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The pages that follow feature remarkable contributions from canaries in the coal mine, warning of the threats to come. They include a prescient article from 1966, titled “The Computer vs. the Bill of Rights,” on the threat that computers pose to our privacy. The author, Anthony Prisendorf, notes that at the time, there...
This volume, then, offers a rare contemporaneous account of the growth of the surveillance state, from the standpoint of a vigilant journal dedicated to keeping watch on the watchers. Time and again, Nation writers warn the citizenry that they are allowing their liberties to be taken away by stealth, by technology and ...
The largest single contribution to the volume is a remarkable account of the history of The Nation itself, as told through the lens of the FBI, which, true to form, maintained a 2,000-plus-page file on The Nation. The magazine obtained the file under the Freedom of Information Act, and in 1986, Penn Kimball drew on tho...
Surveillance is, of course, here to stay. It is a necessary and appropriate tool of the state. But it is also an easily abused tool. If we want to preserve the liberties that are the foundation of a healthy democracy, we must keep our eye on them as they keep our eye on us. No journal has done that job as well and cons...
Download the new e-book Surveillance Nation: Critical Reflections on Privacy and Its Threats, a fascinating and timeless alternative history on the rise of the surveillance state, to read it instantly on your tablet, e-reader, smartphone or computer.
The third-year defensive back has a tough act to follow after such a stellar 2016 campaign.
Despite a season where there was chatter at the midway point about him being a legitimate MVP candidate, New York Giants safety Landon Collins thinks there is plenty of room for improvement in his game. This as his coaching staff is talking about their star safety and his unbelievable ceiling.
Collins is coming off a campaign with the Giants that saw him enter the discussion as one of the league’s top safeties, if not one of the best defensive players in the entire NFL. Truthfully, Collins was one of the most dominant players on any given Sunday on either side of the ball, something that is reflected in the ...
Collins made both the Pro Bowl and All-Pro lists in 2016, the first time ever that he’s registered such honors. At one point a month into the 2016 season, Collins led the Giants in tackles, interceptions and sacks.
There is still plenty of buzz coming in from the Giants organization, a bit of a surprise given how low-key the franchise usually is in the hype department. But last week, secondary coach Dave Merritt heaped praise on Collins and talked about a future that could be incredibly bright.
After spending last offseason overhauling the league’s worst defense, the Giants played much improved as a unit in 2016. Collins’ continued development is a big factor in where the Giants hope to be this upcoming season as he is the star of a star-studded secondary.
As expected, attacks have increased during the Ramadan holiday. At least 120 Iraqis were killed and 73 were wounded in the latest violence. Although many of the dead were suspected militants, several bombings targeted civilians. Also, hundreds of bodies were discovered in mass graves dating to the Saddam regime.
No casualties were as yet reported in a pair of armed attacks against British troops in the Basra area.
Five mass graves were discovered in the Amara area. The graves date from the early 1990s and contain the remains of over 300 people.
In Baghdad, 12 unidentified bodies were recovered. A clash involving American security contractors left nine Iraqis dead and 19 more wounded in the Mansour district. A separate boming in the neighborhood killed two and wounded five others near al-Rahman mosque. In al-Harthiya, a roadside bomb killed one and wounded thr...
Suspected al-Qaeda militants killed 14 and wounded ten in a pair of villages near Muqdadiya and torched a number of shops. Three children were among the dead.
A suicide bomber at a Tuz Khormato cafe killed eight and wounded 22 others.
In Mosul, gunmen killed a Sunni preacher, who belonged to the Kurdish Islamic Union.
A roadside bomb killed two policemen in Tal Afar.
In Baquba, gunmen hijacked an ambulance carrying eight people.
Two people were killed and four were wounded during a mortar attack in Samarra. A child was among the dead.
Militants attacked Hilla tribesmen, killing two and wounding three others. The bodies of two kidnap victims were later found.
In Kirkuk, a guard and a pedestrian were wounded during a roadside bombing that was detonated near a Kurdistan Democratic Party (PDK) motorcade. A young boy was kidnapped when a truck he was sitting in was stolen.
A pharmacist was assassinated in Rumeitha. He was a member of the al-Sadr movement.
A police colonel was shot and killed in Ifech.
The 12-year-old son and the father of an unspecified Sadrist leader were killed during a U.S.-Iraqi raid on the Sadrist’s home in Diwaniya. A police officer was killed in a separate incident.
The Iraqi army killed 47 suspects and arrested 21 in different locations.
U.S. forces reported capturing a suspect responsible for killing Abu Risha last week.
Also, a school in Qarah Tappa was blown-up three days before final exams.
U.S. forces killed eight suspects and arrested seven in areas around Baghdad.
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On September 21st, President Barack Obama’s Broadband Opportunity Council released its first report. The council outlined four main recommendations for promoting broadband, but the council’s report was also notable for what it left out – any specific mention of municipally-run broadband services.
The omission was particularly stunning considering the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), led by President appointed Thomas Wheeler, voted to overturn municipal broadband laws in North Carolina and Tennessee earlier this year, a move that will allow government-owned networks (GONs) in that state to expand. Presid...
Perhaps the members of the Broadband Opportunity Council, which was established by a Presidential Memorandum signed by President Obama this past March, understand the risks associated with GONs better than the president’s White House advisers, or certain members of the FCC.
The most oft-repeated myth about GONs is that they improve outcomes for consumers.
While technology is changing so fast, government works at glacier speeds, and their operations are typically bureaucratic, inefficient and costly. That cost often translates into higher price and lower consumer demand for municipally-provided broadband services. In fact, a quick review of dozens of municipal broadband ...
The answer, of course, is yes, choice does benefit consumers; monopolies do not. Monopolies result in higher prices, less output and less innovation. Think about the mobile phones we used 20 years ago (if most readers were using them at all). Those phones were clunky, expensive and could be used to make a pricey phone ...
Sawant’s position is extreme, even among the pro-GONs community, but even if most proponents don’t actually want to push private providers out of the market, that’s often the consequence anyway. Municipal broadband networks have a chilling effect on private broadband investment because they enjoy generous taxpayer subs...
How can private broadband providers compete with such advantages? The answer is, they won’t – private investors will avoid investing in markets where the local government has stacked the deck against them. This means less choice, less investment, fewer jobs created and fewer consumers served.
Let’s take a simpler analogy: would you open a restaurant if your main competition was a government-run café whose costs and entry barriers were artificially lower than yours? I don’t think so. And consumers wouldn’t benefit from that scenario because they’d have only one option for eating out and taxpayers will ultima...
For policymakers looking to advance broadband in their city, county or state, the White House’s Broadband Opportunity Council offers some suggestions. Those options include streamlining the permitting process for new broadband projects and expanding federal support for broadband investments. Those options are worthy on...
Politicians in France increased calls for the resignation of top executives at Société Générale, ahead of the board’s regular meeting, scheduled for Wednesday.
PARIS — Senior politicians here increased calls for the resignation of top executives at Société Générale, ahead of the board’s regular meeting, scheduled for early Wednesday.
The director, who declined to be identified because of the delicacy of the situation, predicted that the bank’s chairman and chief executive, Daniel Bouton — and possibly one or two other senior managers — would be asked to step down as early as Wednesday. But he and other board members stopped short of saying that Mr....
Amid increasing political pressure on the bank’s management, employee groups revealed that three employees working on Société Générale’s trading desk had committed suicide in the last three years, at least partly because of stressful working conditions, the groups said.
During his interrogation, the trader, Jérôme Kerviel, told authorities, “I can’t believe that my superiors were not aware of the amounts that I was committing. It is impossible to generate such profits with small positions,” according to excerpts published Tuesday in Le Monde.
Isabelle Montagne, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor, confirmed the accuracy of the excerpts.
The French stock market regulator said Tuesday that it had begun a formal investigation into Société Générale. A spokeswoman declined to provide details about the nature or scope of the inquiry.
It was not clear whether the inquiry was related to the revelation that Robert Day, a member of Société Générale’s board, had sold shares in the bank worth 45 million euros on Jan. 18 — the day Société Générale said management had first been alerted to Mr. Kerviel’s unauthorized trading, and two days before the bank’s ...
Société Générale and a spokesman for Mr. Day said in separate statements that the share sales by Mr. Day and his family’s trusts occurred in several transactions from December 2007 to Jan. 18, during a predetermined window when directors were allowed to exercise options. Both statements said all required disclosures ha...
Mr. Bouton said Monday that his offer of resignation remained on the table.
His departure would raise succession questions, particularly since his heir apparent, Jean-Pierre Mustier, heads the investment banking division that employed Mr. Kerviel. Neither Mr. Mustier nor Mr. Kerviel’s immediate supervisors detected the illicit trading, a fact that has put Mr. Mustier’s reputation, and possibil...
Mr. Mustier did not return phone calls seeking comment.
If Mr. Bouton is pushed out, the days of Philippe Citerne, co-chief executive, could be numbered.
Yves Laulan, a former Société Générale chief economist, who said he had recruited Mr. Citerne to the bank in the mid-1980s, predicted that Mr. Citerne could be asked to stay on in the short term to provide continuity.
If Mr. Bouton is replaced, the bank might tap separate individuals for the jobs of chairman and chief executive. Still, some former executives and employee group members said there was a good chance that Mr. Bouton’s resignation would be rejected again.
The bank has a history of resisting political pressure. In 1999, it became the target of a hostile takeover by its larger rival, BNP, which sought to create a superbank with another rival, Paribas, an effort that was backed by the government. Société Générale withstood the pressure.
“They have a history of closing ranks,” said a former senior executive who requested anonymity.
Stress levels on the trading floor have come under intense scrutiny since the Kerviel revelation. Michel Marchet, a union representative at the bank, said the most recent of three suicides occurred last June, involving a trader in his 30s who worked in the equities and derivatives department.
Then, the father of two jumped to his death from a nearby footbridge. The other two suicides took place in 2005 and 2006, according to two other union officials. In 2006, a man working in back office operations killed himself on a suburban train. A year earlier, an older man employed in risk control committed suicide i...
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I once saw a gossamer among the blades of grass. Fine, fragile filmy in formation, it waved whimsically, yet sturdily. Carrying the sparkling drops of dew which clung to it effortlessly. Mesmerised, I stared at the intricate network, which so little a creature had meticulously weaved. I followed the pattern, the form, ...
So how do you explain relationships, that intrinsic bond that ties the knots in the weave of our lives? Those inexplicable situations when, each one becomes tuned in to their own pain, to their story, and cannot see beyond it. Even though in a relationship, pain is mutual, just like happiness. It’s like being connected...
Relationships that practice the ‘art of precious scars’, ‘kintsugi’, a Japanese art, where broken objects are saved, and put back together with lacquered resin, mixed with gold, platinum or silver powder. The whole process takes over a period of a month or two, after going through various treatments. Each shard is mend...
As Aristotle says “Man is by nature a social animal.” Then continues to say, ”anyone who is unsocial naturally, and not accidentally, is either beneath our notice or more than man.” But because we are human and generally, cannot live without society, we have to live within the confines of a relationship, which we as ma...
Nature talks of symbiotic relationships, here i quote what I found “Symbiotic relationships are a special type of interaction between species. Sometimes beneficial, sometimes harmful, these relationships are essential to many organisms and ecosystems, and they provide a balance that can only be achieved by working toge...
That is what, man, relationships, and life is , sometimes beneficial to each other, sometimes harmful, but provide a balance and the equilibrium is established. No matter which relationship we pick up to light, they all need to be balanced, whether we take a cue from nature or from the Japanese art of kintsugi, they al...
Published in Daily Times, May 7th 2018.
The faculty union also had signs for a strike printed before Monday's marathon bargaining session with the university.
If the Rutgers University faculty union decides to call a strike after Monday’s marathon bargaining session with the university for a new contract, union members are ready: Official picket signs have been printed, picket line captains trained, and students prepared to provide support.
“We’re seeing this swing, where Rutgers is becoming less of an institution based around learning and more of a business,” Veenay Komaragiri, a junior and a member of the Rutgers Students in Solidarity committee, said Monday. The student group has been working out of the union office of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT.
“I felt it was important for me to join this movement, because there’s never been a more robust time to support professors and bring the school back to its original watchword of equity and fairness,” Komaragiri said.
Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the university bargaining teams have met several times over the last few weeks to reach a new agreement. Union leaders have been given the OK from their members to call a strike if they deem it necessary. It would be the first faculty strike in the school’s 253-year history.
Negotiations continued all day Monday. As of 5 p.m., the union had not called a strike, but a new contract agreement was not announced.
The union comprising more than 4,800 faculty and graduate workers wants the university to meet its demands on pay equity, hiring more full-time faculty and raising the pay for graduate and teaching assistants, who receive on average $26,000. They’re also asking for a $15 minimum wage for student workers.
Since the union voting members authorized their leaders in March to call a strike, nearly 100 faculty members and graduate workers have trained as picket captains, those who would serve as the union's front-line organizers during a strike, said Deepa Kumar, the union president.
Certain buildings on the Rutgers campuses have also been designated as official picket areas, Kumar said.
Students on the committee and other instructors who aren’t among the 4,800 full-time faculty members and graduate students in the union have said they’re prepared to join a strike if it’s called.
Other unions, including the one representing part-time lecturers, have confirmed that they “are eager to stand in solidarity with us,” Kumar said in an email Monday.
Students from the committee delivered care packages to the union and university bargaining teams on Monday, providing energy drinks, snacks and motivational notes that read “make us proud” and “we are looking out for you and up to you."
He added: “A lot of students are excited, in big part because of how historic the nature of the strike would be."
There was an “RU Ready 2 Strike?” informational planned for Monday night at the Livingston Campus Center to educate students on the reasons the faculty might strike and how it would affect students, said an Instagram post by the committee.
“Coaches are making millions — that doesn’t add up to me and how I feel my tuition should be used,” said Leah Hunt, another member of the student committee.
Lady Gaga arrives at the 87th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 22, 2015 in Hollywood, California.
Lady Gaga drew praise for her powerful song against sexual assault, "Til It Happens to You," co-written by herself and Diane Warren for the 2015 documentary The Hunting Ground.
Now, Billboard can exclusively premiere a behind-the-scenes video about the tune, which finds the actors in the music video discussing their own experiences with assault and what they hope people take from the inspiring song.

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