Periodical Political Post *35
- Change we can believe in: White House seeks renewal of Bush’s surveillance laws
- Leftist government of Labour Party, Socialists and Greens in Norway re-elected
- An American dies every 12 minutes because there is no universal health care in the USA
- France passes three-strikes-law, will cut off internet if music or film industry says you’re a pirate
- Child-safety software sells kids’ IM conversations to market-research companies
- Israeli government ads warn people against marrying Non-Jews
- German police beats up guy at demonstration because he tried to report another cop
- US author of middle-grade novels not allowed to see class via Skype because he might be a pedo
- For peace in the world? US holds huge lead in global weapons sales
- Sci-Fi becomes real: US High-Tech drone software fails and ignores human commands
- How the financial crisis changes the markets: Europe now richer than the USA
- Man in Brazil held because he dared to kiss his own daughter, faces 15 years in jail
- Verfassungsschutz überwacht komplette Fraktion der Linken im Bundestag
- Wolfagng Schäuble will die parlamentarische Kontrolle der Geheimdienste abschaffen
- Warum die Pläne der Linken kein unfinanzierbarer Populismus sind
- BKA und CDU warnen mal wieder for Terroranschlägen vor der Wahl damit auch ja alle CDU wählen
- Dokumentation von Polizeigewalt in Frankreich durch neues Gesetz verboten
- Französische Nationalversammlung winkt Three-Strikes-Sperrgesetz durch
- Italien entsorgt Atommüll bequem über die Mafia im Mittelmeer, 120 Behälter entdeckt
- Wie die Interessen einen deutsches Konzerns die Souveränität eines ganzen Staates gefährden…
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about 3 years ago
This picture, taken during the Greece riots, is actually my desktop background. It’s comforting to know others out there like this picture as much as I do
about 3 years ago
The link to “Child-safety software sells kids’ IM conversations to market-research companies” is not working. I get 404 Not Found.
about 3 years ago
Link works now, thanks for the heads up.
about 3 years ago
The world is a crazy place…
Thanks for the articles Josh
about 3 years ago
Josh:
Thank you for keeping us all informed!
about 3 years ago
Where is that picture from originally, the one with the kid offersing to cop a flower, I tried to follow the link but I cant find it. (the pic )
about 3 years ago
http://blog.milkboys.org/article/the-picture/
about 3 years ago
“US author of middle-grade novels not allowed to see class via Skype because he might be a pedo”
Quite a leap from the text of the blog post, which describes a teacher merely trying to follow school guidelines about privacy and confidentiality (many of which are probably difficult and confusing for the teacher). Some of the rules are of course meant to protect kids from pedophiles but that’s not all they’re about. One teacher trying to stick with the rules while still providing the opportunity for the class to talk to the author does not equate to the teacher considering the man a potential pedophile.
Anyway, why exactly is an author of middle-grade books talking to elementary school children, or have a lot of interaction with them? Middle-grade is not elementary school, it’s middle school (or used to be called junior high school). Someone sufficiently paranoid could easily consider that a prime reason to suspect the guy.
about 3 years ago
@evermore:
exactly that’s the witch hunt in america and shows that this isn’t the system of the government but citizens live it. too bad. well, the world has other pretty countries to visit. thanks.
about 3 years ago
The thing about “child safety” software intercepting chat messages is appalling. I think I’ll mention it to a few people too.
about 3 years ago
Interesting you posted about the Universal Health Care situation in the US, I am from the US and let me tell you these doctors here think they are the high and mighty in their fields but they are so dam closed minded. I have been feeling ill for the last several months, first it was everything from MS, to Lupas, to Cancer, to High Blood pressure, or a Pulmonary Disease and they still can’t figure out what the hell is going on. Then they were about to put me on anti-anxiety drugs until I developed a new symptom which proves something in my body is actually going on.
I have talked to someone who has family in Honduras (a country normally doctors in the US might want you to think is behind in health care), and they treated her daughter who’s body temperature rose frequently causing seizures, 1 year of antibiotics and she is fine. The US doctors couldnt figure it out and now her doctors want to talk to the doctors in Honduras.
Sorry I am ranting but, it seems like the US is so developed that they think there is only “limited diseases” to look for, where other countries are more open to other diseases, symptoms, causes, and yes other countries seem to be more adept to treating diseases caused by parasites.
For a country that charges so much for education, it seems like the education in the US is more dictated by “markets” or people who “control the markets” rather than actual knowledge professionals. Sure in the US you might not have to wait to go to the ER and get a Catscan the same night, but half the doctors Catscan probably for the wrong reasons, where Drs under Universal Healthcare might Catscan for the right reasons.
about 3 years ago
Toll, jetzt werden schon nicht verfassungswidrige Parteien überwacht. Ich hab es schon immer gesagt, wir leben in einer Diktatur, nicht in einer Demokratie! Jeder der es “wagt” nun Links zu sein steht unter ständiger Beobachtung und muss sich um seine Zukunft sorgen! Was ist daran noch demokratisch?!
about 3 years ago
another news-story from Britain:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/09/23/spider-man-snapper-in-perv-panic-115875-21693903/