Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Neil Young - In Concert BBC 1971
01. Out On The Weekend
02. Old Man
03. Journey Through The Past
04. Heart Of Gold
05. Don't Let It Bring You Down
06. A Man Needs A Maid
07. Love In MY Mind
08. Dance, Dance, Dance
WikiLeaks cables are America's worst security breach, says John McCain
The leaking of secret cables to the WikiLeaks website run by Australian Julian Assange was the most damaging breach of US security ever, senior American political figure Senator John McCain says. Security issues featured in talks between Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the former Republican presidential candidate and ranking member on the US Senate's armed services committee during her visit to Washington.
The US Government is considering its legal options in relation to Mr Assange, which could include a treason charge, and the alleged instigators of the leaking of 250,000 diplomatic cables.
Intelligence analyst Private First Class Bradley Manning is being held in the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia, pending his appearance on a raft of charges over the alleged leaking of the Government files to WikiLeaks a year ago.
Senator McCain said after the meeting with the Prime Minister the WikiLeaks issue had serious implications for all aspects of global security.
"It is the greatest, most damaging security breach in the history of this country," he said.
What was most concerning were the revelations of people in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan who were cooperating with intelligence services, he said.
"It literally puts their lives in danger," Senator McCain said.
He said those responsible for giving Private Manning access to such high-security documents also needed to be brought to account.
"He couldn't have done all of that by himself," he said.
Asked whether Australia would help in any future extradition of Mr Assange, the Prime Minister said she would not speculate.
"The only legal matter affecting Mr Assange are matters stemming out of proceedings in Sweden," she said, referring to the sex charge against the internet whistleblower.
"At every stage Mr Assange has received consular assistance, just as any other Australian would receive." Mr Assange is appealing against his extradition to Sweden.
@'news.com'
The US Government is considering its legal options in relation to Mr Assange, which could include a treason charge, and the alleged instigators of the leaking of 250,000 diplomatic cables.
Intelligence analyst Private First Class Bradley Manning is being held in the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia, pending his appearance on a raft of charges over the alleged leaking of the Government files to WikiLeaks a year ago.
Senator McCain said after the meeting with the Prime Minister the WikiLeaks issue had serious implications for all aspects of global security.
"It is the greatest, most damaging security breach in the history of this country," he said.
What was most concerning were the revelations of people in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan who were cooperating with intelligence services, he said.
"It literally puts their lives in danger," Senator McCain said.
He said those responsible for giving Private Manning access to such high-security documents also needed to be brought to account.
"He couldn't have done all of that by himself," he said.
Asked whether Australia would help in any future extradition of Mr Assange, the Prime Minister said she would not speculate.
"The only legal matter affecting Mr Assange are matters stemming out of proceedings in Sweden," she said, referring to the sex charge against the internet whistleblower.
"At every stage Mr Assange has received consular assistance, just as any other Australian would receive." Mr Assange is appealing against his extradition to Sweden.
@'news.com'
ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald
GOP wants to empower military to detain people without involvement of AG - uh, that's called "military dictatorship": http://is.gd/JC8oei
Internet and cell phones the ‘best weapons against dictatorships’
Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have become an important tool for democracy and human rights activists in the Middle East and North Africa, where it has played a pivotal role in helping organize protests against repressive governments.
"TV is especially bad for human rights, because the government can feed propaganda to the population," said the study's author, Indra de Soysa, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). "The Internet and mobile phones have the opposite effect. And social media is different because it gives people free access to a channel of communication."
"In Egypt, Google's marketing manager would have never managed to mobilize so many demonstrations without social media," he added. "The authorities cannot monitor what people read on the Internet, and society becomes more transparent."
"The authorities can no longer get away with attacking their own people," de Soysa continued. "In Burma the authorities can still shoot a man in the street, and get away with it. But there are beginning to be fewer and fewer countries where that is still the case."
While communication technologies such as cell phones and the Internet have helped to organize some pro-democracy movements, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin warned in an article published at Politico on Monday that U.S. technology companies have not done enough to ensure their products and services do not aid repressive governments.
"With a few notable exceptions, the technology industry is failing to address serious human rights challenges," he wrote. "Filtering software produced by U.S. companies like McAfee — recently acquired by Intel — has been used by repressive governments to censor political content on the Internet. Cisco routers are part of the architecture of China’s Great Firewall. Search engines such as Google and Yahoo censor political content."
Despite Sen. Durbin's warnings, de Soysa's study found that access to the Internet and cell phones was associated with better human rights while access to televisions and fixed phone lines were associated with worse human rights.
Eric W. Dolan @'Raw Story'
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - From The Stairwell (Albumstream)
1. All is One
2. Giallo
3. White Eyes
4. Cocaine
5. Celladoor
6. Cotard Delusion
7. Les Étoiles Mutantes
8. Past Midnight
THE KILIMANJARO DARKJAZZ ENSEMBLE are a project which has always been tied to films. Films are luxurious because they dispose of all these boring, unimportant, and trivial parts of our lives. This allows them to fully control our sensations, to put us in a very specific mood. Joy and sadness are occasionally OK, endless joy or endless sadness are clinical. But there is one sensation which can be persistent and unconditionally bearable at the same time. In the absence of a better alternative, let's call it "the mood". The mood is what TKDE are aiming at. The mood. (read on)
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