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Alexander the Great had a great mind for tactics in war. His tactics were phonomonal. Alexander weapons that his army used were bows, spears, swords, calvalry, chariots. His plans consist of Alexader organzing units, deciding what to do during the battle, and making his army look bigger or smalller. Soldiers were well trained and only hand one uniform. There were only several jobs to pick from. The moral and discipline was always very high. He had other soldiers from different civilazation come and train with him so in battle they knew what they were doing. Alexader's had very good strategies, but he also had amazing tactics. If his plan did not work than he he could make it up with his tactics. Many of times when in battle Alexander was out numbered, but his tactics made up for it and he destroyed the armies. When Alexader was not fight he was in the back oveseeing the entire battle, which would make it very easy to make desions on what to do.
Alexander the Great was in many wars and battles. These battles took over many parts of the world. Two of the famous battles are The Battle of Gaugamela and The Battle of Issus.


Anna Halprin: In Conversation With John Held, Jr.
The art studio at San Quentin State Prison. Photograph by Peter Merts. Courtesy of San Quentin State Prison.
When an inmate steps inside San Quentin State Prison's art studio, he is in a whole different world. It may not look different than any other studios in the community. But, to him, it is a doorway to freedom and self-worth, an escape from the stressful reality he has to face once he steps back out. The studio is open seven days a week, and it is always crowded. There are usually about a dozen inmates sitting or standing next to one another in front of their works, preparing supplies, working on a project, or simply contemplating, figuring it out.
"You've really got to like to be around. We're all antisocial. You've got to like it [art], to be with other people to do it," said Scott McKinstry. He leads a crew of other prisoners going around painting murals in the prison. Outside are the daily rituals. On the way to the studio, an alarm went off, and everyone in blue had to sit down on the ground at once, watching the guards running past them toward the south block with their keys clinking along the way, while a guard shouted, "Down! All the way down!" It was a good half hour, after an ambulance came and went, before everyone was allowed to get up and move on. No one knew what had happened, nor did they appear to care.
San Quentin is California's oldest prison, infamous for its bloody past and as the state's only death row. Eleven guards, two prison workers, and numerous prisoners have died in The Q since it opened in 1851. Today, the prison is one of the most progressive in rehabilitation. Prisoners beg for transfers to San Quentin. In partnership with the William James Association and the correctional agency's Arts-in-Corrections program, the San Quentin Prison Arts Project has been running art classes in the studio since 2005.
"A studio is the artist's sanctuary," said Carol Newborg, program manager of the Prison Arts Project. The program offers classes in drawing, painting, graphic novel, printmaking, modeling, creative writing, poetry, music theory, guitar, keyboard, and even origami and Shakespeare theatre. Indeed, the studio may well be an escape from the high-control environment of the prison—inmates are always told what to do by the guards, gang leaders, and their peers to keep them in line with the rules and the convicts' code.
"Making models is like an escape from prison, especially when making a seascape because it's like being home," said Bruce Fowler, whose home is on the water and whose elaborate models have intrigued many. "In the jail you always have people telling you what to do. This is what you can do all by yourself. You don't have anyone tell you what to do or how to do it. It's self-expression," added James Craft, a member of the mural crew.
Open studios at the San Quentin State Prison art studio with visitors from the public. Photograph by Peter Merts. Courtesy of San Quentin State Prison.
Some people work on themselves through arts. "What [artists] do actually is to figure themselves out when they have to sit down to figure things out," said McKinstry. "Art helps me express my feelings and emotions, and they help me understand myself. When I choose a drawing or painting, I look into myself to see if I feel it before I do it," said Bun Chanthon, who picked up a paintbrush for the first time six months ago.
Source: interviews with Carol Newborg, Amy M. Ho, Scott McKinstry, Bruce Fowler, James Craft, Bun Chanthon, and Christopher Christensen.
Chung Kao is a Staff Writer for the San Quentin News.


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How To Whisper In Minecraft: Everything you need to know!
Whispering is a chat function that allows users to converse with one another while remaining anonymous to other players.
If you want to make a joke on another person or just communicate behind their back, this is a great tool. Because whispering can only be done through in-game commands, let's discover what they are.
In Minecraft, commands are more than just a string of characters. They can change the entire Minecraft world by eliminating all of your opponents and collecting all of the metal in your inventory.
The Minecraft instructions are simple to follow and understand. The command bar is where you'll type all of your commands and cheat codes.
Depending on which platform you're playing on, the way you whisper will change. On the original Java PC version of Minecraft, you'll need to allow cheats. The command terminal can be accessed by using the "~" key.
A forward-slash (/) must precede any command for a single player or a group of players. Multiplayer commands have no effect on this prefix. All you have to do now is press the "Enter" key after inputting the order or cheat in the command bar.
What is the Best Way to Whisper in Minecraft?
In a nutshell, the following is what you need to know.
Open your chat box in Minecraft to whisper. Then, after "/tell," use either @a or @p to whisper your message to all players in the game. If the first step doesn't work, try the "/whisper" or "/msg" commands.
/tell
You will be given alternatives after typing /tell. There, you'll choose the person who will deliver your message in hushed tones.
If you wish to send a message to all players in the game, select @a.
To communicate with all entities, select @e.
Choose @p to send a whisper message to the players nearest to you.
Use @r to send a message to a group of individuals.
Use @s to send yourself a message.
Your message will be delivered, as illustrated below. It starts with your username, then the tag "whispers to you," and finally your message.
[Your username] whispers to you : [subject of your message]
You can also use the /whisper or /msg commands if the preceding instructions don't work depending on the server or local game.
Whispering is supported on the following platforms:
Pocket Edition: Yes (0.16.0)
Java Edition (PC/Mac): Yes
Xbox 360: No
Nintendo Switch: Yes (1.5.0)
Windows 10 Edition: Yes (0.16.0)
Education Edition: Yes
Xbox One: Yes (1.12)
PS4: Yes (1.14.0)
PS3: No
Wii U: No
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It amazes me to think, and I had to constantly remind myself as I read, that this book was written at the end of the 19th century, over 100 years ago. Even then, EM Bounds, in Power Through Prayer, cried out for men to pray, chastised men for disregarding prayer, criticized men for neglecting the vital ingredient in serving God. For all our technology, we are not any different than those who have gone before us. There have always been things that have kept us from and distracted us from the greater work of prayer. I think that the problem we have with prayer is a condition of our falleness rather than the state of the world around us. How often have I struggled, faltered, rushed, forgone time alone with my Father. Here I am… open the door, He says. But off I rush, wondering why I am failing, wondering why there is lack of power in my life. Anything done without prayer – a real seeking the heart of God, prayer – is done in my own strength and with my own ideas, not His strength, not His ideas. If we want to serve, if we want to impact the world for His Kingdom, we need His anointing. God's anointing is His pleasure to put us to work in His plan with His power because we have diligently and persistently sought His heart. The apostles appointed deacons to serve so they could devote themselves to prayer. But did the deacons also find prayer important? Do some positions require more praying? Or are we all called to pray and our service, our ministry, our work is the overflow of that time spent with the Father? EM Bounds aims his book at preachers. I am not a preacher, but I can replace the words preacher and preaching throughout the book with other words: teacher, teaching; leader, leading; disciple maker, discipling… The power of prayer must be at the heart of every role if it is to have eternal impact and not just earthly good. To spend time with the Father is to learn His heart and to know it is good; He is good.


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The UK Government's Mutant Communications Strategy
Tom Whyman
Published: Dec 17, 2020 2:35:00 PM
At one point in his Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Søren Kierkegaard tells us a joke about a madman who has just broken out of an insane asylum. As he strides down the road, away from the institution, to freedom, the madman thinks to himself: "When you come to the town you will be recognized and presumably brought straight back, so what you need to do is completely convince everyone, through the objective truth of what you say, that your sanity is quite in order." And so, with every step he takes, the madman declares: "The earth is round!" As he arrives in the town, the madman goes up to everyone he meets, confidently proclaiming, over and over again: "The earth is round!" And so then of course he is arrested, and brought back to the asylum.
The point of Kierkegaard's joke is this: truth cannot be simply a matter of correspondence to objective reality. Nothing that the madman says is anything other than completely, 100 percent, objectively true. But to anyone who meets him, it is obvious – precisely because the madman keeps on saying something true – that he is insane. So then according to Kierkegaard, the truth must also be somehow about how the facts relate to us: what context we, in voicing the truth, can give them. Or, to put this point another way: facts do care about your feelings. You wouldn't be able to process the facts without them.
I thought of Kierkegaard's joke earlier this week, when the British Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, announced in parliament that a new strain of coronavirus was responsible for the faster spread of the pandemic in London and the South East. Quickly, despite Hancock's assurances that the new strain was no more deadly than the original and could also be dealt with by the vaccine, this led to headlines about "MUTANT COVID," a new "super strain" of the virus that – as far as anyone who skimmed the story might have been expected to conclude – was pretty well definitely set to kill us all.
Now, as far as I know, there was nothing about what Hancock announced in parliament that was not, as such, true. Viruses can and do mutate all the time; scientists have indeed identified this new strain; and it is entirely plausible to suggest that it could be responsible for elevated transmission rates in some areas of the country. But that doesn't mean that Hancock isn't also guilty of helping misinformation to spread.
The British government is rightly concerned about the spread of COVID-related conspiracy theories – in particular as said theories are likely to inhibit uptake of the vaccine. One study by University College London found that only 49 percent of people surveyed considered themselves to be "very likely" to get the vaccine when it became available, with some 20 percent considering themselves either "unlikely" or "very unlikely" to get vaccinated. Who hasn't gone walking recently, and overheard a couple of perfectly normal-looking people having a hushed conversation involving words like "thalidomide" and "Bill Gates"?
But both ministers and public health experts seem to have forgotten their duty to responsibly frame both information and advice. Something similar happened the week before Hancock decided to disclose news of "Mutant Covid" – when the UK's Chief Scientific Advisor, Patrick Vallance, decided for some reason to warn readers of the Daily Telegraph that, vaccines notwithstanding, it was entirely possible that everyone would still have to wear masks next winter. This is also true, I'm sure: but do people really need to be warned, as they weigh up whether or not to get a vaccine they may already, for any number of reasons, be suspicious of, that it is unlikely to be as effective as they might hope?
What seems most crucial to consider here is the relation of disinformation to desire. People don't believe untrue things about, say, COVID-19, just because they've never been exposed to the truth. The facts do not speak for themselves. People believe disinformation, in part, because they find it attractive – given how the world is right now, it does not take a genius to grasp that there might be something compelling, something liberating, about the idea that the pandemic we are supposed to be experiencing has in fact been completely made up; this is all a show put on to suit the purposes of some shadowy elites. (If nothing else, this at least seems to cohere with how people in power have in many cases actually responded to the pandemic: using it as an opportunity to funnel more money to themselves and their friends).
People right now feel completely adrift: largely unable to socialize, their worlds reduced to work and domestic chores; the internet their only window out. Our lives have been parched of the things which make them feel meaningful to us. We have lost our jobs, or fear that we will soon lose them, or know that we will keep them despite having already lost the things which make them bearable to do. And people still struggle to see an end to any of this. Despite the vaccine: we suspect that how the pandemic has already reshaped our society probably quite suit the most powerful; that people like Jeff Bezos would be perfectly happy if things stayed this way forever. (No more cinemas, no more "wet-led" pubs, no more live music, grassroots football replaced with a European Super League… all these things now seem very much imminently possible).
So when powerful people start saying things like, "Oh, you know… you can't really expect following the regulations we've established to actually have the effect anyone might want" or "Plot twist! There's an even worse version of the virus now!" then whether they intend this to happen or not, it must be said that they are effectively baiting us to respond by deciding that this is all just a hoax to control our minds, or to sterilize us, or keep us all indoors. In the U.K. in particular, this has been compounded by simultaneous uncertainty over Brexit, and by the government's repeated chopping and changing of a seemingly arbitrary system of lockdown tiers.
The best way for the government to tackle the spread of misinformation around the vaccine would be for them to make some effort to provide the sort of context for understanding what is going on with the pandemic that people are increasingly turning to conspiracies to provide. They can do this by providing people with some semblance of security: the regularity of clear rules that people are confident might have some sort of impact, a realistic sense that one day all this might actually end. Some vague assurance that we might all end up something other than ruined in the aftermath. Hope bears an important relationship to truth. Misinformation flowers in despair.
Tom Whyman is a philosopher and writer. His regular column for Logically addresses the news and how to live with it.
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Thomas Hunter Campbell McDonell (born May 2, 1986) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Finn Collins on the CW post-apocalyptic series The 100.

Early life
McDonell was born and raised in Manhattan, New York, and attended boarding school in Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated from New York University. His mother, Joanie, who is of Jewish descent, is a writer, and his father, Terry McDonell, is editor of Sports Illustrated. His brother is writer Nick McDonell.

Career
McDonell starred as Finn Collins in the post-apocalyptic show The 100. He also played a role in The Forbidden Kingdom, and in Twelve. McDonell played the main role in 2011 teen film Prom as Jesse Richter. He has guest-starred in Suburgatory as Scott Strauss, Tessa's boyfriend. He is the lead singer and guitarist for the band Moon. As a visual artist, McDonell has exhibited his own work internationally, and has curated several exhibitions including a tunnel exhibit at the historic Southwest Museum site in Los Angeles, a video art show at a Best Buy in New York, and a monochrome painting exhibition at the ArcLight Hollywood movie theater complex. His conceptual fashion editorials and photographs have been published in print and online in magazines including the Marfa Journal, Buffalo Zine, Teen Vogue, and F Magazine.

Filmography

Film

Television

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1986 births
21st-century American male actors
American male film actors
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Living people
Male actors from New York City
New York University alumni
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GroupM, WPP's media investment group, updated its 2018 and 2019 ad investment forecasts. GroupM slightly downgraded 2018 growth expectations from 4.5% to 4.3%. 2019 growth projections are also whittled from 3.9% to 3.6%, with total new investment anticipated to reach $19B instead of the $23B earlier predicted. [Recent US dollar appreciation versus just about every other currency helped suppress this growth.] Stress on the auto category stood out in feedback from GroupM's worldwide network, as did the absence of any rebound in CPG investment with traditional media. These views and more are discussed in This Year, Next Year, GroupM's twice yearly look at worldwide media investment trends authored by Futures Director, Adam Smith.
GroupM forecasts that ten countries will provide 83% of all 2019 growth.
China remains the largest contributor, but 2019 will be its sixth successive year with single-digit ad growth and mark its lowest growth rate yet recorded. Still, its USD 90 billion ad market is second only to the USA, and has doubled since 2010. Despite rapid consumerization, China's advertising intensity peaked at 0.78% of GDP in 2006 and has trended down to a prospective 0.67% in 2019.
Ranked second, the U.S. is experiencing good macroeconomic indicators like lower unemployment and improved consumer confidence, but increasing energy prices, rising interest rates, and low unemployment have many concerned about the potential for increased inflation on top of a yawning deficit. Marketers continue to scrutinize digital investment with emphasis on verification and value.
Ranked third, India is expected to contribute $1.35B of growth. This is roughly the same as Australia's, Russia's and Brazil's combined growth, even though India's total ad economy is a mere quarter of the others' combined heft. India's 14% ad investment growth is rooted in 7% real consumer spending growth.
Japan is fourth. Japanese advertising has tracked ahead of its GDP in the post-Lehman cycle with media spending per capita picking up sharply since 2016. The 2020 Olympics and a surge in biddable media are powering tailwinds, but a 2019 consumption tax rise from 8% to 10% and Japan's belated confrontation with value, viewability and verification in digital supply chain are foreseeable headwinds.
A resilient UK is fifth. Despite fears of Brexit calamity and consumer fatigue, advertising investment remains propelled by massive advertising digitization (61% of predicted investment in 2019), and GroupM's UK forecast remains buoyant. This is partly because of the market's characteristic flexibility. In an emergency, advertisers know they can turn off the tap.


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Баунд Брук () е град в окръг Съмърсет, Ню Джърси, Съединени американски щати. Създаден е през 1869. Населението му е 10 468 души (по приблизителна оценка от 2017 г.).

В Баунд Брук умира писателят Ъптон Синклер (1878 – 1968).

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Q: How to expand command-line arguments when debugging in Visual Studio? Is there a way to make Visual Studio expand * in file names (and directory names) before invoking the debugger? When I write, e.g., *.txt as the command line arguments, the args[] variable will contain just one entry ("*.txt"), rather than one entry for each matching file. Do I have to write my own code to do this expansion?

A: If you are invoking visual studio as such:

devenv /debugexe 'myprogram' *.txt

then yes, args[] will contain '*.txt' and you will need to parse and respond to that in your program. (Just the same as if you'd launched the program without the debugger).

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Pharma Spending on Drug Ads to Consumers Quadruples Over 20 Years
by Jonathan Blocklast updated: January 14, 2019
The amount of money pharmaceutical companies have spent on prescription drug ads directed at consumers has more than quadrupled over the last 20 years, according to a new analysis.
In 1997, drug companies spent $1.3 billion on direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising for prescription drugs. In 2016, that figure reached $6 billion, according to a report published in JAMA. In 1997, there were 79,000 drug ads aimed at consumers. In 2016, that figure reached 4.6 million, which included 663,000 TV commercials. There was a shift toward advertising biologic drugs and cancer immunotherapies, which are among the most expensive treatments.
In addition, over the 20-year period, consumer out-of-pocket spending on prescription drugs soared from $116.5 billion to $328.6 billion.
The analysis also found that the DTC ad spend on disease awareness campaigns increased from $177 million to $430 million over the 1997-2016 period. These types of ads discuss diseases that are treated by a drugmaker's medication and then suggest that a patient talk to their doctor about treatment options.
The report also found that pharmaceutical companies boosted their marketing spend to doctors as well. This marketing spend, which includes free drug samples, education about new drugs, speaking fees and free meals, increased from $15.6 billion to $20.3 billion.
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Independent Contractor or Employee? With Recent Amendments to California's AB 5 Law, The Battle Continues
Written by Jeremy Mittman and Adé Jackson
Earlier this month Governor Newsom signed AB 2257, which was the culmination of a furious lobbying effort by specific industries (only some of which were successful) to amend California's new independent contractor law (also known as "AB 5"). It was also considered a "cleanup" bill to tinker around the edges of the law's requirements.
Much of the controversy surrounding AB 5 involves its codification of the decision of the California Supreme Court in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles (2018), which established that a worker is an employee unless a hiring entity satisfies a three-factor ("ABC") test. The law exempts certain enumerated professions from this test.
In today's millennial age where app-based services provide various life essentials (especially during the Covid-19 pandemic), and many Californians derive significant income from engagements with these "informal" economies, the controversy over AB 5 has been wide-ranging. As a result, AB 2257 has more relevance in California's contemporary labor context because it increases the number of exemptions and limitations to AB 5 to over 100. Still, it is worth noting that employers have the burden of proving that their worker relationships satisfy any of these exemptions.
Amendments Benefit The Music Industry
One of the largest industries benefiting from these recent changes is the music industry. The recent changes introduce new exemptions that affect a wide swath of the music industry community: recording artists, songwriters, lyricists, composers, proofers, managers of recording artists, record producers and directors, musical engineers and mixers, musicians, vocalists, photographers working in the music industry, independent radio promoters, and any other individual engaged to render creative services. The exemption created by AB 2257 establishes that the multi-factored (and more lenient) Borello test, rather than the stricter ABC test, applies in determining whether a music industry worker qualifies as an independent contractor instead of an employee.
AB 2257 further provides that any current or future collective bargaining agreements (or other contractual agreements between labor unions and respective employers) will govern the determination of employment status for workers in the music industry. However, AB 2257 specifically notes that workers in other entertainment industries, such as film and television production, do not qualify for the exemption.
Freelance Writers and Photographers Are Additional Beneficiaries
AB 2257 also includes a significant win for freelance writers and photographers: the law removes the controversial "35-submission limit" to qualify for exemption from AB 5. This is a major victory because the submission limit previously rendered writers and photographers who submitted more than 35 articles or projects per year ineligible for the exemption. Now, these occupations are exempt from AB 5 and the ABC test when the following elements are met: (1) there is a written contract that specifies rate of pay, intellectual property rights, and an obligation to pay by a defined time; (2) the individual doesn't otherwise replace an employee; (3) the individual does not primarily work at the location of the hiring entity; and (4) there is no restriction preventing the individual from working for more than one entity.
Changes to the "Business to Business" Exemption
Although the business-to-business exemption is one of the narrowest AB 5 exemptions, it applies to certain contracting relationships in which a "business service provider" provides services to a "contracting business." In order for the business-to-business exemption to apply, the "business service provider" (i.e., contractor) must be free from the control and direction of the "contracting business entity" in connection with the performance of the work, both under the contract for the performance of the work and in fact.
The amendments to the business-to-business exemption require that business service providers be merely free to provide services to other clients, rather than requiring that they actually provide services to more than one client. Further, the update to this exemption now allows business service providers to provide services directly to the customers of a contracting business so long as its employees are performing the services under the name of the business service provider and the business service provider regularly contracts with other businesses.
Is AB 5 Merely a Sneak Preview of a National Trend?
Even with the recent changes to AB 5, the upcoming presidential election has further implications for the worker classification battle underway in California. Although President Trump's campaign has not yet weighed in, there is a clear message on Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in his published Plan for Strengthening Worker Organizing, Collective Bargaining and Unions: "[Biden] will work with Congress to establish a federal standard modeled on the ABC test for all labor, employment, and tax laws." It is therefore possible that in a not-too-distant future, all U.S. workers could be subject to the "ABC" test. On the other hand, it should be noted that the U.S. Department of Labor has recently proposed a new rule that would make it easier for employers to classify workers as contractors.
Regardless, the recent changes provided by AB 2257 are worth noting in the complex labor classification context created by California's AB 5. Accordingly, we recommend reaching out to MSK's expert team to determine whether employees and contractors are properly classified.
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Three of the Tottenham gang rapists
Anyone who watched Monday night's Dispatches documentary on Channel 4 "Rape in the City", will have been amazed, not so much by the contents, but by the fact that the guardians of the multicultural flame at Channel 4 allowed such contents to be broadcast. Admittedly the main reporter was the refreshingly professional, and, by Channel 4 standards comparatively honest Sorious Samura from Sierra Leone, who has been responsible for some excellent past reporting from African war zones, however the subject matter was highly sensitive and focused on issues which the establishment usually seeks to suppress.
The subject in question was gang rape, and the troubling fact that it is a crime for which young black men are disproportionately responsible, in fact from the series of gang rapes Channel four investigated, of the 93 young men involved, 13 were white, 66 black and the others mixed race or Asian. Although I suspect that Asians may have been under represented in the sample, possibly due to the well documented reluctance of the police to prosecute such crimes within that community, as there can be little doubt the community cohesion censors at Channel 4 will have gone to great efforts to find as many whites as possible, we can be sure that blacks have not been unfairly over represented.
Based on the Channel 4 investigation, young black men of Afro Caribbean origin are committing more than five times as many gang rapes as young white men. However, the discrepancy is far greater than that, given that people of Afro-Caribbean origin are estimated to make up around 6% of the population, whilst whites are around 80% (down from 90% in 1999) by these figures, which nobody has disputed, their propensity to commit gang rape exceeds that of white youths by thousands of percent. (Perhaps someone better at maths than I can provide an accurate percentage.)
Indeed, it doesn't stop there, as came out during the programme most if not all of those white boys who did feature in the figures, were not members of gangs of white rapists, but the minority white members of mixed race or primarily black gangs, such as the single white boy amongst the mostly black gang who poured caustic soda on their victim, in the well publicised Tottenham gang rape last year.
As the whites appear to be primarily junior foot soldiers in such gangs, those who have become involved in such crimes could well be more representative of the effect which exposure to black culture can have on impressionable white boys, rather than evidence of a similar propensity amongst the white community.
Further evidence of this influence, was sadly evident amongst a number of the victims appearing in the documentary, who, although they were filmed in shadow, were clearly mostly white girls. These young women, whilst describing what was done to them, referred to other abusive events and relationships, which fell just short of rape, as if they were a natural and expected feature of the female interaction with the male.
Various references were made to young girls who appeared willing to accommodate a series of young men with mostly oral sex, almost as if they felt that was expected of them. In response to which we have to ask what sort of society we have created, and why it was created. Did young white girls think that way 50 years ago?
Of course Dispatches chanted the obligatory "tiny minority" mantra, pointing out that there are many young black men who do not commit gang rape, however, that is not entirely encouraging given how many of their brothers are at least one thousand percent more likely to commit gang rape than the host community. Let us not forget that the majority of black South Africans are not child rapists, yet a child is raped in South Africa every three minutes. It takes only a violent minority to tip civilisation into a crime ridden anarchy.
We have already seen the disproportionate number of young black men who are involved in knife crime , and the fact we actually have a separate police force Operation Trident dedicated entirely to dealing with gun crime in the black community, even the most argent of multiculturalists, it they are honest, has to accept that there is an issue here.
We have a section of our community which is disproportionately prone to violent crime to a massive degree, we see evidence of this every day, and yet we are not supposed to acknowledge it, even when programmes such as Dispatches reluctantly admit the facts. Furthermore, our leaders are actively seeking to add massively to that already growing and disproportionately criminal section of the community.
Surely this is madness and there can be only one outcome.
Dr.D said...
Sarah said,
"Surely this is madness and there can be only one outcome."
I would add to that that there is only one solution. That solution is total separation, removal of all blacks from Britain.
Sure, some of them are not rapists. Some of them are not murderers. And so forth. But it seems that everyone of them carries the seed for these acts, and a large proportion of them act upon that seed. When you are pulling weeds in the garden, you do not only pull the ones that have gone to seed, you get them all. That is what must be done with the blacks.
The same thing applies to the muzlims as well.
Only when these measures are taken will the UK be restored to health as a sound, reasonable, Western nation.
To an intelligent person this is a horrific indictment of multiculturism. For an intelligent person who thinks about this in the context of violent crime anywhere in the world, the facts that emerge are that wherever there are blacks, there is violent if not brutal crime and the more these blacks perpetrate such crimes to the point that they start going unpunished, the more frequent and the more brutal the crimes become.
Add to this exponential devolution of society into mindless mayhem at the hands of non-white cultures, the insanity of political correctness that demands that blacks are disadvantaged, oppressed, marginalised and therefore untouchable regardless of the crimes they commit; these statistics are going to continue to emerge and also continue to multiply, as I said, exponentially - and these people are in the minority!! Imagine if they were the majority as in South Africa where the incidence of violent murder and rape is so high that to attempt to address it with the death penalty would result in well over a hundred people being executed every day.
Of course that would be totally unacceptable to the international community - I mean after all, 50-60 murders per day and a similar number of brutal rapes of victims aged anywhere between 9 months and 90 years old is more acceptable than 100 executions a day??
What is even more galling is that taking exception to and speaking out against black perpetrators of violent crime against white victims is racist!!
Sadly these statistics in the UK are self-inflicted and as long as Brits regard it as racist to expose the race of the perpetrators and declare the victims themslves to be racists simply for being white, these crimes are going to continue and they are going to increase to the point that violent black on white crime evolves into urban terror, then into full scale urban warfare and finally a full-blown race war against white people as is the case in all African countries of which Zimbabwe and South Africa are uncontestable examples.
Multiculturalism - like mixing faeces with ice-cream, it does nothing for the faeces and totally destroys the ice-cream.
- Cynic
Jeff ( Va. Rebel ) said...
Sarah - I'm interested in what that outcome is perceived to be by the struggling Brit citizen ?
Are you speaking of the obvious and continual degradation that will eventually bring total destruction upon the whites ?
Or is it that the whites will say - enough is enough, consequences be damned ... we're gonna clean house once and for all.
How does one propose to remove the blacks and other undesirables from our societies ? Do we really think our vote or voiced opinions will make any real differences ? Have they so far or has the spigot only been opened further ?
Forgive my language for I get really mad -what will it take to get the white man pissed off enough to start shedding the blood of those who have absolutely no qualms about spilling theirs ? Raping their women, preying on our elderly ?
In my opinion, there is no more horrible crime than rape. It is so invasive and degrading - the victim is left to suffer a lifetime. I'm still searching scripture for a torture clause, for if ever there was a reason ...
Yes, yes - let us not forget the vast array of armed police might that will be brought against us. But why is that so ? When it is a crime to survive, to right the wrongs that destroy our people ... you can call me an outlaw.
With no apologies.
So where in the scheme of things does that put the authority figures who will be "only doing their jobs" ? Stained with innocent blood guiltiness and no where to hide from that truth. There's no righteous justice in that lame excuse.
No one believes in "conspiracies" anymore so I guess the shakers 'n movers of this multicultural, anything goes NWO just happened to not be able to foresee where all this was heading when they first steered in this direction ?
Does anyone else believe that so many "chemicals" could be kept bottled up tight, shaken violently with no outlet or hope for release and no reaction would come of it ?
They aim for our destruction and think they can control the expected detonation and fully institute their worldly police state from the resultant chaos. It will not turn out as they planned.
Do we really believe that the kid gloves they use on other races now will be the same way they'll deal with whites ? These hate crimes and other means of control are aimed at us, not them.
We are the threat to their system.
Please explain just how we have benefitted over the years by "doing it by the systems way" ?
Stalled them a bit perhaps but look at our present conditions.
Violence understands and responds to only one thing - opposing violence. Soon our minds will come 'round.
Hard realities must be faced and that soon. But there is another possibility most have not investigated with earnest ... but they will when all else fails.
Assuming Sorious Samura from Sierra Leone is Black, then I would suggest the only reason this article passed muster with the editors is simply because of that fact.
Similar Black crime trends also occur in the U.S. with monotonous frequency, but again, the media is in business to brainwash and downplay the obvious -- not to report the news.
Go to this F.B.I. document under "Victims and Offenders" and download the pdf file for 2005.
"In Table 42, entitled "Personal crimes of violence, 2005, percent distribution of single-offender victimizations, based on race of victims, by type of crime and perceived race of offender," we learn that there were 111,590 white victims and 36,620 black victims of rape or sexual assault in 2005.
In the 111,590 cases in which the victim of rape or sexual assault was white, 44.5% of the offenders were white, and 33.6% of the offenders were black.
In the 36,620 cases in which the victim of rape or sexual assault was black, 100 percent of the offenders were black, and 0.0 percent of the offenders were white.
The table explains that 0.0 percent means that there were under 10 incidents nationally.
In the United States in the year 2005………. 37,460 WHITE females were sexually assaulted or raped by a BLACK man, while between zero and ten black females were sexually assaulted or raped by a white man.
What this means is that every day in the United States, over 100 White women are raped or sexually assaulted by a BLACK man."
I seem to recall reading somewhere in all this buried material that over 3000 gang rapes are committed against women every year, and again, the vast majority of perpetrators being Black men.
In response to Dr. D's suggestion, perhaps the pre-1954 southern segregationists had it right the first time.
Having the hands-on experience of interacting with this particular race can be a powerful teacher and Britain appears to be now moving through a learning phase as once did those 'old timers' from the previous American south.
Sarah Maid of Albion said...
It is hard to know what the solution is. However, I am not in any way suggesting that the indigenous community resort to violence.
Some of the damage can never be put right, which was the deliberate intention of those who set about creating the present situation.
However, we can achieve a result which stops the damage from getting worse, or at least slows down the process.
Halting any further immigration, and encouraging some of the immigrants who are already here to return to their countries of origin, would, at least help.
Also, we have a duty to be honest about what we have done to ourselves in the hope that others can learn from our huge mistake.
"I will say, then, that I am not nor have ever been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the black and white races - that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with White people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the White and black races which will ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the White race" - Abraham Lincoln, Fourth Lincoln-Douglas Debate, September 18, 1858, Charleston, Illinois, in Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings (New York: Library of America, 1989), p. 636, and in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 5, page 371.
Pretty well says it all, I think. The consequences of ignoring Lincoln's observations are very evident.
JPT said...
But, but, but - on The Bill all the rapists are white?!?!?!
One sustained and increasing attack on Western civilisation
Here is some video of witch burnings in Kenya - Warning - not for the faint hearted.
http://www.wntube.net/play.php?vid=2785
We need to import thousands of these people who will bring vibrant new ideas to the UK — We all benefit when we are exposed to such diversity, especially if it is the ancient wisdom of the forest people, living in harmony with their natural surroundings.
fellist said...
Sarah, excellent post. It must be difficult to write about this subject but you did a great job of laying out the appalling facts while keeping your own voice calm and measured.
Just one thing, I'm not sure I know what you mean... "there can be only one outcome". What outcome do you expect?
**WARNING**
The video in the comment from Anonymous 01:27 is very graphic, and many will find it disturbing.
The outcome is to add to the crime and instability which we have been importing into this country for the last thirty years, until we turn in to another South Africa, Kingston Jamaica or Islamabad.
Right, get ya. Then the question is what'll be the outcome of that?
Surely two things: an increasing awareness of the harmful effects of immigration; but also more willingness to hand power to the pro-immigration state to control our lives.
Aren't we caught in a dilectical trap?
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It began as a sleepy Wednesday afternoon in the universe of sports radio. But now Alex "A-Rod" Rodriguez is ranting and radio host Mike Francesa is listening to his tale of woe. Having stormed out of his grievance hearing to appeal his suspension for using banned performance-enhancing drugs and obstructing a drug investigation, Rodriguez made a beeline for the WFAN studios in New York City to vent about baseball commissioner Bud Selig and the unfairness of it all. "The man from Milwaukee put the suspension on me without one bit of evidence. And he doesn't have the courage to come look at me in the eye..." Francesa asked if he used PEDs, obstructed justice or "did anything that they are accusing you of doing?" The answer to each question was no.
Welcome to sports talk radio. The exchange—raw and impassioned and simulcast on the New York Yankees' YES television network—made for compelling theatre. Rodriguez, so ubiquitous that sports reporter Mike Lupica called him "the Kim Kardashian of baseball," has denied his culpability before. "For the record, have you even used steroids, human growth hormone or any other performance enhancing substance?" Katie Couric queried on "60 Minutes" in 2007. "No" came his flat reply.
In the aftermath, Francesa was accused of shilling for Rodriguez and not being tougher with follow-up questions. But the larger picture reconfirmed Francesa as the king of sports talk radio. He bagged the interview, not Michael Kay, his drive-time rival at ESPN radio; not Keith Olbermann at ESPN2, who bellowed that Alex was "sitting in Santa's lap" for the interview; nor his former partner Chris "Mad Dog" Russo.
Sports radio spawns as many issues as politics on a given day. Political talk may cover the NSA, the vagaries of ObamaCare or compare the presidential candidates for 2016. By comparison, sports radio callers weigh in on head injuries in football, on whether Rodriguez deserves a 162-game suspension, or whether Tony Romo will lead Dallas to a Super Bowl, and much more.
Since WFAN launched the first all-sports radio station in 1987, more than 600 stations followed suit. Callers ask questions, argue with hosts, and give impassioned takes on events in real time. The mania for watching games is matched by the desire to debate their meanings. At times there is more opining than thinking, more rhetoric than cogent arguing, more heat than light, more teaching moments missed than hit.
The pairing of Russo and Francesa made for audio synergism. More kinetic than verbal, Russo delivered energy whether reliving NFL play-off games, or dying, slowly, when his San Francisco Giants were losing to the 2000 New York Mets. He squealed with schadenfreude, mocking his callers when New York teams lost. Francesa's knowledge, honed from his days as a studio analyst at CBS Sports, was vast enough that The New Yorker once referred to him as "Brent Musberger's brain." The contrast of Francesa schooling his audience and Russo giggling like a sneezing hyena at their misfortunes worked.
Their 19-year union, which ended in 2008, became the standard in the industry. Other sports radio hosts carry it off, too, and can be rated by their entertainment value, sports knowledge and insight, even integrity. Francesa's show deserves the first ranking.
A New York native, Francesa's flavor is local but his reach is national. Usually, though not always, he talks with authority on the three major American sports. When the Rangers, Islanders or Devils make the playoffs, he summons guests who respond to his listeners' craving for hockey. He rates New York Giant and Ranger fans as the most loyal, since they fill their venues regardless of how well the teams play.
Some criticisms arise from his curt manner with callers, especially those who disagree with him. On the other hand, fans who call just to seek affirmation for their inane views, or pranksters seeking to get a rise out of him, deserve brusque treatment. Radio requires pace. Callers often hold the line for more than an hour, and they don't suffer fools gladly.
That said, he shouldn't deny once falling asleep while listening to Yankee beat reporter Sweeney Murti talk. After all, it's on camera: His head hung and then he awoke, startled, as if his alarm clock sounded. Why deny it? Just roll with it and share the laugh.
But Francesa, who one columnist calls "The Sports Pope," is bombastic, even without evidence. A fan of Mickey Mantle, Francesa declared that Babe Ruth and Mantle were the two greatest World Series performers. This is nonsense on stilts. Ruth owns the highest slugging average (.744) and on-base plus slugging percentage (OBP, 1.211) in Series history, with Lou Gehrig right behind in slugging (.731) and OBP (1.208). Though Mantle is the all-time leader with 18 World Series home runs—due to playing in 65 games, (far more than Ruth or Gehrig)—he trails badly in slugging (.535) and OBP (.908). Also, Reggie Jackson, playing 27 Series games compared to Ruth's 41, slugged .755 and posted an OBP of 1.212. So Francesa needs to hit the books.
The subtext is disturbing: the audience learns that you can defend any view, even without evidence. If listeners don't know any better, it will stick.
Francesa also makes a peculiarly lame defense of steroid users like Rodriguez. He won't discredit his 654 home runs, since "We don't know when he started [cheating]." A day before the Hall of Fame voting was announced, he asserted that Rodriguez, Clemens and Bonds "have the numbers to be Hall of Famers." Oh really? You mean those phony totals they attained while using performance-enhancing drugs? Let me know what the Olympics does with suspect numbers and get back to me.
"No one in Green Bay is going to complain," Rodgers replied. Patrick wanted more: "If I said you can have 32 degrees and sunny but [San Francisco quarterback] Colin Kaepernick is going to get the same condition, would you take that, or would you have 8 degrees as a high?" Rodgers said that he preferred being able to feel the ball and throwing it without wind, but he would still take the 8 degrees.
The Mikes at their mics play it straight. They address the latest games and topics—including skier Lindsay Vonn's injury that kept her out of the Olympics. Via telephone, former Florida State University coach Bobby Bowden claims that FSU, a double-digit favorite in the college football title game, was "overconfident," whereas Auburn burned as an underdog. Florida State then woke up in the second half.
Mike Lupica embodies the five-platform approach of ESPN. ESPN started with television in 1979 and followed with radio, Internet, a magazine and books. Lupica, a columnist for Esquire a generation ago, sees their five and raises them one: he also toils as a columnist for the New York Daily News.
As with many others who come from a writing background, Lupica brings the same savvy commentary to the radio that he brings to his writing. He floats above the fray—an urbane, independent voice, seemingly beholden to no one. Hence, his tough assessment of the New York Knicks—who he claims always have a plan, which gets them to "the next plan." At times, however, he seems like one more host in love with his own views.
Consider: Lupica is against firing Knicks' coach Mike Woodson because of his 84–56 record over three years, yet he rails at the piety of Giants fans who think that coach Tom Coughlin should be untouchable. Coughlin is 90–70 in five years as the Giants' coach—oh yes, and that small matter of winning two Super Bowls. A little consistency, please.
Following a memorable game six of the 2013 NBA Finals between Miami and San Antonio, Lupica was revved to go. "We set the debate, we don't join the debate. We won't hang up on you," he said excitedly. But then he did. A caller began, "If you were going to take a Lebron [James] game, the one to take was not game six." Then the caller was cut off, since his opinion differed from Lupica's. The caller was right: had he not been clicked off, he might have mentioned the last 41 seconds in regulation, when James lost the ball twice, bricked a three-pointer, made one, and missed again with eight seconds left. In sum, 33 seconds, two misses, two turnovers.
During his New York tenure, Russo was at his maniacal best while off on a riff, rabidly debunking your favorite team or unravelling an overrated player. On SiriusXM satellite radio the same formula works. After New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees set the record for passing yards in a season (since broken by Peyton Manning), the Dog barked: "Nobody in America outside of Stewart Scott and Mike Turico cares about Brees' record—he's not even the best quarterback in the league!
Rodgers is better, and Brett [Favre] is better than Brees. Nor was Marino in '84, since Montana was better. Don't get me wrong, Brees is going to the Hall of Fame. I didn't stay up to watch that. I don't think anybody in America cares." Favre over Brees? Questionable. Overkill? No doubt. But rants are excessive by definition. If stream of conscious rants were your calling card, and someone offered you $3 million per annum, wouldn't you do it?
Russo is also infamous for malaprops. He once explained how Amadeus was a movie about Johann Sebastian Bach. Then there was the one about the "anals of sports history." Who needs English?
The 2013 baseball season is ending. Mike Felger and Tony Massarotti, both former Boston Herald columnists, are conducting a "Yankees elimination party." As tempting as it is to stomp on the Yankees' one-World Series-in-the-last-13-years grave, the duo resists. The bit was muted—more in the spirit of the Yankees will flounder because they lack minor league prospects and are committed to paying millions to aging and underachieving players. Felger included Vernon Wells (paid $21 million in 2013), Alfonso Soriano (37 years old, $18 million), and Derek Jeter. "Jeter's $8 million—that's not crippling in itself, except he's 39, can't move, and he's your opening day shortstop. What are you gonna do, start him on the bench?
"If you're Joe Girardi, do you come back?" he asks.
"I would rather be the Red Sox for the last 10 years, and I'd rather be the Red Sox for the next ten," Massarotti offers.
"The knee-jerk thing is to say to Girardi 'Get the hell out of there,' " Felger continues. "But he manages the Yankees—the premier job on the premier team…and gets paid a ton. Do you leave that to go coach the freaking loser Cubs?" The producer cuts in, reminding Felger that "Girardi was drafted by the Cubs and Theo [Epstein, the Chicago general manager] will pay him a ton of money." Note to producer: this was no time to strike a chord for journalistic balance, thereby missing the historical point and stealing your host's thunder. The argument was made: you don't leave the Yankees for a team that hasn't won in 105 years.
Boston fans, and at least some Yankee fans, would love that bit.
Michael Kay and his cohost Don La Greca minister to the pain of New York fans. The metro area has nine teams in baseball, football, basketball and hockey. Each is underachieving and hard to watch. Fans call proposing trades for Knicks star Carmelo Anthony; others explain, mindlessly, how the game has passed by Giants coach Tom Coughlin. The voice of the Yankees for their YES Network, Kay has a sure grasp of the local sporting scene.
He mustered enough righteous indignation to build an anti-steroid argument. When attacks were made on Rodriguez, Kay pointed to a double standard benefiting Boston's David Ortiz, who gets a free pass because he smiles at everyone and has the avuncular nickname "Big Papi." It's true: the reigning World Series Most Valuable Player has tested dirty twice, and was called out by Boston writer Dan Shaughnessy last spring, who attributed the 37-year-old's .426 average in April to steroids. Predictably, Shaughnessy was lambasted by locals imbued with blind faith in Ortiz.
But Kay talks out of both sides of his mouth, since each Rodriguez home run becomes a pious occasion for Kay's own countdown on the television broadcast. "He's just 12 behind [Willie] Mays," he said when Rodriguez hit his 648th last year. It isn't just the deplorable comparison between a perennial cheater and baseball's greatest living player that's irksome; it's Kay's inconsistency. He flip-flopped again after Francesa's Rodriguez interview. "You won't find A-Rod on my show anytime soon," Kay said. "He is looking for blind support and he won't get it here." Michael Kay: The ultimate homer on the Yankees' YES Network and a tough guy on radio.
"But how do you know that," Esiason asks.
"My savant-ness tells me he's not an NFL quarterback," Carton replies to his partner, a 14-year NFL quarterback.
Carton razzes Giants fans about quarterback Eli Manning's poor season. This was true in 2013, when he led the league with 27 interceptions. But Carton's comparison of Manning to New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez was absurd. Manning has passed for 35,000 yards in 10 years and has walked off with two Super Bowl MVPs. Mediocre he isn't.
The tone is chatty with Tony Bruno, a familiar voice who helped launch ESPN radio with Keith Olbermann some 20 years ago. The stentorian depth of Bruno's voice is underrated: It makes for easy listening across the hours. He and Mayes are hoping—even praying—that plummeting temperatures will help their Philadelphia Eagles beat New Orleans, an awful road team.
Local callers tweet that Philly sports radio is only tolerable because Bruno and Mayes are back on the Fanatic. A caller from Pittsburgh bemoans that Drew Brees gets too much love from the media and Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback Ben Roethlisberger gets too little. "Ben isn't pretty," Mayes says, as if that's the reason. True, Ben gets it done in ugly fashion, with defenders hanging on him as he throws. But can someone bring a statistic to this discussion? Brees has more than 50,000 yards. Roethlisberger isn't shabby either.
Colin Cowherd is building a case. He's not trying to soothe the feelings of wounded Dallas Cowboy fans, but he's making a case for their coach. "If you were angry with your boss for firing you, you'd have less of a reason than Jason Garrett has for keeping his job. The coach was 8-8, and he lost five games by 8 points—three times by one point, another by two and another by three!" By that reckoning, Dallas could have won 13 games.
But the off-the-beaten-track host should stick to what he knows best. "LeBron has 4,000 more points than Michael Jordan by his 29th birthday," he tells us, as if uncovering a revelation. Jordan started playing NBA ball when he was 21; James, at 18, since he skipped college. Jordan had won seven scoring titles by his 29th birthday; James, one. Herd didn't bring that up. It didn't serve his rhetorical purpose of saying James was better at a comparable age.
Alright, I'll help the Herd out. Both had won two NBA titles by the age of 29.
Kenneth Shouler is a regular contributor to Cigar Aficionado and an associate professor of philosophy at the County College of Morris.


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Performance locations will be Poway, Calif., with funding from fiscal 2013 other procurement authority funds. This contract was a non-competitive acquisition with one bid received.


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The recent arrest of five well-known human rights activists by the Maharashtra Police has brought the BJP-led Modi government and the civil society into a confrontation mode. Activists said that these are fabricated charges levelled under various provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and the IPC.
Hearing a petition filed by five eminent persons — Romila Thapar, Devaki Jain, Prabhat Patnaik, Satish Deshpande and Maja Dharuwala, the Supreme Court has ordered the Pune police to place all the five activists they detained in a countrywide crackdown on August 28, under house arrest, and that too, in their own homes.
Anju Grover for Indian Currents spoke to noted Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan, who is appearing for the petitioners in the PIL against the arrests. Bhushan said that the arrest of five human rights activists is a signal of their intention and this trend is in many ways more dangerous than the emergency of 1975. According to him, the latest arrests represent a new and extremely dangerous phase in the steady erosion of civil liberties, fundamental rights and democracy in India.
IC: What are your views on the arrest of five human rights activists for allegedly having links with Maoists?
Prashant Bhushan: The charge against them is that they have a link with Bhima Koregaon incident and Maoists. These activists have been working for the protection of human rights for the last 25 years and suddenly they were found to be involved in a conspiracy and subsequently raids and arrests were made. The reality is these activists were not present in Bhima Koregaon. Their names were not in the FIR registered in connection with Bhima Koregaon incident.
IC: The Pune Police said these activists were arrested on suspicion of plotting an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Isn't it a very serious charge?
It is ludicrous to know that these people would be involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi. And if so, when did the police discover this plot? How did the police discover? What is the evidence with the police that there was a plot and these people were behind it? It is totally absurd. They cooked up the same story during false encounters episode. These activists arrested are well-respected human rights crusaders. Their writings, advocacy of the rights of the poor and oppressed and fight for civil rights are a testimony to their selflessness and dedication. They are being systematically targeted and maliciously charged with an "intent to strike terror in the people of India" or "intent to threaten the unity, integrity, security, economic security or sovereignty of India". These activists have never been accused of any act of violence or criminal activity except Ferreira and Gonzalves who were acquitted.
IC: The Pune Police has used term, `Urban Naxals' for these activists? Your views.
Urban Maoists/Naxals has been coined to describe these activists. A media campaign was launched to describe urban supporters as Urban Naxals. The coining of the term "Urban Maoists" is like the earlier coining of the term, "Tukde Tukde Gang" in connection with the protests in JNU. Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya were arrested in connection with these protests but even after three years, no charge sheet has been filed against them by the Delhi Police. Many of the videos run by the news channels that showed the students' slogans, insinuating the break-up of India, were found to be fabricated. Initially they targeted dalits and minorities and then started arresting the activists. Urban naxals is used to describe those who fought for the rights of dalits, minorities. What is the meaning of urban naxal? I am being described as urban naxal. Arundhati and Aruna are being called 'urban naxal'. It is strange that a person who defends these human rights activists is being described as 'urban naxal'. It is ironical that the Pune police used it while seeking remand of these activists in the court.
IC: What, according to you, is the reason behind targeting NGO activists?
The objective of arresting human rights activists is to stifle voices of dissent, deter human rights defenders and those who have been fighting for the rights of dalits, adivasis and minorities. The idea is to curb peaceful struggles against this government's anti-people ideology. Democracy is under siege in India. The arrest of five human rights activists is an indication of escalation in fascist activities in India which is dangerous. Human rights are being openly violated and still people are unable to understand it. This kind of Emergency is more dangerous than 1975 Emergency. At stake are the Indian Constitution, democracy and human rights.
IC: Congress President Rahul Gandhi has tweeted on the arrest of these activists. In his tweet, he sarcastically said that there is only one NGO and that is RSS. Similarly, few other parties have criticised the arrest.
Yes. I must say that the opposition parties are with us against this kind of fascist act of the government.
IC: The general elections are due next year. Do you think, this will have an impact on 2019 elections?
Of course, the BJP is seeing it. It is written on the wall that people have now turned against the BJP. So, they are going to lose in 2019 elections. That is why they are acting in such a manner.


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The Biggest Cybersecurity Risk Is Not Identity Theft
Posted by Joachim Bartels | Dec 27, 2015 | Cyber Security, Cyber Security Intelligence, Industry Dynamics, Users of Information | 0 |
The Sky News app has been hijacked by the Syrian Electronic Army
What would happen if a hacker edited a major news website to falsely report an anthrax attack in Times Square? Even if the site removed the story within minutes, it already would have been reposted and retweeted thousands of times. The misinformation likely would lead to crowded sidewalks, traffic accidents, overflowing hospitals, a plummeting stock market and other chaos.
A recently released PwC survey of 319 media executives found that 46 percent said they had received cyberattacks in the past year, up from 29 percent a year earlier.
Cybersecurity debates tend to focus on theft of personal information and cyberattacks that damage physical systems like electric grids. But there is less discussion about a very real threat posed by hackers who deface websites, apps and other sources to spread false information. Neither our legal system nor our private sector is adequately prepared to deal with such damaging acts.
Defacement received some attention when journalist Matthew Keys was convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the primary federal computer hacking law. Keys, a former employee of the Tribune Company, allegedly provided his login credentials to the hacking group Anonymous, which added some nonsensical words to a story on the Los Angeles Times' website.
The Times removed the story about 40 minutes later, and the hack did not lead to the chaos that likely would have resulted from false reports of anthrax. Keys faces up to 25 years in prison, though he likely will receive a far shorter sentence when he is sentenced in January.
Advocates have blasted the Keys verdict as unfair and illogical. The Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote that the conviction demonstrates that the "CFAA is broken." Via Twitter, Edward Snowden criticized the maximum sentence.
For a felony conviction, the statute requires a hack to cause at least $5,000 in losses, so the verdict hinged on the magnitude of the damage that Keys caused. On appeal, Keys likely will argue that the hack did not cause anywhere near $5,000 in damage, and the government will disagree. Federal law should provide law enforcement with more precise and effective tools to prevent and punish website defacement.
The dispute demonstrates the uneasy fit between the CFAA and modern cybersecurity threats. The CFAA was passed in 1986, and does not explicitly address some of the most urgent and modern cybersecurity dangers, including website defacement. Indeed, Keys was charged under a provision of the statute that prohibits the knowing "transmission of a program, information, code, or command."
U.S. laws can — and should — more directly and precisely address online defacement. The problem is too large — and potentially too destructive — to address it with an outdated law. Over the past few years, the Syrian Electronic Army, a group that supports Syrian President Bashar Hafez al-Assad, has defaced the websites and social media accounts of dozens of media outlets.
The frequency of the Syrian Electronic Army's attacks demonstrates how easy it is to access and deface frequently viewed websites. If, instead of posting political messages, the hackers reported a nuclear bomb in Chicago, or a hijacking in Los Angeles, the result would be mass chaos. Federal law should provide law enforcement with more precise and effective tools to prevent and punish website defacement. Website defacement should be a separate crime, with penalties that are more carefully tied to the actual damage that the acts have caused, or were intended to cause.
But the law is only part of the solution. News media, e-commerce companies, government agencies and other operators of frequently viewed websites have a duty to implement security measures that make it more difficult for hackers to deface the sites. Companies should guard their public-facing websites just as closely as they protect their internal data.
The frequency of website defacement — and the potential damage that such misinformation could cause — requires both the government and the private sector to take the threat more seriously in both their policies and practices. Source: Techcrunch: http://tcrn.ch/1H0S0rj
Courtesy Cyber Security Intelligence
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