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Education Minister Nancy Allan is taking one on the chin for the team.
What Allan introduced so innocuously last Dec. 4 in the Manitoba legislature has now become ground zero in a polarizing debate over whether Allan's Bill 18 violates constitutional rights of religious freedom.
At a time when attention should perhaps be more focused on the economy and how well the NDP is running the province's finances, many Manitobans are instead talking about Bill 18, the Public Schools Amendment Act (Safe and Inclusive Schools). Some are going so far as to suggest it forces homosexuality on impressionable high school students.
When Allan introduced the bill, she said the focus was more on protecting schoolchildren from bullying, both in the class and on the Internet.
At a news conference at Garden City Collegiate, Allan said her bill is in part the product of what happened to Amanda Todd, a Grade 10 student from British Columbia who posted a revealing picture of her breasts and then was hounded relentlessly on the Internet until she committed suicide Oct. 10 last year. Todd, 15, posted a video on YouTube in which she used flash cards to tell of her experience of being bullied.
"We know the Amanda Todd story," Allan told students. "She was a young, bright student who was a victim of cyber-bullying. She put something on Facebook, and once you put something on Facebook it is forever. You can't take it back. Her tragic story shows us that bullying is not only in schools but on social media and the Internet."
A couple of hours later, Allan was standing in the legislature to introduce Bill 18, the first step of the legislative process.
"The bill also requires each school board to establish a respect-for-human-diversity policy," she said in the house. "The policy is to promote the acceptance of and respect for others in a safe, caring and inclusive school environment. The policy must accommodate student activity that promotes the school environment as being inclusive of all students, including student activities and organizations that use the name gay-straight alliance."
Two days later, Bill 18 went to the next step in the legislative process, second reading.
"The policy is to promote the acceptance and the respect of others in a safe, caring and inclusive school environment," Allan said in the house Dec. 6. "The policy must also accommodate students who want to lead activities that promote gender equity, anti-racism, understanding, respect for people with disabilities and people of all sexual orientations and gender identities, including student-led clubs or groups that use the name gay-straight alliance."
There was no criticism from the Progressive Conservatives to the bill.
Instead, the bill drifted to the pre-Christmas legislative ether. For all intents and purposes, it wasn't supposed to surface again until sometime in May, when it's to go to a legislative committee for public input, the next stage in the legislative process.
But on Jan. 30, things started to go sideways for the NDP.
That's when Steinbach Christian High School principal Scott Wiebe issued a news release saying the school had concerns regarding the legislation and how it pertained to religious freedoms of the faith-based school.
"The all-inclusive wording currently proposed in the legislation might limit SCHS's faith-distinctive teachings and restrict the school's ability to direct student-led activities and groups," Wiebe said. He issued the release following discussions with Allan's staff in the preceding days.
Allan's staff had also met with the Manitoba Federation of Independent Schools, the umbrella organization for funded, non-profit, independent faith-based schools in the province, on Bill 18. Things really got going Feb. 24.
SCHS held a public information meeting and prayer forum on Feb. 24, where officials could brief parents about the bill. About 1,200 people showed up.
On the same day, pastor Ray Duerksen of Southland Church in Steinbach told parishioners in a fiery sermon God can replace local politicians, teachers, media members and other local citizens if they stayed silent on the call to oppose the province's Bill 18.
Following that, Bill 18 in some quarters became more a debate over whether the Bible condemns homosexuality than on its merits in protecting kids from bullying.
Late Friday, federal Public Safety Minister Vic Toews weighed in on the debate. In a letter to constituents, the Steinbach MP said he believes Bill 18 violates Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms by infringing on freedom of religion. "If the provincial legislature does not amend Bill 18 to address concerns of faith-based organizations, school and communities, the only remedy may be an application to the courts to decide if the legislation is compliant with Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms," Toews said in the letter.
Allan, Opposition Leader Brian Pallister and his education critic, Steinbach's Kelvin Goertzen, have in the past week attempted to calm the waters and steer the debate more to bullying itself. It hasn't been easy. The web-savvy Goertzen had to terminate his Twitter account because of the backlash.
How Allan responds to the criticism against Bill 18, whether the government entertains any opposition amendments, will be seen in the coming weeks.
The legislature resumes sitting April 16 to consider Finance Minister Stan Struthers' new budget. That's followed by nine days of budget debate and then about three weeks of what's called estimates, where the opposition gets to pick apart government policy and spending, department by department.
That means any debate over new legislation, including Bill 18, won't take place until after the May long weekend.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 11, 2013 A3
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"That was the read back of the testimony of Mary Ellen LaPlante, who's a former registrar at the board of elections," said special prosecutor Trey Smith. "She was there on September 15, 2009."
That's when prosecutors say Smith helped to file phony ballots to help democrats secure the Working Families Party line. LaPlante's testimony was key to establishing the procedure for handling the ballot applications at the center of the case. Specifically, "how she would handle the blank excuse field which was, she would contact the voter."
Something prosecutors say McDonough did not do. But the defense takes a whole other view of her testimony.
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Just a short drive (or train ride!) from the DC-Baltimore metro area yet a complete getaway for a weekend or longer, this charming, historic cottage is ideally located in the scenic 'upper town' of Harpers Ferry with tri-state and river views. Leave the car and walk five minutes to the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, a treasure trove of pre-Civil War and Civil War history and one of the best-preserved 19th century towns anywhere, complete with living history presentations, museums, interactive exhibits, shops, restaurants, river sports, hiking, biking and much more. Harpers Ferry was the site of abolitionist John Brown's raid in 1859, one of the important triggers of the American Civil War. Visit the John Brown 'fort' just a short walk from the cottage.
Relax!: Relax in the rocking chairs on the back porch overlooking the Potomac River and Maryland Heights, or have your morning coffee while sitting on the comfy Adirondack chairs on the huge, secluded front porch. Gaze out over the river gap--the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers--from the sitting area in the spacious, beautifully decorated upstairs bedroom.
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With the deepest regret after discussing with Thome Family and those who are
traveling great distances, we believe this is the right thing to do. We have decided
to post pone the Shane Thome Mod Mania until this upcoming spring due to the
high rain chances for tomorrow evening. This also allows us this winter to do
even more fund raising and make this race even bigger and better than it's become.
We have racers traveling 10-14 hours to race with us and don't want to miss
out on them coming up due to the chance of raining out. This has been a very
stressful decision but we feel it is the best thing for all involved.
Registration for Shane Thome Mod Mania....
Hobby Stock-- $65
Topless late model --$65
So far here is a list of added bonuses for Shane Thome Mod Mania!!
2- 55 gal drums of Methanol to modified mystery spots! Donated by Hwy 91 Oil and Meyer Racing
2-$50 Mystery Spot Modifieds- Anonymous Donor and Vollbrecht Racing
$100- Mystery Spot Sport Mod- Barber Trucking
1 Tire to 5-Non Qualifiers in Modifieds
1 Tire to 5-Non Qualifier in sport mods- Thome Family -total of 10 tires to
10 drivers pretty cool
***Modified A feature winner gets a 2 day black powder deer hunt with Thome
Family! Must be able to legally hunt and carry firearm. ***
Wallingford Trucking of Bellwood has donated $200 towards a mystery spot
in the A feature of the Sport Mods @ Shane Thome Mod Mania!!
Greenline Equipment of Spalding & Albion have donated a sweatshirt to a mystery
spot in all 4 classes A feature races @ Shane Thome Mod Mania.
Artwork Graphics has given gift certificates for wraps of anonymous spot in A features ;
$100 off full wrap -Hobby Stocks; $50 off half wrap Sport Mods; $50 off Modified half wrap!!!
Thanks to Josh @ Artwork Graphics
$200 to each class has been donated to go to whoever has the longest tow to the Shane Thome Mod Mania!
Nebraska Ag Marketing has sponsored a crisp $100 to the late model
WINNER @ Shane Thome Mod Mania!! Thanks Steve Krohn
Boulevard Express has donated $100 to the winner of the IMCA Sport Mods... It's now $700 to win!!!
The added bonus from the Thome Family:
The 10 tires will be given to 10 different drivers, 1 tire to 5 drivers in the mods
and 5 drivers in sport mods will get 1 tire. We will draw out of a hat of the non
Qualified drivers. That should help clarify this awesome added bonus to those
that don't make the A feature at the Shane Thome Modified Mania.
Boone County Raceway in Albion, NE on August 22nd, 2014
the 1st Annual Shane Thome Modified Mania!! IMCA Modifieds pay
$2,500 to win $125 to make the show with $50 tow to cars not making
the A feature!!! IMCA Hobby Stocks and Sport Mods pay
$600 to win!!!
$100 registration fee guaranteed $ back!!! Going to be a great way to kick
off things before SuperNationals! Draw/Redraw night and points go towards
National IMCA points!!! We will also have TOPLESS Late Models
running with these other 3 classes! Contact Kirk @ 308-390-0525 for more info!!
Just a friendly reminder due to Boone County Fair there is NO RACING this
Friday. Next race night is July 18th and that is Kids Night/ ping pong ball drop!!!
There has been an extra $300 donated to the top 4 of each class on July 4th,
which is an extra $75 to each place in the top 4 in late models, Modifieds,
stock cars, sport mods and Hobby Stocks!! Modifieds will pay $525 to win!
Late Models will pay $475 to win! Sport Mods will pay $300 to win!! Stock
Cars pay $300 to win! Hobby Stocks pay $225 to win! Once again I'd like to
THANK our anonymous donor who continues to show our drivers and our
facility their SUPPORT! Still don't forget we are making up the "A" feature for the
$1,000 to win for Modifieds, so the Modifieds will run two A features!
There is no registration fees for NEW cars the rest of this SEASON!
"Under the Lights, On Friday Nights!"
We have had a hard rain this morning at the track and more to be
expected throughout the day with little to no sunshine WE HAVE
CANCELED FOR TONIGHT! We are going to reschedule Kids
Pong Drop/ kids night to July 18th, 2014. Please pass this info on!
Don't want to rush our lil race fans on their night of enjoyment due
to weather coming in! Thanks Kirk
"Under the Lights, On Friday Nights!"
Let's not forget about KIDS NIGHT this Friday June 27th. We will
have the ping pong ball drop and Ditzy the Clown will be there as well!
Many great giveaways for the kids this week so be sure to come on out
this Friday night!!
The Modifieds will make up their feature on JULY 4th but the other
3 classes will be on this Friday! Thanks
"Under the Lights, On Friday Nights!"
June 6th (this Friday!)- IMCA MODIFIEDS!!!! Draw/Redraw NIGHT!
Pay to WIN $1,000!!! Thanks to Gaver Tire and Auto and an anonymous
donor!!! This will be an ALLSTAR Invitational Qualifier for the
ALLSTAR RACE @ SUPER NATIONALS in Boone IA!!!
Also Ken Schrader will be present and racing his IMCA Modified.
Boone County Raceway
Albion, Nebraska!
Hot laps are @ 7:15pm
Racing action starts at 8pm!
"Under the Lights, On Friday Nights!"
Just a friendly reminder we WILL run ALL of our Regular classes
this coming Friday due to the rainout along with the GOTRA being
added. Modifieds and Sport Compacts were scheduled off but
they will run with us.
Track is looking awesome!!! Come out to our season opener this Friday!!
The rain only made our track even better for the excitement @ Boone
County Raceway as our weekly season gets under way!!! I can feel the
excitement in the air!!! " Under the lights...On Friday nights!!!" Mods are
paying $800 to win. It just doesn't get any better than
Boone County Raceway on Friday nights!!!!!
It's Practice Day!!!! Track is going to be awesome!!!
The snow actually helped... Still going to water a lil today...
Track is looking awesome can't wait to see you guys and
gals tonight!! The grandstand is free~Kirk~
Thanks to everyone who has helped with catwalk and other
things around the track the past few weeks!! I really appreciate
every ounce of help!!!! Catwalk is up, now just needs stairs
built and it'll be ready for racers and race fans! I'm really excited
to put cars on the track this Friday!!! Have a great week everybody!
Open practice night 4-18-14
Pit passes are $10 for everybody. Come check out the new dirt work and
have a good night of practice!! Gates open @ 6:30 and we'll race until we
wanna go home!!
Who would like to see a two seater late model in action on
Friday nights at Boone county raceway?
Well Kirk is on his way to pick up the new water truck!!! Also
thanks to ALL who stopped by our booth at the swap meet
yesterday!!! 2014 is going to so amazing!!! Great friends, family
and drivers showing HUGE support for our racing facility and
we couldn't be more excited to be bringing racing back to the
community of Albion in 2014!!!!!
Big NEWS!!! Just got confirmed the one and only Ken Schrader
NASCAR Star will be joining us on June 6th, 2014!!!!!!
Just remember First Night of racing is April 25th, 2014 we are going
to start the year a little early!!
Winner of season pit pass is Joey Haase!!!! My daughter was
excited to draw the winner!!
Our Boone County Raceway T-Shirts to raise money for memorial
race for Shane Thome are ready!!! Please feel free to call Kirk to
order @ 308-390-0525. Or we will be at the racers swap meet in
Columbus on Jan. 18th. Can pick some up @ Roth Racing also!
Adults-$20 Kids-$15
ATTENTION MODIFIED DRIVERS!!!! Boone County Raceway will be having
a perfect attendance bonus payout the last Friday of every month in 2014! If the winning
A feature driver has perfect attendance at BCR, 1st place will pay $750 to win,
if the winner doesn't have perfect attendance, the extra $300 will be divided between
the drivers that finish the A main that night that do have perfect attendance!!
Dirt work was complete before winter hits yesterday evening on corners
3 & 4! Thanks to Cuba Construction and Dennis Krohn!!! Track
is going to be a lot more racey this next season!! Thanks Kirk
News release! IMCA stock cars $250 to win $50 tow!!!
News release!! Imca Hobby Stocks pay $250 to win and $50 tow!!!
New this year!!!! Attention Drivers!!!! If your class goes green flag to checkers with No Cautions,
all those drivers that raced in that class that night get in FREE the next week!!!
News release!! Imca Sportmod pay $250 to win!!! Tow money is $60!!! complete purse will be at Swap meet.
News Release!! Imca Modifieds will pay $100 for tow money!!! And $450.00 to win!!!!!


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 If you wish to keep your favorite port across system updates, there is more than one way to accomplish this, but soon to become common is the creation of a PBI. The process of turning a port into a PBI can be a very simple matter of either using [[PBI Module Builder Guide#Creating a New PBI with pbi_makeport|'''pbi_makeport''']] from the commandline, or the GUIfied '''[[EasyPBI]]''' program. However, not every port submits so easily to this conversion process, and sometimes extra interaction is needed in order to succeed. The purpose of this area is to help document how those challenging ports get turned into PBIs and also perhaps, by way of this information, assist with improvement to the tools that would automate the process.

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Iowa's attempt to ban undercover videographers from documenting animal cruelty is merely the latest battle in an ongoing all-out war
Next time you drive through Iowa farm country, you may want to put away your camera. Earlier this year, the state proposed a new piece of legislation, House File 589, that would make it a crime to videotape, audio record, or in any way document a crop or animal facility without the prior consent of the owner. Anyone who produces, possesses, or distributes an unauthorized recording would face hefty fines, jail time, or both. The proposed law, an amendment to Iowa Code 717A, passed the Iowa House by a wide margin. It recently stalled in the Senate, but it will most likely be taken up again months from now in the state's next legislative session: as Iowa Representative Jim Lykam recently noted, "I'm sure that somebody will try to see if they can resurrect it." Most importantly, the underlying issue—industrial agriculture's fear that activists will continue to expose its practices—hasn't gone away.
Although HF 589 has been decried by animal welfare, food transparency, and civil rights groups, it has galvanized large-scale agricultural entities—from multinational corporations like Monsanto and DuPont to influential statewide organizations like the Iowa Poultry Association. The measure is a backlash against the undercover sting operations that constantly threaten factory farmers and the commodity crop growers who supply their feed. In recent years, activists have documented routine abuse and horrifying conditions at large farms in Iowa, Texas, Minnesota, California, Maine, Ohio, and elsewhere. Easily disseminated through the Internet, these startling and often graphic videos can result in independent audits, fines, and even criminal charges.
Recreational abuse is something the meat industry can afford to do without. But without the institutional cruelty of the factory farm model, the industry would not exist.
Iowa State Senator Matt McCoy, who has opposed HF 589, told me that recent legislative changes in California explain why Iowan producers feel so threatened. When 63 percent of Californians voted for Proposition 2 in 2008, they ensured a better future for their poultry: by 2015, all laying hens in California must have enough room to fully extend their limbs or wings without touching cage walls or one another. "The poultry industry doesn't want to see the same mandates in Iowa," McCoy said. "They see this as an offensive attack, and that they have to protect their industry." Considering that strong public support for Proposition 2 was garnered, in large part, by a media campaign that compared photos of animals in industrial farms with animals raised in less confining conditions, it's easy to see why large-scale operators think HF 589 might help diffuse growing public resistance to factory farming.
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The photographer who crashed into Lindsay Lohan's Mercedes back in the spring, thus inspiring anti-paparazzi legislation, will not face criminal charges. From People:
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I DON'T like the old Chloe! (Why is it for sale if it's a discontinued fragrance?). I'm a grandma and I don't like. It's an obnoxious scent that is SO strong (I thought I'd never get it washed off after I sprayed a sample). I don't know how to describe it. It smells very metallic on me. It smells VERY "old school". I wouldn't wear it. Quite frankly, it stinks. It doesn't even smell like a perfume fragrance. It could pass as RAID. Headache-inducing.
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Am a bit surprised to see all the nasty reviews about it coz to me its a very classy and elegant fragrance. Its always been my mum's favorite and I like it too. Its a great mixture of fruity and floral tones. Rose, jasmine and tuberose, along with sandalwood, musk, peachy tones. Its very long lasting and u can smell it on ur clothes even days later.
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(1) "The court found Poland violated its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights to prevent torture, ensure the right to liberty, and properly investigate allegations a crime had been committed on its territory."
The European Court of Human Rights finds that Poland harbored one of the CIA's infamous black sites — perhaps this is one of the old Soviet compounds? "[S]imilar cases have been lodged with the court in Strasbourg against Romania and Lithuania."
(2) "The five Americans whose email accounts were monitored by the NSA and FBI have all led highly public, outwardly exemplary lives. All five vehemently deny any involvement in terrorism or espionage, and none advocates violent jihad or is known to have been implicated in any crime, despite years of intense scrutiny by the government and the press."
Paging J. Edgar: The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain, with help from Edward Snowden, uncover NSA and FBI surveillance of prominent, upstanding Muslim-Americans. "In one 2005 document, intelligence community personnel are instructed how to properly format internal memos to justify FISA surveillance. In the place where the target's real name would go, the memo offers a fake name as a placeholder: 'Mohammed Raghead.'"
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Also in The Intercept, Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux explain the absurdly broad net that is the terrorist watchlist. "There are a number of loopholes for putting people onto the watchlists even if reasonable suspicion cannot be met."
(4) "Nearly all of the highest-profile domestic terrorism plots in the United States since 9/11 featured the 'direct involvement' of government agents or informants, a new report says…rais[ing] questions about the US criminal justice system's ability to respect civil rights and due process in post-9/11 terrorism cases."
And in The Guardian, Spencer Ackerman expounds on the FBI's apparent excessive leaning on entrapment to conjure up terror cases. "'In some cases the FBI may have created terrorists out of law-abiding individuals by suggesting the idea of taking terrorist action or encouraging the target to act,' the report alleges."
Torture, rendition, secret prisons, spying on Americans, surveillance policies that are obviously, woefully ripe for abuse…We are six and a half years into the administration of a president who promised us definitively this nonsense would end. And yet, virtually every day, we hear of a new outrage, and the only official response seems to be Lock Up the Messenger. So when are we going to get an accountability moment here?
On top of all their recent bad behavior, the CIA has apparently been spying on researchers for the Senate oversight committee, who have been (at last) inquiring in-depth into the agency's Dubya-era torture regime. "The report details how the CIA misled the Bush administration and Congress about the use of [torture]…It also shows, members have said, how the techniques didn't provide the intelligence that led the CIA to the hideout in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was killed in a 2011 raid by Navy SEALs." But…but…that was in Zero Dark Thirty!
In any event, Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the relevant committee and usually an enabler and/or cheerleader for this sort of egregious intelligence overreach, had this to say: "'There is an I.G. investigation'…Asked about the tension between the committee and the spy agency it oversees, Ms. Feinstein said, 'Our oversight role will prevail.'" Oversight, eh? That'd be new and different.
In The Guardian, Gary Younge laments anew the missed opportunities of Barack Obama's presidency. "If there was a plot, he's lost it. If there was a point, few can remember it. If he had a big idea, he shrank it. If there's a moral compass powerful enough to guide such contradictions to more consistent waters, it is in urgent need of being reset."
Sigh. If anything, this was all true of the first term too. As John Maynard Keynes said of another ostensibly progressive president a century ago, "[t]he disillusion was so complete that some of those who had trusted most hardly dared speak of it."
In very related news, and in a somewhat overwritten but otherwise worthy piece, former GOP Congressional staffer Mike Lofgren summarizes the problem of America's Deep State (a term Lofgren did not coin, borrowed from Turkey.) Think the military-industrial complex, now infused with financial sector/Pete Peterson-style rent-seeking. "[This] is not an exposé of a secret, conspiratorial cabal; the state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight, and its operators mainly act in the light of day."
A new report by Columbia's Institute of Medicine examines doctors' (continuing) complicity in our recent torture regime. "Putting on a uniform does not and should not abrogate the fundamental principles of medical professionalism…'Do no harm' and 'put patient interest first' must apply to all physicians regardless of where they practice."
A late but welcome reassessment from Conor Friedersdorf: Breaking Bad as an analogy for post-9/11 America. "The world dealt us an unfair blow, and we used it as an excuse to break bad…We became inured to the selfishness of our actions. We slid predictably down the slope upon which we stepped, and the farther we go the uglier it gets. We haven't hit bottom yet or anything close to it."
In Foreign Affairs, Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore argue that, as a result of whistleblowing, the US is "no longer able to rely on easy hypocrisy" in our foreign policy. "Secrecy can be defended as a policy in a democracy. Blatant hypocrisy is a tougher sell. Voters accept that they cannot know everything that their government does, but they do not like being lied to."
Note: The link is behind a paywall, but Digby has an excerpt and thoughts up, as does Farrell in the Washington Post. This also reminds me of Neal Stephenson's Neo-Victorians in The Diamond Age, which I presume is the tack a defender of our obvious diplomatic double-standards would take: "That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code…does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code."
Er, right, but aren't we forgetting something here? And don't you people ever go to the movies? Scientists are apparently working toward drones that can make their own autonomous decisions about targets. "Though they do not yet exist, and are not possible with current technology, LARs are the subject of fierce debate in academia, the military and policy circles. Still, many treat their development as inevitability."
Meanwhile, over on the other side of the world:
"Scientists at Korea's Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have come up with one solution to the jellyfish problem: build robots to kill them. For the last three years, the team has been working to create robots that can travel the ocean, seeking out swarms of jellyfish using a camera and GPS. Once the jellyfish are located, the robots set about shredding the jellies with an underwater propeller."
INITIATING PROTOCOL SHRED-ORGANBAGS 101101111…Due to a climate-change-fueled ascendance of jellyfish across the world, Korean scientists have unleashed automated robotic sentinels to mitigate the problem. "[T]he video at top is what they're doing beneath the surface, using a specialized net and propeller. Be warned, it's graphic. In preliminary tests, the robots could pulverize 2,000 pounds of jellyfish per hour."
Sigh…this will all end in tears, people. Paging Kent Brockman.
Thanks to info provided by Edward Snowden, the WaPo builds on their earlier Top Secret America coverage with a first-ever detailed summary of the "Black Budget." "The document describes a constellation of spy agencies that track millions of individual surveillance targets and carry out operations that include hundreds of lethal strikes."
Among the revelations here: "Spending by the CIA has surged past that of every other spy agency, with $14.7 billion in requested funding for 2013. The figure vastly exceeds outside estimates and is nearly 50 percent above that of the National Security Agency, which…has long been considered the behemoth of the community…The CIA's dominant position will likely stun outside experts."
Also of note: This multi-billion-dollar, post-9/11 technological terror we've constructed "remain[s] unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats..A chart outlining efforts to address key questions on biological and chemical weapons is particularly bleak…The intelligence community seems particularly daunted by the emergence of 'home grown' terrorists who plan attacks in the United States without direct support or instruction from abroad."
In other words, what we have here is a resource-swallowing, clandestine intelligence-industrial bureaucracy that's nonetheless incapable of actually doing what it's ostensibly being funded to do. You can see why they'd want to keep this sort of thing secret.
Update: "Since 2007, we've known how much the total Black Budget is (before that, with some years excepted, we didn't even know that), but not how much is spent on specific things. Now we know that too." Eleven budget charts to help make sense of it all.
As the Bradley Manning trial moves to sentencing — I wrote about the case here in March — Esquire's Charlie Pierce wonders again how we got so far down the rabbit hole. Honestly, we should have a pretty good sense, at this late date, that prosecuting anyone under the godforsaken Espionage Act is generally a terrible idea.
Referring to the most venomous of the charges, which Manning thankfully escaped — that he was willfully "aiding the Enemy" by blowing the whistle on Army misdeeds — Pierce writes: "That anyone in this government thought this is a good idea is something worth studying. Manning's going to go to jail from now until Christ alone knows when. The people who thought this up are still going to have good government jobs. Something's not right with that." Amen.
Lots of scores to settle and cold dishes served in the trailer bin of late…
Antebellum musician Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) finds himself way down on the wrong side of the Mason-Dixon line in our first look at Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, also with Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, and Alfre Woodard.
Some strange musical cues here, including the themes from Pearl Harbor and The Wolfman (the latter used to better effect in the original, still-creepy Tinker Tailor teaser). In any case, I liked Hunger and Shame less than most, but I'd be up to give this a go.
Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em: Josh Brolin discovers to his dismay that he can check in but never leave in the red-band trailer for Spike Lee's remake of Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, also with Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Imperioli, Lance Reddick, and James Ransone. I'm still trying to un-watch the original — some things involving octopi and tongues I wish I never saw in that there film.
One good remake deserves another: Deserve's still got nothing to do with it as Ken Watanabe fills Clint Eastwood's shoes for Sang-il Lee's Yurusarezaru mono, the Japanese remake of Unforgiven, also with Akira Emoto, Koichi Sato, and Yuya Yagira. From The Seven Samurai to The Magnificent Seven, there's a long and fertile history for this sort of cultural exchange, so I'd watch it.
What I likely won't be watching is Sergei Bodrov's fantasy epic Seventh Son, based on a series I haven't heard of called The Wardstone Chronicles, even if it does have Jeff and Maude Lebowski operating on opposite sides of the ball. (Between this and R.I.P.D., Bridges seems to be in full "paying for an extension to my house" mode these days.)
I thought at first this might be based on Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising, but then I remembered they already made a lousy adaptation of that a few years ago. In any case, also along for the ride: Ben Barnes, Kit Harington, Alicia Vikander, Djimon Hounsou, Jason Scott Lee, and Antje Traue.
When bad things happen to his brother (Casey Affleck), Christian Bale goes vigilante to take down the local ne'er-do-well (Woody Harrelson) in the first trailer for Scott Cooper's Out of the Furnace, also with Zoe Saldana, Willem Dafoe, Forrest Whitaker, and Sam Shepard. (TL;DR: Bale meets Death Wish meets Winter's Bone.) Alrighty then.
When bad things happen to his brother (Matt Barnes), Ryan Gosling goes vigilante to take down the local ne'er-do-well (Vithaya Pansringarm) in the newest trailer for Nicholas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives.
Along with presumably another hyper-catchy soundtrack like Refn and Gosling's Drive, this also has the added benefit of Kristin Scott Thomas apparently doing her "Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast/Ralph Fiennes in In Bruges" turn. As with Oldboy, I expect this to be hyper-violent, tho'.
And finally Wong Kar-Wai, Yuen Woo Ping, Tony Leung, and Zhang Ziyi band together to tell the story of Ip Man (again) in the newest trailer for The Grandmaster. This still looks to me like an unnecessary remake of the third Matrix movie, but you can't fault the pedigree involved.
Update: One more down the pike today: Benedict Cumberbatch channels Julian Assange, and has some Social Network-style angst with his partner Daniel Bruhl, in the first trailer for Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate, with Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Peter Capaldi, Carice van Houten, Dan Stevens, Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney. Linney's smarmy "truth, justice, and the American way" line is wince-inducing, but otherwise this could be promising.
Update 2: Blanchett, meet Blanche DuBois? After Madoff-y husband Alec Baldwin becomes only the second person in America to be prosecuted for misdealings during the financial crisis, Cate Blanchett learns how the other half lives in the first trailer for Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, with Sally Hawkins, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Dice Clay(?), Michael Stuhlbarg, and (hopefully) the Woodster's new best friend, Louis C.K.
Hello all. So after a month or so of significant work — hence, the relative quiet around these parts of late — I have followed up on my earlier promise/threat and transformed all 1200+ pages of my dissertation into Uphill All the Way, the online edition.
The text was actually already available online in PDF form through Columbia's Academic Commons, which is one of the reasons I thought converting it for better HTML presentation was a good idea. Now, hopefully, one can peruse the chapters more easily (or someone can skip around to the parts they are interested in.)
I don't know if this is reassuring or depressing, but reading through it all again over the past month and change, I was once again struck by how much of this story resonates with recent events. Long before the disappointment of the current administration, ostensible progressive Woodrow Wilson had cracked down on civil liberties and broken the heart of the world at Versailles. Before Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, there was Eugene Debs and Sacco and Vanzetti. Before Austerity, there was Coolidge "Parsimony". Before Katrina, the Great Mississippi Flood. Before Holder, Palmer. Before today's continuing fight over evolution, Scopes. Before the recent news of forced sterilizations in California prisons, breaking just this past weekend, there was Buck v. Bell.
Instead of the Tea Party, there were 100% Americans and an Invisible Empire. Instead of fretting about "Obamacare" and "Kenyan Socialists," conservatives rallied against the Sheppard-Towner Act and a Catholic in the White House. Instead of a War on Drugs, there was a Noble Experiment.
Then as now, civil liberties, corporate corruption, and immigration reform were major issues of the day. Then as now, the Supreme Court was a roadblock to positive change. Then as now, a culture of prosperity masked inequality and deep injustices in American life, and an ascendant business class aimed to leverage its considerable political influence to stamp out workers' right to organize.
In the 1920s just as much as the 2010's, progressives struggled to organize in opposition, and began to seriously question the two-party system. Then as now, many lost heart in the possibility of change. And, then as now, the push to make a more just and progressive America was, as always, Uphill all the Way.
As scholars Jennifer Stisa Granick and Christopher Jon Sprigman remind us in the NYT, make no mistake: the NSA's current surveillance regime is entirely illegal. "We may never know all the details of the mass surveillance programs, but we know this: The administration has justified them through abuse of language, intentional evasion of statutory protections, secret, unreviewable investigative procedures and constitutional arguments that make a mockery of the government's professed concern with protecting Americans' privacy. It's time to call the N.S.A.'s mass surveillance programs what they are: criminal."
As I said last time, this shouldn't even be in dispute. But far too many ostensible Democrats seem to assume this culture of lawlessness is ok now that Obama's at the helm. Once again, we have lost our way.
"If convicted on all three counts, the former N.S.A. contract-systems administrator could face thirty years in jail. On the Sunday-morning talk shows I watched, there weren't many voices saying that would be an excessive punishment for someone who has performed an invaluable public service." In related news, The New Yorker's John Cassidy laments the cowardice of today's media with regards to the fate of Edward Snowden: "The Obama Administration doesn't want him to come home and contribute to the national-security-versus-liberty debate that the President says is necessary. It wants to lock him up for a long time"
The mantra of good journalism should be to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, but, here again, our broken, trivia-obsessed, lapdog-riddled fourth estate has it exactly backward. It is infuriating to behold.
Still, at the very least, Frank Rich has ably summed up all you need to know about NBC's David Gregory, who recently queried on-air whether Glenn Greenwald should be jailed for breaking the Snowden story:
"Is David Gregory a journalist? As a thought experiment, name one piece of news he has broken, one beat he's covered with distinction, and any memorable interviews he's conducted that were not with John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Dick Durbin, or Chuck Schumer…In any case, his charge is preposterous…I propose that Gregory be full-time on Today, where he can speak truth to power by grilling Paula Deen."
In The Guardian Jill Filipovic examines the national shame that is our private prison-industrial complex. "Imprisoning that many people, most of them for non-violent offenses, doesn't come cheap, especially when you're paying private contractors…who are doing quite well living off of American corporate welfare -– at the expense of the American taxpayer." $50 billion a year — that funds a lot of stadium.
This article was found, by the way, in Slate's discussion of Sesame Street's new incarceration kit, which helps explain to 3-8-year-olds that their parent has gone to jail. "That this even has to exist in the first place shows how much pointless damage our prison system does not just to people who are caught up in the overly punitive, often racially biased justice system, but also to their families."
It'd be nice to say this fiasco is on the national agenda, but, Jim Webb's efforts in 2009 and some green shoots earlier in the year notwithstanding, Congress and the Obama administration, for all their talk of belt-tightening, seem pretty content with this ridiculous status quo. (One key reason: felons can't vote.) But, hey, you know who they still don't put in jail these days? Wolves of Wall Street. So there's that.
Breaking everywhere the past week: 29-year-old former CIA IT guy and defense contractor Edward Snowden reveals to Glenn Greenwald that the NSA has been indiscriminately collecting everyone's phone records and gouging into the data networks of Apple, Google, Facebook, and other mainstays of today's social media. "The Prism program allows the NSA, the world's largest surveillance organisation, to obtain targeted communications without having to request them from the service providers and without having to obtain individual court orders."
Sadly, this isn't all that surprising. There have been intimations that the NSA has been up to no good — even beyond the warrantless wiretap fiasco under Dubya — since that weird visit to John Ashcroft's hospital bed. Nor, sadly, is it all that surprising that — despite saying exactly the opposite in 2007 — our current President is both fine with these surveillance practices and authorizing them. (And at least from my perspective, the idea that getting the rubber stamp approval of a secret FISA court that never says no makes it all ok does not hold water.)
This is exactly what I was talking about last update. Obama acts tortured about continuing all of Dubya's most terrible civil liberties violations, but then goes ahead and does them anyway. For Crom's sake, he's even picked James Comey, the guy who approved warrantless wiretaps back in 2006, to be the new FBI chief. And because this president and this administration is so brazenly two-faced about their anti-terror policies, you end up with disturbing polls like this:
For example, in the Senate: On one hand, we have Ron Wyden, Mo Udall, and Jeff Merkley calling out Obama for continuing with this extra-legal, ginormous-net approach to surveillance. "'As far as we can see, all of the useful information that it has provided appears to have also been available through other collection methods that do not violate the privacy of law-abiding Americans in the way that the Patriot Act collection does,' Udall and Wyden said."
On the other hand, here's ostensibly Democrat Dianne Feinstein yesterday going full Body Snatcher about Snowden: "'I don't look at this as being a whistle-blower,' Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calf.) said. 'I think it's an act of treason.'" (FWIW, John Boehner and Lindsey Graham were right there with her.) Of course, it's never "treason" when Feinstein continually does it, and, in any case, this wasn't breaking news either: The senior Senator from California has long been a quintessential "symbol of the worthless Beltway Democrat."
This revealing breeze stirred by the NSA revelations is coursing through media outlets too. On one hand, Slate's Fred Kaplan has — quite correctly — called for James Clapper's resignation, given that he flat-out lied to Congress: "We as a nation are being asked to let the National Security Agency continue doing the intrusive things it's been doing on the premise that congressional oversight will rein in abuses. But it's hard to have meaningful oversight when an official in charge of the program lies so blatantly in one of the rare open hearings on the subject." Spot on.
Meanwhile, TPM's Josh Marshall, who likes to pretend his blog is a font of independent thinking, hems and haws about it all in classic pusillanimous Village-think fashion, all the while making sure never to say anything that might harm his establishment respectability. "I've made clear that I don't see Manning as a hero or a whistleblower or really anything positive at all…Pretty early I realized that to his supporters Manning was a whistleblower who was being persecuted by the government, almost like a political prisoner or prisoner of conscience." No, Josh, it doesn't "seem" that way "to his supporters" — That is in fact what is %#%@ happening.
In any case, so as not to fall into the same trap, I'll just say it outright: First, if Snowden and Manning are traitors, then so is Daniel Ellsberg and so, for that matter, is Dianne Feinstein and any other politician or government official who leaks when it's convenient. (Also, sorry, folks. there is no substantive difference between revealing secrets to the criminal Julian Assange or to the venerable Bob Woodward. But please do let me know when Richard Armitage is put in a sweatbox for 23 hours a day.)
Second, this vast surveillance apparatus NSA has been constructing is both obviously overkill and clearly legally and constitutionally repugnant, and if this president lived up to even half the rhetoric he continually espoused before he was elected, he would have ended it years ago. Quite frankly, the doubletalk from him, and from so many other Democrats about these revelations so far, is both inexcusable and out-and-out pathetic.
Didn't get to this before heading out for a Memorial Day weekend camping trip: As y'all know by now, President Obama delivered a much-hailed State of the War on Terror address at the National Defense University, during which he called for the eventual repeal of AUMF, tighter oversight of drone strikes, and the closing of the Gitmo Gulag at last. "Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue. But this war, like all wars, must end. That's what history advises. That's what our democracy demands."
Sounds great! When's it happening? Er…well, that's that trick, isn't it? When it comes to the first promise — the repeal of AUMF — as Brooking's Benjamin Witte noted: "Obama does not need Congress to narrow or repeal the AUMF or to get off of a war footing. He can do it himself, declaring hostilities over in whole or in part. And Obama, needless to say, did not do anything like that."
Ok, what about drone strikes? As Fred Kaplan and others — including the heckler at the speech — have pointed out, President Obama did not promise to transfer drone strike authority from the CIA (where they remain covert) to the military (where there's more possibility of oversight.) Nor did he pledge to end "signature strikes," meaning the current practice of unleashing fiery death upon unknown parties because they seem to be acting shady. This "supposedly new, restrictive policy on drone strikes," writes Kaplan, "was neither new nor restrictive…In short, the speech heralded nothing new when it comes to drone strikes."
Instead, Obama defended his drone policy as legal and effective. At one point, he asserted "for the record, I do not believe it would be constitutional for the government to target and kill any U.S. citizen — with a drone, or with a shotgun — without due process." And then, in the very next paragraph, he asserts that particular executive prerogative in the matter of Anwar Awlaki — assassinated without due process. (FWIW, Obama is clearly using the Colbert reasoning here: "Trial by jury, trial by fire, rock, paper scissors, who cares? Due process just means that there is a process that you do. The current process is apparently, first the president meets with his advisers and decides who he can kill. Then he kills them.")
As for Gitmo…well, we have been here before, so fool me once and all that. "'The speech was deeply disappointing,' says David Remes, a lawyer who has represented a number of Yemenis held at Guantanamo – adding that Obama only 'created the illusion of forward momentum.'…The president has the power to issue national security waivers and direct the Secretary of Defense to certify detainee transfer if they are deemed not a national security threat – something human rights groups have been advocating. Didn't hear much about that in the president's address.
Yes, the paragraphs I quoted from the speech above at the onset are laudable, and yes, I suppose some people might find it vaguely comforting to know that the force of these issues weigh on the presidential mind in a way they didn't between 2001 and 2008. But let's be honest. It has been a troubling tendency of this administration — and by troubling tendency I mean signature pattern — to follow up lofty, progressive-minded rhetoric with absolutely no action of consequence. We need more than words from this president.
A "nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks," headed by two former Members of Congress (Republican Asa Hutchinson and Democrat James Jones) offers an in-depth investigative report on our national post-9/11 torture regime.
"The sweeping, 577-page report says that while brutality has occurred in every American war, there never before had been 'the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after 9/11 directly involving a president and his top advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain and torment on some detainees in our custody.'"
Of course, we have known all this for awhile now. And yet, just as with the folks who brought us the financial crisis, there has been zero accountability coming from Obama's Justice Department or anywhere else. Instead, our powers-that-be have been too busy trying to round up purported public enemies like Bradley Manning and Aaron Swartz.
And yet, as this report unequivocally lays out, the evidence of an American torture regime, planned and carried out after 9/11 at the highest levels of government, is indisputable. For the rule of law's sake as much as for the values we purportedly stand for, we still need a reckoning.
Charlie Pierce reports in from the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, which to-date have killed three and injured over 140. "Horror has no shelf life anymore. Everybody knows already. Everybody's a newsman. Everybody's in showbiz."
Obviously, yesterday was horrible. Let's mourn our dead and help our wounded. Let's honor our first responders and civilian heroes like Carlos Arredondo, the "man in the cowboy hat." Let's figure out exactly what happened here and bring the perpetrators to justice. And then, let's hold our heads high and work to live our lives without fear.
In other words, Keep Calm and Bost On. As I said this past 9/11, we can't afford to collectively lose our minds again after these sorts of attacks. That's exactly what purveyors of terrorism want us to do — That's the entire point. You can see it in Iraq, where 55 died yesterday from car bombs. You can see it in all the ways we fell astray from our fundamental American values after the last attack on our home soil (notwithstanding mass shootings like Tuscon, Aurora, and Newtown.)
When we were tested in this regard after 9/11, we failed in far too many ways. Let's all try to do better this time. We must love one another or die.
More fruits from Californication: With public support for legalizing marijuana over 50% for the first time, and a new documentary, The House I Live In, once again calling attention to the many cruel absurdities of the Drug War — $1 trillion spent, 2.2 million in prison — signs suggest the ill-advised War on Drugs may finally be receding as a sacrosanct institution in Washington.
"For decades, the politics of the drug war were straightforward: Being tough could help at the polls and came with no political downside; being open to reform had few advantages, but would be used against a candidate on the campaign trail. That calculation is no longer so simple."


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Dear Readers,
i m loving SSLK just becoz of its fresh content n no sas-bahu rona-dhona..
i luv Gunjan's dressing sence n hairstyle,,Rachna's simplicity,,all other facts r familier to our day to day lyf..but little disappontment with Rachna's behaviour toward Gunjan,,cvs shud conc.on this matter,,Gunjan doesn't deserves this,,
ALL THE BEST TO SSLK TEAM,,n congo.once again for topping the charts,,n for beating that useless,brainless SSK,,
COLORS is such a crap!!!!!
I am surprised but then again also not!! No comments on the acting of this show but people like it because of the constant drama!! LOL Good luck to them and they actually beat Diya and Bati and Ballika Vadhu!! LOL Although it could change, you never know!! :)
Nice to see a show with fresh faces number one on the trp chart. Wow finally a show which breaks all stereotypes. Be it romance which is way more realistic than the other shows or be it the drama its justified rather than the unnecessary rona dhona. Every cast member deserves the sweet taste of success . Keep going CV s you are doing a good job in keeping the suspense alive.
SSLK ROCKS! It is a really great show in a very long time and that too across all channels. I cannot remember when was the last time we had such a refreshing concept shown on any channel.
Most self-proclaimed shows degenerate into saas bahu dramas after a few months. Thank god, this is not the case with SSLK.
By the way, really good to see SSLKians here: Vanny, riva, brat, avina. Love you guys.
i love this show ...but i miss rachna & gunjan's masti plzz bring the two sisters back 2gether ...
Edited on:15 February 2013 at 7:33pm
dude we have accepted SSLK, not mayank-gunjan, atleast many people dont like them, with few exceptions ofcourse
Oh my!!! if they feel this, then I am sure they r gonna unite mayan together!!! no, no the only reason i started watching was becoz mayank-gunjan separated and him getting married!!
SSLK is the best. People who are being negative are just jealous. Some people cannot digest the fact that some of their beloved shows with top stars are not doing well.
SSLK exemplifies that good shows sell and not just the so called stars.
Lol, and I just realized that I liked my own post. Hahahaha...
Edited on:15 February 2013 at 6:08pm
i dont follow the show daily...
but it has a fab concept and the story is really fresh!!!
i really like it!
and im glad that a show which has no saas-bahu rona-dhona in it is the TRP leader..coz till now it has always been diya aur baati or balika vadhu!!...
really congratz to the whole team of sslk and keep it up!:)
Rajeev + Rachna = awesomeness!!!! RajNa all the way!!!!
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