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The New York Police Department is engaging in sexual assault against Occupy protesters...or, for that matter, anyone who looks like they might be an Occupy protester. This is not rogue officers acting on their own, but part of the systematic campaign to prevent peaceful protest by violent police action. And for the most part, the country yawns at this behavior, despite it being flagrantly illegal, because culturally speaking, we've been told that you do what the police tell you, regardless of whether or not it's legal, and if you don&aps;t, then whatever happens to you is your fault.
Elsewhere, Tens of thousands of people gathered in Oslo to sing a chidlren's song to a man who killed seventy-seven people and decried the multicultural society that he said was opening Europe to takeover by Muslims. The massed voices were replicated across Norway in a sign of solidarity for the culture against the extremist. If he were looking for actual Muslim extremism, he might look to Chechnya, where the president of the country has openly praised honor killings of young women.
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seanan_mcguire offers a thoughtful and wonderful letter to the girls of today - be who you are and who you want to be. Or, as a musical group put it, "Be what you're like. Be like yourself."
Out in the world today, The government of the United Kingdom is considering placing high velocity missiles in London as protection against terrorism during the Olympic Games. The residents of the city say, "Uh, guys? Firing those things would create more destruction than most terror attacks." Not to mention, exactly what sort of terrorism is attacking the Games that requires the response of missiles?
President Obama visited Afghanistan to sign an agreement for how United States forces would assist Afghanistan forces after the combat troops leave the country in 2014. In a speech, the President suggested the goal of defeating al-Qaeda was within reach, a comment made likely because of the death of Osama bin Laden last year.
In national politics, socialist wins in France, Sarkozy ousted, ultra-rightwing Front National takes third place. Also, Greek elections punish ruling parties, spread power sufficiently so as to require coalitions...also, ultra right-wing party does remarkably well in election.
Elsewhere, austerity measures don't work to stimulate the economy, Conservative government in the UK has explaining to do.
Last for tonight, Sweden is experimenting with a gender-neutral pronoun, hen, and seeing whether it helps children avoid gender stereotyping in their play and in their mindsets.
Domestically, a black hockey player scored the series winning goal for the Washington Capitals and some fans of the defeated team took to Twitter with the belief that they had n-word privileges. Perhaps because ice hockey is one of the few remaining sports that are predominantly white-skinned and there are a lot of people there who prefer it to stay that way (and probably support the white-majority reasoning behind the Papers Please Law)? If that's the case, I'm very irritated with hockey fandom, then - if football hooligans can be taught to avoid using racial slurs, surely hockey fanatics can figure it out? After all, they got through the idea of Former Soviet Republic players joining the NHL.
A North Carolina pastor advocated for hitting children if they showed signs of being gay, then non-apologized for the remarks by claiming Intent Is Magic and that if the congregation he was talking to knew it was a joke, then nobody should take him so seriously. Elsewhere, the bill that would prevent Tennessee teachers from talking about being gay or lesbian has died, but the education committee will be sending letters out to instruct schools to behave as if it had passed. This against the backdrop of Bryan Fischer appropriating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his argument that discrimination against QUILTBAG people is okay, because people choose to be QUILTBAG. Even more progressive denominations like the United Methodist Church didn't remove a part of their discipline processes that condemned gay and lesbian acts. The votes failed 54-46.
Agribusiness giant Monsato had research indicating its organisms and products might be contributing to colony collapse disorder...so Monsato bought the research firm that produced the data and the reports. We'll see in the future if that means that the normally-critical are suddenly completely on the party line with Monsato.
Come May 14, the United States military will allow women to be closer to the front lines of battle, serving in smaller units thatn brigades.
On politics, Ron Paul supporters are quietly engineering the election of Republican delegates loyal to him, even in states where Mitt Romney was the declared winner of the caucusing votes. It's a microcosm of how one plays for the electoral college - theoretically, a similar coup might be possible in states that don't legally bind their college voters to whomever won the popualr vote.
One World Trade Center, the building that will replace the office space from the 11 September attacks, reclaimed the honor of being the tallest building in New York City.
Into technology, where the UnitedStates government intends on making a loophole in all privacy laws that allows the government to get your data if they believe you're attached to a security threat. Even for something like an e-mail attachment getting a virus during its routing to the destination. And the companies have no obligation to redact sensitive data, nor is the government barred from using whatever it finds for other purposes.
Come July, the federal government will shut down a DNS hacking scheme that netted the perpetrators millions of dollars...and that may leave several people without Internet access until they can get their DNS servers properly reconfigured.
Finally, A cloud computing software spent approximately $5000 USD/hr at peak capacity, pulling together 50,000 cores on Amazon's cloud rental service to do what would be 12 years of computing work in 3 hours. Meaning that if you can get someone else to build you the hardware for it, just about anyone can use supercomputing power if they've got about 100K to do it with.
Welcome to opinions, where one finds a fatal flaw in the Occupy movement - WASPs that are unwilling to accomodate the struggles of the not-them. Not that this is just a flaw of the Occupy movement - the strain runs in a general way in a lot of white liberal endeavours - and a lot of those endeavours are still a bit resistant to the idea that they're going about it the wrong way. Might have something to do with nto really talking about different perspectives and getting caught in the idea that there's onl one story about people. To combat that idea, it's actually best to talk to kids about race and such things, rather than pretend they don't exist or react negatively to them.
Elsewhere, one of the many reasons why Hollywood gets it wrong when it comes to weapon fighting - and another reason to like Seven Samurai, as the fights in that movie do not commit these kinds of fouls.
The question of what gender (or point on the gender spectrum) to identify with when someone is very fluid between "masculine" and "feminine" in presentation and mindset. While I'm inclined to go with "tell the labels to go frak themselves", for someone that wishes to have an identity, that's not really a viable option.
An explanation for the gender wage gap as simply women not working as many hours as men because they have children and prefer to not work if they have the chance. Except, I usually hear that as "accounting for such things, even so, women make less money than men for doing the same job."
Have a look at library services - including the idea of story times for those who don't make it into the library for story time in the branch. Whether you can go or you can't, remember that your public library is important for all sorts of great reasons.
Last out of opinions, the Governator says that the current Republican Party is too ideologically constrained to be effective, and that it needs to go back to being the party of Eisenhower, of Reagan, and of Nixon. Building infrastructure, working on health care, trying to improve the lives of the people. Bit of a foreign concept to our current Republicans.
Last out for tonight, what claims to be a flowchart of theology of the Church of Latter Day Saints, through pre-life, current life, and after-life. I don't know if everything explained there is considered current theology or not, so I'm not putting stock in it as a completely accurate thing. If it's reasonably close, though, then I wonder whether L. Ron Hubbard cribbed a little bit when he was creating Dianetics and Scientology.
And to build instead of tearing down, a suggestion that atheists need celebration and rememberance days, songs and chants, and other parts that would help gain a greater presence in the mind of others by becoming, erm, "organized" atheism.
Oh, and one tiny postscript - A 9 year old that created a working arcade out of cardboard and toys, including tickets and a redemption counter.
The New York Police Department is engaging in sexual assault against Occupy protesters...or, for that matter, anyone who looks like they might be an Occupy protester. This is not rogue officers acting on their own, but part of the systematic campaign to prevent peaceful protest by violent police action. And for the most part, the country yawns at this behavior, despite it being flagrantly illegal, because culturally speaking, we've been told that you do what the police tell you, regardless of whether or not it's legal, and if you don&aps;t, then whatever happens to you is your fault.
Elsewhere, Tens of thousands of people gathered in Oslo to sing a chidlren's song to a man who killed seventy-seven people and decried the multicultural society that he said was opening Europe to takeover by Muslims. The massed voices were replicated across Norway in a sign of solidarity for the culture against the extremist. If he were looking for actual Muslim extremism, he might look to Chechnya, where the president of the country has openly praised honor killings of young women.
Finally,
seanan_mcguire offers a thoughtful and wonderful letter to the girls of today - be who you are and who you want to be. Or, as a musical group put it, "Be what you're like. Be like yourself."Out in the world today, The government of the United Kingdom is considering placing high velocity missiles in London as protection against terrorism during the Olympic Games. The residents of the city say, "Uh, guys? Firing those things would create more destruction than most terror attacks." Not to mention, exactly what sort of terrorism is attacking the Games that requires the response of missiles?
President Obama visited Afghanistan to sign an agreement for how United States forces would assist Afghanistan forces after the combat troops leave the country in 2014. In a speech, the President suggested the goal of defeating al-Qaeda was within reach, a comment made likely because of the death of Osama bin Laden last year.
In national politics, socialist wins in France, Sarkozy ousted, ultra-rightwing Front National takes third place. Also, Greek elections punish ruling parties, spread power sufficiently so as to require coalitions...also, ultra right-wing party does remarkably well in election.
Elsewhere, austerity measures don't work to stimulate the economy, Conservative government in the UK has explaining to do.
Last for tonight, Sweden is experimenting with a gender-neutral pronoun, hen, and seeing whether it helps children avoid gender stereotyping in their play and in their mindsets.
Domestically, a black hockey player scored the series winning goal for the Washington Capitals and some fans of the defeated team took to Twitter with the belief that they had n-word privileges. Perhaps because ice hockey is one of the few remaining sports that are predominantly white-skinned and there are a lot of people there who prefer it to stay that way (and probably support the white-majority reasoning behind the Papers Please Law)? If that's the case, I'm very irritated with hockey fandom, then - if football hooligans can be taught to avoid using racial slurs, surely hockey fanatics can figure it out? After all, they got through the idea of Former Soviet Republic players joining the NHL.
A North Carolina pastor advocated for hitting children if they showed signs of being gay, then non-apologized for the remarks by claiming Intent Is Magic and that if the congregation he was talking to knew it was a joke, then nobody should take him so seriously. Elsewhere, the bill that would prevent Tennessee teachers from talking about being gay or lesbian has died, but the education committee will be sending letters out to instruct schools to behave as if it had passed. This against the backdrop of Bryan Fischer appropriating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his argument that discrimination against QUILTBAG people is okay, because people choose to be QUILTBAG. Even more progressive denominations like the United Methodist Church didn't remove a part of their discipline processes that condemned gay and lesbian acts. The votes failed 54-46.
Agribusiness giant Monsato had research indicating its organisms and products might be contributing to colony collapse disorder...so Monsato bought the research firm that produced the data and the reports. We'll see in the future if that means that the normally-critical are suddenly completely on the party line with Monsato.
Come May 14, the United States military will allow women to be closer to the front lines of battle, serving in smaller units thatn brigades.
On politics, Ron Paul supporters are quietly engineering the election of Republican delegates loyal to him, even in states where Mitt Romney was the declared winner of the caucusing votes. It's a microcosm of how one plays for the electoral college - theoretically, a similar coup might be possible in states that don't legally bind their college voters to whomever won the popualr vote.
One World Trade Center, the building that will replace the office space from the 11 September attacks, reclaimed the honor of being the tallest building in New York City.
Into technology, where the UnitedStates government intends on making a loophole in all privacy laws that allows the government to get your data if they believe you're attached to a security threat. Even for something like an e-mail attachment getting a virus during its routing to the destination. And the companies have no obligation to redact sensitive data, nor is the government barred from using whatever it finds for other purposes.
Come July, the federal government will shut down a DNS hacking scheme that netted the perpetrators millions of dollars...and that may leave several people without Internet access until they can get their DNS servers properly reconfigured.
Finally, A cloud computing software spent approximately $5000 USD/hr at peak capacity, pulling together 50,000 cores on Amazon's cloud rental service to do what would be 12 years of computing work in 3 hours. Meaning that if you can get someone else to build you the hardware for it, just about anyone can use supercomputing power if they've got about 100K to do it with.
Welcome to opinions, where one finds a fatal flaw in the Occupy movement - WASPs that are unwilling to accomodate the struggles of the not-them. Not that this is just a flaw of the Occupy movement - the strain runs in a general way in a lot of white liberal endeavours - and a lot of those endeavours are still a bit resistant to the idea that they're going about it the wrong way. Might have something to do with nto really talking about different perspectives and getting caught in the idea that there's onl one story about people. To combat that idea, it's actually best to talk to kids about race and such things, rather than pretend they don't exist or react negatively to them.
Elsewhere, one of the many reasons why Hollywood gets it wrong when it comes to weapon fighting - and another reason to like Seven Samurai, as the fights in that movie do not commit these kinds of fouls.
The question of what gender (or point on the gender spectrum) to identify with when someone is very fluid between "masculine" and "feminine" in presentation and mindset. While I'm inclined to go with "tell the labels to go frak themselves", for someone that wishes to have an identity, that's not really a viable option.
An explanation for the gender wage gap as simply women not working as many hours as men because they have children and prefer to not work if they have the chance. Except, I usually hear that as "accounting for such things, even so, women make less money than men for doing the same job."
Have a look at library services - including the idea of story times for those who don't make it into the library for story time in the branch. Whether you can go or you can't, remember that your public library is important for all sorts of great reasons.
Last out of opinions, the Governator says that the current Republican Party is too ideologically constrained to be effective, and that it needs to go back to being the party of Eisenhower, of Reagan, and of Nixon. Building infrastructure, working on health care, trying to improve the lives of the people. Bit of a foreign concept to our current Republicans.
Last out for tonight, what claims to be a flowchart of theology of the Church of Latter Day Saints, through pre-life, current life, and after-life. I don't know if everything explained there is considered current theology or not, so I'm not putting stock in it as a completely accurate thing. If it's reasonably close, though, then I wonder whether L. Ron Hubbard cribbed a little bit when he was creating Dianetics and Scientology.
And to build instead of tearing down, a suggestion that atheists need celebration and rememberance days, songs and chants, and other parts that would help gain a greater presence in the mind of others by becoming, erm, "organized" atheism.
Oh, and one tiny postscript - A 9 year old that created a working arcade out of cardboard and toys, including tickets and a redemption counter.
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