Read the license on the sections about quoting. Sorry, what? What are you talking about?
The World Wide Web is full of links. If people can't click on a link they should stick to reading newspapers. Incidentally, the Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-Alike licence is not a free-for-all. It has terms, and to legally copy that material you ...
NZ fighters should not have been there at all, of course
He may or may not have "important friends" (whatever relevance that may have to this article I don't know), but to me the important thing is that he's actually practising journalism; he's taken the time to study this issue and present it as a political ...
This is really quite a poor quality post, I'm sorry to say. It's sadly typical to see shallow reporting from American media, especially when there's a chance to make Russia and the Russian government look bad. For a more nuanced, informed, and informative ...
I guess the ‘lesson’ I’ll be taking away isn’t the one you intended to impart. I’ll remember contrasts really; the pompous tone of the comments, the condescension immense not just in and of itself, but in equally immense contrast with the studious ...
It's actually a good point, Mark! The debt servicing cost hasn't been included in this analysis, and it should have been. A very rough calculation, based on a compound interest rate of 3.5% (it's been up and down since the privatisations took place), for 3...
The provision of the National Defense Authorization Act which you mention, barring transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to the US, was signed into law by President Obama in 2015; long after he could and should have closed the prison as he had promised he would...
Absolutely! Obama the centrist chose to initiate a bipartisan talk-fest to discuss how to go about considering the issues involved in moving forward on setting up a framework for addressing the question of a possible shutdown of Guantanamo. Whereas it was ...
I love where Obama says "there remains bipartisan support for closing Guantanamo...", when clearly there doesn't remain bipartisan support, or it would have been closed.
... the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet ... Second largest. Close enough, though!
Underestimating just how far some republicans would go to burn their own balls off wasn’t “naive” or “owned by the establishment”. Really? It seems pretty naive to me. Obama had a very noble and high-minded managerialist vision in which a bunch of ...
Replying to Rhinocrates, who says, in response to my comment that Obama blew his opportunity to close Guantanamo on day 1 of his administration: OK, have a look at what you’re saying there. On day one, by decree? Even dictators can’t do that Watch the ...
Obama did … ngghhh Obama did a good …. nyARRRGH Here ... let me help you: Obama did a good deal of harm to Manning by prejudicing her trial with this statement: We’re a nation of laws. We don’t let individuals make their own decisions about how the laws ...
He himself admitted that he blew a golden opportunity at the state of his administration, well before the Democrats lost control of both houses of Congress. He chose to set up a "task force" to study the problem, when he should have just shut the prison ...
Manning actually deserved a medal for exposing war crimes. This is great news for her, but it falls far short of real justice.
"we remain the [...] most respected nation on Earth" Americans might like to think so. The "Reputation Institute" rates the US as only averagely reputable. It doesn't make it into their top 20 list for 2016, which was topped by Canada, and had NZ coming in...
"Rivals like Russia or China cannot match our influence around the world – unless we give up what we stand for, and turn ourselves into just another big country that bullies smaller neighbors." Surely not! The US would never bully its small neighbours?! ...
In the case you linked to (where the FBI identified Tor-protected users of a child porn website), it seems more like the FBI didn't attempt to break Tor itself; instead they just took over the offending website and continued to run it for a couple of weeks...
The key phrase here is "in compliance with international law, in particular with the United Nations Charter". The Security Council has asked member states to take on ISIL, but notice they require that it is done within the bounds of the UN charter, which ...
"Do you even know what Tor is?" Really? Given that HALF of my comment was a link to an article that included an explanation of what Tor is, I have to conclude that once again you couldn't be bothered to engage your brain and instead decided just to vent ...
For those (like lprent) who don't understand the significance of the "bad" IP addresses actually being Tor exit nodes, the point is this: Tor is a private network which anonymises the communications sent through it. Packets of information passing through ...
I chimed in with my Marx quote to support greywarshark's thesis that Americans' religiosity is connected with the lack of social solidarity in the US, and the high levels of social precariousness. In other words; religion is a kind of mythical security ...
Half the IP addresses are those of Tor exit nodes. The "report" is not half as convincing as "they" want you to believe.
From the front page teaser: "Are we going to see the unprecedented destruction of rights of privacy?" Well, maybe, but not just yet. The situation has improved recently (because Snowden's revelations of mass surveillance have led to courts actually ...
I read that article and it struck me how little the logico-mathematical core made sense. But the headline is a tell: an idea that "needs to die" ... so that the neoliberal juggernaut can continue to roll!
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions."
The two "Bear" groups identified by CrowdStrike in the DNC case were not new, and had already been designated "Russian" based on analysis of their earlier operations. These hacking groups are known as "Advanced Persistent Threats" in the IT security ...
Yes, funny, but to be fair, the names "Cozy Bear" and "Fancy Bear" are code names made up by the IT security firm who the DNC contracted to audit their security breaches. The naming scheme uses the "Bear" suffix to designate an apparently Russian group. No...
Why should Trump feel compelled to "show faith" in the secret police? Is it a religious requirement of the presidency? I don't see why you should conflate the interests of the American state (the CIA?!) with the interests of its inhabitants. I am no fan of...
There were apparently a number of different attacks (including the phishing of John Podesta), and they may well have been by a number of different parties. Media reports I've read have identified two distinct "groups" with different code-names depending on...
Cats, with their independent spirit and beguiling purrs, have captured the hearts of humans for millennia. In New Zealand, felines are no exception, boasting the highest national cat ownership rate globally [definition cat nz cat foundation]. An estimated 1.134 million pet cats grace Kiwi households, compared to 683,000 dogs ...
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