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Confronting antisemitism and Israel hatred
Why anti-Zionism is always driven by antisemitism
Israel and Jew hatred in the UK
Richard Millett has an excellent account of the anti-Israel demonstration that took place yesterday in London. Note that the demonstrators are still displaying those fraudulent 'shrinking Palestine' maps that I exposed here and here.
Those demonstrating will no doubt be greatly encouraged that, on the same day, the virulent obsessive Israel hater George Galloway was elected to Parliament after winning the Bradford by-election by campaigning essentially as an Islamist. His first tweet after his victory said "Long live Palestine, Arab dignified".
Here is a man discredited in every aspect of his life, the best friend forever of the late Saddam Hussain, and now Assad in Syria and Ahemdinejad in Iran (who actually employs him to provide propaganda for his TV station). These are tyrants who have brutally murdered tens of thousands of their own Muslim civilians; yet Galloway won almost 100% of the Muslim vote by campaignining on a record of 'defending Muslims worldwide'. So much for most Muslims in the UK being moderate. Being a Jew-baiter is enough for them to forgive any other transgressions. Indeed the most common comment I heard from Muslims asked why they supported Galloway was 'he stands up for the Palestinians'. He certainly won't stand up for the non-Muslims in Bradford.
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How bad can Obama and his cronies get?
Boko Haram handywork: nothing to worry about here according to Obama
Boko Haram is the Nigerian branch of Al Qaeda that has been slaughtering Christians in the north of the country for two years now. In the Hausa language, Boko Haram, translates as "Western education is sacrilege" Their Arabic name translates as People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet's Teachings and Jihad. Yet, as Sultan Knish reports today, the US government not only refuses to designate them as a terrorist organisation, but it also rejects the idea that religion is the primary driver of their violence. The US government thinks Boko Haram will be just fine if the US gives money to address "the underlying political and socio-economic problems in the north". I thought this story had to be an early April Fool's joke especially when I discovered that the US State Dept spokeman was called Johnie Carson. But it is not; so - like most of Obama's policies - the joke is on us.
And while on the subject of how bad Obama is, here are a few things I found this week:
While Obama was sickeningly exploiting (and pre-judging the circumstances of) the death of black 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by a 'white' security guard (who is actually mixed race Hispanic) with his "if I had a son he would look like Trayvon Martin' remark he was surprisingly quiet about the brutal murder of two young (white) Brits by a black 17-year-old thug Shawn Tyson in Florida (Friends of murdered British tourists attack Obama for lack of compassion after he failed to reply to THREE letters from grieving family). I reckon that if Obama had a son he'd look a lot like Shawn Tyson.
Not just failing to support Israel with respect to Iran but continuing to sabotage any chance of a successful military operation (see John Bolton here also and a scathing attack in Israel Hayom).
Refusing to acknowledge any part of Jerusalem as Israel (see here and here)
Obama best friends with everyone and no-one (and people still take this jerk seriously):
Proof that Obama's Hawaii 'birth certificate' posted on the White House website is a fraud (and still the media cover up this story):
A full account of Obama's record on Israel (and still the Jews vote for him):
Obama is basically a racist, liar, Communist, and fraud. But above all he is simply a jerk.
Obama: hypocritical jerk
While I have nothing but contempt for British PM David Cameron, you can be sure that even he would be making a public apology to the families - and indeed the whole of America - if two American tourists were brutually murdered in the UK. In fact, I can't think of any other world leader who would act with such lack of compassion as Obama here. Now, if the murderer had been white and the victims black .....
More on Obama the jerk here.
Labels: Obama
Ten years since the Passover massacre
Elder of Ziyon notes that Hamas is today celebrating one of the worst massacres in Israel's history - the massacre at the Park Hotel Netanya when 30 Jews - of whom 20 were older than seventy, were killed (and 140 injured, many critically) by a suicide bomber during the Passover Seder service. It is poignant to read the names of the victims.
As Elder says:
Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall seeing any Arabs protesting against this attack, or writing anguished op-eds about how a fellow Muslim could have done such a thing. No Arab groups popped up on college campuses calling for solidarity with Jews against terror. There were no UN resolutions condemning the massacre. But there was a PA-sponsored soccer tournament in Tulkarem named after the suicide bomber.
Taking account of the relative populations of Israel and the USA this is equivalent to 1500 deaths and 70,000 injured. If such an outrage - during a religious festival - were committed anywhere else in the world against any other group of people the event would be seared into the memory of everyone (in fact in the month 135 Israeli civilians were killed by suicide bombings - a US equivalent of 6,750 deaths - well over twice the number killed on 9/11). Yet the massacre barely received a mention in the UK media at the time, despite the fact that it was actually sanctioned by 'peace partner' Yassir Arafat (even though it was carried out by Hamas). In fact the media actually was more interested the next day in pushing news of the bogus Saudi 'peace plan' which was, cynically, made 'public' one hour after the massacre, almost certainly with American prompting as an attempt to 'restrain' the Israelis in their response.
Few people outside Israel, even Jews, know that the massacre took place. Yet, perversely, when a few days later Israelis attacked a terrorist enclave in Jenin (going hand-to-hand to avoid civilian casualties - resulting in the deaths of 23 Israelis and 53 Palestinians - of whom 48 were 'gunmen') there was condemnation from the whole world as the media became obsessed with the myth that a 'massacre' had taken place. Although the massacre myth was debunked as a hoax within a few days, most people still remember the 'Jenin massacre'. Similarly, in stark contrast to the Passover massacre,
everyone knows about "Deir Yassin" which the Palestinians (wrongly) claimed was a massacre of Arabs in 1948 and which is widely commemorated not just annually in the UK but at more or less every meeting where the Palestinians want to make a point about Israel's 'brutality'. In contrast to the zero articles in the UK media about the Passover massacre since 2002 there have been many hundreds of articles commemorating the non-massacres at Deir Yassin and Jenin.
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Evening Standard covers up motives of Islamic terrorism
The Evening Standard - now part of the anti-Israel Independent and Independent on Sunday group produced an outrageous blood libel against Israel on 12 March stating the lie that Israelis had killed a Palestinian schoolboy. After I made a formal complaint that case is currently being dealt with by the Press Complaints Commission (I have had a response and an offer from the Editor to resolve, but have not accepted it and have made a counter proposal; once the case is resolved I will reveal some of the very interesting details involved).
Yesterday the Standard reported on the outcome of the Toulouse killer's confrontation with the Police - it was buried on page 12. I have scanned it here. Although the picture caption does state that Merah was a jihadist, the lengthy piece simply describes Merah as a "serial killer". There is not a single mention of the killer's religion, Jihadist motivation, nor the mass of Jihadist anti-Semitic statements he, and the Islamist group he was a member of, had just made. In particular they make no mention of Merah's statement that he wanted to kill Jews to 'avenge Palestinian children killed by Israel' (I wonder where he could have got that erroneous idea from?). The article also avoids telling readers that the school he targeted was a Jewish school.
There are many developments of the story about the whole change of narrative on Toulouse (Sultan Knish has a typically incisive article). Now the media is telling us that the real victims are not Jews but Muslims who 'fear a backlash', and there are the interminable reports describing an alternative reality in which there is no anti-Semitism in France and especially no Muslim anti-Semitism (why after all should the media believe what Jews who live in Toulouse say after all? and the hundreds of attacks by Muslims on Jews in the last 5 years obviosuly never really happened). But the most bizarre reporting I have seen comes from, of all places, the supposedly 'conservative, pro-Israel' Fox News, whose reporter in Toulouse (and yes he really was there) did not once refer to the fact that three tiny Jewish children had been murdered. He kept saying (and I saw him say this several different times) that 'a teacher and three students' were murdered. And, incidentally, Fox News stopped being pro-Israel more than two years ago.
There is no longer any main stream media outlet that is telling the truth. The truth is the new 'hate speech'.
19 May 2012: UPDATE ON THIS STORY HERE
Labels: Arab antisemitism, Standard
Sarkozy to use Islamist terrorist attack as pretext to arrest critics of Islam
I had to do a double-take on this.
Sarkozy called Merah's killings terrorist attacks and announced a crackdown on people following extremist websites. "From now on, any person who habitually consults websites that advocate terrorism or that call for hate and violence will be punished," he said in a statement.
The problem is that if Sarkozy and the rest of the politically correct elite are the ones who get to decide what constitutes 'extremist' and 'incitement to hatred' then among the first to be targeted will be anybody who reads blogs that highlight the problems of radical Islam. This is because all such sites (including mine - or any of those listed on the right) are classified by the liberal elite as 'extremist hate sites'. So yet again the crimes of Islamic terrorists will result directly in restrictions on the freedom of everybody and the criminalizing of opponents of Islamic terrorism.
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The Toulouse killer is a Muslim terrorist so the media narrative changes again
While all the media continued yesterday to assume (and indeed hope) that the Toulouse killer was a 'white racist' I questioned the rationality of the assumption, because it was clear to me that the attacks seemed more in keeping with Islamic terrorism. This morning we hear - surprise, surprise - that the killer is Mohammed Merah, an Islamic terrorist of Algerian origin, who claimed that the killings were in revenge for 'Israel killing Palestinian children and for French military involvement in the Middle East.
Many media outlets carried this image from a multi-cultural rally in France yesterday. The banner reads "In France we kill blacks, Jews, and Arabs". When we will be seeing the more accurate banner "In France Muslims kill Jews and soldiers"?
But no sooner was this announced than the media was already spinning the story in a way to suit its own narrative again. I just watched Sky News coverage and they were stressing that the killer and his family lived in a very poor housing block surrounded by wealthier neighbours, and that clearly social deprivation and poverty were a key factor. To emphasize this narrative they then interviewed a French female journalist living in London who claimed that what was terrible about the attack was that the killer was 'French' and that it was therefore 'an attack against diversity'. She said that it was all down to the racist climate in France which had been made worse by Nikolas Sarkozy in the last five years and she picked out, as an example of racist lack of tolerance, the burka ban he had introduced.
So there you have it in a nutshell. When a terrorist grabs tiny Jewish children by the hair and shoots them through the head this can only be the work of a white racist who actually hates Muslims as much as Jews (Tuesday's media headlines). But when on Wednesday we discover he is a Muslim terrorist then suddenly his actions are justified by poverty and are a natural reaction both to anti-Muslim attitudes in France and the actions of Israel against Palestinians. And of course the real victims in all of this are Muslims.
Finally, I wonder where Mohammed Merah got the idea into his head that Israel deliberately kills Palestinian children? It couldn't, by chance, have been from the western media who have been peddling these Arab lies and blood libels unquestioningly for many years now?
11.40 update: The headlines of all the usual media news suspects (BBC, Haaretz and bizarrely even the Jerusalem Post) - all of which yesterday headlined the fact that the killer was a suspected "white racist/Nazi' - are all concealing the identify of the killer (although of course they are forced to reveal it in the actual story). In the UK today's budget will ensure that the story fails to even get much of a mention from now on, so many UK residents will forever assume that the killer was indeed a white Nazi with a hatred for Muslims.
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Labels: Arab antisemitism, media bias, Sky News
The media response to the Toulouse killings
Today's Sun
The main stream media – which after every Islamic terrorist attack warns us not to assume that the killers were Muslims or had any connection to Islam – has been very quick to identify the Toulouse killer as a 'right wing racist'. BBC News analyst Christian Fraser asserts:
" it is an inescapable fact that all the victims have been Jewish, black or of north African descent."
The problems with this is that it is also an inescapable fact that all the victims have been Jewish civilians or French soldiers. And all Jews and all NATO forces (which includes the French) are considered "fair game" for every Muslim terrorist group in the world.
See my full article on this at my new Times of Israel blog.
UPDATE: What a surprise the killer turns out to be a Muslim supremacist.
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Labels: media bias, muslim misbehaviour
Arrested in the UK for criticising Iran
Following on from my story about the UK man imprisoned for 12 months for displaying posters that could cause offence to Muslims, comes the story of two Israeli men arrested at Heathrow after a stewardess overheard them making "inappropriate and potentially threatening comments regarding Iran" while on a BA flight from Las Vegas. News reports on the story are pretty skimpy (the few sites interested in the story seem to be anti-semitic and Jihadist sites and blogs who are typically using it to 'expose' the evil intents of Israel vis a vis Iran). However, contrary to what was stated in the few early reports (such as the JC on and also this one in the Mail) Rod Liddle in today's Sun claims that the men were not disruptive in any way and no passengers reported any concerns about them (perhaps Sky News will get round to apologising some time for the tickertape headline "Israelis arrested on BA flight in terrorist alert" they put out when the story first broke). So it appears that a single stewardess took offence at two guys for criticising a terrorist regime that daily threatens the existence of their own country - and on this basis they were arrested and accused of being terrorists.
The UK's political leaders are continually telling Israel that the country has no right to defend itself from Iran - several have hinted that any strike on Iran would be 'illegal'. But now it appears that it is also illegal for Israeli citizens even to discuss the threat posed by Iran.
Coming soon to the UK:
Man imprisoned for expressing support for Israel - deemed offensive to all Muslims
Jews imprisoned for attending Holocause memorial event - deemed offensive to all Nazis.
Man imprisoned after telling his psychiatrist that he once had a negative though about Muslims
Man imprisoned for displaying posters that could offend Muslims (oops already had that...)
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Labels: Iran, UK antisemitism
Imprisoned in the UK for criticising Islam
The national UK media has had almost nothing to say about the astonishing case of Darren Conway who on March 6 was sentenced to a year in prison for posting 'anti-Islamic materials' in the window of his ground-floor apartment in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. There is a very good piece by Bruce Bawer about the case in which he wonders why no information about the actual posters has been provided in any news reports. He suspects that the material is simply standard factual information about Islam and Mohammed (including the fact that, by having sex with the 9-year old Aisha, Muhammad would be classified as a pedophile in any Western society).
In order to find out exactly what the posters were I have just filed a Freedom of Information Request to the Crown Prosection Service -anyone else can do this by completing the form here (you can send it by email). The details needed for the form are no more than provided above.
Obviously I will post the response here when I get it.
Update: The Crown Prosecution Service has its own report about the case on its website here. However, it also provides no concrete details about the posters beyond the quotes of Prosecutor Judith Walker who tells us that "Although they were targeted at Muslims, they would cause offence to virtually anyone that saw them." Sounds a very grand claim.
Update 15 March 2012: Arrested in the UK for criticising Iran
Update 5 June 2012: I have had a response from The Crown Prosecution Service. They have refused the request form information about the posters on the grounds that it is 'not in the public interest'.
Labels: censoring, Islamaphobia
London Evening Standard blood libels Israel - but gives Syrian regime murderers benefit of doubt
Blood libel - and classic Pali photo stunt
One of my previous posts about Western media reporting on Israel is typically pertinent in the way the media have handled the latest rocket barrage (nearly 200 since Friday) against Israel from Gaza (Elder of Ziyon has been doing a great job both reporting the truth and also the media lies). But the worst example is surely in tonight's London Evening Standard - a free mass circulation paper. Despite the catastrophic impact on Israeli daily life, every one of the 21 Palestinians killed in Israel's response have been Islamic Jihad and PRC terrorists (confirmed by the terrorist organisations themselves). Yet the Standard is leading with a story - which turns out to be false - that Israel has killed a 16-year-old boy in 'school uniform'. As Elder reports even the notoriously anti-Israel biased AFP asserts that:
acording to an AFP correspondent at the scene, there were no signs of any impact on the ground which could have been caused by a missile, with the most likely cause of his death being some kind of explosive device he was carrying
What is also fascinating is that this is by far the most extensively reported foreign news story, despite it being on a day when: an American soldier killed 16 civilians in Afghanistan, there were multiple suicide bombings by Islamists killings dozens of Christians in Nigeria, a massive suicide bombing by Islamists killing 19 mourners at a funeral in Pakistan, not to mention other suicide bombings by Islamists in Pakistan and Iraq. Moreover, today in Homs Syria 45 bodies - all women and children brutually massacred have been discovered and very graphically shown elsewhere. Note that the Standard does partly 'cover' this story in a very small article underneath the large Israel blood libel article. But note two things: 1) the Standard reports 12 deaths even though the Syrian resistence claimed 45, i.e. unlike the claims of the Palestinan terrorists, it does not automatically accept whatever they say as being true; 2) the word 'murdered' is in inverted commas in the title, in stark contrast to Israel kills schoolboy in the other headline.
Is it any wonder that my daughter - who goes to a Jewish School asks me why Twitter is trending with "Israel is a terrorist nation"? (update: this is also partly due to a fraudulant UN worker tweet).
Update 14 March: This morning several major media outlets were reporting that an 8-year old Palestinian boy had died from injuries sustained in an Israeli air strike (incredibly the Jerusalem Post had this as its top story this morning). It turns out - as reported by even the notoriously anti-Israel AP - that contrary to the previous Palestinian claim lapped up without question by all news agencies:
The boy's relatives and witnesses later said the boy was marching in a funeral procession for a Gaza militant when he was struck in the head by an errant bullet. At the time, gunmen were firing in the air, they said.
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Labels: media bias, Standard
The Jewish Naqba and how its story is suppressed
There is a great article by Michelle Huberman "Where are the Ashkenazim?" that describes how the Ashkenazi liberal elite in Israel have continually downplayed the catastrophe that befell the Jews living in Arab lands after 1948. While the whole world has been brainwashed into accepting the narrative of the Palestinain 'naqba' - where about 600,000 Arabs fled Israel at the request of the invading Arab armies - few people are aware of the far greater number of Jews who were forcibly expelled from their homes in Arab countries.
The article struck a special chord with me because this subject came up last September in a talk by Dr Noam Leshem who is the archetypal Israeli liberal that Michelle refers to. Leshem, who is apparently employed by BICOM to 'promote Israel' and also 'advises senior Israeli politicians', actually presents only the standard Palestinian anti-Zionist narrative. A member of the audience asked him specifically about why the Israeli government did not make more political capital from the Jewish naqba. His response was abrupt and rude. He said something like 'that is a dead subject - there is absolutely nothing to be gained from raising it'. The problem for people like him, of course, is that it does not fit in with his narrative, so in the traditional leftist way he simply refuses to acknowledge it.
The benefits of being married to a Taliban
From today's Times' article "Burka brigade: wives take up arms for the Taleban" we have this classic:
As with nearly all Afghan women, Mahmuda's movement is severely restricted by her husband. But she says that being the wife of an insurgent has its benefits.
"They are fighters and when they come home they are tired and don't beat us".
Key readings
The Palestinian 'privilege' series
The AntiSemite test
Boycotting the Jewish State
Countering the Palestine maps that lie
Rules and Guidelines for Reporting on the Middle East
Who are the Palestinians
Is anti-Zionism the same as antisemitism
The Leftist/Islamist alliance
What leftists believe
Anti-Israel Charities
How 9/11 would be reported today
Football Jihad
Pat Condell on the great Palestinian lie
Middle East in 5 Minutes (video)
Arab antisemitism
censoring
Israel tourism
Israeli stupidity
Jewish antisemitism
Jewish newspapers
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major article
muslim misbehaviour
UK antisemitism
Warsi
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Sarkozy to use Islamist terrorist attack as pretex...
The Toulouse killer is a Muslim terrorist so the m...
London Evening Standard blood libels Israel - but ...
BBC Watch
Beyond the Great Divide
Caroline Glick
CiF Watch
Daphne Anson
Free Palestine Now (alternative blog)
FrontPageMag
Harry's Place
Honest Reporting
Israel Matzav
Israellycool
Israpundit
Jews Down Under
Melanie Philips
Michael Totten Middle East Diary
Middle East Info
PreOccupied Territory
Religion of Peace
Richard Millett
Rubin Reports
The Commentator
This ongoing war
The view from Israel
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Tomorrow it will have been a week since my eldest daughter stormed out of the house following an argument regarding the company she has been keeping and her attitude / lies. I am hiding from the world, not taking phonecalls or responding to texts unless they are from my parents (who have unwittingly become dragged into this by my daughter turning up on their doorstep). The only thing that is getting me through is the Olympic cycling, it's providing me with a diversion and somewhere to bury my head.


In the seventh in my Section 1983 Primer series, published on October 25, 2012, I blogged about the Supreme Court's approach to absolute immunity. I specifically referred to the three categories of absolutely immune defendants–legislators, judges and prosecutors–and also discussed the underlying policy considerations as well as the Court's functional approach.
In the eighth in this series, published on February 20, 2013, I blogged about absolute legislative immunity.
I discuss absolute judicial immunity in this post.
The Supreme Court held in Pierson v. Ray that judges are protected by absolute immunity when they act in a judicial capacity, even if they act unconstitutionally. The Court relied on the background of common law immunity in 1871, when section 1983 was enacted. In Pierson itself, a state court judge was ruled absolutely immune from damages liability under section 1983 even though he had convicted the plaintiff under an unconstitutional statute. For immunity purposes, it did not matter even if the judge did so knowingly.
Absolute judicial immunity is intended to protect the judicial process and not the judges themselves. If judges, who are easy targets, had to be concerned that rulings in civil or criminal cases would generate section 1983 claims against them–after all, someone almost always loses–this could have an adverse effect on their independent decision-making. In addition, section 1983 claims against judges would necessarily involve the relitigation of earlier cases. Further, there is ordinarily a remedy available: an appeal.
However, for absolute immunity to apply, the judge must not have acted in the complete absence of all subject matter jurisdiction. If, for example, a probate court judge without any subject matter jurisdiction whatever over criminal cases were to convict a person of a crime unconstitutionally, that judge would not be protected by absolute immunity.
On the other hand, if the existence of subject matter jurisdiction is merely debatable, absolute immunity would still apply, as made clear by the Court in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349 (1978).
Another requirement for absolute judicial immunity is a judicial act. Stump involved the sterilization of the plaintiff when she was a minor at the request of her mother who had secured a court order from the defendant judge. The plaintiff did not know that she was being sterilized, but only found out some years later. Still, the Court determined that the challenged conduct of the judge was a judicial act protected by absolute judicial immunity: it was the kind of act normally performed by a judge, and the parties before the court (here, only the mother) dealt with the judge in his judicial capacity.
Judges at all levels are protected by absolute judicial immunity, ranging from magistrates and justices of the peace all the way up to a state's highest appellate judges.
1. The scope of judicial immunity from section 1983 damages liability is very broad. Indeed, the concern with protecting the integrity of the judicial process is so weighty that absolute immunity even extends to witnesses who allegedly testify falsely in civil and criminal proceedings. Briscoe v. LaHue, 460 U.S. 325 (1983).
2. The functional approach to immunities applies to absolute judicial immunity. A judge who acts unconstitutionally in a non-judicial role, for example, as an administrator who fires someone, is not protected by absolute immunity for that act. Forrester v. White, 484 U.S. 219 (1988).
3. What I address here is absolute judicial immunity from damages liability. Whether and to what extent judges are absolutely immune from injunctive relief is governed by The Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1996 (PDF), Pub. L. No. 104-317. That Act in part overruled Pulliam v. Allen, 466 U.S. 522 (1984), which held that judges were not absolutely immune from injunctive relief regarding their judicial acts. See §§ 7:64-65 of my treatise, CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES LITIGATION: THE LAW OF SECTION 1983 (4th ed. 2012)(West), now available as an ebook.


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Tweddle wins Gold at Artistic World Championships
A superb week of gymnastics at the magnificent O2 Arena in London was capped off in style today with a gold medal at the Artistic World Championships for England's Beth Tweddle.
The 24-year-old from Liverpool bounced back from her failure to reach the final in her strongest event on the uneven bars with a superb display in the floor exercise to win her second world title.
After suffering a fall in qualifying on the uneven bars, which she won in 2006, Tweddle performed a near-faultless routine to triumph on the floor at the O2 Arena.
Tweddle said: "Winning the bars in 2006 was pretty good, but with it being on home ground and not on my signature piece, I think this probably is the top [achievement].
My mum, my dad, my house-mate, my gym friends, everyone is here, so at least afterwards I'll be able to celebrate with them."
The European champion was the first gymnast to take to the floor and showed no nerves as she posted a score of 14.650 in front of a packed house.
Her routine was the hardest in the competition and she watched on as her rivals were unable to surpass her tally.
There was a long delay following an injury to Colombian Jessica Gil Ortiz, who left the arena on a stretcher after landing on her neck, but Australian Lauren Mitchell stayed focused to score 14.550 and claim her second silver of the day after coming second on the beam.
China's Sui Lu secured bronze with a score of 14.300.
Tweddle, who had almost fallen in Wednesday's qualification, was unsure if she had done enough to secure gold.
She said: "I was a bit disappointed with the actual score.
"That's why I was more nervous waiting.
"Normally you know what is a good score and what is not, but in this championships everything has been a bit different.
"Everyone expects me to medal on bars.
"To come out with a world title on floor, it shows that I'm not just a one-piece gymnast."
Tweddle's victory overshadowed another outstanding performance from China, who bagged three more gold medals.
Article courtesy of Inside the Games.
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Security, Privacy and the Law
The Cybersecurity Act of 2015: Implications for Threat Sharing
Posted on February 2nd, 2016 by Erik Schulwolf and Colin Zick
On December 18, 2015, President Obama signed the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 (The "Act"), legislation designed to combat online threats to the federal government, state and local governments, and private entities. Within the Act are four titles, the most significant of which is Title I, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act ("CISA") (which begins at p. 694).
CISA addresses the manner in which the federal government and non-federal entities may share information about cyber threats and the defensive measures they may take to combat those threats.
CISA: An Optional Opportunity
CISA does not require non-federal entities (private entities and state, local, and tribal governments, § 102(14)) to provide information to another entity (whether government or private). Nor does it permit federal entities to condition the provision of cyber threat indicators or the awarding of a grant, contract or purchase to a non-federal entity on that entity's provision of cyber threat indicators to another entity. § 108(h).
CISA does not subject entities to liability for failing to participate in information sharing under its ambit. § 108(i).
Information Sharing Under CISA
CISA authorizes non-federal entities to share cyber threat indicators and defensive measures with other non-federal entities and with the federal government for cybersecurity purposes. § 104(c)(1).
However, CISA does not authorize the sharing of "personal information" (a term CISA does not define); as such, non-federal entities must take one of two steps before sharing cyber threat indicators:
review cyber threat indicators to determine whether they contain information "not directly related to a cybersecurity threat" that the sharing entity "knows at the time of sharing" includes an individual's personal information or information identifying an individual.
as an alternative, non-federal entities may opt to put in place the technological capability to identify and remove such information from the information to be shared. § 104(d)(2)
Information Use and Retention
Non-federal entities
A non-federal entity that receives shared cyber threat indicators or defensive measures may use that information to engage in monitoring and defense of information systems consistent with the rules discussed below under "Monitoring and Defensive Measures," and may also use, retain, or further share such information subject to otherwise applicable laws or lawful restrictions placed by the sharing entity. § 104(d)(3).
Federal entities
Under § 103, the heads of certain federal departments and agencies must create procedures to "facilitate and promote" sharing cyber threat indicators and defensive measures (of various levels of secrecy) in federal government possession with other federal and non-federal entities.
Cyber threat indicators and defensive measures provided to the federal government under CISA may only be "disclosed to, retained by, or used by" federal entities or personnel for certain specified purposes and in a manner protective of privacy and civil liberties. § 105(d)(5)(A)-(C).
Incentives to Share
CISA provides non-federal entities with a number of incentives to share cyber threat indicators and defensive measures:
Protection from liability Section 106(b) protects non-federal entities from liability in claims arising from their sharing or receipt of information pursuant to CISA. To receive this liability protection, sharing or receiving entities must act in accordance with CISA. If they are sharing with the federal government, they must use the sharing process that the Department of Homeland Security is tasked with creating under § 105(c)(1) (unless they fall under one of the exceptions contained within that provision).
Exemption from FOIA and other disclosure laws
Threat indicators and defensive measures shared under CISA are exempt from disclosure under federal, state, local and tribal freedom of information laws, §§ 104(d)(4)(B); 105(d)(3).
Exemption from regulatory use
Threat indicators and defensive measures shared under CISA generally may not be used for regulatory purposes by governmental authorities. §§ 104(d)(4)(C); 105(d)(5)(D).
No waiver of privileges and protections for information Sharing cyber threat indicators or defensive measures with the federal government under CISA does not waive any privilege or legal protection otherwise applicable, and information shared with the federal government is considered the sharing entity's proprietary information if so designated. § 105(d)(1), (2).
Antitrust exemption It is not considered a federal antitrust violation for "two or more private entities to exchange or provide a cyber threat indicator or defensive measure, or assistance relating to the prevention, investigation or mitigation of a cybersecurity threat, for cybersecurity purposes." § 104(e). This provision is not, however, to be construed to permit actual anti-competitive behavior. § 108(e).
Monitoring and Defensive Measures
CISA also puts into place rules that govern private entities' monitoring of and defense against cybersecurity threats:
Section 104(a) permits private entities, for cybersecurity purposes, to monitor their own information systems, the information systems of other non-federal and federal entities whose authorization and written consent they receive, and information that is stored on, processed by, or passing through such information systems.
Section 106(a) protects from liability those monitoring activities permitted by § 104(a).
Section 104(b) permits private entities to use defensive measures to protect their own information systems, as well as the information systems of other non-federal and federal entities that consent in writing to the use of that defensive measure.
CISA's definition of defensive measures excludes measures "that destroy[], render[] unusable, provide[] unauthorized access to, or substantially harm[]" information systems of non-consenting entities, or the information on them. § 102(7)(B).
Other Provisions of Note
CISA provides that the sharing of a cyber-threat indicator or defensive measure with a non-federal entity does not create a right to obtain similar information on behalf of the receiving, or any other, non-federal entity. § 104(f).
CISA does not create a duty to share cyber threat indicators or defensive measures, or to warn or act as a result of receiving such information. § 106(c)(1).
CISA does not, however, say anything about the availability of common law causes of action like negligence based on such situations.
Section 108(k) of CISA preempts state or local laws that "restrict[] or otherwise expressly regulate[] an activity authorized under this title."
CISA is scheduled to sunset after 10 years. § 111.
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TechCrunch hires Heather Harde as CEO, will it become a VC firm?
Published March 18, 2007 by Ben
I'm still digesting today's somewhat surprising news that Michael Arrington has hired Heather Harde as CEO of the TechCrunch Network. For those who don't know, Heather is currently in charge of Acquisitions and Mergers at Fox Interactive Media.
(Photo by Dave McClure)
So there's a few things to think about here…
Firstly, I think most would agree it's a bit of an exuberance of hire a CEO to run the affairs of a few blogs (albeit popular ones). Even if cash is abundant, and the rumors are true that advertising is $30k+ a pop per month on TechCrunch, it is still pretty extravagant.
It's therefore pretty clear to me that Michael is clearly aiming even higher then now and has bought in the CEO to take the business to a significant new level.
The second aspect to consider is the choice of CEO. As a senior vice president at Fox Interactive Media charged with looking after $2B+ worth of budget for new acquisitions, Heather must be very well remunerated – and thus expensive to attract. With that in mind, one can only assume she has taken a percentage stake in TechCrunch she has become a significant share holder according to other TechCrunch shareholder Keith Teare.
For Heather to be interested in TechCrunch shares, Heather must be thinking the business is going somewhere (beyond blogging) and with her own business talents being bought on board, one can only assume it is. Leaving FIM (Fox Interactive Media) is a big step – even if the post-Ross Levinson days are not as rosy as before – and she certainly would have had plenty of offers and opportunities to do pretty much whatever she wanted.
Many are speculating that TechCrunch will expand its media empire, like Gawker Media and GigaOmniMedia, into new topic genres. However this still seems like relative peanuts for someone like Heather and so I think TechCrunch will be getting into the Venture Capital game. And if it's not, it probably should.
Here's a few reasons why I think this is the case:
Venture Capital is about business intelligence as much anything. One can argue that Micheal Arrington has an eye for picking out future successful startups as that's basically what he's made his mark doing up till now (albeit writing about them). If I had a fund or money waiting to be invested, I can think of a lot worse places to put it than into Micheal Arrington's hands to look after for me.
Anyone looking to run a successful Venture Capital firm ultimately needs to make sure they're able to make that return – and that basically means successfully flipping the companies one invests in. Micheal already helps raise the profile of start-ups which gets them noticed by A&M teams. But what better way of ensuring that each flipped company gets the best deal possible then by having an experienced poacher-turned-gamekeeper on your side looking after the specifics of each deal?
Working on the assumption that everyone aspires to grow their business and make even more money, A VC direction is perhaps the only way to take TechCrunch to the next level in terms of size of the business and it's returns. I can't see Micheal having the time, patience or inclination to run a product-orientated start-up whereas VC'ing probably only adds a marginal overheads to the existing TC business.
There's nothing like giving out shit loads of someone else's money to unremarkable companies to make you feel like maybe you're the chump for not taking some of the money off the table for yourself. Maybe Heather aspires to getting some of the A&M capital that's still around for herself?
With my 'Media 2.0' cap on, I think such a potential development would raise all sorts of editorial issues for the TC blog to think about – however Micheal Arrington has already shown that he does not consider TechCrunch to be 'unbiased' nor does he seem to be worried too much about editorial objectivity.
Tim O'Reilly, a book publisher but self-proclaimed 'industry intelligence gatherer', recently launched AlphaTech Ventures as his investment dept, and I don't think he'll be the last to get involved in this area.
Could Michael Arrington be about to throw his hat into the ring to join some pretty heavy hitters in the VC world?
And perhaps even more importantly, would you see Micheal on the board of your start-up as a help or a hindrance?
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If you look at how Keith Teare came to be a shareholder in TechCrunch – it's because he and Mike were working together on Archimedes – an investment fund of sorts. So it's hardly a new concept there. That said, although Mike undoubtably has a skill for writing constantly about startups, I don't think this shows he has a skill at picking them. He's covered a lot of stuff over the last year or so – but never goes back and covers what became of most of them.
Allen Stern
Ben – great analysis. I added your link to my writeup about this.
hugh macleod
Not a bad bit of speculation on your part. I don't know if you're right or not, but your VC idea sounds certainly plausible.
Obviously with someone like Heather on board, Mike will be thinking big. Which is no bad thing.
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Ben this is an excellent reflection on the issues at hand. It makes sense to me that Mike and Heather (correctly) see TechCrunch expanding aggressively into VC and facilitating aquisitions of the many companies on their radar screen. The level of insider info at TechCrunche raises ethical issues that should be addressed in depth. e.g. how much disclosure should they give when they are reviewing, pitching and investing in a startup?
dave mcclure
great insights ben.
wouldn't surprise me to see a) TC raise funding now, b) open an investment / incubator arm, and c) kick butt.
nice photo too… (who snapped it? 😉
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@Ivan:
"That said, although Mike undoubtably has a skill for writing constantly about startups, I don't think this shows he has a skill at picking them."
Well it's as much about presentation and it is about substance, unfortunately, sometimes. I guess I should have written he **appears** to be able to have a knack for writing about startups.
He also has enough friends and connections to advise him and keep him on the straight and narrow.
@Joe Duck
The ethical issues are enormous and as a media commentator myself it would just be such a large conflict of interest anyone else wouldn't consider it. I'm surprised O'Reilly didn't get nearly as much flack for AlphaTech Ventures as they did.
But TechCrunch has always been the blog that defies the rules. People know it's biased, it's evaluations are very hype orientated, it rarely goes back to investigates success/failure of companies it profiles, etc etc.
In most other genres people would discount a news source like this, but we still continue keeping TC in our RSS readers. Hey, you can't knock it if it's successful I guess.
If Mike and Heather are then investing in the companies they are writing about it could all be a step too far – but then if they make significant returns on the VC side, they could even eventually let TC whither (I don't think you could sell it off – it wouldn't be the same) to concentrate on the far more lucrative side of the business.
@Dave McClure
Hey, sorry about the lack of credit. It was 1am when I wrote this but that's still no excuse. Fix now 🙂
Nik Cubrilovic
If I were running a small-team startup, apparently about to raise a fund (which takes at least a year), and had no investments lined up – why would I hire somebody *now* to take care of the acquisition of these startups – startups that haven't been invested in by a fund that is being speculated enough, let alone the 2-5 year window to build these startups to the M&A stage.
"A VC direction is perhaps the only way to take TechCrunch to the next level in terms of size of the business and it's returns."
Techcrunch continues to grow strongly, and has more obvious and better opportunities than the VC fund route. Also VC is a very long-term strategy, the image of rich VC's not doing a lot of work and making a lot of money is fiction, and it takes decades to establish a successful fund. Whichever way you look at it having a small startup raise a fund like what you outline doesn't make sense
I think more commentary needs to look past Heathers role in M&A and more into her experience from working with big media and how that will compliment Mike and TC – this is an interesting story
I agree with Calacanis when he says that TC has the opportunity to be the next CNet/Wired etc. and to lead "new new" media
thanks ben… no worries on pic & still a great piece 🙂
Mike Jorgez
and of course nik – his growth is yours to some extent too as he is a stockholder or investor in your app right?
Mike: yes Mike is on my board and also an investor, along with other folks (and to respond to a question in the original post, he is excellent in that role – better than I ever expected and always has time, one of the best investors/advisors a web-related early-stage company could have (along with Jeff Clavier and some others – another topic))
I am not sure how his growth correlates to my own growth though, our companies aren't tied together in anyway.
Anyway my original comment was just to say that the VC speculation re: TC does't have too much of a foundation and other parts of the story are more interesting – though there is nothing wrong with speculation
Sam Sethi
Ben, great post and congratualtions on the new role at France Telecom/Orange(?).
I agree with Nik, who probably knows more than most about Mike's future plans, a media company play is more likely. It wil be interesting to see if that includes properties in Europe.
The success of PodTech.net with both Scoble and Calcanis plus the success of RocketBoom may show one direction for TechCrunch along with the TechCrunch 20 anouncement
Thanks Sam – it's "Orange France Telecom" – France Telecom is the parent company but the project I'm working on is a consumer orientated one and as such will be branded "Orange" (if it even ends up having a corporate badge at all…)
I actually wrote to Micheal about this and he says he's not going into VC with Heather. I'm really intrigued as to what he's up to but also now wondering whether Heather wanted 'out' of FIM just as much as she wanted 'in' to TechCrunch…?
Blogs, vlogs and even conferences don't seem like the kinds of products Heather would be immediately interested in. The plot thickens…
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A 79 year old farm couple were awakened at about 5 a.m. Sunday morning west of North Battleford, Sask., by an alarm.
North Battleford RCMP say they were called to the farm by the residents after a gunshot broke the window of a house, following a person being spotted on the home's deck.
RCMP are investigating the break-in of an out-building at a farm and believe the suspect fled the farmyard to waiting vehicle. Police say there were no injuries during the incident.
CBC is reporting that Ed and Kathy Smith were alerted to someone attempting to break in to their garage by their alarm system. When Ed knocked on a window to let someone on their deck know he could see the person a single shot was fired at the house, breaking the window.
RCMP say the suspect in the incident is about 5 feet 7 inches tall, was wearing dark clothing and a backpack. The detachment is using the services of its forensic identification group to investigate.
Local residents are asked to contact the Battlefords RCMP if they observed vehicles or activity in the area in the early hours of Sunday morning.
At approximately 5:00 a.m. on Sunday Feb. 18th, Battlefords RCMP were dispatched to a complaint of a break and enter at a rural property west of Battleford. Initial investigation determined that an unidentified suspect had been observed breaking into an outbuilding. The same suspect is then believed to have discharged a firearm once at the residence, resulting in a broken window. No injuries were reported.
Police Dog Services (PDS) attended and determined the suspect had then fled on foot to a waiting vehicle. The suspect was not located.
The only description available is that the suspect was approximately 5 feet 7 inches, wearing dark clothing and a back pack. Anyone with information regarding suspicious vehicles or activity in the area is asked to contact Battlefords RCMP at 306-446-1720 or call Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
This investigation is ongoing with assistance from the RCMP's Forensic Identification Section (FIS).