A senior minister in Thailand's ICT authority, which oversees internet censorship in the country, said that blacklisting has failed and should be dropped. Thongchai Sangsiri, director of computer forensics within Thailand's Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT), told the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity cybersecurity forum in NSW today that its blacklists are verbose and have created onerous management problems for internet service providers.
"We would like [to] leave parents and teachers to decide what to filter … because [the current system] is too much to handle," Sangsiri said. "The blacklists grow with many, many websites to become a burden on ISPs. Blacklisting doesn't work."
The United States has passed an unfortunate landmark…U.S. troops have now been stuck in Afghanistan longer than was the Soviet Union. As of November 26, the American military matched the length of time that the once mighty Red Army spent in Afghanistan: nine years, 50 days.
In his interview with Goldseek Radio Gerald Celente explains how the global financial crisis will continue and how gold is still a great investment to combat the rampant inflation the world will soon experience...
Tel Aviv has denied permission for former Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu to leave Israel in order to collect an international award in Berlin. A host of elites and Nobel laureates, including Irish peace activist Mairead Maguire and German writer Gunter Grass, have called on Israel to allow Vanunu to attend the International League of Human Rights prize ceremony scheduled for December 12. Vanunu has been named as this year's recipient of the Carl von Ossietzky Medal. The prize is named after the renowned German pacifist, who had opposed the Nazi regime, and who was later held in a concentration camp and murdered.
Beck vs. Assange and What it all Means Too many Americans, and their leaders as well, haven’t got an accurate sense of the real world. In part, that is why the U.S. government regularly formulates domestic and foreign policies that answer the demands of interest groups while harming the rest of us. Such policies fail in the long run. In doing so they open political space for both charlatans and truth tellers. And here they are in the persons of Glenn Beck and Julian Assange.
“Then we shall have only corporate currency, and a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations—a “soulless” corporate republic.”
In his complaint, he details his personal story of how he and his daughters were treated during an "enhanced pat down" by the TSA on a recent trip to San Diego, describing the TSA agents' behavior as "disgusting, unconscionable, sexual in nature, unnecessary and a complete violation of his and his children's constitutional rights."
Gruber is just one of the officers who received a threatening poster from Spain, after his name appeared on a website referring to IDF soldiers involved in Operation Cast Lead as "war criminals". Webmaster's Commentary: You've got to give it to the Israeli press as among the world's most Orwellian users of the English language.
"Threatening"?!? This is simply a documentation of the death and destruction wreaked upon Palestinian citizens (many children, women, the medically fragile, and the elderly) during Operation Cast Lead. This child doesn't "appear"to be dead: he or she is dead. And so the question is put, rather as a theological question, than a moral question, since Jewish Israelis are supposed believe in a God. And it is a question which must be put to IDF leadership: how do you explain the murder of children, and attempt to defend the indefensible?
What kind of monsters are you, that you express utterly no remorse for these actions?!? As reported on 12 September, 2009 at:
The Israeli official figures seriously underestimated the civilian Palestinian death toll exacted during its onslaught in Gaza early this year, according to painstaking research to be published today.
The first detailed casualty figures from an Israeli human rights organisation since the war ended puts the number of children under 16 killed in the offensive at 252 as opposed to the 89 cited by the military. B’Tselem says its fieldworkers gathered death certificates, photos, and testimonies relating to all 252 of the children.
B’Tselem, which said it had carried out “months of meticulous investigation and cross-checks with numerous sources” has, unlike the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), made public the names of all those it said were killed in the war. It said that since the IDF had refused to furnish the agency with its own detailed list, it was impossible to compare the names but that “the blatant discrepancy between the numbers is intolerable.”
IDF officers get photo of dead child ‘How will you explain this to God?’ says letter sent from Spain to homes of officers exposed on ‘war criminals’ website. ‘I’ve gotten used to curses, but when such a thing arrives at your doorstep, it’s very unpleasant,’ reserve colonel tells Ynet
If it’s OK to crush to death a protester with a bulldozer, why shouldn’t it be OK to shoot out the eye of another protester? According to the Israeli ‘Justice’ System, it IS OK as can be seen in the following…..
In a move primarily aimed at making it harder to cede occupied Arab land as part of any peace agreement with Syria or the Palestinians, the Israeli Knesset this week approved a bill requiring a two-thirds Knesset majority, as well as a general referendum, for any prospective withdrawal from the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem, occupied by Israel during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, writes Khaled Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem.
Webmaster's Commentary: Israel doesn't want peace; it wants, and has always wanted, territory, and by any means necessary. What we are most likely to see, in the aftermath of the passage of this bill, will be a brisk annexation of Jerusalem and the West Bank, coupled by forcible expulsions of Palestinians who have lived in various homes here for generations.
Our system is such that any Oval Office occupant is an enemy of democracy. Our safety depends on ourselves alone. Changes in political parties either mean nothing or greater danger if the party in power is trusted when it should not be. It can happen here and it is happening right before our eyes.
North Korea has deployed SA-2 surface-to-air missiles near its disputed Yellow Sea border with South Korea, a report said Sunday as a major US-led naval exercise began further to the south.
The missiles appear to be targeting the South's jet fighters flying near the Northern Limit Line which marks the border, Yonhap news agency quoted a government source as saying. Webmaster's Commentary:
Like the South Korean government hasn't been beefing up defense on their side of the border?!? North Korean leadership is many things, but it is not stupid. It sees what is coming, and is doing the best to defend itself and its people. And remember: as reported on 23 November 2010 at:
One of the worst personal shortcomings a person can have is a lack of capacity to be embarrassed by their own behavior. Alex Jones is a classic example. When I heard what he said, I couldn’t believe it at first. It’s the sort of thing that only gets said by absolutely sold out hacks without conscience, principles or a brain. In Alex’s case it’s a form of career suicide. You can’t take something like that back and only a Tea Party supporter or a southern Baptist fundamentalist would believe it. I expect Alex Jones to be a Fox commentator in six months. He said that Hezbollah was training Mexican drug gangs. That’s laugh out loud funny.
The sails of US Asian policy ride on the winds of North Korean belligerence Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer Activist Post On March 26, 2010, the ROKS Cheonan is hit by what appears to be a German-made torpedo, sinks while claiming the lives of 46 South Korean sailors.
The world, America at the lead, was quick to point its finger at North Korea before South Korea itself ruled them out as a suspect. North Korea adamantly insisted it was not behind the attack, and despite their paranoid and isolated posture little beyond insanity could serve as a motive . . .
The Irish government announced plans this week to tap the welfare state and working class for much of the $20B in savings they've pledged to find over the next four years, but the austerity measures will not touch large businesses like Microsoft, Intel, Google, HP, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Pfizer, which created jobs and fueled exports in Ireland after being lured by low corporate tax rates. Webmaster's Commentary:
January 1, Americans will be hit with the largest tax increase in US History. As for the Irish, the corps are paying NOTHING and the whole punishment for the crooked banks falls on the heads of innocent citizens. THAT is Fascism!
China is taking another great leap forward in its Latin American energy plans, raising Cuba's energy importance in the process, with a deal to lead a $6 billion refinery expansion project on the communist island, experts said this week. The project, to be funded mostly by China's Eximbank, is the latest of several significant moves in the region for the Asian power as it continues to expand its global influence. For Cuba, the refurbishing of its antiquated refinery in the coastal city of Cienfuegos will provide an outlet for oil it hopes to tap soon in the Gulf of Mexico, while also laying the groundwork for the island to possibly become a key oil transhipment point for the Caribbean basin.
Webmaster's Commentary: I mention this is passing, only to point out that if it were not for the consistently insane US boycott of Cuba, access to that oil could well have gone to US companies. US companies have business relationships with - and investments in - countries like Viet Nam, for heaven's sake!!
Police officers in bullet-proof vests charged seven men with the "crime" of playing chess in an area off-limits to adults unaccompanied by kids. Webmaster's Commentary:
Indie actor Mark Ruffalo says he found himself on the Pennsylvania Homeland Security office's terror watch list for organizing screening of an oil-drilling documentary. According to the World Entertainment News Network, Ruffalo -- who has starred in such films as The Kids Are All Right, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Zodiac -- told GQ magazine he found it "pretty f--cking funny" that he would be suspected of terrorism for raising the alarm about what many say is an environmentally harmful way of drilling for oil and gas.
Almost 50,000 people marched through Dublin yesterday in protest at harsh austerity measures designed to haul Ireland out of its financial crisis. Webmaster's Commentary:
The government got into this mess without the peoples' permission; they can get out of it without the peoples' help!
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak told a visiting senior Chinese official earlier Sunday that Seoul was not interested in the early resumption of the six-party talks as it is more urgent to deal with Pyongyang's belligerence. Seoul's foreign ministry also effectively rejected Beijing's proposal, saying that China's offer to resume six-party talks on North Korea "should be studied very carefully" and creating the right atmosphere for reopening the negotiations is a priority. Webmaster's Commentary: It appears, under US pressure, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has rejected the one possibility, presented by China, which could lead to substantial reductions in tension here.
And again, if the US is really sincere about reducing tensions, why has there been no emergency meeting of the UN Security Council called by the US and South Korea?!? That makes absolutely no sense at all, unless the real agenda is the fabrication of a war which would inevitably pit the US and China against each other.
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