '97 indicated that near 500,000 children 5 years old and under had died as a direct result of the sanctions.)
The Bush administration's decision to go to war was a brash move that put a lot of real people in peril, but the so-called diplomatic efforts were also very deadly (with comparitively little in the way of public outrage) and did not seem to be yielding much. The sanctions were grinding the weak and poor and the oil-for-food kickbacks were funding Sadaam.
With the view we now have into Iraq and the UN-management of sanctions and weapons inspections, it becomes increasingly apparent that there was (and is) a real problem at the top. The UN does not seem ready to acknowledge problems or reform.
Accounting for the weapons in order to prevent military action would have been good. That's my point.
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Murkur wrote:
I'm sure that chemical weapons existed in Iraq, since while I was there I met some of the victims of Halabja. The problem is, that was in the 1990s; no significant WMDs have been found post-invasion, as far as I'm aware – but feel free to prove me wrong.
The issue of WMDs in Iraq is pretty far off topic, and I'd promised myself I wouldn't contribute to it.
But, I think it is worth noting that WMDs were found in Iraq, post-Saddam.
True, most of these were old and probably degraded.
But that makes the point they were some of the very ones that Mr. Hussein was known to have had on hand prior to inspections, had failed to account for, and, indeed, had prompted and sustained the UN inspections themselves, not to mention having factored heavily into the rationale for invasion.
It's also worth noting that the debates before the war, both domestic and international, centered on what to do about the WMD Mr. Hussein was known to have, not on whether or not he had them.
Was military action warranted? Should sanctions be prolonged, and if so, for how long and under what conditions should they be lifted? Those were the topics of pre-war debate.
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Your point about Rwanda raises the biggest weakness of the UN. In the case of Rwanda, the US, UK, Russia et al on the security council did not want to intervene to stop the genocide, they therefore blocked the UN from doing anything.
THe UN can only act when the US and others on the security council want it to act.
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Brian: good point, it is indeed way off-topic. I should have been clearer in my first point: by "significant" I did not mean in numbers, but in capability. The weapons referenced in the report were pre-1991, and were in relatively small amounts. Compare this to what the UN was actually told by Colin Powell in 2003:
… as with biological weapons, Saddam Hussein has never accounted for vast amounts of chemical weaponry: 550 artillery shells with mustard, 30,000 empty munitions and enough precursors to increase his stockpile to as much as 500 tons of chemical agents… If we consider just one category of missing weaponry, 6500 bombs from the Iran-Iraq War, UNMOVIC says the amount of chemical agent in them would be on the order of a thousand tons… There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more… Our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent… In 1995, as a result of another defector, we find out that, after his invasion of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein had initiated a crash program to build a crude nuclear weapon, in violation of Iraq's UN obligations.
As you say, way off-topic. The point is relevant to L Scott's position however: "Accounting for the weapons in order to prevent military action would have been good." I agree, it would have been good. The problem is that, if those weapons identified by Powell did not in fact exist, then there is simply no way that anybody could possibly account for them.
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I agree with your point that if WMD did not exist, it would be impossible to account for them: one cannot prove a negative.
So by itself, the logic of the inspections didn't "work," a logical faux-pas I found troubling even as the inspections were being undertaken.
And if all we had to go on was Colin Powell's UN testimomy, I'd almost certainly agree with you in retrospect, especially given the logically-impossible requirement underlying the inspections that the Iraqi government "prove a negative."
But the determination that Saddam Hussein had WMD was made long before Mr. Powell's testimony, dating well back to the mid 90′s: it was the strongly-held consensus of virtually every intelligence agency who investigated the matter, and was the official position of the UN (which is why that august body approved sanctions).
In this connection, we know that France, China and Russia each had strong historic ties with and economic interests in Saddam's Iraq, and saw it in their best interests to avert an invasion, preferring to see sanctions simply fizzle away over time.
If they had had any second thoughts about the existence of WMDs in Iraq, why would they not play that card in order to avert the invasion that threatened to cost them billions?
So — Colin Powell's comments merely supplemented (albeit most dramatically and persuasively) what was already known. In my opinion, it was so plausible, and so consistent with what their own intelligence services were telling them, that those 3 countries in particular saw no basis to claim otherwise.
I'm afraid I don't find either the vintage of the weapons or the "small amounts" of them to be insignificant: they were significant precisely because Mr. Hussein had admitted to having them, but had not accounted for their destruction.
Having failed to account for such "small amounts", one had to wonder why they were not accounted for; whether or not they had been maintained; and whether or not other WMD had been newly constructed or acquired and hidden along with the pre-91 weapons. The obstructionist behavior of the Iraqis towards the inspectors was also troubling.
So IMO the "failure to account" was highly significant, far more so than either the vintage of the weapons found, their condition or their numbers or amounts.
I notice I misspelled "Merkur" in my last post. Sorry — it was unintentional.
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Annual report of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association.
By: Illinois State Dairymen's Association.
Publication info: Chicago, Ill. :Office of the Secretary, Illinois State Dairymen's Association,
Contributed by: University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
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Choix des vaches laitières économie dans leur alimentation / conférence par J. C. Chapais.
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Publication info: Montreal :Herald Pub. Co.,1898.
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A good life : dairy farming in the Olema Valley : a history of the dairy and beef ranches of the Olema Valley and Lagunitas Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California /
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Publication info: San Francisco :National Park Service, Dept. of the Interior,1995.
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Subjects: California Dairy farming Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Calif.) Point Reyes National Seashore (Calif.) Ranches
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Practical talk to farmers an address / by B.W. Chipman.
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Publication info: [Halifax, N.S.?] :Government of Nova Scotia,[1896?]
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I have a secret. I am ashamed to admit this but until today I have been harbouring a shabby stowaway in the forepeak. I bundled him in there about ten days ago just before Christmas and he has been there ever since. Sure, I've made sure he was secure and I've kept going up there to have a look at him but I've not had the heart to do anything about the situation. Until today.
You may remember the interesting line I took out of Cape Town - how the blue line, the yellow line and the green line all went like this towards New Zealand and the red line went, well, he went like that - straight down about ninety degrees off the general direction chosen by everyone else. Well, during those insufferably long days going South on the red line there was a certain moment, a tip over if you will, when it became clearly apparent to the crew that the skipper had, in the words of the Knight from Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade, chosen poorly. This led to a certain amount of frustration and grumbling in the ranks which in turn led to a somewhat fatalistic, stoic air to the watches. It is, after all, a little disheartening in any endeavour to have a velocity of zero towards your goal while your competitors are hot footing it there with seemingly seven league boots.
Towards the end of this period of light airs the number 2 asymmetric kite, the A2, had been getting a little restless as we neared a gybe point and I was running particularly low in an attempt to reach out towards those elusive Westerlies to the South of our position, hoping to end the torment as soon as possible. Running this deep with the wind almost directly over the back of the boat gets you where you want to go but it is not hugely fast as the mainsail is almost entirely covering the kite from the wind's perspective. Sailing with this aspect also creates a circulating air flow behind the main which makes the kite unsteady and prone to gyrating in ever wider circles as though looking for something to ensnare and mate with. On the Clipper boats last year the unlucky victim was always the inner forestay (oh the painful memories..), which our symmetric kites would latch onto with a steely grip and never let go if you gave them half a chance.
On Spartan it seems the object of desire for my flamenco-hipped Dacron associate aloft was the control lines for the snuffer sock that hang in the middle of the fore triangle when the sail is flying. Ten days ago in a particularly sloppy swell pattern, just before I could do anything to stop it and most insultingly exactly as I was looking at the kite thinking God you're being well-behaved in all this he suddenly collapsed, swirled, filled, collapsed, grasped the lines, swirled, filled and then fluidly began his ugly constriction.
In mute appreciation of the A2's self control and precision I watched as the sail effectively furled its self up of its own accord; neatly, tightly and completely from top to bottom all in approximately 30 seconds. Really, if you could somehow hone the skill, rationalize the practice it would be the greatest step forward in downwind sail management since the invention of the snuffer. Just clap your hands twice Sir and Voila! Your sail is furled. There was little to say really. I think the closest analogy would be perhaps the reaction of an angry parent having discovered their wayward child has just set fire to the garden shed. There is a point where you are just so far beyond angry all you can say, through gritted teeth is Tommy I'm so disappointed, get in the house. In the same manner all I could think was A2, you shame me. Get in the forepeak, I don't want to even look at you.
And so neatly and hideously ensnared in itself, probably a little confused why this masterstroke had gone down so badly the A2 was unceremoniously dropped into the forepeak, and the hatch slammed shut.
Since then luckily there has been enough wind that I have not had to think more about this incident. But he has been in there lashed down tight, bemused waiting for me come and undo the carnage. Today, finally driven by guilt and a building need for my sole downwind accomplice, I undid those lashings and started to work through the problem. Now, this sail is the size of a tennis court, it is all white and it is wrapped around two 100ft lengths of half inch line in the manner of a Chinese finger lock. The room in which this magic trick is to occur is 3 ft high, 10ft long, tapered somewhat towards the bows and home to at least two other similarly sized but thankfully well behaved and packed away sails. This therefore is not the ideal locale to attempt such jiggery-pokery.
I shan't trouble you with the details of the operation. Safe enough to say it was repetitious and arduous and there were some angry words exchanged, swearing even. Yes I did use a knife and I'm sorry no, unfortunately the control lines didn't make it.
I can conclude this sorry tale by saying that I have today discovered another exciting side of Open 60 racing they don't tell you about when you sign up for all this. Frozen Damp Kite Wrestling and that I am no longer on speaking terms with the A2. I might add that I have a very sore head from whacking it on the deck beams all day long in my impromptu Umpah-Lumpah sail loft but that thankfully I also have a correctly stowed, suitably chastised and ready race asymmetric kite.
Ah! The New Year I nearly forgot! Happy New Year to everyone and good luck for 2011! Thank you for your messages - I really appreciate all of them :)


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Here are a few of my favorites from last week's awesome link party:
This Framed Skeleton Key from La Petite Vie is so simple and elegant.
Paint Speckled Pawprints created an awesome upcycle with this Scrap Wood Floor Lamp. I love funky and unique pieces like this!
Can you believe that Bleak 2 Unique took that old curvy rocking chair and transformed it into this cute Tangerine Owl?!
The Book of Jimmy shared these beautiful Door Knob Coat Hangers. I've seen different versions of these but I love how this one includes the plate with the skeleton key hole.
It's always difficult to find fun boy crafts so it was great to see this Volcano Tutorial from A Pumpkin And A Princess.
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Geek girls have long been a myth shrouded in mystery whose very existence was often denied by skeptics. Sightings were often met with denials and jest. Nowadays we are not just out of the proverbial game closet but we are a large and prolific portion of the wider community.
While the comic book industry is still largely considered a boys game, works like 'Womanthology' (the compilation work of industry women that was a huge Kickstarter success and continued publishing success) are putting some real effort into bursting that bubble wide open. Women are involved in almost every level of the industries that pump out the things we love to consume. It's only natural that content traditionally considered female-centric is making its ways into the most sacred halls of geekdom: the con.
I'm talking about fashion. While fashion is not the sole purview of women (some of the best designers through history were, and are, men not to mention all the men who work in the industry media) it is one of the few industries that are geared almost exclusively toward female consumers. It is also one of the new highlights for con attendees. For a few years now fashion booths have started popping up at cons but most recently they have been moving away from cosplay and towards every day geek wear (and I'm not just talking about t-shirts, though those are sweet) and accessories. The real strides though have been made in the events themselves.
2012 appears to be the year of geek fashion stepping from the exhibit hall into the glow of con spotlight. Anime conventions have a long tradition of hosting fashion shows featuring designers from the thriving Lolita and Harajuku Street trends. Now the door is being cracked open and geek fashionistas are stepping into the more 'conventional' conventions. This year everyone's favorite madhouse, the San Diego Comic Con, featured its first Geek Girl Trendsetter panel, sponsored by geek clothing line Her Universe, that invited geek girls to turn out in their best chic then turned them into their very own geek-chic fashion show with critiques and props from industry professionals like hot jewelry designer Tarina Tarantino (check out her great stuff HERE, Bonnie Burton the geek DIY queen, actresses Clair Grant and Jamie King and representatives from Hot Topic Social Media Manager Courtney Lear and Senior Buyer Ed Labay.
You can watch the full panel with MTV Geek HERE.
With the popularity of geeky fashion crossovers blowing up news feeds and the buzz from the trendsetter panel coming out even weeks later it appears that fashion and geekdom are building a healthy relationship.
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We all know zombies are shambling, mindless, chemical/virus pumped up reanimated corpses driven by a need to eat all the squishy bits off of you and your family. But zombies working for the public good?
That's exactly what a geeky entrepreneur named Mark Siwak is trying to do in the Motor City. Mr. Siwak and the Z World Detroit team have started up an Idiegogo campaign to open up a zombie themed experience park on 200 acres of the cities abandoned and dilapidated warehouse district and surrounding abandoned neighborhoods.
The idea is to have a post-apocalyptic space where visitors and a couple hundred of their friends and complete strangers, can spend a night running away from the shambling undead, finding supplies, and generally surviving until daylight. The campaign, while admittedly could use some help in the illustration area, is pretty well thought out. While at first mention this sounds like it should end up on the 'wtf?' scale these guys have looked at a lot of angles on this and if they can get the funding, might just be able to pull it off. I'm a little skeptical about the patch system and think that might need to get rethought because if patches equal my life I will be defending them, ahem, strenuously. But also do zombies now have the pull to sustain a long term project like this?
Would I try spending a night in Z World Detroit? Heck yeah! So hopefully these guys get their campaign funded and sometime soon we can all go crawling through abandoned buildings in the dead of night sacrificing our slowest friends to a ravening horde!
Here's a video they put out about their campaign give it a watch and if you feel like donating to the cause their Indiegogo page is HERE.
This idea may be getting its first test drive this side of the pond, however, this week at – drum roll please- San Diego Comic Con! The Walking Dead Escape will be taking over San Diego's Petco Park and is an interactive 55 minute walker dodging run to your evac out of the contamination zone. With tickets available for spectators as well as participants that will crawl, climb, and sprint to safety (the first 10,000 survivors to make it to the evac zone will get a free issue #100 variant Walking Dead comic) and the chance to volunteer to be a walker and get your zombie make over from Greg Nicotero and KNB EFX this is the zombie event of the summer. This is practically a perfect dry run for the idea of Z World and if it gains near the level of success that I think it should then this should really give a boost to the Z World idea.
And if that's not enough for you a company in England, Wish Co.UK, ran an immersive zombie outbreak simulation similar to the Walking Dead Escape last month in an abandoned mall in Reading that was so successful at approximately $230 a pop (£139) that they have added a new manor house encounter and more dates for the mall one. It looks like Z World Detroit may not be so far-fetched an idea after all.
Here is some great video ABC did of the mall encounter. It looks likes like they had a blast.
So- are you ready for the coming outbreak or do you need to sign up for some training?
What babe? The one growing inside our very own Janelle! Yup America's very own geeky sweetheart who has been giving us her eye view is expecting another little face hugger to burst out of her chest in a little over a month. You know what this means-
Baby stuff round up!! *insert Kermit arm flailing*
So first up on our adventure into geeky baby land is… drumroll please…
Mama Twiggy with adorable Superman and Batman diaper covers! What baby wouldn't love to flash these cute little drawers?
Disclaimer: superhero diaper covers will not make your baby a billionaire playboy nor give them the ability to fly. You can thank us later.
Hoping that your little one will follow in the Watchmen's footsteps? Shannon Sorenson Designs has pint sized vigilante onesies .
So far these don't appear to come in adult sizes, darn it!
Speaking of onesies- Geekling Designs has some seriously uber gear for the younglings!
Seriously where was that last one when my youngest was born?
And last but certainly not least Morning Tempest Studios has some of the coolest embroidery I have seen in a long time. The designs are available for shirts, bibs, and hoodies and are so full of awesome it's ridiculous!
And yes folks these do come in adult sizes! I personally recommend checking out the fairytale series- they are slightly creepy like all good fairytales should be with great artwork.
So stop on over to Janelle's column and leave her some geeky love for the little squirmling while you still can- it's only a matter of time until the baby and her son form a rebel alliance against the evil parental empire!
Summer is upon us.
Summer is the gilded moments of our youth when we got to break free of the shackles of the education machine and spend our days and nights battling evil through the hills, valleys, and hidden caverns of Hyrule. Okay, maybe that was just me.
However as our thoughts turn to the long sunny days of our youth, as they invariably do when we see children running free while we are cooped up in our cars commuting to or from work, it is hard not to notice that things have definitely changed. The advances in technology have invaded nearly every aspect in our lives. The world is so different today than when we were kids that even Marty McFly would freak out a little. Heck, they have even created and marketed a couple of the more futuristic items from the Back to the Future franchise such as the automatic shoes and, most recently, working hover boards (I know- squee!). Pop culture has become swamped in a tide of tech and geeks have been riding the wave to glory.
Summer is the most anticipated time of the year for movie releases and steadily titles based around comic books, video games, and books in the sci-fi/fantasy genres have begun to outnumber and outshine more 'regular' titles. The most buzzed about movies, and also the highest grossing, have been pure geek candy and they have been sweet. Just ask around and see how many people didn't see Avengers and want to have its babies.
Ok maybe that's just me again. Ahem.
Just look at the top ten all time grossing movies and it's practically a who's who of great geeky films!
Rank | Title | Lifetime Gross | Year Released | |
1 | Avatar | $760,507,625 | 2009 | |
2 | Titanic | $658,672,302 | 1997 | |
3 | Marvel's The Avengers | $599,387,534 | 2012 | |
4 | The Dark Knight | $533,345,358 | 2008 | |
5 | Star Wars Episode I | $474,544,677 | 1999 | |
6 | Star Wars | $460,998,007 | 1977 | |
7 | Shrek 2 | $441,226,247 | 2004 | |
9 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | $423,315,812 | 2006 | |
10 | The Lion King | $422,783,777 | 1994 | |
Total $$ on 'Geeky' Movies | $3,687,199,567 | |||
Source: http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/domestic.htm
Look at those numbers! Over 3.6 BILLION DOLLARS in geeky movies and that is just the top 10. I would also like to point out that this list is over the lifetime gross of the movies so Avengers coming in at number three is only temporary since it hasn't even left theaters yet.
We, folks, have gone mainstream. We are a marketplace force.
But still- with comic convention attendance climbing, geeky movies dominating the box office, and having the latest tech is a serious status symbol it looks like the gilded age of geekdom we longed for in our youth has come. May the summer of the Geek never end!
Here are some of the geeky* titles we can wait impatiently for-
The Amazing Spiderman
The Dark Knight Rises
The Watch
Total Recall
The Bourne Legacy
The Expendables 2
Resident Evil: Retribution
Hotel Transylvania
*I excluded the majority of the horror or strictly paranormal movies coming out, not because they are not geeky but because they deserve a category of their own.


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Levan entertained the crowd performing songs from her EP, including "Hang Together," "Hot Damn," and "I Don't Wanna Wake Up."
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