CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY LECTURES ON WIKILEAKS BENEFIT

October 28, 2013 Written by: April Testerman 

A New York civil rights attorney and author of “The Passion of Bradley Manning” gave a talk at San Diego State Thursday about the benefits of Chelsea Manning’s involvement with WikiLeaks.
Chase Madar gave a presentation titled, “Cluelessness, National Security, and Chelsea Manning: Why the Biggest Security Breach in U.S. History is Good for You.”
Madar’s main motivation for traveling to different universities is to educate people so they are able to make “well-informed decisions,” he said.
“I want to see lots of people that are interested … I want people to see the big-picture issues here,” Madar said. “It’s not leaks or whistle blowers that are getting 460,000 Iraqis killed and 4,500 Americans killed over there.”
Madar believes that had people in decision-making positions been informed, the outcome could have been much better.
“Knowing what your government is doing is really not such a bad thing,” Madar said.
He also said that he believes that knowledge isn’t going to hurt people and that Americans need to  “get over this fear.”
International security and conflict resolution freshman Hamad Alhumaidan said he enjoyed Madar’s talk because of his “pessimism.”
“You can find optimism in his pessimism, honestly,” Alhumaidan said.
He was particularly intrigued by what Madar had to say about the future and quoted him by saying, “Even though the road ahead is really hard, there is still a road.”
Business administration freshman Sylvia Ma said she hadn’t been exposed to the issue much, but was able to find a different meaning to the talk and learn more about Manning and the underlying issues regarding the leaks.
“I don’t believe that every citizen should know what is going on … I thought it was awesome hearing his point of view, and informing us,” she said.

Photos by Monica Linzmeier, photo editor

http://www.thedailyaztec.com/2013/10/civil-rights-wikileaks-benefits/ 

22 YEAR OLD WITH DOWN SYNDROME BEATEN BY THE POLICE FOR "BULGE IN PANTS" THAT WAS ONLY A COLOSTOMY BAG!

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AT FIRST, I THOUGHT THIS WAS A TOP SECRET FACILITY. THEN THEY OPENED THE DOORS AND… WHOA.

October 26, 2013 Entertainment

The zombie apocalypse may never happen, but hey, maybe it’s a good idea to own a house like this just in case. The fortress is virtually indestructible. Thieves, rioters and even an army couldn’t get in once you lock up.
It’s perfect. Especially if you hate socializing.

Nothing is getting in, or getting out, of this house’s complex.

It was made to withstand any and all attacks.

And obviously, it would be perfect if you ever need indestructible protection.

All of the windows and open areas are shuttered when you want them to be.

It is completely closed off.

But, at the touch of a button, the coverings will be rolled back.

The stairway is unaccessible normally, but suddenly appears.

The house actually is covered in windows, but can be made into a fortress.

Not only is it strong, but it’s beautiful.

Full of awesome rooms to keep you busy during any kind of apocalypse.

Although at the first sign of trouble you should probably close the doors.

Because most of the house is actually glass without the steel coverings.

And say goodbye to being bothered by nosy neighbors.
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http://www.viralnova.com/zombie-house/

SUPERHERO OR SUPERVILLAIN? SOLDIERS DRESSED FOR FUTURISTIC BATTLEFIELD

October 30, 2013

Taiwanese Special Forces troops in bullet proof body armour and full face vests. Picture: Supplied. Source: NewsComAu

THEY look like superheroes or supervillains from the big screen, only they are real life soldiers.

New high-tech equipment and body armour developed for armies around the world is turning troops into flesh and blood versions of video game warriors.
The science fiction video game-style equipment is designed to save the lives of soldiers in modern battlefield situations, such as roadside bombs or close combat with high-powered assault weapons.

Taiwan’s military uniform for close range combat features full-faced masks. Picture: Supplied. Source: NewsComAu

Face protection, in particular, has become paramount, with the US opting for maximum vision for its soldiers in battle conditions.
Taiwan's military armour for one of its elite combat units, designed for maximum protection against close range shots features full-faced masks and bullet proof body armour including chest and leg protection.

The equipment is designed to save the soldiers in modern battlefield situations. Picture: Supplied. Source: NewsComAu

Soldiers wearing the uniform have been likened to the character Deathstroke in Teen Titans, or the Footclan from TMNT.
In the US, a new helmet developed for the army transforms troops into the cybernetically enhanced human super-soldier, Master Chief John-117, from the Xbox game, Halo.

The super-soldier from video game, Halo. Picture: Supplied. Source: NewsComAu

The latest helmet for the US Army incorporates night vision goggles, heads-up display technology and communications earpieces and microphones.
The digital display projected on the inside of the visor is similar to Google Glass.
A detachable ballistic visor and lightweight jaw piece provide added protection against the higher number of facial injuries resulting from roadside bombs.

The real deal: the new hi-tech helmet provides protection from roadside bombs. Picture: US Army. Source: NewsComAu

Ballistic eyewear company Revision released the helmet after four years development by the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Centre in the US, reports KitUp.
In regions like Iraq and Afghanistan soldiers had suffered face injuries from the fragments of improvised explosive devices and fling rocks and glass, necessitating improved protection, said Don Lee, who lead the Natick project.
"Going by a recent (Joint Trauma Analysis and Prevention of Injury in Combat) report, of all the injuries to the head, 72 per cent are to the face," Lee told army.mil.
"When the soldiers wore the prototype systems with the visor and mandible, it was the first time that they weren't eating sand and dust and rocks going down the road.
"Being able to don that (mandible and visor) protection when needed or being able to remove it when not needed is the big 'wow' factor."

The ‘HEaDS-UP’ helmet has a digital display on the visor like Google Glass. Picture: US Army. Source: NewsComAu

Called the Helmet Electronics and Display System-Upgradeable Protection, or HEaDS-UP, the helmet helps maintain the head's natural centre of gravity, reducing strain and fatigue, Lee said.
Biomechanics improved the fit, balance and weight of the helmets.
"If you hang a quarter-pound (110 grams) on the front, it feels like nothing, but what about after a 12-hour mission?" he said.

Like a superhero: an US army officer models the new hi-tech helmet. Picture: US Army. Source: NewsComAu

The scientists, who looked at 300 combinations involving helmets and head gear, hope to share their data with Army's medical community to reduce neck, shoulder and back injuries.
Last weekend, it was reported an Australian soldier in Afghanistan was saved by "state-of-the-art" body armour which reportedly stopped a round from an Afghani soldier piercing his body.
Australian troops have been wearing more than $27,000 worth of combat gear on duty in Afghanistan.

Combat gear for Australian troops has increased almost sevenfold in 15 years. Source: News Limited

The Australian was shot in the chest by the Afghani soldier just outside the capital Kabul, but the resulting wounds have been described by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) as "minor" and the soldier has since returned to work.
Chief of the NZ Defence Force, Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, revealed details of the incident, saying the Australian's injuries could have been far worse.
"Initial assessment is that it's some of the shrapnel as the bullet hit the chest of the Australian and with the body armour, the bullet disintegrated," he said.
"Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier].
"We were fortunate that both the Australians and New Zealanders were wearing world-class self-protection body armour."
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UPSKIRT DAD'S SCHOOLGIRL SHAME

David Hurley Herald Sun October 24, 2013

A PAINTER used a mobile phone to film up the skirts of unsuspecting schoolgirls from a shopping basket in a supermarket before uploading the images online.

Paul Breitkreuz pleaded guilty to upskirting charges and a child porn offence when he appeared at the County Court in Melbourne.
The 28-year-old father-of-one made still images from 22 videos before swapping the pictures with other sexual deviants –The media, in particular, the tabloid media will use descriptions like 'sexual deviant' or 'serial pest' to help paint a picture which is then planted in your mind. This man swapped pictures with other people. Don't allow the mainstream tabloid press to define reality for you or you will find yourself allowing them to define for you @ other times as well if you are not careful– online.
The court heard Breitkreuz targeted girls in school uniform who were aged in their early teens when he prowled shopping centres in Melbourne's south east.
Prosecutor Josh Robins told the court one picture Breitkreuz uploaded was accompanied by a caption reading: "I snapped a 12/13 year old."
He then asked others in the online network, "How am I going?" and told them, "I'm just a beginner at this."
When police raided Breitkreuz's home in Keysborough they found 304 child porn images and two videos.
Most of the images had been emailed to him from other perverts –like politicians, religion, the military & advertisers, the concept of repetitious programming is practiced regularly by this publication. Of course it should be noticed that this type of programming is often served up to provide you with a scapegoat to blame so that you don't go blaming them. In the past/present black people, gays, women, the disabled, red heads, muslims, jews, communists, hippies etc have occupied the role of the 'approved scapegoat' that you are allowed to lambast until you are told otherwise. It is worth noting that you should not like/dislike because the government, religion, media tells you, but because you have thought about and felt your way to what is actually correct and true and respectful– on the internet.
Breitkreuz's pleaded guilty to three counts of upskirting, four counts of distributing images of a person's genitalia between July and October 2012 and one count of accessing child porn. This is the second occasion within seven sentences, that we have been told what he has been charged with, now in a little more detail. Why is that detail so important to them? Trying to pad out the story? Or are they trying, again, to program a particular item into you.
David Gibson, representing Breitkreuz, said his client was deeply ashamed of his actions.
Breitkreuz sobbed in the dock and was supported in court by his wife, his parents and his wife's parents.
Community response is instructive. He may be receiving support, but he has to live with and answer to these people for the rest of his life. Live with his actions and the damage caused by them.
Mr Gibson said: "They are matters of considerable shame.
"He understands the impact on his family. He now has a young daughter and that has brought home to him the evil of this type of offending."
This can only be true if the last of his offences, or the seized items on the computer, was more than four years ago. Otherwise he is happy to use his daughter as leverage to secure a lesser punishment. This is still child abuse. Not sexual abuse, but, nonetheless, it is an abuse of the interests of the child.  
Judge Jane Patrick will sentence Breitkreuz on November 4.
david.hurley@news.com.au

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/upskirt-dads-schoolgirl-shame/story-fni0fee2-1226746560067 

RUPERT MURDOCH NEWSPAPER FEAR PORN ARTICLE – NEW YORK SUBWAYS OVERRUN WITH HOMELESS

• October 28, 2013

A homeless man boards the shuttle subway train at Times Square. Picture: Helayne Seidman / New York Post Source: Supplied

IT'S an express train — to the bad old days.

Cops are giving homeless people and panhandlers in the subways the kid-glove treatment, arresting subterranean scofflaws far less frequently than just two years ago, data show.
The ranks of the homeless, meanwhile, have swelled to 1,841 this year — a 13 percent increase over last year's tally, the city's Department of Homeless Services says.
For straphangers, it has created an atmosphere of fear.
"I feel threatened, especially taking the train at night," explained Brooklynite Lortashia Smith, who said she has been followed off trains several times. "The police can definitely do more."
The NYPD said panhandler/peddler arrests in the subway have increased over the past year, with 409 pinched so far in 2013 versus 395 in 2012. But those numbers pale in comparison to 2011,
when it was reported that in a six-month span that year, a whopping 930 panhandlers and peddlers — the two are not separated in the data — were arrested.
"There's been a drop-off," acknowledged one police source.

Homeless woman named "Sarah" with a sign at E.53rd and Fifth Ave. Picture: Helayne Seidman / New York Post Source: Supplied

The NYPD refused to provide full-year data for 2011, when cops were busy cracking down on underground quality-of-life issues as part of a Transit Bureau initiative called Operation Moving Target.
At that time, the NYPD explained arrests were up because of a targeted effort by the Transit Bureau to tackle quality-of-life offenses, which can lead to worse crime.
Late Saturday, an NYPD spokesperson said a comparison to 2011 data is not "apples to apples" because the department removed arrests for soliciting and selling MetroCard swipes from the panhandler/peddler category last year.
One city leader said the stop-and-frisk backlash could be to blame for the drop.
"Police are much more hesitant to be proactive and approach people who may be committing low-level crimes because of anti-NYPD sentiment that's been growing in political circles," said Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., who chairs the City Council's Public Safety Committee. "If you are too afraid to approach, then crimes like loitering, open containers and aggressive panhandling will go unpunished."
That, in turn, can be dangerous.
"Once you allow low-level crimes to fester, more dangerous crimes follow," Vallone added.
Peaceful begging is allowed above ground, after state and federal courts ruled the state's 1964 anti-loitering law unconstitutional.
But in the subway system, where the MTA establishes its own rules and regulations, all panhandling — peaceful included — is illegal,
according to the agency.
The Department of Homeless Services said it maintains an outreach team dedicated to finding specialty housing for subway hobos.
Straphangers told The Post they've noticed an alarming increase in vagrants and beggars.
"Straphangers can't actually get a seat on the subway because they are taking up the subway space," said Brooklyn commuter Robert Scarborough. "They don't wash. They have an aroma."
Even panhandlers are scared.
"There's more people down here," noted Sarah Colon, who said she has been homeless ever since Hurricane Sandy. "The city's not doing what it's supposed to be doing. They need to make the shelters better than what they are now."
Things could get a lot worse.
"I believe this can turn into ‘Mad Max' down here," said Maurice Solomon of The Bronx. "It's a safe haven — it's warm for them, and people give them food."

http://www.news.com.au/world/new-york-subways-overrun-with-homeless/story-fndir2ev-1226748002268

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MP BERNARD FINNIGAN APPEARS IN COURT ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES

Tessa Akerman The Advertiser October 25, 2013

South Australian MP Bernard Finnigan Source: News Limited

STATE MP Bernard Finnigan has appeared in court this morning in a bid to have the child pornography charges against him stayed.

Finnigan is charged with one aggravated count of obtaining access to child pornography and one count of taking a step towards obtaining access to child pornography.
The charges relate to alleged offending between December 2010 and April 2011.
Today, Finnigan's lawyer Michael Abbott, QC, told the District Court prosecutors could not prove the steps Finnigan is alleged to have taken would have led to child pornography.
"We say that there is no evidence in this case that the steps taken, alleged to be have been taken by my client, is a step which would have yielded access to child pornography," Mr Abbott said.
"They cannot prove that any particular pornography existed let alone that it contained (people) 16-years-old or under."
Mr Abbott also said it was a matter of proving what one saw on the internet was correct in regards to the actual age of a person in an image online.
"The problem with the internet is that every picture can be manipulated," he said.
"White can be made black, brown, green."
Prosecutor Ian Press said if the appearance of a person in an image could not be used to prove beyond reasonable doubt that they were under the age of 14, there would be serious limitations.
"In the absence of identifying a specific person in the image, if appearance cannot be used to prove a range of ages below 14 years, then unless the prosecution can identify the person in the image, then an aggravated offence, I won't say (would) never be able to be charged but very rarely will they be able to be charged," he said.
The argument before Judge Steven Millsteed continues.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/south-australian-mp-bernard-finnigan-appears-in-court-on-child-pornography-charges/story-fni6uo1m-1226746682596 

U.S. COURT OK'S BARRING HIGH IQ'S FOR COPS

N E W   L O N D O N,  Conn., Sept. 8, 2000

A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.

“This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class,” Jordan said today from his Waterford home. “I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else.”

He said he does not plan to take any further legal action.

Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.

Most Cops Just Above Normal The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average.

Jordan alleged his rejection from the police force was discrimination. He sued the city, saying his civil rights were violated because he was denied equal protection under the law.

But the U.S. District Court found that New London had “shown a rational basis for the policy.” In a ruling dated Aug. 23, the 2nd Circuit agreed. The court said the policy might be unwise but was a rational way to reduce job turnover.

Jordan has worked as a prison guard since he took the test.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836

RFID MASCOT BEGINS NATIONWIDE TOUR TO HELP ALLEVIATE CHILDREN’S FEARS OF IMPLANTATION

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<NR>In an effort to separate myth from truth regarding the federally mandated Obamacare RFID chip implantation program, a public awareness campaign has been launched to tour in a number of public schools across our nation. implantation
The operation features a jovial animated mascot, a cartoon RFID chip named “Chippie”. They use the character to demonstrate to their young audience the benefits of having the RFID implanted under your skin.
After a whimsical 30 minute cartoon following Chippie during one of his many adventures, there is a puppet show where children are encouraged to ask Chippie any questions they may have relating to the RFID chip or the implantation process. Each child leaves the exhibition with a “Chippie” stuffed doll, coloring book and several informative pamphlets for their parents to read that may assuage any lingering fears to their children receiving the device.

Many of them were eager to get implanted with the chip on the spot. “It felt like a pinch”, explained Doug Walker who attended a recent Chippie seminar a Carbon County, Wyoming school.  Holding up his slightly swollen left hand bearing the tiny hole where the needle had been inserted he said. “Now I can get free candy every time me and mommy go to the bank or the grocery store!”, he beamed proudly. “Chippie is my new best friend who lives inside of me!”
Walt Eisner, the creator of the “Chippie” character was summoned to speak to parents during the maiden flight of the brand new campaign. “We would like to assure parents that there is nothing to fear with the implementation of this new program. It is something that will inevitably benefit everyone in the long run and there are virtually no downsides. This will create elevated ease, convenience and security in all everyday transactions. With the technology available these days, the program is long overdue.”

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The operation features a jovial animated mascot, a cartoon RFID chip named “Chippie”. They use the character to demonstrate to their young audience the benefits of having the RFID implanted under your skin.
After a whimsical 30 minute cartoon following Chippie during one of his many adventures, there is a puppet show where children are encouraged to ask Chippie any questions they may have relating to the RFID chip or the implantation process. Each child leaves the exhibition with a “Chippie” stuffed doll, coloring book and several informative pamphlets for their parents to read that may assuage any lingering fears to their children receiving the device.

Many of them were eager to get implanted with the chip on the spot. “It felt like a pinch”, explained Doug Walker who attended a recent Chippie seminar a Carbon County, Wyoming school.  Holding up his slightly swollen left hand bearing the tiny hole where the needle had been inserted he said. “Now I can get free candy every time me and mommy go to the bank or the grocery store!”, he beamed proudly. “Chippie is my new best friend who lives inside of me!”
Walt Eisner, the creator of the “Chippie” character was summoned to speak to parents during the maiden flight of the brand new campaign. “We would like to assure parents that there is nothing to fear with the implementation of this new program. It is something that will inevitably benefit everyone in the long run and there are virtually no downsides. This will create elevated ease, convenience and security in all everyday transactions. With the technology available these days, the program is long overdue.”

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ARE CONSPIRACY THEORIES DESTROYING DEMOCRACY?

OCTOBER 26, 2013 By Brian Wheeler Politics reporter, BBC News

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The more information we have about what governments and corporations are up to the less we seem to trust them. Will conspiracy theories eventually destroy democracy?

What if I told you I had conclusive proof that the moon landings were faked, but I had been told to keep it under wraps by my BBC bosses acting under orders from the CIA, NSA and MI6. Most of you would think I had finally lost my mind.
But, for some, that scenario - a journalist working for a mainstream media organisation being manipulated by shadowy forces to keep vital information from the public - would seem entirely plausible, or even likely.
We live in a golden age for conspiracy theories. There is a growing assumption that everything we are told by the authorities is wrong, or not quite as it seems. That the truth is being manipulated or obscured by powerful vested interests.
And, in some cases, it is.
'Inside job' "The reason we have conspiracy theories is that sometimes governments and organisations do conspire," says Observer columnist and academic John Naughton.
It would be wrong to write off all conspiracy theorists as "swivel-eyed loons," with "poor personal hygiene and halitosis," he told a Cambridge University Festival of Ideas debate.
They are not all "crazy". The difficult part, for those of us trying to make sense of a complex world, is working out which parts of the conspiracy theory to keep and which to throw away.

Conspiracy theories through the ages

• 'Secret societies': Paranoia was rife in the 19th Century in the wake of the French revolution. British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (pictured) warned of "secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans"
• Freemasons: A secret society tracing its roots back to the 14th century, freemasonry has been accused of everything from controlling the judiciary to faking the moon landings
• Illuminati: Initially referred to the Bavarian Illumaniti, a secret society founded in 1776 to oppose religious influence over public life. Outlawed in 1785 but name now linked to alleged conspiracies to create New World Order
• Dreyfus affair: A young artillery officer of Jewish extraction, Alfred Dreyfus, was wrongly convicted in 1894 of treason and sent to Devil's Island in a case that divided France. Nationalists believed there was a Jewish conspiracy against Catholicism
• Protocols of the elders of Zion: An anti-semitic hoax supposedly describing Jewish plans for world domination. Publicised by the Nazis despite already being exposed as fraudulent
• McCarthyism: Named after Senator Joseph McCarthy who led a witch-hunt against suspected communists in American public life in the first half of the 1950s

Mr Naughton is one of three lead investigators in a major new Cambridge University project to investigate the impact of conspiracy theories on democracy.

The internet is generally assumed to be the main driving force behind the growth in conspiracy theories but, says Mr Naughton, there has been little research into whether that is really the case.
He plans to compare internet theories on 9/11 with pre-internet theories about John F Kennedy's assassination.
Like the other researchers, he is wary, or perhaps that should be weary, of delving into the darker recesses of the conspiracy world.
"The minute you get into the JFK stuff, and the minute you sniff at the 9/11 stuff, you begin to lose the will to live," he told the audience in Cambridge.
Like Sir Richard Evans, who heads the five-year Conspiracy and Democracy project, he is at pains to stress that the aim is not to prove or disprove particular theories, simply to study their impact on culture and society.
Why are we so fascinated by them? Are they undermining trust in democratic institutions?
David Runciman, professor of politics at Cambridge University, the third principal investigator, is keen to explode the idea that most conspiracies are actually "cock-ups".
"The line between cock-up, conspiracy and conspiracy theory are much more blurred than the conventional view that you have got to choose between them," he told the Festival of Ideas.
"There's a conventional view that you get these conspirators, who are these kind of sinister, malign people who know what they are doing, and the conspiracy theorists, who occasionally stumble upon the truth but who are on the whole paranoid and crazy.

What constitutes a conspiracy theory?

"Actually the conspirators are often the paranoid and crazy conspiracy theorists, because in their attempt to cover up the cock-up they get drawn into a web in which their self-justification posits some giant conspiracy trying to expose their conspiracy.

"And I think that's consistently true through a lot of political scandals, Watergate included."
'Curry house plot' It may also be true, he argues, of the "vicious" in-fighting and plotting that characterised New Labour's years in power, as recently exposed in the memoirs of Gordon Brown's former spin doctor Damian McBride.
The Brownite conspiracies to remove Tony Blair were "pathetically ineffectual" - with the exception of the 2006 "curry house" plot that forced Blair to name a departure date - but the picture painted by Mr McBride of a "paranoid" and "chaotic" inner circle has the ring of truth about it, he claims.

Gordon Brown was a keen student of conspiracy theories

And Mr Brown - said to be a keen student of the JFK assassination - knew a conspiracy when he saw one.

"You feel he sees conspiracies out there because he has a mindset that is not dissimilar to the conspiracy theorists," said Prof Runciman.
He is also examining whether the push for greater openness and transparency in public life will fuel, rather than kill off, conspiracy theories.
"It may be that one of the things conspiracy theories feed on as well as silence, is a surfeit of information. And when there is a mass of information out there, it becomes easier for people to find their way through to come to the conclusion they want to come to.
"Plus, you don't have to be an especial cynic to believe that, in the age of open government, governments will be even more careful to keep secret the things they want to keep secret.
"The demand for openness always produces, as well as more openness, more secrecy."
Which brings us back to the moon landings. I should state, for the avoidance of any doubt, and to kill off any internet speculation, that I am not in possession of any classified information about whether they were faked or not. My contacts at Nasa are not that good.
But then I would say that wouldn't I?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24650841

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GO HOME ON TIME DAY SURVEY FINDS MILLIONS OF AUSTRALIAN WORKERS DON'T TAKE A LUNCH BREAK

Jackie Sinnerton The Courier-Mail October 25, 2013

Is this how you eat lunch at work? Then you're one of millions of Australians who don't take a lunch break Picture: Thinkstock Source: Supplied

LUNCH break? What lunch break?

Millions of Australian workers have got into the habit of not taking a lunch break.
A new survey shows that bosses and employees alike are working through their day without a proper break.
The survey, conducted by The Australia Institute and beyondblue for this year's national Go Home on Time Day initiative, found that 3.8 million people routinely don't take a lunch break, with one in two of them saying it's because they are "too busy". The Go Home on Time Day is on November 20.
Almost three quarters of respondents who said they do usually take a lunch break said they either choose to eat lunch at their desks, cut short or postpone their break until midafternoon.
beyondblue CEO Ms Kate Carnell AO said many bosses and workers have lost sight of how taking a break can improve their mental health and increase productivity.
"It's great that people are committed to getting the job done, but it is sensible to take a break away from your desk or the production line to exercise and think about other things. A regular walk at lunchtime improves both your physical and mental health and you will resume work feeling refreshed," she said.
Most people acknowledged that taking a break, even a short one helps clear the head and makes them more productive. One in four said taking a full lunch break makes work less stressful and one in three said breaks make work more enjoyable.
The Australia Institute's Executive Director Dr Richard Denniss said despite Australia's reputation for being a land of "sickies'' and "smokos'', the evidence suggests otherwise.
"Lunch breaks have always been a part of modern workplaces, but in recent decades more and more people report that they are too busy or too rushed to do something as simple as walk away from their desk to eat their lunch. While Australians used to celebrate the practice of taking a long lunch, we're now struggling to even manage a short one," he said.
Go Home on Time Day is an annual initiative aimed at promoting mentally healthy workplaces and the importance of work/life balance.

- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/go-home-on-time-day-survey-finds-millions-of-australian-workers-dont-take-a-lunch-break/story-e6frg6n6-1226746827497#sthash.vXBMdyZ8.dpuf

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• October 25, 2013 2:43PM

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Is this how you eat lunch at work? Then you're one of millions of Australians who don't take a lunch break Picture: Thinkstock Source: Supplied

LUNCH break? What lunch break?

Millions of Australian workers have got into the habit of not taking a lunch break.
A new survey shows that bosses and employees alike are working through their day without a proper break.
The survey, conducted by The Australia Institute and beyondblue for this year's national Go Home on Time Day initiative, found that 3.8 million people routinely don't take a lunch break, with one in two of them saying it's because they are "too busy". The Go Home on Time Day is on November 20.
Almost three quarters of respondents who said they do usually take a lunch break said they either choose to eat lunch at their desks, cut short or postpone their break until midafternoon.
beyondblue CEO Ms Kate Carnell AO said many bosses and workers have lost sight of how taking a break can improve their mental health and increase productivity.
"It's great that people are committed to getting the job done, but it is sensible to take a break away from your desk or the production line to exercise and think about other things. A regular walk at lunchtime improves both your physical and mental health and you will resume work feeling refreshed," she said.
Most people acknowledged that taking a break, even a short one helps clear the head and makes them more productive. One in four said taking a full lunch break makes work less stressful and one in three said breaks make work more enjoyable.
The Australia Institute's Executive Director Dr Richard Denniss said despite Australia's reputation for being a land of "sickies'' and "smokos'', the evidence suggests otherwise.
"Lunch breaks have always been a part of modern workplaces, but in recent decades more and more people report that they are too busy or too rushed to do something as simple as walk away from their desk to eat their lunch. While Australians used to celebrate the practice of taking a long lunch, we're now struggling to even manage a short one," he said.
Go Home on Time Day is an annual initiative aimed at promoting mentally healthy workplaces and the importance of work/life balance.

- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/go-home-on-time-day-survey-finds-millions-of-australian-workers-dont-take-a-lunch-break/story-e6frg6n6-1226746827497#sthash.vXBMdyZ8.dpuf

MOZILLA'S NEW LIGHTBEAM DOWNLOAD ALLOWS USERS TO TRACK TRACKERS

Published time: October 25, 2013

Reuters / Albert Gea

Mozilla, the open-source software community responsible for the Firefox browser, has released a new download that allows users to identify who’s tracking their Internet movements.
Dubbed “Lightbeam,” the free Firefox extension will enable users to see which third party companies are monitoring their online presence, a move that Mozilla states will “illuminate the inner workings of the web.”
“It’s a stake in the ground in terms of letting people know the ways they are being tracked,” said Mark Surman, Mozilla’s executive director, to the UK-based Independent. “At Mozilla, we believe everyone should be in control of their user data and privacy and we want people to make informed decisions about their Web experience.”
With the download in place, Lightbeam creates a visual representation of all the third parties that are active on the websites you visit. Typically, that would include advertisers or other companies looking to sell your data for marketing purposes. Mozilla is also encouraging Lightbeam users to crowd-source their data in order to generate “a big-picture view of how tracking works on the Internet,” potentially singling out which companies are the most active in their monitoring.
"The visualization grows with every site you visit and every request made from your browser,” Mozilla said in its online description of Lightbeam. “In addition to the graph view, you can also see your data in a clock view to examine connections over a 24-hour period or in a List view to drill down into individual sites."
Considering the software’s ability to access such detailed information, there’s already concern that the program may jeopardize the privacy of users willing to share and upload the data it tracks. Mozilla, however, says there’s no need to worry: Lightbeam does not record IP addresses, and everything users decide to share will be done anonymously. It can also be easily uninstalled.
Mozilla has already upgraded its Firefox browser after learning the NSA was exploiting deficiencies in the browser to uncover people using the anonymity-protecting Tor software and gain access to their data.
“Our focus in on building a web based on openness and transparency,” Surman added.“Our dream is a world where people know more about how the web works and take control of their lives online. We need a posse of people to get involved and make that happen.”

http://rt.com/usa/mozilla-lightbeam-internet-tracking-752/ 

RUPERT MURDOCH'S NEWS LIMITED JOURNALISTS CONTINUE TO HARRASS 'THE MAN' ANTHONY MUNDINE FOR PUBLICLY TELLING IT AS IT IS WHILST WARNING OTHER FAMOUS SPORTSPEOPLE TO 'TOW THE LINE', LEST YOU ARE SUBJECTED TO THE SAME CORPORATE MEDIA TREATMENT

Controversial boxer Anthony Mundine wants Australian public to show him love

Jamie Pandaram The Daily Telegraph –Owned by American citizen, Rupert Murdoch– October 21, 2013

IT is one of the toughest PR challenges in history, but after 20 years happily playing the most polarising sportsman in the country –proof of claim?– Anthony Mundine now wants to feel the love of the Australian public.

And Mundine says he will make it happen by completing an audacious plan to beat the best boxers on the planet over the next two years, because "everyone loves a winner".

Poll: Anthony Mundine

Is Australia ready to forgive and support Anthony Mundine?

Yes

No 
Notice that there is no option asking if people are ready to forgive and support the corporate press for it's continual harassment, racism, violence & anger towards anyone that thinks and speaks for themselves. The tenor of the question automatically presumes that Anthony is wrong and could be entitled to forgiveness and support.

Mundine, 38, has comfortably played the bad guy throughout his rugby league and boxing careers This unproven claim has been repeated for the second time within three sentences, can anybody spell the word 'm.a.s.s. c.u.l.t.u.r.a.l. p.r.o.g.r.a.m.m.i.n.g.'?– particularly to promote his fights - but as he enters the final chapter of his sporting career he has made a surprising plea.  –Another unproven claim, but, whilst we are dealing with presumptions, is it possible that Anthony has forgiven the racist Australian fans and is trying to embrace the others that are unwittingly the victim of corporate media brain washing? Why isn't Murdoch's monkeys, oops i meant journos writing the truth?
"I want the Australian fans to get behind me, embrace my confidence, embrace my ability to believe in myself, and back me," Mundine said.
"For far too long there has been a love-hate relationship.
"I have a lot of fans who love me, and a lot of those that dislike me for whatever reason.
"But they don’t know the real Anthony Mundine, they just know the portrayal of me.
"I just want them to get to know the real me, and know that I am not only fighting for myself, I am fighting for all of them as well.
"I’m representing Australia. It’s like I’m in the Davis Cup, or the rugby World Cup, or soccer World Cup."
THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. Anthnoy has just shared his desire to embrace and be embraced, and instead of respecting that, or even, analysing that, the reporter IMMEDIATELY starts trying to programme his audience about his "list of crimes" that the corporate media/government have been using to poison the minds of Australian's with. The idea is that any empathy you developed by reading Anthony's words will be immediately replaced by older programming that either removes any empathy for Anthony that you may have had, or, at the very least, confused you sufficiently that you are unsure about your feelings.

But Mundine is smart enough to realise –very devious, they start by planting the notion that Anthony is playing games with the truth & trying to fool the public, because ultimately, to 'forgive him publicly', it shall be required that Anthony to publicly renounce the truthfull things that he has said about race & 9/11, perhaps on a Oprah type show where he can be given an interrogation, a very public dressing down and 'public' forgiveness–  that some will simply never forgive his utterances about America bringing the 9/11 attacks on themselves, or his shot at the Aboriginal heritage of previous opponent Daniel Geale.
SO WHAT?????? IS HE THE FIRST PUBLIC PERSON TO MAKE THIS SUGGESTION ABOUT 9/11?  Notice that the divide and conquer card is played trying to portray a 'good' and a 'bad' blackman and whilst you are arguing amongst yourselves about Anthony & Daniel and whether they are or are not, you have lost site that YET AGAIN, the bona fides of a black man is being defined by a whi...... 
While he later apologised for those comments, –it wont stop Murdoch's monkeys from wielding it as a sword to be used against Anthony– Mundine believes the only way to get his critics on-side is by delivering on his proclamation of fighting the greatest boxer alive, Floyd Mayweather.
“This is straight up, I think everyone loves a winner, all I’ve got to do is win," said Mundine, who fights US superstar Shane Mosley –a great boxer who is now 42– at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Wednesday night.
“Not many people liked South Sydney a couple of years ago, all of a sudden this year everyone was hopping on the bandwagon – including me.
“I’m at the stage of my life and my career where this is the final chapter.
“I’m looking at four fights, maybe three if I get the right fights - Mosley being the first – to achieving my goal of fighting Floyd Mayweather in May of 2015.
“I’m not saying I’ll beat Mosley and they’ll give me Floyd, that’s pretty stupid, I want to go through the tests that need to be passed.
“That is probably two more fights, I would like to fight Miguel Cotto and Saul Alvarez before I fight Floyd.
“And I want Australia to support me. I don’t regret anything I’ve said because I am a straight shooter, I talk the truth. –Do you still remember the unproven claim published earlier in this story that Anthony "has made a surprising plea"?????? No. Anthony is still the man, and has nothing to be ashamed of because he is a straight shooter that speaks the truth.
“But I want them not to have tunnel vision, look outside the square, because there is a lot more to me that is likeable than not."
Mundine added: “There has never been a crossover sportsman like me, and we should be proud of that, Australians should embrace that, I don’t want to talk myself up, that is something you guys should support.
"When I’m fighting overseas I want them to say 'This is our man, no one has done what he's done'.
"People talk about Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders, but they switched from team to team sports, I went from a team sport to the hardest singular sport of all, boxing, and became a three-time world champion. That has never been done.
Why are Murdoch's monkeys not embracing Mundine's deeds which eclipse the accomplishments of  Freemason Don Bradman, as well as the other sports stars who Murdoch relies on so heavily for advertising revenue? This is what happen's if you stand up for yourself, your family, your community. When you refuse to be silent whilst a military occupation continues, when a nation is attacked by terrorists in the U.S government, when you use your 'freedom' to say what the western imperial terrorists think are the wrong things to say.
"When people hear my story overseas they freak out, but it’s taken for granted here.
Because take away the censoring veneer of politics and the truth is the truth.
"I don’t want them to embrace it when I’m gone.
"Let’s embrace it now, when I’m taking on the best in the world."
If you were paying attention to what Murdoch's monkeys wrote immediately after the last batch of Mundine quotes, then by now, you should be bracing yourself for the next assault on Anthony for the reasons listed earlier in this article. 
MUNDINE'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTS
Because heavens forbid that Anthony should have or express an opinion.....
"It's not about terrorism, it’s about fighting for God’s laws and America's brought it upon themselves for what they’ve done." - 2001
Because it's controversial to express an opinion on 9/11. 
"A black player would have to do three or four times more than any other bloke to be a chance in NSW. Politics and racism are part of the scene in rugby league. That’s why I got out." – 2007
Because it's controversial to express an opinion on racism.
"I thought they wiped all the Aborigines from Tasmania out. I don’t see [Geale] representing black people, or coloured people. I don’t see him in the communities, I don’t see him doing the things I do to people, and fighting for the people.
"He’s got a white woman, he’s got white kids." – 2013
Because it's controversial to express an opinion on your community. 
"Australia is a very racist country ... I want to change the flag. I want to change the anthem." - 2013
Because it's controversial to express an opinion that's true and disagrees with the racists that try to control your beliefs whilst fooling you into thinking that you are free and thought up that opinion all by yourself.

- See more at: http://www.foxsports.com.au/other-sports/boxing/controversial-boxer-anthony-mundine-wants-australian-public-to-show-him-love/story-e6frf5h3-1226743359109#sthash.PopNZaW9.dpuf