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The protagonist of Alex Gibney's new documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is ostensibly the Australian hacker Julian Assange, who founded the anti-secrecy organization and published the biggest trove of leaked classified documents in US history. He's not exactly a sympathetic character in Gibney's eyes. Assange's story comes across as a cautionary tale about narcissism, and the filmmaker ultimately concludes that WikiLeaks/Assange (they are one in the same) has become the very embodiment of the thing it set out to destroy: An autocratic regime that survives by cult of personality and, irony of all ironies, secrecy.
Gibney would have made a good film had he only offered that persuasive argument--which Assange's supporters will doubtless see as an unfair hack job by a documentarian who never even interviewed his subject. (More on why not here.) But Gibney went further than I'd expected by deeply and, at times, touchingly exploring the secondary character in this global power-drama, who turns out to be the real star of the show: Army Private Bradley Manning, the young man accused of providing WikiLeaks with thousands of classified military reports and diplomatic cables.
The film is hugely sympathetic to Manning, who, since the movie was finished, has pled guilty to misusing classified material. Gibney argues that even if Manning committed a crime, the fact that some of the government's own assessments have found no great national security harm came of the disclosure should mitigate Manning's punishment. Manning's detractors will doubtless see that as as the conclusion of a biased filmmaker, who set out to turn a criminal into a martyr for public transparency and accountability.
The funny thing is, that's the character I thought Assange would turn out to be in this movie. Instead, it's Manning whose struggle to expose secrets seems most genuine and complex, and most significant for national security policy. After all, Assange was the recipient of the secrets. Manning is the one who let them loose, and exposed unacceptable weaknesses is the military's own security regime in the process.
Gibney makes extensive use of instant messages that Manning exchanged about his disclosures with the hacker Adrian Lamo, who reported Manning to the authorities and, in the film's final moments, regrets having done so. Manning tries to explain why he would risk violating national security and his own freedom to tell the world about what he believes are grave injustices carried out by the US government.
"i...care?" Manning writes.
Gibney flashes this portion of the text on screen at various points, and he makes a motif of Manning's other personal struggles, including with his gender identity and his inability to fit in with his peers and his fellow soldiers. Manning says he is extremely isolated. Feels entirely alone. The release of the documents is a way to change the world for the better and to imprint himself on it--to matter.
Manning seems like an accidental radical. A smart computer geek who never quite fit in with his peers--too weak, too effeminate, maybe just too smart--but who finds himself in a position to bring important matters to light. Assange, however, seems to be in the game to fuel his own ego. He craves credit, even adulation, for bringing the mighty security state to his knees, but he pays no mind to the consequences. He tells us that he would even release information about how to make a deadly weapon that could kill innocent people.
The title of Gibney's film comes from one of his interview subjects, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden, who describes the business model of the US intelligence community as, "We steal secrets." It's hard to escape the conclusion that Gibney sees Assange as a kind of thief. Or at the very least, a resident of the moral gray zone that's also inhabited by the CIA. Hayden essentially argues, We steal because it keeps people safe. Assange could amend that for WikiLeaks: We steal because it keeps people honest. Gibney doesn't conclude whether either end is justified by the means. But that central tension holds the film together, and it brings you right back to Manning and his decision.
Some viewers will bristle at the suggestion that WikiLeaks' global campaign of radical transparency is, at base, simple theft. Is what Assange does, receiving secret information and publishing it, fundamentally so different than what journalists do? As a journalist, I wished Gibney had made more of an effort to address that quandary. But that could take another film.
I think it's enough that We Steal Secrets asks us to consider all these questions through the story of one deeply troubled and conflicted young man, who may spend the next several years of his life in prison. Gibney doesn't excuse what Manning did. But he tries to understand why he did it, in a far more human way than others who have tackled this story.
Here are some upcoming titles that have caught my attention in the past few months. Pub dates given if available.
Untitled book by Andrew Cockburn (Times Books)
The author of Rumsfeld, and future father-in-law to SNL cast member Jason Sudeikis, is working on a true story about drones and assassins.
We Will Not Be Silent: How the White Rose Student Resistance Movement Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
A story about a small group of university students who distributed anti-Hitler leaflets and condemned his policies.
Untitled book on Russian protest group Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen (Riverhead)
The author of The Man Without a Face, about the rise of Vladimir Putin, has an untold story of Russia's most famous dissidents.
Pub date: Fall 2013
Untitled book by Karen J. Greenberg (Crown)
Greenberg, the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, is writing a narrative account described as "how the power and legitimacy of the Department of Justice have been radically challenged in the wake of 9/11."
Casablanca by Meredith Hindley (Public Affairs)
A narrative history of the famous North African city, against the backdrop of the French resistance, Gestapo, Vichy agents, and American spies battling for control.
The Russian Revolution by Sean McKeekin (Basic)
Billed as "a revisionist account of the Russian Revolution" based on new information from Soviet archives.
Pub date: 2017
CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys: How and why CIA Agents Conspired to Kill JFK and RFK by Patrick Nolan (Skyhorse)
An investigation of "CIA involvement" in the assassinates of President Kennedy and his brother Robert. Timed for release with the 50th anniversary of JFK's death.
Pub date: Fall 2013
Rogue Code by Mark Russinovich (Thomas Dunne Books)
The third novel in a thriller series about cyber-expert Peter Joseph. The first two books were Zero Day and Trojan Horse.
Untitled book by Adam Segal (Public Affairs)
Segal, who's a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and heads up their cyber security initiatives will write about "the geopolitics of information and what diplomacy looks like in the age of big data."
Forty-Seven Days by Mitchell Yockelson (Caliber)
How Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing led the Army and helped it come of age in World War I, with the service of soldiers such as George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and Harry Truman.
Pub date: Summer 2015
Ken Anderson and Ben Wittes, two good friends of Dead Drop, are embarking on an intriguing and from my perspective quite welcome new project. They're writing a book that will pull together all the significant speeches Obama administration officials have given on national security law, and then "weave it all back together, creating a synthetic account of the administration's views that is worth more collectively than the sum of its parts."
Called Speaking the Law, it will be "a kind of handbook on the framework for counterterrorism," using administration officials' own words as the foundation. "Consider it the White Paper the administration has never issued," say Ken and Ben.
I suspect Obama administration officials themselves will be among this book's most avid readers, given the authors' premise, and that journalists and scholars will find it useful as well:
"There is a myth that the administration has had little to say on the subject of its counterterrorism authorities, especially targeted killing and drones--largely because it has declined to release publicly its Office of Legal Counsel targeted killing memoranda. Part of the point of Speaking the Law is to show how wrong this myth really is. The administration has actually said a huge amount. It's just that it has said a great deal of it orally, and has broken up its utterances among a number of different statements."
The authors are publishing the chapters serially online, and then the Hoover Institution will put out a hardcover version when all the work is finished. The introduction and first chapter are available now.
Book reviews, roundups of current titles, and interviews with authors are going to be a regular fixture on Dead Drop. But I also want to alert readers to books you are going to be seeing on shelves in the future, maybe in a few months, or even a few years.
Today I'm launching a regular feature, spotlighting interesting national security-themed titles on the horizon. There's some reader service here, in that I hope this helps you better curate your probably long reading list. But there's also a bit of intelligence gathering. Publishers routinely announce deals they have just signed with authors, and those deals give you a ground-level insight into what ideas are selling in the book business, what stories are hot, and what topics publishers are betting are so salient that you'll want to read about them a few years from now, which is about how long it will take books that are now being written to get to market.
So, here are some upcoming reads that might interest Dead Drop readers. Keep in mind that book titles and publishing dates are often tentative.
The Man Who Was George Smiley, by Michael Jango (Biteback Publishing)
A biography of the author and MI5 officer John Bingham, the 7th Baron Clanmorris, who was the real-life inspiration for John Le Carre's fictional spymaster.
Pub date: February 2013
Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat, by Jeffrey D. Simon (Prometheus Books)
Simon, who has more than a quarter century of experience studying terrorism, examines the motivations and backgrounds of those who strike terror on their own, independent of an organized group.
Pub date: February 2013
The Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry, by Marc Ambinder and D.B. Grady (Wiley)
Two close observers of the national security apparatus investigate how the government keeps secrets, and why "real secrets can't be kept, trivial ones are held forever, and sensitive ones are far too susceptible to political manipulation."
Pub date: April 2013
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth, by Mark Mazzetti (The Penguin Press)
The New York Times reporter draws from his beat to write about the evolution of the CIA and U.S. special forces into "competing covert manhunting and killing operations."
Pub date: April 2013
Wilson, by A. Scott Berg (Putnam)
The long-awaited biography of Woodrow Wilson from the author of many books on larger-than-life Americans, including Katharine Hepburn and Charles Lindbergh. Berg also wrote a definitive biography of Maxwell Perkins, the legendary editor of Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Pub date: September 2013
Brothers Forever, by Tom Sileo and Col. Thomas Manion (Da Capo Press)
Sileo, a military writer, and Manion, a retired Marine colonel, tell the story of his Marine son, Travis Manion, and his Naval Academy roommate, Navy SEAL Brendan Looney. The two men are now* buried next to each other in Arlington National Cemetery. President Obama spoke about them during Memorial Day remarks in 2011.
Pub date: Spring 2014
*This post has been updated from a previous version.
Mitt Romney's ex-foreign policy and defense adviser has some sober reflections on the Republican presidential candidate's failed campaign.
"We were beaten soundly," former Navy Secretary John Lehman says in a recent letter to campaign supporters (see below), obtained by Dead Drop. "They had a far better ground game, much more effective technology, data-mining, registration and volunteer organization," Lehman writes. "The young brightest geeks from Silicon Valley were helping the Democrats effort, and it showed."
Lehman, who served as Navy Secretary under President Reagan and was a member of the 9/11 Commission, also argued that the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC "helped the Democrats far more than the Republicans." It allowed the Democrats to "mask how much money they were really taking in" and make the argument that wealthy Republicans were outspending their political rivals. "It seems that in fact there are really more very rich Democrats than Republicans," says Lehman, an investment banker and founder of a private equity firm.
Lehman also says that despite the GOP's "large field of very attractive candidates" for the 2016 election, they have no chance of winning "if they are forced to run on a platform built on social issues like abortion, gay marriage and closing the borders. The Republican Party could go the way of the Whigs."Lehman's comments, while focused mostly on domestic matters, echo the sentiments of another GOP foreign policy luminary. In an interview with The Cable, former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft said the GOP establishment had moved away from foreign policy realists, such as Scowcroft and former Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Obama's nominee for Defense Secretary.
Lehman's apparently hand-signed letter was written on January 9, two days after Obama nominated Hagel.
I wrote to Lehman this evening asking for further comment. If I hear from him, I'll post an update.


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California: Man accused of anti-gay hammer attack appears in court
2:01 PM — A man in California has appeared in court over an alleged homophobic attack on a gay couple as they walked their dog.
Stonewall: Tackling anti-gay crime should be a priority for new police commissioners 4
1:09 PM — Stonewall has launched a campaign calling on candidates standing to become Police and Crime Commissioners to promise to tackle homophobic crime.
12th October 2012
Moscow: 4 people injured in attack on gay club 12
12:42 PM — A gay rights activist says several people have been injured by masked men who stormed into a Moscow gay club.
8th October 2012
London: Hate crime memorial to take place at St Paul's 7
6:26 PM — An act of remembrance for all of those affected by hate crime will take place at St Paul's Cathedral in London this Saturday.
2nd October 2012
Sydney: Death of gay man 'possible' hate crime
11:09 AM — Police in the Australian city of Sydney are treating the death of a gay man in an apartment fire as "suspicious".
28th September 2012
Sussex: Police commissioner candidates to be quizzed on homophobic crime 14
4:34 PM — Those hoping to become the first elected police commissioner for Sussex are due to take part in a hustings event on homophobic crime.
12th September 2012
Aberdeen: Trainee lawyer found guilty of homophobic attack 11
6:33 PM — A second-year trainee lawyer has been found guilty of making homophobic remarks and attacking two students outside a nightclub in Aberdeen.
11th September 2012
Comment: Homophobia is still a blight on our society 6
3:25 PM — Writing for PinkNews.co.uk Gary Spedding says the number of anti-gay incidents in Northern Ireland shows more needs to be done to tackle homophobia in society.
13th July 2012
Jamaica 'not intolerant of gays', assistant police commissioner says 29
3:50 PM — Jamaica's third highest ranking police official has said the country is not as anti-gay as "public hype" suggests, despite laws criminalising homosexuality.
18th June 2012
Northern Ireland: Police officers disciplined over inadequate response to homophobic crimes 22
10:17 PM — Eight police officers at a station in County Down, Northern Ireland, have been disciplined after a gay couple complained about inadequate response to reports of homophobic crimes.
18th May 2012
Woman jailed for train attack on 16-year-old lesbian 70
10:08 AM — A 20-year-old woman has been jailed after she launched a physical attack on a young lesbian who had kissed her partner on a train.
3rd May 2012
Belgium: Gay man's death may be first to be classed as homophobic 16
4:49 PM — The death of Belgian man whose body was found this week may be the first to be treated as a homophobic killing under Belgium's new laws.
18th April 2012
Comment: The gay community, the police and the question of trust 73
3:13 PM — Stuart Ross writes that police services need to continue rebuilding confidence with the LGBT communities, and communities need to challenge police by reporting hate crime.
30th March 2012
Edinburgh: Two men jailed for killing gay man 35
9:05 PM — Two men have each been sentenced to eight years imprisonment for killing a 44-year-old gay man, and then dumping his semi-naked body in a lift at a block of flats in Edinburgh.
12th March 2012
Ken Livingstone: London 'not on top' of gay hate crime 32
10:33 PM — Ken Livingstone has accused Mayor Boris Johnston and the Metropolitan Police of complacency when it comes to tackling homophobic crime in the capital.
4th November 2011
Police appeal after murder of secretive London millionaire 34
3:50 PM — William John Saunderson-Smith was found murdered in West Kensington on 21 October.

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Barack Obama ended a 24-hour four-state marathon in Virginia on Saturday night, where he was joined by Bill Clinton.
The former president told thousands of Democratic supporters he had campaigned so hard that he had lost his voice.
As the pair appeared alongside Virginia's governor, Obama referred to Clinton as "the master" and compared his own policies to those of his mentor in the 1990s, an era of job creation and balanced budgets.
He also said the organisation of his campaign no longer mattered, and it was now down to local volunteers to make a difference in drumming up votes.
"President Obama will win Virginia again because of the grass-roots campaigning on the ground and President Obama advocates the issues that Virginians care about: jobs and the economy, education, and health care. And most importantly, Virginia residents trust Obama.'' said Obama Field Organiser Linh Hoang.
Barely two days before the US election, polls put Obama neck and neck with his Republican rival Mitt Romney.
Once staunchly conservative, Virginia's population has changed with many Washington commuters now living in the north of the state.
It is worth only 13 votes in the electoral college but they could be decisive.
euronews correspondent Paul Hackett, who was at the rally in Bristow, said:
"President Barack Obama's campaign has been aggressive in laying the ground work for victory in Virginia. In 2008 he captured this key battleground state. Obama knows holding on here could prove crucial if he's to be re-elected."
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Adds veteran Wall Street strategist Barton Biggs of hedge fund Traxis Partners, currently in Europe meeting with investors: "It is shocking the level of disillusionment with Wall Street." He says it could take five to 10 years to restore trust.
If investors around the world no longer see the U.S. model as the only way to run markets, it could foster a new era of more independent thinking and speed the rise of new financial capitals around the globe, says Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital.
"Wall Street risks losing its prominence to foreigners just like the auto and textile industries did," Schiff says. "More deals will take place … in places like Hong Kong, Dubai, Shanghai and London. More and more companies will list their shares on other stock markets."
Despite its black eye, there is still hope that Wall Street can repair its tattered image.
Earning back the trust of investors at home and around the world can be done, but it takes time, says Muriel Siebert, the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and president of brokerage Muriel Siebert & Co.
"There will be a period where we have to go out and prove ourselves. And after the sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America, and Lehman going broke, that will take time. You just can't change a name on a firm's door and have everybody say, 'New name, new firm. I trust them.' "
Bogle rattles off three quick fixes: "We need more simplicity and less complexity. We need more investing and less speculation. We need more value and less cost."
Byron Wien, a veteran Wall Street strategist and current chief investment strategist at hedge fund Pequot Capital Management, also believes confidence in Wall Street will be restored.
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Sure taxpayers and Main Street feel offended that Congress will have to bail out "Wall Street's so-called fat cats," he says. But the sense of crisis will pass if Congress passes a rescue plan that stabilizes markets and restores a sense of financial well-being to Main Street, Wien says.
Wall Street survived the '87 crash, the near meltdown of hedge fund Long Term Capital Management in 1998, the tech stock crash and 9/11, Wien says. "Memories are short. We have recovered from every previous calamity. This is a serious situation, but not life-threatening."
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Volume 16 - Article 13 | Pages 413-440
Family, obligations, and migration: The role of kinship in Cameroon
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|anthropology, Cameroon, family networks, migration
The aim of this paper is to investigate the influence of family and kin networks on the individual decision to migrate. The study is based on qualitative ethnographic data which was collected during a field research in Cameroon in spring 2005, showing the considerable impact of the extended family on the migrant's choice to leave Cameroon for Germany. Migrants do not solely move for their own achievements and purposes, but rather as significant members of their entire immediate family. The individual is part of an informal reciprocal system of exchange which is based on trust and has social consequences, and includes duties and responsibilities for both sides.
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For nearly half an hour Clermont Auvergne off loaded the ball so fast it was as if they had mastered some form of rugby pinball. It was all Munster could do to avoid being overwhelmed.
Yet rugby is as much in the mind as in the hands and in their tenth semi-final Paul O'Connell's team showed immense mental resilience to hang in there.
There was a gulf in class but those little French demons found their way into Clermont's collective head. As Ronan O' Gara - delivering yet again under pressure in this tournament - kicked with ever greater accuracy and assurance, so Morgan Parra slid kicks he normally gets way past the posts.
In the end, for their technical supremacy, Clermont were one Felix Jones collection of a ball and slide from possible elimination. It was a staggering performance of grit from Munster but, from a neutral perspective the right team prevailed.
Clermont have been the best team in the tournament to date and played the best rugby in the semi final. Munster were classy in defeat, so too their supporters. They defied their doubters to get so close to the final. They and their fans left France with their heads held high.
Toulon will meet them in the final and the purists will be hoping there is no shock. Toulon are a proud club and have recruited a team of individuals with the pedigree to respect those traditions. Foremost amongst them was Jonny Wilkinson. We will come back to him later.
The occasion itself was undeniably flat. Twickenham is not much of a theatre when over 55,000 seats are empty. There has been much apportioning of blame for the mass vacancies and - like in life generally - it is rarely one side or the other completely to blame.
What is clear, however, is that Saracens has a long way to go before they become an elite European club; on the field they have to find a little more courage and ambition but that is possible. The longer haul is off it. The Wembley experience with the cheap tickets and the 40,000 bums on seats has not worked.
When they needed this new generation of supporters to cheer their team on in a semi final of the European Cup they failed to materialise. The ticket pricing has been questioned but here's one question.
Had Leicester, Northampton, Harlequins, Gloucester or my old team, Bath, with its population of less than 100,000 been playing Toulon would the crowd have been a paltry 25,000? We all know the answer.
Saracens are a club of big ambitions. Despite this defeat they could definitely be crowned champions of England (although Leicester's gritty effort in Toulon suggests they are the likelier winner on pure form lines) but they have a long road ahead of them before they can call themselves one of the leading clubs in Europe.
They were a clear second best on the field Sunday as Toulon bettered them in just about every aspect of the game. Although they claimed to have learned their lessons from last season's quarter final defeat against Clermont when they put it down to being overpowered, Toulon beat them at the content as Clermont did at Vicarage Road.
But the headlines surrounded what we billed as 'the master and apprentice.' Wilkinson is rediscovering his mastery from the 2000-2003 period as has seemingly left his fallow decade of injuries and confused form behind. He was majestic and totally outplayed Owen Farrell. The drop goal was wondrous.
He has been elusive regarding the Lions but never dismissed the desire to play, just the probability of selection. In the same way Warren Gatland has always stated he would prefer his squad to travel together without ever making the rule hard and fast.
This means Wilkinson can be considered despite Toulon probably playing Clermont in the French final one week after the Heineken final. On Sunday's evidence he cannot choose Farrell ahead of Wilkinson. The Lions tours are not about 'taking the game on', a phrase generously used by Wilkinson in relation to the men he has been recently eclipsing.
It is only about the here and now. And in the here and now a combination of Jonny Sexton to start and steer the Lions Test team with Wilkinson on the bench to close out a lead is irresistible. Who else can finish off a team like Wilkinson, even now?
His seasonal performances have been good, his pressure performances in the Heineken Cup a notch up from that. He has not played international rugby but he has produced the goods under pressure. If he is available and not selected it will leave a lot of questions to be answered; on form he must go.
As for the rest of the party; all will be revealed Tuesday. An entire season of speculation will cease once the party is announced. Then we can argue the merits of selection ahead of the tests over a pint of Gem or whatever your particular pint of choice.
Make mine a second and third; there is a lot of chatting in the weeks ahead.
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STUART REPLIES: Ali, plenty of options for Robbie Deans but I hope he decides on the job lot of the great Will Genia and his Queensland mate, Quade Cooper. He might lose the Wallabies the series, he might win it for them but he definitely will have the entire rugby world talking. Just because he was not named in a provisional squad does not mean he will not turn out on his home ground for the first test in Brisbane.


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"I burst into tears when I saw the letter," she said. "I suddenly feel very intimidated by the whole thing and the precedent it sets is horrendous. People will be unable to challenge decisions affecting their lives if they see costs racking up and up against them as a result."
Ms Godfrey, who is registered disabled and dependent on anti-seizure medication, said she feared losing her home to meet the legal bill. But she pledged to fight on and challenge both the costs award and the judicial review rejection.
Meanwhile around 100 protestors turned out with tents and camper vans to spend the night outside the hospital.
"We just have to keep fighting," said Stafford borough councillor Ann Edgeller. "We can't let maternity and paediatric services leave the hospital. The decision ignores the housing growth that Stafford is expecting, and the growing demand for hospital services."
She called for cross-party talks at national level on the future of the NHS. "QWe need to get everyone around the table and sorting out the future of the NHS," said Councillor Edgeller, a Conservative. "This goes beyond party politics. In times of war and national crisis the parties come together and we need to do the same to tackle the crisis in the NHS".
Support Stafford Hospital campaigner Jo Sutherland, from Stafford, travelled from her holiday home in Wales to join the protest camp. The grandmother of 10 said four of her grandchildren were dependent on the treatment available at Stafford.
"You can't expect sick kiddies and their families to travel miles and miles in an emergency," she said.
And borough councillor Chris Baron said one of her constituents had paid £55 in parking charges over a fortnight visiting a sick relative in the University Hospital of North Staffordshire.
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The Moral Calculus of Online Shopping
I don't know too many liberals who shop at Walmart. The primary reason is principle—the company is notoriously cruel to its largely low-wage workforce, works to crush the faintest hint of a desire for collective bargaining with a ferocity that would be the envy of any early 20th century industrialist, and imposes vicious cost-cutting all the way down its supply chain. But not shopping at Walmart is also easy. The stores are rare in the urban areas where lots of liberals live, and elsewhere, there's probably a Target nearby where you can get stuff just about as cheaply (Target's own corporate citizenship is a complicated topic for another day). So it isn't like not shopping at Walmart is some kind of hardship or costs them any money.
But what about Amazon? A few months ago, Harold Pollack explained why he no longer shops there: nearly every sin of which Walmart is guilty, Amazon also commits. And the online world has its own particular sweatshop: the fulfillment center, where people who work not for the place you bought your book or toothpaste from but for a logistics company or a temp agency toil in conditions that are absolutely hellish. That's the topic of Mac McClelland's article in the latest Mother Jones, in which she spent some time working at a fulfillment center and reports on the physically brutal, psychologically dehumanizing, low-paid work that drives the cyber-economy.
I tried to find one excerpt to give the flavor of the piece, but you really have to read the whole thing to grasp the full awfulness of what it's like to work at one of these places, where you're treated like crap, you run around like a maniac for 10 hours getting objects ready for shipping, and despite the low pay you know there are a dozen people back at the temp agency eager to take your place if you slip up. If you've ever ordered something off Amazon or a similar retailer and said, "How the hell can they sell that thing for only three bucks?", this is part of the reason why.
So where does that leave us consumers? It's awfully hard, if you're just getting by yourself, to choose to pay more for the things you get every day. And unlike walking by the struggling Mom & Pop's Grocery to go to Walmart, where you interact with the people whose working conditions you know to be substandard, online you interact only with a bright, cheery website where all you have to do is click "Add to Cart" and you're done. The moral implications of your consumer choices are physically remote and concealed. But as online retailers, particularly Amazon, grow bigger and bigger, it's a question all of us are going to have to confront. I'll confess that I haven't yet begun my own personal boycott—the prices are just too damn good. But the moral questions are getting harder to ignore.
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Where can I shop? I shop at Walmart, Target, and Amazon because I don't know where else to shop. Find me a worker-friendly company in my area and I'll shop there. This is the south, so there's not a lot of options. We don't have too much else down here, other than a Whole Foods, and that's run by some right-wing nut job.
Thu, 2012-03-01 15:08
Actually, I live in an area that, while not especially urban, hasn't really been considered a suburb for thirty years, and there are two Walmarts much closer than any Target. Costco's the best employer of the big-box general stores, but obviously their selection is limited & bulk purchasing isn't always the smartest option. Dunno about Trader Joe's business practices, but I like their stores much better than Whole Paycheck's.
It's always a dilemma, and there's really no way to have entirely clean hands & function fairly normally.
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I prefer on-line shopping because it is easier and the prices are lower, I don`t remember the last time I went to Wal-Mart. The last week I found harem pants for women at KhwanPants.com, I know someone that works there and he loves his job, his annual salary is big enough so he could have a happy life.
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FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) — A union official says workers used air horns to scare away a black bear who appeared at an oil sands work site but they were unable to prevent him from dragging away a female employee and killing her.
Unifor spokesman Scott Doherty said Thursday seven people were working in a group area when the attack occurred on Wednesday.
The 36-year-old Suncor employee was an instrument technician, who was doing electrical work at a job site near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Doherty said.
Barrie Harrison, a spokesman with Alberta Occupational Health and Safety, says the woman was mauled by a mature male black bear that has been put down by police.
Black bears are common in Alberta at this time of year when they come out of hibernation and look for food.
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Enterprise Wi-Fi access points have historically used chipsets from Atheros, which has dominated this space for some time. Only Cisco has started to use another supplier, and that was only recently. The problem certainly was not that competitors like Broadcom could not compete in this space; they just did not want to. For Wi-Fi chipset vendors, the enterprise Wi-Fi access point market is much smaller than the consumer Wi-Fi access point market. Additionally, the enterprise Wi-Fi access point market starts to look very tiny when we consider where Wi-Fi chipsets go: Access points, external adapters, laptops, PDAs, cellular handsets, VoWi-Fi handsets, UMPCs, MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices), line-powered and portable consumer electronics devices, PNDs, digital picture frames, asset tags, personal robots, and so forth. So, why has why Broadcom chosen to enter this market in a serious way now? What are the upsides in related business that Broadcom can expect? And, what are prospects for Broadcom's success?
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Contrary to the ideas put out there by Ken Rosenthal, I did have an issue with the way things went down yesterday. In my eyes, anyone who did not have an issue with the shutout yesterday is blissfully ignorant. Rosenthal will not even catch wind of what I say though – I am a non-voter, someone who has an unimportant opinion anyway. But there were a few things that I really wanted to get off my chest… The First Ballot Controversy: I struggled to get behind the line of thinking that a lot of players should be denied entry on their first go-around because they are trying to make the first ballot entry special. I never really understood it – the writers now had the chance to choose what year a player deserved to get in; suddenly, did his statistics looked better in his second year around? Some even go as far as to never vote a player in on his first ballot, which is asinine. 400 HRs will get you in your second time around, but not your first, Mike? The whole thing drives me nuts. It al...
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Philadelphia's a great basketball town.
You'll hear this a lot, and it makes sense. The city has a rich basketball tradition. After being invented in Springfield, basketball spread to other east-coast cities, and eventually the Philadelphia SPHAs were one of the top teams. The Sixers may be down now, but they've had some of the biggest superstars in NBA history: Wilt Chamberlain, Julius Erving, Charles Barkley. More recently, the Sixers had Allen Iverson, the most exciting, interesting player of the post-Michael Jordan NBA.


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In response to not exactly deafening demand, here's the most up-to-date information on my current schedule of public lectures (i.e., it doesn't include university and church classes). There are some other potential speaking engagements that are under consideration, as well.
Friday, 11 October 2013
St. Louis Chapter of the BYU Alumni Association
"The Middle East"
7 PM, Saturday, 12 October 2013
Kansas City Chapter of the BYU Alumni Association
"Suffering, Lies, and Injustice: Lessons from Liberty"
Rotunda of the Liberty Jail Visitors'Center, 216 North Main, Liberty, Missouri
This is part of a full-day program, and seating will be limited (though it can be reserved):
Saturday, 19 October 2013
"Two Books from Angels: Comparing the Qur'an and the Book of Mormon"
Keynote address, Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum
Utah Valley Convention Center, Provo, Utah
Thursday evening, 31 October 2013 – Saturday afternoon, 2 November 2013
Tenth annual meeting of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology
Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
I'm not sure what my specific involvement will be, but, as I'm the current president of the Society, I expect that I'll be involved.
Saturday, 9 November 2013
"Science and Mormonism: Cosmos, Earth, and Man"
A conference organized and sponsored by The Interpreter Foundation
Utah Valley Convention Center, Provo, Utah
I'm not sure what my specific involvement will be, but, as I'm the chairman of The Interpreter Foundation, I expect that I'll be involved.
Friday or Saturday, 22-23 November 2013
Paper on Qadi 'Abd al-Jabbar's Critique of Christian Origins
Sixth annual meeting of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa
Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, Washington DC
(The conference schedule hasn't yet been issued, so I can't yet narrow down a specific date and time. Incidentally, though, I'll probably be staying through Sunday, so — and I realize that this sounds perilously close to self-promotion — there is a chance that I could do a fireside or something of that sort in the DC area that night, if somebody there reads this and cares.)
Friday, 31 January 2014
Lecture for the local chapter of the BYU Alumni Association
Tallahassee, Florida
Sunday, 2 February 2014
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Opposing offenses for years have been having their way with the Chargers' defense. You could power a small city on the wind created by their many whiffs. I've never seen so many guys try to tackle somebody with their face. Their philosophy of – hit him and hope he falls down, damn, he didn't fall down – has been permeating throughout the locker room since the day Wade Phillips took off for Dallas.… Read more
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