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EARHART ON SAIPAN
Amelia Earhart on Saipan
This webpage examines the eyewitness accounts and other evidence that shows Amelia and Fred were arrested and taken to Saipan. There were over 200 individuals who claimed they saw her, this site examines who they were, and what they heard or saw. It includes details of evidence the Electra was found on Saipan, interviews with people who saw her and the Electra before and after they were taken to Saipan. Interviews with over two dozen Saipanese who claim they saw her there and over a dozen US Marines who claim they found the Electra, her passport, briefcase and other details.
Robert Ballard found the Titanic. Can he find Amelia Earhart's airplane?
Ocean explorer Robert Ballard will lead a major expedition to the remote Pacific in hopes of discovering the famed aviator's fate.
Best known for his 1985 discovery of the Titanic, Robert Ballard will bring his proven undersea search strategy and high-tech research vessel, E/V Nautilus, to the hunt for Amelia Earhart.
PHOTOGRAPH BY EMILY SHUR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
BY RACHEL HARTIGAN SHEA
Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared more than 80 years ago, on July 2, 1937, during the second to last leg of their around-the-world flight. After taking off from Lae, New Guinea, in Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E, the pair aimed for tiny Howland Island, just north of the Equator. But they couldn't find it, and despite many attempts, no one has been able to find them.
Now Robert Ballard, the man who found the Titanic, is planning to search for signs of the missing aviators. On August 7, he'll depart from Samoa for Nikumaroro, an uninhabited island that's part of the Micronesian nation of Kiribati. The expedition will be filmed by National Geographic for a two-hour documentary airing October 20.
The National Geographic Explorer at Large brings a state-of-the-art research vessel, the E/V Nautilus, and extensive underwater expertise to this historic search. In addition to locating the Titanic, Ballard discovered the remains of John F. Kennedy's World War II patrol boat in the Solomon Sea, the German battleship Bismarck in the Atlantic, and many ancient ships in the Black Sea, as well as hydrothermal vents near the Galapagos.
People have been looking for Earhart ever since she went missing. The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy scoured the area by ship and plane for two weeks. George Putnam, Earhart's husband, enlisted civilian mariners to continue the hunt. Eventually the U.S. government declared that the plane had most likely crashed and sunk into the Pacific.
Apologies for sounding sarcastic.
But really?
Bob Ballard is teaming up with Tighar to find the Electra... at the bottom of the sea? (I spent two hours with the editor of the National Geographic, as well as two reporters laying out the following details - at the time they told me that if "Someone came to them with a "new theory" they were directed to "run in the other direction as fast as they can." Not my quote - theirs.)
Let's break this down for a moment... and Bob, if you're reading this, congrats, I wish you the best of luck...
...but listen up.
Mike Harris, you may remember him; intrepid adventurer, filmmaker, hired Bob to be part of his own search for the Titanic. At the time, Mike had great ideas about where it might be - and took Bob directly over the ship... but they did not see it at the time.
A still from Mike Harris' initial footage.
Mike had already done a number of trips to find it - ran out of them, but then Bob found a new sponsor, WENT BACK to the place Mike Harris had gone and found it. (I'm not telling any stories "out of school" - Bob knows this to be accurate, and doesn't take away from his finding the Titanic. That's how things happen.)
But Mike Harris knows where Amelia is located.
I think Tighar has done a fantastic job of putting a website together of research. It's where I discovered in the diary of a ham radio operator, she had written on the first page "230 Miles NW" - which was the same number I found in "Last Flight" when she was "200 miles NW of Dakkar" and on a test run of the Electra was "200 miles NW of where she thought she was (according to Paul Mantz.) We hear later on in Les Kinney's research with a different radio operator (in a previous post) that indeed, when she finally made it to safety - or so she thought - we was 400 miles off course to the NW (where Mili is from Nikumaroro).
Let's look at the record, shall we? It's an extensive record, and everything I'm about to say is backed up by eyewitnesses.
I can tell you where the Electra is. I've reported it consistently and repeatedly. Here - Bob, my gift - this is a blueprint, and if you follow it and come to a different conclusion, happy to hear it. But when you get to the end, you're going to have to ask me where she's buried - because I know that as well.
Amelia turned from Howland for Plan B (as reported by Les Kinney) - which was to fly the Gilberts, the nearest landing strip (Nikumaroro). Alas, she was already 250 Miles NW of where she thought she was - but the coming storm passing to the north of Howland helped blow her to Mili atoll.
Where running on fumes, she landed the Electra.
Landed the Electra on a long airstrip (at low tide) of an atoll. A feat of great piloting. An amazing feat from a great pilot.
Someone claimed they found this on the cell in Garapan. Tom Devine
claimed he saw it. Whoever carved it did so for her birthday.
The brake assembly broke. Pieces of it were found by Dick Spink, a Seattle schoolteacher who brought those pieces to an NTSB investigator who ON CAMERA proves beyond a shadow of doubt that it came from her plane. That footage exists Bob. I suggest you look at it. The pieces were identified by an aviation expert (who has testified before Congress).
Two islanders were eyewitnesses. Some of those eyewitnesses were interviewed in a book by a South African journalist (I have a copy) but he interviewed the Queen of Mili as well. Two islanders saw her land the plane and reported it.
NTSB Investigator claims this piece found on Mili fits exactly with his own piece of an Electra
that exactly matches Amelia's. As he put it "There were only two made that were in that part of the planet. If this was found on Mili, it could only have come from her Electra."
Then Dick Spink and Les Kinney and Mike Harris returned to Mili. They found more pieces of the Electra as well as an islander who reported that "40 Marshallese men" were ordered to move the plane to a Japanese barge. (the rail cars used to transport it are still there - the drag marks were visible from satellites until the island was swamped recently).
Veteran Andrew Bryce was told by a stevedore he'd transported the Electra.
I interviewed a veteran Andrew Bryce, USN who worked alongside a stevedore in 1944 who claimed he was one of those islanders who "moved the Electra to the barge which took it to a Japanese ship."
The Kyoshu.
Les Kinney (former Federal investigator) has tracked down the ship's records and found that it was docked in Jaluit, when Bilimon Amaron (who Mike Harris personally interviewed on camera) reported that he was sent aboard the ship to tend to Amelia and Fred's wounds. A Marshallese congressman also saw the plane aboard the ship - where it had been transported. The plane was then transported to Saipan.
Mike Harris shot this footage - a still from his interview with Bilimon Amaron, who tended to her wounds. We interviewed Bilimon's business partner of 40 years (from Boston). He says on camera
"We all knew the story. The man was above reproach.If he said he tended to her wounds, he did."
Amelia and Fred were taken by seaplane where they landed in Saipan. I have filmed two eyewitnesses (one still alive) who saw her come ashore, the other was told the identical story by his father. Their stories line up. She was interrogated - Fred was presumed to be the "real pilot" or the "real spy" - and was tortured and executed for being so.
She was put in a cell in Garapan prison. I've been in her cell - it's the only one that's been stripped or white washed in the entire compound - but I have eyewitnesses on camera who saw her incarcerated there.
One of two cells she was incarcerated in. This was the cell with her and Fred. After his execution she was moved to a different cell.
She spent years in that cell. I have two Saipanese (who don't know each other) who both reported seeing her transported by Japanese truck just prior to the war. The truck carrying her and two other US pilots (those are part of the record,one was shot,the other beheaded) who were with her. As the man says on camera "I was 12 but it's not something you see every day. A white woman dressed as a man blindfolded and being guarded by soldiers."
The truck parked in front of his school for 30 minutes - both he and his brother are still alive and can recall it specifically. Another man in another school told us the same story on camera. (Mike Harris took me to Saipan to find 15 new eyewitnesses.) We interviewed the son of the nurse who tended to her wounds, we interviewed a worker who saw her in prison as well as saw the Electra at Aslito field.
Wire Operator in Marine HQ decoded the message "We have found Amelia Earhart's airplane."
Not something he'd ever forget. He also guarded the plane, saw the same briefcase.
Yes, the Electra was taken to Aslito. I've filmed over a dozen people who saw it there. Including a US Marine who decoded the messages that it was found - then was ordered by his CO (whose uniform hangs in a glass case at Quantico) who ordered him to guard the plane. Another GI corroborated the conversation he told me on camera about people wanting to "see Earhart's plane" and how he stopped them with the threat of his pistol. "Orders is orders" he said.
Doug Bryce saw the Electra with his own eyes (and was with other GI's.) It was
being guarded in a hangar on Saipan. (He was one of 6 on camera who saw it.)
I interviewed on camera a GI stationed on Saipan (Doug Bryce) who drove with some pals to see the plane. He described the location of the hangar, which I was able to corroborate in my trip to Saipan. In total, I have six people on camera who saw the plane - and 12 in print who watched it destroyed. I have on camera the man who found her briefcase and passport in a safe - carried it for two weeks and turned it over to naval intelligence. I have the wire operator who was in the tent when the briefcase was brought in, who told the same story.
The briefcase that Robert Wallack turned over to Naval Intelligence
seen by Julious Nabers.
So you see - I know where the Electra is.
You're not looking for it in the right place. You can find it if you want - that would be great - but I not only know where it the wreckage of it is located, I know where her body was moved to. What you may not be aware of is that the two GI's who "dug her up" (as reported by CBS newsman who wrote "Searching for Amelia" Fred Goerner in 1963) those two GIs "only found an arm and a partial ribcage."
Fred Goerner did the initial research. Fred told a colleague of mine
that he got a letter from then Congressman Don Rumsfeld claiming
"everything he'd found was true."
Because she was moved.
If you want to know where she was moved to - I suggest getting in touch with me. You can look all you want in the ocean, all you want on Nikumaroro (Elgen Long suggested that artifacts will be "planted there" to make it appear she has been found - I found that to be a bit beyond the pale, but it is his words verbatim, and told me what the object would be) but she was never there - Fred was never there - neither of them sank to the bottom of the ocean or were on a deserted island. Sorry.
What happened to them deserves to be told. But it won't be if you begin by looking for them underwater. They were never there.
I applaud your desire to solve the "mystery." I applaud National Geographic for getting involved (even after I spent two hours explaining what the eyewitness evidence shows.)
But it ain't a mystery if you know where she's buried and where the Electra is currently located, is it? Happy to share it with you mon ami.
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EYEWITNESS REPORTS
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EYEWITNESS: THE AMELIA EARHART INCIDENT BY THOMAS E DEVINE WITH RICHARD M DALEY
Pg 40. "Glancing out on the runway ramp.. an area not the main part of Aslito Field, but an extended arm of the airstrip at the southwest corner… Near an embankment was (AE's plane). (LATER) .. a muffled explosion at Aslito Field erupted into a large flash fire… I crouched and crawled toward the airfield. When I could see what was burning, I was aghast! The twin engine plane was engulfed in flames! I could not see anyone by the light of the fire… in July 1944."
THE SEARCH FOR AMELIA EARHART BY FRED GOERNER
Goerner gathers dozens of eyewitnesses to Earhart's incarceration and second hand info about her execution.
AMELIA EARHART: LAST FLIGHT
Amelia reveals she did not know Morse code (and neither did Fred Noonan)
AMELIA EARHART:HER LAST FLIGHT
By OLIVER KNAGSS
South African journalist gathers numerous eyewitnesses at Mili, Majuro and Jaluit. There is footage of these interviews, but it exists somewhere in Miami – still trying to locate the negative.
AMELIA EARHART: THE MYSTERY SOLVED By ELGEN M LONG AND MARIE K LONG
Elgen shows how the original plan devised by radio man Harry Manning was adhered to by the Coast Guard Itasca – they didn't know Manning got off the plane in Hawaii and wasn't on the electra. So 90% of all their communication was in Morse code – something neither AE or FN knew.
"WITH OUR OWN EYES – EYEWTINESSES TO THE FINAL DAYS OF AMELIA EARHART" MIKE CAMPBELL WITH THOMAS E DEVINE
PG 32. Robert Sosbe, 1st battalion 20th Marines, 4th marine division) Sosbe said he saw the Electra before and during its destruction) "on or about D+5 after our infantry had captured Alsito, the night before, then were driven off, only to capture it again, our Co was called up to fill a gap between our infantry and the 27th Army infantry. The trucks carrying us stopped off the opposite side of the runway from the hangars and tower about 3 to 5 hundred yds. This two engine airplane was pulled from the hangar to off the runway where it was engulfed in flames from one end to the other. I can still remember exactly the way it burned, how the frame and ribs because it was visible. It was about half dark. It burned approximately 15-30 minutes."
Same page: a letter from Earskine Nabers: "I am seeking Marines who were placed on duty at Aslito to guard a padlocked hangar containing AE's plane. The hangar was not one of those located along the runway. It was located near what may have been a Japanese administration building, and an unfinished hangar at the tarmac, in the southwest corner of the airfield.
The follow up letter (pg 33)
…"we had to get Col. Clarence R Wallace to sign all the messages that came through the message center.) Hq 8th moved back to bivouac area. I was dropped off at the Hangar for guard duty at the main road that went by west side of hangar. The road that went out to hangar, I was placed on the right side, just as it left the main road….
Pg 34 The best I can recall the plane was pulled on the field by a jeep.. the plane was facing north after the plane was parked and jeep moved. A plane came over real low and on the next pass he strafed the plane and it went up in a huge fireball. (We were sitting on the west side of the airfield about one hundred yards from the plane. We were on higher ground. As far as I remember, the (men) that pulled the plane on the field and us guys from H & S 8th were the only ones there."
Pg 36 Marine Capt Earl Ford of Fallbrook, CA, artillery master sgt with 2nd Marines. Interview 6-7-88 by Paul Cook. "The aircraft was about 100 yards (from me) maybe less. We all saw it. No way we could miss it. A civilian twin engine. No way it was military. American aircraft in civil registration… some officers were saying it was Amelia's… it had only two windows on the side, back here."
Arthur Nash, Air Corps Corps, P47 group on Aslito. Claims he saw the plane on July 4, 1944 (book says 1945, must be a misprint based on following) pg 40:
"After landing on Isley.. at 2:30 pm, Japanese soldiers were running around the airstrip, one killed himself in the cockpit of a P47D with a grenade…" I slept fairly well (in the hangar) and (in the morning) wandered over to a large hole in the hangar wall facing the other hangar. The hangar floor and the area between the hangars was littered with debris, displace with siding from the hangars, maybe 65 yards apart, but close enough to get a good look at a familiar aircraft outside the other hangar. My eyesight was acute and what I saw was Amelia Earhart's airplane!... the next morning I went over to see it but it was gone."
Jerrell Chatham, 1st platoon, I company, 3rd regiment, 2nd marine deivions: "I was driving trucks .. on Saipan… when we went ashore I saw the hangar where Amelia Earhart's plane was stored, I also saw the plane in the air. They told us not to go close to the airplane hangar and we did not…"
Pg 44: Howard Ferris, US Marines: "Sent to Saipan for guard dutey… an old hangar structure at end of a runway. This hangar was not large,.. small trees in front of big doors.. (then he recounts the same Marine argument that Devine and Nabers recount – where some Navy brass attempted to get in, but a Marine (Nabers) refused them entry.)" Howard was not present at the fire, but one of his buddies was. The buddy said a truck arrived with many gas cans and the guards saturated the entire hangar.. and it burned totally.
Pg 50 Robert Sowash, 23rd regiment 4th Marines Division: "I saw a plane in a building that was not a military plane.. I remember other Marines saying it was the same as Earhart's. Later the place was cordoned off.."
Pete Leblanc, 121st Naval CB's, 4th Marine division: "some of our guys were sneaking over towards the airfield to try and see (AE's plane). We heard there were guards there. Then it was burned up later."
AMELIA EARHART: LOST LEGEND - DONALD MOYER WILSON
Over 200 eyewitnesses as gathered by all the different authors with the various reports of her landing on Mili, being brought to Jaluit and incarcerated in Garapan prison.
Eyewitness on Saipan USA Today
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/11/25/amelia-earhart-and-and-fred-noonan-were-prisoners-saipan-and-killed-according-uncles-tale/894412001/
Garapan Prison
In order to watch the "Eyewitness Reports" there is now a .99 fee to do so. That video is located HERE:
"Hacking the Afterlife"
Investigation into the Flipside (including Earhart)
The History Channel "Amelia Earhart"
Here's a link to the show - they follow the same path we did, interviewed some of the same people - but added a photograph physical evidence of the plane and a logical version of how she went off course. Here's the full show.
An Unusual Artifact
This is an unusual artifact. It's from a book published according to this website in 1935 (two years prior to AE's trip.) The ship in the photograph is identified as the Koshu - and there's a 38 foot plane on a barge behind it. (the accurate length of the Electra.) The History Channel show did an excellent job of matching this fellow on the left of the foto with Fred Noonan's face - and the woman as AE. Aside from the fact that I met a Navy man (Andrew father of Daniel Bryce) who during WWII met a stevedore who claimed he'd taken the Electra off Mili and put it on a barge that took it to the Koshu, or that his brother Doug Bryce saw the Electra on Saipan (EarhartOnSaipan.com has clips) - the question remains - how did this photograph, seemingly taken in 1937 wind up in a book in 1935? There's no hoax here - as I've reported consistently in my 25 years of research - eyewitnesses were every step of the way from her coming into Mili to dying on Saipan to US Marines finding her briefcase, plane and body - I have handled the parts of the Electra that Dick Spink found that a retired NTSB told me on camera "Beyond a shadow of doubt, they had to come from an Electra" - there's a mountain of evidence that puts her on Mili, onto the Koshu, into Saipan. But there's the date of this photo... was it in a book in 1935? Then how do all the other pieces of the puzzle happen to fit this photo? it's a conundrum to be sure - but does not disprove what people have consistently said during the past 25 years... that they saw her. And buried her. (Clips of these interviews at EarhartOnSaipan.com) http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1223403/99...
"Beyond a shadow of Doubt" AMP talk Saipan
Interview on Australian Radio
Here's an interview done for an Australian radio station in Melbourne about the Search for Earhart on Saipan. Enjoy!
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/pacific-beat/witness-reports-of-earhart-sightings-in-saipan/1095362
Planting of Evidence - a Medium speaks with AE
Chapter 15 "Hacking the Afterlife" Interview with ...
Tighar Search
Sorry to hear that Tighar is continuing their search on the same island they've been searching, combing for decades. Perhaps the cadaver dogs are needed to uncover this dead theory that she was anywhere near the island.
Eyewitness report
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"Hacking the Afterlife" on Amazon
This book contains all the research to date of what happened to Amelia Earhart. Based on eyewitness interviews, 30 years of research, having worked on Diane Keaton and Hilary Swank's "Amelia" - the middle section is a comprehensive look at everything I've learned over the past 30 years. However, it's the 4th book in my Flipside series - talking to people no longer on the planet - and in this case, includes 20 questions submitted to three different mediums who claimed Amelia was "asking them" to talk to me. (At some point I realized I was keeping back information I'd heard from "the other side" that related to this Earhart saga. So I have included it verbatim. Not for everyone.)
Earhart Doc
RESEARCH BOOKS
Excerpts from "20 Hours 40 Minutes" (1st flight)
Excerpts from "For the Fun of It"
Excerpts from "Soaring Wings"
Excerpts from "Last Flight"
Interview with Elgen Long "Mystery Solved"
Background info George and Fred
Amelia as Icon
AE in CT
AE in DC
AE in NY
AE west coast
AE in UK
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Methodist pro-life leader blasts UMC Conference's continued ties to pro-abortion religious group
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, May 14, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Methodist Church General Conference 2012 ended May 4 with no change to the church's association with a pro-abortion religious group, earning a sharp rebuke from Lifewatch president and editor Rev. Paul T. Stallsworth.
The 12 million-member church is currently a member of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, a self-described "leading religious voice for reproductive justice" founded in 1973 to "safeguard the newly-won" legal right to abortion. The RCRC trains and educates abortion advocates from many religious backgrounds. The United Methodists do not donate money to the organization, but their affiliation lends support to its mission statement, and several of the church's board members attend RCRC meetings.
A petition to end the church's membership in the coalition passed a legislative committee and sub-committee, but was not given a floor vote.
In a phone interview with LifeSiteNews.com, Rev. Stallsworth said he and other members of his pro-life, pro-family organization "have every reason to believe" pro-life delegates would have won a floor vote, citing the narrow 12-11 subcommittee vote and the wider full committee vote of 42-33 in favor of the petition. He believes conference leaders repeatedly rejected bringing it to the floor out of awareness that popular support for RCRC was lacking.
He predicted that new revelations about who made those decisions would be revealed in the weeks to come.
The abortion fight took a backseat to the contentious issue of same-sex unions. Despite intense lobbying efforts, the convention passed a resolution stating that homosexuality is "incompatible with Christian teaching."
In a statement, Stallsworth questioned why justice for the unborn was ignored yet the Conference found time to take up debate over church teaching on homosexuality. He also lamented that delegates were not allowed the opportunity to decide for themselves on the measure. Instead, Methodists must wait another four years to change their church's official stance on abortion.
"During that time, church members and friends will be harmed by the practice of abortion, and others will leave our denomination out of the discouragement that affiliation with RCRC brings many United Methodists," Stallsworth said. "The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice will continue to use and abuse our church's name to advance its pro-choice political agenda. And our denomination's blank-check endorsement of RCRC's false and harmful teaching—that the abortion of unborn children, who are created in God's image, is 'God's work' and 'holy work'—will remain."
Stallsworth told LifeSiteNews that he attributes the greater attention given to homosexuality to the "vigorous and aggressive nature of the witness of those who are advancing the revisionist agenda," who were more likely to be "in-your-face" with traditionalists than pro-life activists.
He also cited the general exhaustion and frustration of attendees, who had spent the rest of the conference working and arguing over other issues.
RCRC has a long history with the United Methodist Church; its first meeting place was the United Methodist Building in Washington, D.C.
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RTI amendments: Questionable Legislative competence, dual control and other legal quagmires arising out of a one-night stand with the RTI Act
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By: Venkatesh Nayak
The Bill to amend The Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act) which the Lok Sabha approved (218 voting in favour and 79 opposing it) this Monday (22 July, 2019) is slated for introduction and passing in the Rajya Sabha today (Click here and select 24/07/2019 for accessing the List of Business of the House). Despite the very vocal demand of the Opposition Benches who pointed out the flaws in the scheme and purpose of the Amendment Bill, the Government refused to accede. Will the Opposition MPs succeed in their efforts today to get the Bill referred to a Select Committee of the Rajya Sabha, remains to be seen.
In his reply at the end of the debate, the Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions made a few points which indicated the Government's mind in pushing for these amendments. These issues need elaborate discussion and hopefully MPs in the Rajya Sabha will take them up in right earnest. Meanwhile, I am sharing some of my thoughts on a few points raised by the Minister for the reference and use of readers.
Does the legislative competence to enact an RTI law arise from Entry 97 of the Union List?
In his speech, the Hon'ble Union Minister admitted to at least two truths-
a) that he was not a lawyer and was not as well-informed of the technical aspects of laws as other lawyer-turned MPs who criticised the Bill using their professional training and experience. He also quite rightly pointed out that law is too serious a subject to be left to lawyers alone. (I support this position wholeheartedly as I am not a trained lawyer myself. I also believe, in a functional democracy, law is the business of every citizen, not merely that of the Government of the day or the Legislatures or Courts and lawyers); and
b) that he had read about all the legal issues pertaining to the RTI Act and the Amendment Bill that MPs opposing it raised, only the previous night in order to participate in the debate (indeed Ministers are often too busy to spend any more time on legislative exercises).
Next, he pointed out that Parliament's competence to enact a law to give effect to the citizens' right to obtain is located in Entry 97 of the Union List in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution read with Article 248. The three Lists containing subjects on which Parliament and State Legislatures may make laws are connected with Article 246, not 248. But such a minor lapse on the part of the Minister may be ignored given his honest admission about not being a lawyer.
The Union List contains 97 subjects on which Parliament has the exclusive prerogative of making laws. Entry 97 reads as follows:
" Any other matter not enumerated in List II or List III including any tax not mentioned in either of those Lists."
In other words, Parliament has been vested with the power to make laws on subjects which are not listed in either the State List or the Concurrent List. As RTI is not listed in either of them, the Hon'ble Minister turned to the catch all Entry 97.
If this the correct position in law, then it automatically follows that the RTI laws enacted in eight States since 1997, starting with Tamil Nadu, were all unconstitutional. Click here for the names of the States and the year of enactment of the respective RTI laws. (Jammu and Kashmir enacted its first RTI Act in 2004, but we will not get into that thorny thicket about legislative competence as the RTI Amendment Bill does not impact on that J&K's RTI Act enforced since 2009.)
However, history is witness to the inaction of the constituents of NDA-III Government who were then in the Opposition in all those eight States. None of them challenged the constitutionality of these laws in the High Courts or the Supreme Court. Hundreds of thousands of citizens used these RTI laws to obtain information from Governments, particularly in the States of Tamil Nadu, Goa, Karnataka, Delhi and Maharashtra- the last continues to top the list of States where the most number of RTI applications are received by Government. So were all those actions of citizens seeking information and State Governments deciding whether or not to give information, illegal? It is difficult to accept the Hon'ble Minister's assertion that Parliament's power to enact the RTI law is locatable in Entry 97 of the Union List.
Legislative competence to enact an RTI law arises from Part III of the Constitution read with Entry 12 of the Concurrent List
When Parliament was examining the Freedom of Information Bill, 2000- NDA-I's still-born efforts to have an RTI law for the country noted legal expert and author- Mr. A G. Noorani developed a legal opinion arguing, both Parliament and State Legislatures are competent to make laws to give effect to the fundamental right to information which is deemed to be a part of the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression guaranteed in Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution. He located this power in Entry 12 of the Concurrent List (scroll down to page 13 of the pdf file at this link). Entry 12 reads as follows:
" 12. Evidence and oaths; recognition of laws, public acts and records, and judicial proceedings."
RTI Act enables citizens to access "public records" which are in the custody or under the control of public authorities. As such records are generated, collected, collated or compiled by public authorities at the Central or the State level, Entry 12 can be used by the Governments at both levels to enact RTI laws. This is what will save the eight State-level RTI laws from being deemed unconstitutional, even though the issue is merely academic in nature, now.
Adding to Mr. Noorani's argument, in my humble opinion, State Legislatures can also make laws on matters such as RTI by virtue of Article 35 of the Constitution, situated in Part-III which lists the fundamental rights available to citizens and other persons. Article 35 reads as follows:
"35. Legislation to give effect to the provisions of this Part.—Notwithstanding anything in this Constitution,—
(a) Parliament shall have, and the Legislature of a State shall not have, power to make laws—
(i) with respect to any of the matters which under clause (3) of article 16, clause (3) of article 32, article 33 and article 34 may be provided for by law made by Parliament; and
(ii) for prescribing punishment for those acts which are declared to be offences under this Part,
and Parliament shall, as soon as may be after the commencement of this Constitution, make laws for prescribing punishment for the acts referred to in sub-clause (ii);" (emphasis supplied)
Now what are these restrictive clauses? Article 16(3) empowers Parliament to make laws stipulating residential requirements for persons to be employed as Government servants in a State under that State Government or a local authority there. Article 32(3) empowers Parliament to make laws to bestow on any other court, powers conferred on the Supreme Court to protect fundamental rights by issuing writs, directions or orders. Article 33 empowers Parliament to make laws for restricting the extent to which members of the armed forces, law enforcement agencies, intelligence and counter-intelligence agencies and agencies providing telecommunication services to the armed forces can enjoy the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution. Article 34 empowers Parliament to make laws to indemnify any officer of the Central or State Government for any action taken for restoring law and order in any area where martial law is in force. Laws can made under this Article to validate any sentence passed or punishment inflicted or any other act done in an area where martial law is in force. On these matters relating to Part III of the Constitution, State Legislatures have no power to make laws. Those powers are vested exclusively with Parliament.
So, these restraining provisions may be interpreted to imply that there is no bar on State Legislatures from making laws to enable the exercise of other fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution. In my humble opinion, this implied legislative power of the State Legislatures is co-extensive with the implied power of Parliament to make laws to give effect to other fundamental rights guaranteed under Part III of the Constitution. There is no bar on such legislative exercises under Article 35 of the Constitution.
This is perhaps why, the Statement of Objects and Reasons (SOR) attached to the RTI Bill (scroll down to page 18 of the pdf file) tabled in Parliament in December 2004 did not refer to any Entry in any of the three Lists in the Seventh Schedule. Instead, the last line of the SOR stated-
"The proposed legislation will provide an effective framework for effectuating the right of information recognized under Article 19 of the Constitution of India." (emphasis supplied)
Therefore, the Hon'ble Minister's opinion that the RTI Act was made by virtue of Entry 97 of the Union List which vests residuary powers of Legislation in Parliament may not be the correct position in law. Courts will have to determine this matter for reaching certainty.
Two sets of Rules regarding salaries and service conditions will apply to the State Information Commissions
If the RTI Amendment Bill passes muster in the Rajya Sabha also and in its current form, it will create another legal conundrum. Section 27 of the RTI Act vests the power to make Rules relating to the salaries, allowances and service conditions of the staff and employees of Information Commissions in the State Government. The relevant extract from Section 27 is cited below:
"27. (1) The appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the provisions of this Act.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:
(d) the salaries and allowances payable to and the terms and conditions of service of the officers and other employees under sub-section (6) of section 13 and sub-section (6) of section 16;" (emphasis supplied)
Through the RTI Amendment Bill, the Central Government seeks control of the rule-making power to determine the salaries, allowances and tenure of the State Information Commissioners also. If this proposal is enacted, SICs will have two sets of Rules to implement relating to salaries, allowances and conditions of service-
1) one for the Information Commissioners as determined by the Central Government; and
2) another for the SIC staff as determined by the respective State Governments.
This will be an extremely rare if not unique occasion when two different sets of rules will apply to a similar matter within one body. We have already demonstrated in our first despatch how this proposal is violative of the federal scheme of the RTI Act especially, because the Government seeks powers to determine how money will be spent from the Consolidated Fund of each State because that is the kitty which will pay for the salaries of State Information Commissioners. Dual control through Rules will cause more problems in the functioning of State Information Commissions.
Who will be the "appropriate government" for a State Information Commission?
Another legal conundrum that the proposed amendments will create is with regard to the applicability of RTI Rules on SICs. The SICs are also public authorities under the RTI Act and have to appoint public information officers and appellate authorities for disposing RTI applications and appeals just like other government and public sector entities. They are currently implementing the RTI Rules notified by the respective State Governments by virtue of Sections 2(1)(a) which defines the term- "appropriate governments" and Section 27 of the RTI Act which vests the power to make RTI Rules in the State Governments also. As the SICs are constituted and populated by the appropriate State Governments by virtue of Section 15 of the RTI Act, those State Governments make RTI Rules relating to fees and other matters listed in Section 27 for the SICs also.
Now if the Central Government were to successfully wrest from Parliament, the power to determine the salaries, allowances and tenure of State Information Commissioners, the question that would then arise is- who will be the "appropriate Government" for them- the State Governments which appoint them and have the power to cause their removal or the Central Government which controls their salaries and tenure?
So if the amendments receive Parliamentary approval, will SICs have to follow the Central RTI Fee and Appeal Rules for themselves while they continue to apply the respective State RTI rules for public authorities that fall under their appellate (Section 19 of the Act ) or complaints (Section 18 of the Act) jurisdiction? This is another legal quagmire that the proposed amendments create.
The federal scheme arises from various parts of the RTI Act
Sections 15 -18 which provide for the establishment and constitution of the State Information Commissions and the removal of Information Commissioners are not the only source of the federal scheme of the Act. In fact the scheme of the Act as it stands now sensibly demarcates responsibilities for implementing the Act. Recognising the fact that the Constitution has laid down a scheme of division of powers between the legislature, executive and the judiciary, the RTI Act vests the rule-making power in the heads of all three organs of the State as "competent authorities". So the Rules that the Central Government or the President of India make are applicable only to the Executive branch of the Government, the Union Territories and such other bodies. The Speakers of the Lok Sabha and the Vidhan Sabha, the Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha and the Legislative Councils, the Chief Justice of India and the Chief Justices of the respective High Courts are vested with the power to make Rules to implement their RTI Act within their jurisdiction. The Central Government's RTI Rules do not have automatic applicability to them. This is the scheme provided for in Sections 2(1)(a) and 2(1)(e) which define the terms- "appropriate government" and "competent authority" respectively read with Sections 27 and 28 of the RTI Act which vest the rule-making power in such bodies. This scheme respects not only the division of powers between the three organs of the State but also the quasi-federal distribution of power between the Central and the State Governments laid down by the Constitution. The proposed amendments seek to obliterate this harmonious scheme and create more confusion than solve any non-existent problem. So by this count also, the Central Government cannot and must not demand Parliament's power to make Rules for Information Commissions.
The RTI Amendment Bill, if passed will result in the forceful adoption of the SICs by the Central Government. While the State Governments which constitute them and pay for their salaries and allowances from the Consolidated Fund of the concerned State continue to remain the biological parents, the Central Government will force its illegitimate parenthood on them in their teenage (RTI is now completing 15 years of implementation) by determining their salaries and allowances.
None of these matters seem to have crossed the mind of the Hon'ble Minister while replying to the debate on the RTI Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha. Perhaps one late-night reading of the Act does not afford enough time to examine all these problems created by the amendment proposals. But the Hon'ble Minister must not be faulted for this. There is an cohort of senior officers and legal draftspersons whose salaries are paid for by the citizen-taxpayer who should have adequately advised the Hon'ble Minister. Was such advice ever given to him? Only the Cabinet Note attached to the Bill, file notings and the Inter-Ministerial Consultations will reveal the truth. This is an RTI-able topic to which readers must apply themselves.
Had the Draft Bill been put out for comments from the citizenry as required the Pre-Legislative Consultation Policy, 2014, the Government would have benefited from popular wisdom. That has not happened despite the amended NDA slogan- sabka saath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwas (meaning- with all, development for all and trust of all). The Government does not seem to show much vishwas (faith) in the citizenry's ability to advise them about what is wrong with these RTI amendment proposals.
Even as I rush to complete this note and circulate it, MPs in the Rajya Sabha will begin debating the RTI Amendment Bill. I hope good sense will prevail and the Bill will be referred to a Select Committee for detailed deliberation. In the Lok Sabha the Hon'ble Minister asked why do the Opposition MPs suspect that the Government will downgrade the salaries and allowances of the Information Commissioners? So will the Government then upgrade their salaries? This will go against the grain of the justification printed in the SOR of the RTI Amendment Bill- that statutory bodies like the Information Commissions cannot be equated with constitutional bodies like the Election Commission of India (as it is currently). So will the Government downgrade the salaries? The Hon'ble Minister seems to allay these fears also. The only option that remains is to leave the status quo, perhaps by removing the reference to the Election Commission and equating the salaries and allowances of the Information Commissioners with that of Secretary-level officers who already earn the same levels of salary as the Election Commissioners. Then this would become an exercise in nitpicking- a waste of Parliament's time and resources.
Certainly this is a waste of my time as well. I could have drafted at least three RTI applications and a couple of first appeals and second appeals during the time taken to research and out despatch these notes.
Click here and here to read our earlier despatches analysing the RTI Amendment Bill.
Media coverage: counterview.org


Find out what kind of health insurance you need at each school. Because you are a student at both institutions, it's important that you know about how to apply and what your health insurance looks like at each school. Good health starts with making sure you have up-to-date health insurance. It is your responsibility as a student to ensure that you have adequate coverage during your studies.
In France, the social security system reimburses 70% of doctor's bills and 30% or 65% of medicine costs. From September 2018, the general French social security system is open to all students, free of charge. When you join the French social security system you will get a French social security number and card (carte vitale).
In addition to the obligatory system, complementary or top-up insurance (mutuelles) complete the cover up to full insurance. Registration with a student top-up insurance (mutuelle étudiante) is optional. It ensures a better rate of reimbursement of your health care costs and will top up the share of the costs that the social security covers and even covers some costs that the social security does not cover. Before signing up to a top-up health insurance scheme, check that you are not still covered by your parent's top-up insurance.
At the regional campuses, healthcare professionals are available at regular times.
UBC provides many resources online to help students understand what health insurance is required during your studies at UBC. Read through the tabs below to familiarize yourself with what kind of health insurance you will need, based on your specific circumstances.
You will need to familiarize yourself with British Columbia's Medical Services Plan (MSP), and the AMS' Extended Health and Dental Plan. See the Student Services page on health insurance details for domestic students for more detailed information.
BC's Medical Services Plan covers basic health care, such as doctor or hospital visits, and tests. Prior to arrival at UBC, please check with your family to see if you are still covered under their Medical Services Plan. You may not need to have your own MSP plan.
Apply for MSP as soon as you arrive in Canada if you are not covered by your family. It takes 3 months to qualify for MSP, so it's important to do it as soon as possible.
The AMS Extended Health and Dental plan costs $227.04 per year, and is charged directly to your student account.
Coverage is from September 1 - August 31 of each calendar year.
You cannot opt out unless you can provide proof of other extended health coverage (such as your parents' extended healthcare plan).
Familiarize yourself with the AMS Extended Health and Dental plan, including information on how to submit claims, coverage information, and a full list of services available to you.
You will need to familiarize yourself with iMED, British Columbia's Medical Services Plan (MSP), and the AMS' Extended Health and Dental Plan. See the Student Services page on health insurance details for international students for more detailed information.
iMED is mandatory, temporary health insurance that covers you during the 3-month waiting period for British Columbia's Medical Services Plan. iMED covers doctor and hospital visits, and is valid for three months from the month of arrival in Canada. All new international students registering at UBC are automatically enrolled in iMed.
iMED is charged directly to your student account.
You will receive your iMED card via email.
If your iMED coverage dates are incorrect and you actually arrive in Canada before your coverage begins, you must submit a Date Change Form directly to DCIS (the insurance provider) so that your coverage can be adjusted to cover your 3-month waiting period for MSP. Submit the and a copy of your study permit after you arrive in BC.
Familiarize yourself with iMED, including information on what iMED covers, coverage dates, and how you can use your iMED insurance.
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As a student who has Canadian citizenship but has not previously resided in Canada, you are not eligible for iMED (which covers new international students at UBC). You are advised to join the Global Campus Health Plan instead. It is your responsibility to obtain temporary basic health insurance to cover you during the 3-month waiting period for MSP.


More than perhaps any other part of the city, the East Village typifies New York's ever-changing energy. In the 80's it was the center of the grunge and punk scenes, its streets vibrant but sometimes dangerous. In the 90's came gentrification, though the youthful energy of the village was preserved even as drugs and crime were mostly eradicated. Now, the East Village is home to some of the city's best restaurants, bars and shops, as well as highly desirable real estate.
The revitalization of the neighborhood has progressed west to east, with 'Alphabet City' – consisting of Avenues A, B, C, and D, leading towards the East River – last to get 'cleaned up,' as it were. These days, as far east as Avenue C is refined and lovely, with far more cocktail bars than bodegas.
The character of the crowded blocks is, as ever, fun and boisterous; fashionable professionals, students of nearby NYU, and colorful longtime residents make up the infectious and distinctly quirky vibe of the East Village. Not for homebodies, this distinctly downtown neighborhood is ideal for experiencing New York CIty's around-the-clock lifestyle.
The East Village primarily consists of walk-ups galore, though with the neighborhood's increasing popularity, luxury elevator buildings have been intermittently cropping up.
The density of bars in the East Village rivals that of any neighborhood in the city, with everything from grungy dives held over from the neighborhood's punk days to some of the most cutting-edge cocktail dens in the world. Few establishments, though, have the authenticity and laid-back charm of this Avenue A staple - and no one else has Lucy herself. The charming Polish emigre has been the proprietress for over forty years and can still be found behind the bar most nights. Cheap drink, two pool tables, and a colorful crowd make Lucy's the quintessential East Village local.
What in the 1980's became a focal point of social decline and unease in the neighborhood has, with the advent of gentrification, transformed into a family friendly neighborhood center. Today's Tompkins Square Park is full of playgrounds, sunbathers, weekend farmer's markets - and its famous dog run, the oldest in the city, hosts an annual Halloween Dog Parade that's not to be missed.
It's on neither St Mark's Place nor the Bowery, but this Episcopal church - the second-oldest church building in Manhattan - is one of the East Village's landmarks. Not only a place of worship, it's also a center for poetry and the arts, site of a farmer's market, and a popular meeting spot.
Celebrity chef David Chang's mini-empire of Momofuku restaurants now runs the gamut from ramen to BBQ, but the crown jewel is this notoriously difficult to reserve tasting-menu experience, in which the food is well worth the wait.
A perpetually authentic old-school Irish dive bar, McSorley's has been serving up cheap ale - and lager, both house brands - and plentiful ambience since an oft-debated date in the mid-nineteenth century. Whether it opened in 1854 or 1861, McSorley's is one of the oldest bars in the city, with sawdust still on its floors and attitude to boot. The bar famously did not allow female patrons until 1970, even though the owner at the time was, in fact, a woman - who abided by the rule and would only set foot in the establishment after business hours. Other notable patrons include Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.
Since the 1970's, this cultural hub has been a home for poetry slams, documentary screenings, live comedy, theatre, gallery exhibitions, and many other forms of artistic expression. An crucial fixture of the Nuyorican arts movement - the term 'Nuyorican' referring to artists of Puerto Rican heritage - the cafe is one of the many important historic and cultural centers of downtown Manhattan.


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Rovshen Yazmuhamedov, a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist, was released from detention on 22 May in Turkmenistan after spending more than two weeks in custody. The charges against him are still unclear. It is likely he had been targeted in connection with his work as a journalist.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) have stated that Rovshen Yazmuhamedov , 30, was released in Turkmenabat, eastern Turkmenistan on 22 May. The charges against him have not been disclosed by the authorities. Rovshen Yazmuhamedov's family have stated that he was interrogated by security services several times before his detention.
During his detention he was held in a temporary detention facility run by the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who are involved in the fight against organized crime and terrorism. His family reported to RFE/RL that the authorities installed surveillance cameras around their home following the detention of Rovshen Yazmuhamedov on 6 May.
Rovshen Yazmuhamedov has been working with the Turkmen service of RFE/RL since September 2012. He is a correspondent and mainly covers social issues.
Reminding them to ensure that everyone is able to peacefully exercise their right to freedom of expression and association in conformity with Turkmenistan's obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.


Prompted by a conversation on a balcony, a love of hymns, and an obsession with guitar, a singer discovers his calling.
As one of the biggest Christian worship bands in the nation, The David Crowder Band has headlined with the likes of Michael W. Smith and MercyMe. Crowder's hit, "O Praise Him," adapted from a prayer of St. Francis of Assisi, is being sung in college fellowships around the country. Not so bad for someone who got his start as a Baylor University undergrad, playing for college students skipping out on Sunday service. Currently, his band is up for 3 Gospel Music Association (GMA) Dove awards: Modern Rock Song of the Year for "Revolutionary Love," from the album "Illuminate"; Rock/Contemporary Album of the Year for "The Lime CD"; and Special Events Album of the Year for "Passion Hymns Ancient and Modern."
I saw you guys at Radio City with MercyMe. One thing that strikes you right away is that you're not really a Christian rocker. Your songs are different--it's more worship music. Your songs come across almost more like hymns--sort of addressing God directly, as opposed to singing about God.
That's a very fair assessment.
Do you see your concerts differently?
I don't know that I do. We're really trying to write songs that articulate [faith] for a specific group of people here in Waco, in a way that functions in a corporate worship setting. They're just a little bit outside church culture to begin with, and they usually find their way to us due to their disenchantment with what they've experienced thus far within the church.
It gives us the freedom to explore things that perhaps a really well-established act doesn't have the ability to do, just due to the fact that they've established their sound.
Tell me a little bit about the genesis of the [Waco] church and music for the church.
I was still an undergrad when a friend of mine, who was actually the first pastor--we were just chatting on the balcony one night on my apartment about church. He was currently a pastor of a little country church outside of town. He was still an undergrad as well. Somehow the conversation drifts to our peers and Baylor [University] and the environment [at] a Christian university. I had a lot of issues with the establishment of church. I start[ed] talking about ministry and what if ministry came from relationship and was just an extension of life lived? It started stirring things in me and before long, we got our hands on some survey [Baylor] had done with their student population. [They'd] come up with this number that there were about 8,000 students that never set foot in church their entire stay at school, which was very surprising to me, because it's a Christian university. But I knew that you would have people from our apartment complex, they get up on Sunday morning and realize they had woken up late and would dress as if they had gone to church before they would go eat in the cafeteria. That gives us some insight as to the environment.
It was actually a small church building right near campus. It exceeded 175 or so on the first Sunday. It was just hysterical because we didn't have any money--what we really had was word of mouth. We went to all the fraternity and sorority organizations and did nothing more than hand out horribly printed cards on bad colored paper: "Hey, we're starting a church for you guys. If you want to come check it out, come check it out." The first Sunday, there was no room; it was just completely packed. At the end of it, we're looking at each other going, this is crazy. So Chris turns to the congregation and says, "OK, well, I think we might need to go to 2 services. What time would you like to have the extra one?" And so a couple hollered out and there we went two services for the second Sunday. I was terrible back then. I had never really led anything, so [my friend the pastor] functioned as the worship leader and I just stood back there playing the keyboard. It was a gradual transfer of that leadership over a number of years. I just dove in and the songwriting thing came as a surprise. It was a struggle to find songs that were different, to articulate faith in a different way.
It was probably the front end of the modern worship music. It was these praise choruses, but real simplistic, repetitively-composed lines that didn't really go anywhere.
Yeah. And there we were rocking it.
Had you been writing your own songs at all before then?
No, not really. Just things you would never let anyone hear.
What was your musical background at that point?
I had been playing piano for a really long time, since I was a kid plunking around. My mom thought I needed lessons because all of a sudden, things I was plunking started turning into melodies that she recognized. Then when I came to Baylor, I actually was studying music, and piano was my instrument of emphasis.


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Fifty-eight mayors and county elected officials signed a letter addressed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The letter opposes a recent proposal from FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. The proposal, called "Restoring Internet Freedom Draft Order," would roll back current Net Neutrality protections.
We write to express our strong opposition to the Restoring Internet Freedom Draft Order ("Proposal") to eliminate critical consumer and economic protections adopted in the 2015 Open Internet Order. A free and open Internet forms the backbone of the 21st Century economy, and as leaders of local communities we are acutely aware of the threat to education, innovation, and economic growth posed by the Proposal. We are also deeply disturbed by the Commission's efforts to preempt our ability to protect consumers and businesses in our communities. We strongly oppose this proposal, and urge the Commission to reconsider.
As community leaders, we recognize the direct and substantial benefits that broadband connectivity and access to a free and open Internet have in our communities. Our economies, educational institutions, government agencies, and communities, in general, increasingly rely on broadband connectivity and the transformative power of the Internet to drive economic growth, individual and community development, and improve government service and accountability for all our citizens. Critical to our communities' reliance on the Internet is the confidence that our use of the Internet is not subject to the whims, discretion, or economic incentives of gatekeeper service providers to control or manipulate the experience of Internet users. The 2015 Open Internet Order ensconced the principles of Net Neutrality, which protect and preserve this confidence, in enforceable rules grounded in the strongest legal authority, Title II. As more than 60 Mayors wrote in July, "full repeal would have a particularly negative impact on middle and working-class families, while simultaneously restricting access to certain types of online content and services to those who cannot afford to pay more." The Commission's proposal appears to accept just such a result.
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OPEN DATA BRINGS FREEDOM BUT TRANSPARENCY BREEDS FEAR
Privacy out the window as Big Data goes naked
There has been a big push from private enterprise as well as government in the last decade to unshackle data in all its forms and make it easily accessible. Society has been persuaded that it's in our best interests if open data is the norm rather than the exception, because it's good for growth, oversight and preventing corruption and exploitation.
But there's a dark side to naked data. Some things just need privacy to develop and grow. Investors have always felt it necessary to keep things confidential when projects are at an early stage. People want to have secrets. It's just human nature.
When the printing press was invented, the aristocracy and intelligentsia of the time opposed mass publication, fearing it would erode their power. But innovation has been driven for hundreds of years by the sharing of ideas and the publishing of discoveries.
Open data evangelists are promising freedom. Freedom from elitists, freedom from domination and discrimination, freedom of choice. Transparency rules, they say. Transparency leads to the democratization of information, and puts power into the hands of ordinary individuals.
What's needed for naked data to succeed is privacy of personal data, and trusted verification of social and market data; a double-whammy that prevents fraud and identity theft and also creates granular data for market efficiencies. Can our Big Data custodians provide it?
Fear lurks in the back of everyone's mind. What if the data exposes me? I might lose the leverage I've worked so hard to acquire. Can I be protected, as well as being free?
The Naked Future - Patrick Tucker, March 2014
While the internet is accountable to nobody, privacy will be in crisis - Guardian, 31 October 2014
MindBullet: TRACK ME ONCE, TRACK ME TWICE (Dateline: 2 September 2015, Published: 03 April 2014)
MindBullet: NO PLACE TO HIDE IN THIS BRAVE NEW WORLD (Dateline: 26 January 2017, Published: 09 February 2012)
MindBullet: WE'RE ALL NAKED NOW (Dateline: 9 September 2017, Published: 31 May 2012)
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also plymouth in the hooks ? i prefer my self on silent boot :) plymouth-lightdm regulary makes the gab from bootscreen to lightdm smaller, is also gdm-plymouth, to show up in bootscreen, in hooks of mkinitcpio.conf , also done ?
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which plymouth version do you use, plymouth from the repo's or aur ?
@ringo32 do you use Plymouth from Antergos Repo or the one from AUR?


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There was an air of levity in President Bruce Bean's last official meeting. He noted (among other things) that this was 'Take a Hike with a Geek' week. From the back of the room, a feminine voice chimed, "What are you doing later this afternoon?" Anne LeClair is in Austin, so the query cannot be attributed to her… however, she must have been there in spirit!
The goals of Bruce's Rotary year have been met and exceeded, and under his low-key leadership, the club has risen steadily to ever greater achievements. We all know that San Mateo Rotary's success is a group effort, but the responsibility and time commitments fall disproportionally on its president. Congratulations, Bruce, on a stellar year….you exemplified Rotary's motto, "Service above Self!"
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In recapping John Kelly's Celebration of Life, Pam Frisella expressed her appreciation to the club for its support of John, both during his tenure in leading Samaritan House, and particularly during his final years in decline. According to those in attendance for the memorial service at Serra High School, it was both extraordinary and uplifting to realize the vast number of lives John was pivotal in improving.
Noting that the memorial benches funded by Rotarian donors honoring Aron Hoffman have now been installed in Central Park, Shiela Canzian announced that a formal dedication will be arranged when Aron's family is available. A plaque on one of the benches reads "….Committed philanthropist, Rotarian, and public servant, dedicated husband, father, and friend." (Well-chosen words!)
Rosemary Azem, Rod Linhares, and Bob Mendoza tag-teamed to announce a new partnership through the RI Foundation with the Rotary Club of Corozal, Belize. The program will fund secondary school scholarships for students whose education would otherwise terminate in the 8th grade. Notable was that with a show of hands, 10 Rotarians pledged the remaining $2,000 to complete a $10,000 commitment.
Denise Pope, Phd - Stanford School of Education, CoFounder of Challenge Success, a research and advocacy group
Any educator and many parents will confide that something has gone horribly wrong in the college admission quest. Students have become strivers to the point of exhaustion, unhealthy anxiety, and burnout. Furthermore, many have done so at the urging of parents who perceive acceptance to an elite college as the crown jewel of their child's education.
What has been sacrificed in this scramble to the top is the love of learning, relationship-building, ethics, and resilience….all of which are critical adult life skills. Top colleges, including Stanford have come to realize that many of their undergraduates are afflicted. That realization led to Stanford's asking Denise Pope, a then Phd candidate, to consider an intervention strategy….ergo, her cofounding Challenge Success. (www.challengesuccess.org)
Her program is dual-pronged. On the one hand, it is data-driven to analyze outcomes for undergraduate students from all college and university educations vs. those from elite schools. Additionally, the program seeks to educate high school students and parents (along with institutions of higher learning) with their findings. As one might imagine, successful college achievement is predicated on student engagement, rather than on GPA. Thus a great undergraduate education is possible anywhere a student is willing and able to immerse him(or her)self in the opportunities presented.
The problem, according Dr. Pope, is that while elite schools have begun to reconsider their admission markers, students and parents have yet to believe this shift.
In response to a question referencing the Supreme Court being heavily weighted toward Harvard and Yale, Dr. Pope acknowledged that graduate education within an elite institution presents a distinct advantage by virtue of association, recognition, and opportunity.
Great program!…..thanks to Walt McCullough for yet another thought-provoking speaker!
Photos courtesy of Peter Webb MD
Let's all give a big hand of applause to Rich Orr, this week's Spinnings editor, for a job well done!
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Rotarian Lee Osborne
ALOHA THURSDAY! and The History of Rotary Haciendas
Hilton Obinzinger
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