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Do we have an instinct for privacy? – Ian Leslie – Aeon
▻http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/do-we-have-a-privacy-instinct-or-are-we-wired-to-share

Over time, we will probably get smarter about online sharing. But right now, we’re pretty stupid about it. Perhaps this is because, at some primal level, we don’t really believe in the internet. Humans evolved their instinct for privacy in a world where words and acts disappeared the moment they were spoken or made. Our brains are barely getting used to the idea that our thoughts or actions can be written down or photographed, let alone take on a free-floating, indestructible life of their own. Until we catch up, we’ll continue to overshare.

#vie_privée #internet #surveillance #psychologie

Legal aspects of free and open source software COMPILATION OF BRIEFING NOTES - 2013-07-09
▻http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201307/20130708ATT69346/20130708ATT69346EN.pdf

participants: Eben Moglen, Ian Sullivan, Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz, Calro Piana, Rishab Ghosh, Philippe Laurent

Carlo Piana - 2013-07-09: “A primer on Free Software licensing I wrote, in the briefing papers of the Workshop at EU Parliament. Go an read it. [...] I hope it’s useful, especially for those who are not really conversant with the matter and need some solid, yet simple, explanation. There is too much rubbish around.”

from ▻https://plus.google.com/115445134403759043734/posts/Y9NDpZarP17

[...]

Legal aspects of free and open source software COMPILATION OF BRIEFING NOTES - 2013-07-09 [Pdf]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The public drafting and discussion of GPLv3 in 2006-07 was a landmark in nongovernmental transnational lawmaking. Free and open source software production communities are held together by copyright licensing, as are free cultural production communities like Wikipedia. Their efforts to improve those licenses—to increase their utility in multiple legal systems, to take account of technical and economic changes in the field, and to increase their efficiency of operation and enforcement—are among the most important examples of genuinely democratic, participatory law-making that we have experienced so far in the 21st century. In the interest of improving both the European Parliament’s access to the details of this particular process, and to assist it in self-scrutiny, with respect to its extraordinary consistency in missing its opportunities in this area, Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) submits the records of this process, which it assisted its client, the Free Software Foundation, to design and execute.

[...]

via ▻https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2836415#

#FOSS #LAW #free_software #open_source #licence #Europe #EC
#droit #logiciel_libre #CE
#Recht #Europa #EU #Lizenz

Predator Empire: The Geopolitics of U.S. Drone Warfare | Ian Shaw - Academia.edu
▻http://www.academia.edu/2125232/Predator_Empire_The_Geopolitics_of_U.S._Drone_Warfare

What I term the Predator Empire names the biopolitical power that digitizes, catalogues, and eliminates threatening “patterns of life” across a widening battlespace. This permanent war is enabled by a topological spatial power that folds the distant environments of affiliates into the surveillance machinery of the Homeland.

▻http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/070807-F-9602H-101.jpg

#drones via @cdb_77

Methods of a Mild Spanish Inquisition: British Torture in Bahrain Before Ian Henderson
▻http://marcowenjones.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/methods-of-a-mild-spanish-inquisition-british-torture-in-ba

The discussion about the role played by British officers in carrying out torture in Bahrain tends to focus on Colonel Ian Henderson. However, British officials in Bahrain were torturing long before Ian Henderson’s arrival in the late sixties. Indeed, torture at the hands of the police has been occurring in Bahrain since the birth of the police force in the 1920s. Most of the information here is taken from the diary of Charles Belgrave, who was financial adviser to the Ruler of Bahrain from 1926-1957. All the stories here involve either Belgrave or Captain L.S. Parke, the Commandant of the Bahrain Police from 1927 – 1931.

Requiem pour un tortionnaire de longue date.

OP-ED : Ian Henderson and Repression in Bahrain : A Forty-Year Legacy- ►http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/op-ed-ian-henderson-and-repression-in-bahrain-a-forty-year-legacy

Ian Henderson’s death announcement Apr. 15 in Bahrain brings to an end the life of a British expatriate who was the architect and supervisor of the harsh internal security policies of the al-Khalifa ruling family since the early days of independence over 40 years ago.

Henderson’s life’s work intertwined intimately with al-Khalifa, especially with the family’s all-powerful perennial Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman, the ruler’s brother.

The policies of discrimination, exclusion, and intolerance practiced by the Sunni minority ruling family against the Shia majority were designed and executed by Henderson and his subordinates and blessed by the prime minister. They have been grounded in fear, repression, systematic violations of human rights, and in some cases torture.

This is the legacy that Ian Henderson has bequeathed to the people of Bahrain.

Henderson was a British national and a colonial officer who was renowned for using violent tactics to subdue the anti-British Mau Mau movement in Kenya. After independence, the British government in 1968 removed him from Kenya and installed him in Bahrain as a security adviser to Al-Khalifa.

Requiem pour un tortionnaire de longue date.

OP-ED : Ian Henderson and Repression in Bahrain : A Forty-Year Legacy- ►http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/op-ed-ian-henderson-and-repression-in-bahrain-a-forty-year-legacy

Ian Henderson’s death announcement Apr. 15 in Bahrain brings to an end the life of a British expatriate who was the architect and supervisor of the harsh internal security policies of the al-Khalifa ruling family since the early days of independence over 40 years ago.

Henderson’s life’s work intertwined intimately with al-Khalifa, especially with the family’s all-powerful perennial Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman, the ruler’s brother.

The policies of discrimination, exclusion, and intolerance practiced by the Sunni minority ruling family against the Shia majority were designed and executed by Henderson and his subordinates and blessed by the prime minister. They have been grounded in fear, repression, systematic violations of human rights, and in some cases torture.

This is the legacy that Ian Henderson has bequeathed to the people of Bahrain.

Henderson was a British national and a colonial officer who was renowned for using violent tactics to subdue the anti-British Mau Mau movement in Kenya. After independence, the British government in 1968 removed him from Kenya and installed him in Bahrain as a security adviser to Al-Khalifa.

Israel needs a new map

Transcript of Dr. Ian Lustick’s Feb 26 talk: “Israel Needs a New Map”

Remarks by Professor Ian Lustick, University of Pennsylvania, sponsored by Foundation for Middle East Peace and Middle East Policy Council, February 26, 2013, Carnegie Endowment, Washington, DC

ce texte est très intéressant. C’est long mais certains passages valent le coup.

▻http://e2.ma/webview/1kajh/2c7390d49aab4e8490ad30ab7feb851b

I’m delighted to be here. I want to thank Phil Wilcox and Anne Joyce from the Foundation for Middle East Peace and the Middle East Policy Council. I also want to mention my friend and colleague from years ago who created the Foundation for Middle East Peace, Merle Thorpe, Jr. It was thanks to his vision and generosity that I was able to undertake some of the work I did in the 1980s on Israeli settlements and their larger political significance.

#israël #palestine

Syria says Jordan ’playing with fire’ over assistance to rebels | World news | The Guardian
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/05/syria-jordan-fire-assistance-rebels

Jordan tightens security along Syrian border as tensions soar amid reports of arms shipments to anti-Assad forces

Ian Black, Middle East editor
Friday 5 April 2013

Jordan is facing mounting tension with neighbouring Syria amid signs that it has moved to a more active role in support of the rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad’s government.

The border between the countries was reinforced on the Jordanian side on Thursday after Syrian state media warned the western-backed kingdom it was “playing with fire” and poised “on the edge of a volcano” by backing the opposition.

Recent weeks have seen a spate of reports about arms shipments from Jordan to anti-Assad rebels who have been making gains around Deraa, the Syrian city closest to the border. Opposition sources say the military situation reflects enhanced supplies and training.

Barack Obama discussed the crisis with King Abdullah II in Amman on his Middle East tour last month. Jordan was the only Arab state the US president visited – an indication of the pressure the king is under to be more supportive of the Gulf-driven effort to drive Assad from power.

Diplomats say they have discussed plans for a buffer zone in southern Syria as well as accelerated training for rebel fighters by the US and Jordan. British and French special forces are reported to be involved in training, advice, logistics and intelligence support.

In an apparent reflection of nervousness about the issue, a government spokesman in Amman insisted on Friday that Jordan was “not part of the conflict” in Syria and maintained its support for a “peaceful solution” – the formal stance of all Arab states. The spokesman refused to comment either on the training or the buffer zone, the Al-Ghad newspaper reported.

The Washington Post cited Jordanian security officials this week as saying that a plan to complete the training of 3,000 Free Syrian Army officers by the end of June has been brought forward to the end of April in light of the border victories. The FSA is backed by western and Arab governments as a bulwark against the rise of Salafi or Jihadi-type Islamist groups.

Jordanian sources describe a “double discourse” – an official one that reiterates the formal position alongside clandestine training and Saudi-financed arms supplies delivered with the help of the CIA. Jordan’s powerful Mukhabarat secret service enjoys a close relationship with its western partners, including MI6.

22 février, une journée sans informations | Photographie.com
▻http://www.photographie.com/news/22-fvrier-une-journe-sans-informations

Un an après la disparition de Rémi Ochlik et Marie Colvin en Syrie, un collectif issu du secteur des médias et du photojournalisme lancera le 22 février une nouvelle campagne destinée à mieux faire connaitre les risques affrontés au quotidien par les journalistes et les photojournalistes dans les zones de conflit. Menée par Aidan Sullivan, Vice-Président chez Getty Images et fondateur de la bourse Ian Parry Scholarship, la campagne vise également à faire pression sur les gouvernements et les tribunaux afin qu’ils poursuivent en justice ceux qui portent atteinte aux membres des médias d’information.

The Two Most Ridiculous Claims In Yesterday’s Anti-Marriage Equality Decision

By Ian Millhiser on Nov 30, 2012 at 8:52 am
[Obama kiss]

An openly straight politician publicly flaunts his sexuality

Yesterday, George W. Bush-appointed Judge Robert Jones upheld Nevada’s practice of denying marriage equality to gay couples. Like a similar decision by a Reagan-appointed judge in Hawai’i, Judge Jones goes out of his way to resolve any uncertainties in the law in the light most unfavorable to equality — although, in fairness to Jones, his hands were at least somewhat tied by a 22 year old anti-gay precedent.

Precedent aside, however, Jones’ opinion will be very difficult to defend on appeal. He attacks gay rights in ways that undermine basic protections for racial minorities and women; and he displays an almost quaint naïveté about how politicians present their sexuality to the public. By the end of the opinion, the reader is not simply left with the impression that Judge Jones has never actually met an openly gay person, but that Jones does not spend much time observing heterosexual relationships either.

The most dangerous part of Jones’ reasoning is a section where he claims that, because gay people made significant cultural and political progress in recent years, this somehow deprives them of their ability to seek the full protection of the Constitution:

Today, unlike in 1990, the public media are flooded with editorial, commercial, and artistic messages urging the acceptance of homosexuals. Anti-homosexual messages are rare in the national informational and entertainment media, except that anti-homosexual characters are occasionally used as foils for pro-homosexual viewpoints in entertainment media. Homosexuals serve openly in federal and state political offices. The President of the United States has announced his personal acceptance of the concept of same-sex marriage, and the announcement was widely applauded in the national media. Not only has the President expressed his moral support, he has directed the Attorney General not to defend against legal challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”), a federal law denying recognition to same-sex marriages at the federal level. It is exceedingly rare that a president refuses in his official capacity to defend a democratically enacted federal law in court based upon his personal political disagreements. That the homosexual-rights lobby has achieved this indicates that the group has great political power. The State of Nevada has itself outlawed sexual-orientation based discrimination as a general matter. Congress has not included the category under Title VII’s protections, however. In 2012 America, anti-homosexual viewpoints are widely regarded as uncouth.

Though it is true that Supreme Court precedents accord greater constitutional protection to groups “relegated to such a position of political powerlessness as to command extraordinary protection from the majoritarian political process,” it simply cannot be the case that a group loses its power to invoke the Constitution’s guarantee of “equal protection of the laws” once they start to gain rights and recognition through the ordinary political process. If this were true, neither African-Americans nor women could seek shelter under the Constitution, as both race and gender equality enjoys far greater protection under federal law that the rights of LGBT Americans.

Later in the opinion, Judge Jones dismisses the significance of the fact that LGBT people are underrepresented in legislatures and other elected positions, claiming that this could be attributed to nothing more than a universal desire among politicians to keep their sexuality in the closet:

[T]he “seemingly” small number of open homosexuals in positions of power or authority may be largely attributable to neither exclusion nor sexual-orientation-based shame that discourages them from identifying themselves, but rather to the fact that people as a general matter—and especially people in positions of power and prestige—tend not to draw attention to their sexual practices or preferences, whatever they may be, for social, career, and economic reasons. This natural disinclination of public figures to announce their sexual practices or preferences does not necessarily transform into passive oppression simply because the sexual practices or preferences of a particular subset of persons also happens to be a matter of special social controversy.

One has to wonder whether Jones has ever heard of Michelle Obama. Or Laura Bush. Or Hillary Clinton. Or, for that matter, Monica Lewinsky. The idea that straight elected officials “tend not to draw attention to their sexual practices or preferences” by not even revealing to the nation that they are heterosexual is self-evidently absurd. The closet is the product of years of animus directed at LGBT people, not some kind of Victorian desire to keep private lives private.

Gamasutra - Features - Persuasive Games: Wii Can’t Go On, Wii’ll Go On
►http://gamasutra.com/view/feature/182294/persuasive_games_wii_cant_go_on_.php

What is Nintendo really attempting to do with the Wii U? Game designer and researcher Ian Bogost, in the latest installment of Persuasive Games, looks for the answer

#jeux_vidéo

Could Egypt’s Pyramids Be Destroyed? « MasterAdrian’s Weblog
►http://masteradrian.com/2012/11/24/could-egypts-pyramids-be-destroyed

Could Egypt’s Pyramids Be Destroyed?
November 24, 2012

Could Egypt’s Pyramids Be Destroyed?

by Kristina Chew
November 23, 2012
11:00 am

Destroy the Giza pyramids and the Sphinx? Murgan Salem al-Gohary, a leader of Egypt’s ultra-conservative Salafist party, recently called on Muslims to do just this on Egyptian Dream TV. According to Gohary, Egypt’s iconic cultural treasures must be eliminated as a “religiously mandated act of iconoclasm,” for the same reasons as Mullah Omar and the Afghan Taliban destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan in March of 2001.

Claiming that he had indeed participated in blowing up the Buddhas, Gohary said:

“The idols and statutes that fill Egypt must be destroyed. Muslims are tasked with applying the teachings of Islam and removing these idols, just like we did in Afghanistan when we smashed the Buddha statues.

With the sight of the majestic Buddha statues being blasted with dynamite still fresh, the thought of a similar fate occurring to the pyramids is chilling. In Foreign Policy, Ian Straughn suggests that Gohary’s threat is certainly geared to grab media attention and all the more in today’s post-Arab Spring Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists are in power and while debates about the status of women and of minorities and about Egypt’s relations with the West are ongoing.

The Pyramids Have Faced Threats To Their Existence For Centuries

The pyramids have faced numerous threats since they were erected by the pharaohs. In the ancient world alone, Egypt was under the rule of the Persians and the Romans. In medieval times, the pyramids’ limestone casement was pillaged to build cities (including Cairo).

Starting in the 19th century, amateur archaeologists helped to awaken the world to the artifacts hidden in tombs in Egypt. But they also oversaw the transporting (some would say pillaging) of numerous archaeological finds into foreign museums, many of which are now in awkward disputes with Egypt’s government over repatriating objects. Today, pollution of a sort the ancients could never have fathomed threatens numerous ancient sites.

Many of us in the West were riveted by the image of Egyptians guarding the Egyptian Museum near Tahrir Square during the protests that would lead to the fall of Hosni Mubarak. Those archaeological treasures, and the Sphinx and the pyramids, are part of the world’s cultural heritage and must be protected not only by Egypt’s Supreme Council for Antiquities but also by international governments. This is common knowledge if not common sense to many of us.

Reconciling the Pyramids and Muslim Beliefs

As Straughn details, since the medieval age, Islamic scholars and others have sought to understand — to reconcile their religious beliefs to — the pyramids and other remains of Egypt’s long past. On seeing the destruction of antiquities, al-Masudi, a 10th century Muslim traveler in Egypt, argued that respecting these is “not incompatible with Islam.” Ancient structures and objects indeed “strengthen the Quranic injunction to search out and contemplate the lessons (‘ibar) which the divine has left for believers in the landscape.”

Today, even while very much aware of “the role that these ruins play in the economy and various state efforts to represent Egypt as a modern-day heir to one of the world’s great civilizations,” Straughn notes that there is “a palpable discomfort with this promotion and glorification of a pre-Islamic past.” It could be said that, as in Italy, there is something of a “love-hate” push-and-pull with the country’s archaeological heritage, which engulfs tremendous amounts of resources “at the expense of the welfare of an Islamic past, present, and future.”

Tourism accounts for more than 11 percent of Egypt’s economy, which has struggled in the post-Mubarak era; the importance of the pyramids and other ancient sites is certainly understood. The pyramids, in Straughn’s estimation, are not likely to suffer the fate of the Buddhas of Bamiyan; Gohary’s call to destroy the pyramids encapsulates “the broader debate within the religion [of Islam] over how to orient itself after the Arab Spring.”

The recent collision of a schoolbus with a train — resulting in at least 50 dead, most young children — suggests that Egypt still falls short in addressing issues like safety on its roadways. The pyramids are likely to remain a point of debate and even contention so long as Egypt remains a place that many associate more with its past than the very real demands of its present.

Read more: ►http://www.care2.com/causes/egypts-pyramids.html#ixzz2D8nCbNSn

GayStarNews 11-16-2012 « MasterAdrian’s Weblog
►http://masteradrian.com/2012/11/16/gaystarnews-11-16-2012

GayStarNews 11-16-2012
November 16, 2012

Hobbit star Ian McKellen narrates gay bullying video

Young people tell their stories in Stonewall video as Ian McKellen tours schools to tackle bullying of gay, lesbian and bisexual students

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‘Kill the gays’ Jamaican singer Beenie Man faces ban

US gay rights activists protest Beenie Man concert in Chicago over history of homophobic lyrics

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Christian wins court case over gay marriage Facebook remark

Housing manager Adrian Smith was demoted and had his salary slashed for saying ‘marriage is for men and women’ on Facebook

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Freddie Mercury is the Queen of Lego

Ever wondered what a Lego Freddie Mercury, Quentin Crisp or Grace Jones would look like?

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Will gay marriage come to Australia before 2014?

Gay Star News asks five of the key players in the Australian marriage equality debate if gay marriage will come to Australia before 2014. The one-word summary answer is ‘unlikely’.

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Boy George, Elton John, Jane Lynch, David Hockney among the Out 100

But Anderson Cooper conspiciously absent from annual list this time around

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Fijians end roof-top protest in Sydney

Protest that began over gay rights and other alleged human rights abuses in Fiji ends safely

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Gallup Poll: 76% of gays voted for Obama while 22% supported Romney

Among straight voters, each candidate received 49 percent of the vote

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Gay couple consummate relationship on US soap Days of Our Lives

But complications arise before they can even put their clothes back on

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See gay TV stars Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen handle a giant candy python

The Party Python is made of gummy and feeds up to 300 people

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Gay stars represent in People’s Choice Awards nods for television comedy

Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Chris Colfer, Jane Lynch, Jim Parsons and Neil Patrick Harris get nominations

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Gay icon Cher calls Donald Trump a ‘flaming asshole’

Pop superstar apologizes for calling The Apprentice star’s hair a ‘cheap rug’ but stands by her call for Macy’s to ‘Dump the Trump’

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Death of Northern Ireland gay rights veteran is ‘sad loss to all’

Tributes pour in for PA Maglochlainn, an ‘eccentric’ and ‘tireless’ campaigner who has been at the forefront of NI’s gay rights movement for 30 years

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Phillesbian’s gay girl guide to Philadelphia

It’s the City of Brotherly Love but queer girls as well as boys will love discovering Philadelphia. Digital magazine Phillesbian shares top party tips and how to get a kiss from Walt Whitman’s ghost

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Dan Savage thanks straight allies for gay marriage

Creator of It Gets Better campaign Dan Savage launches Straight Up Thanks, a photo website recognizing straight people who actively pushed for marriage equality in America’s latest election

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Nigeria backs law to jail all gays and those who hide them

Nigeria’s National Assembly has voted for a law to jail all gay people and anyone who fails to report a homosexual to the authorities

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Gay slur Italian politician wants to lead Berlusconi’s party

Andrea Di Pietro, local councillor in Vigevano, is now running for the primaries of Silvio Berlusconi’s PDL party

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Gros doc sur Joy Division, feu-Ian Curtis (l’âme du groupe), le Manchester des années 1976-80 et la scène post-punk. Diffusé par Arte hier soir et visionnable en ligne (96 mns).

Joy Division (documentaire, UK, 2007)
►http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/joy-division--7025758.html

#Joy_Division #UK #Manchester #Ian_Curtis #New_Wave #Documentaire

Longue enquête de Ian Cobain : comment la Grande Bretagne a participé aux actes de torture contre ses propres citoyens
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/oct/19/torture-uk-britain-blood-government?CMP=twt_gu

The UK would do more than offer mere logistics support to the rendition programme, however. It would become an enthusiastic participant. And, as I discovered, this would not be the first time it was involved with the torture of its own citizens.

Le livre des espions
►http://www.editions-iconoclaste.fr/spip.php?article1720

Plus de 1000 mots et expressions secrètes des espions d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. Les agents du monde entier usent d’un vocabulaire codé, technique, imagé, parfois pittoresque, souvent romanesque.
Pour la première fois, il est rassemblé dans ce livre, inspiré des documents d’archives mais aussi des usages contemporains.

Le livre, sous forme de lexique, présente aussi l’argot policier et les termes inventés par Ian Fleming ou employés par Le Carré. On y apprend par exemple la signification de « grinder » (n. m., endroit sûr pour recueillir les confidences d’un transfuge), de « tontonner » (verbe trans. et intrans., donner des informations, se dit surtout d’un indic), de « fleur » (n. f., matériel acheté en liquide pour ne laisser aucune trace).
En fin d’ouvrage, 8 leçons d’espionnage (se créer une couverture, le recrutement, les principes du déguisement…).
Un blog spécialisé trouve l’ensemble un peu daté mais intéressant.
►http://lignesdedefense.blogs.ouest-france.fr/archive/2012/10/04/les-1000-mots-et-les-techniques-secretes-des-espi

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ThinkProgress
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Conservative ‘Kingmaker’ Compares Marriage Equality To Slavery

By Ian Millhiser posted from ThinkProgress Justice on Oct 4, 2012 at 10:08 am

Anti-Gay Activist Bob Vander Plaats

Anti-gay activist Bob Vander Plaats, who was labeled the Iowa GOP’s “kingmaker” after Republican presidential candidates lined up to pay homage to him, was the architect of the successful effort to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justices, and he’s now spearheading a new effort to remove a fourth justice. All four of the justices Vander Plaats opposes joined the state supreme court’s unanimous opinion recognizing that the Iowa Constitution does not permit marriage discrimination against gay couples.

At a rally last month, Vander Plaats explained why he is so offended by the targeted justices’ application of the state constitution. And then he compared marriage equality to slavery:

We must get back to the constitution. . . . It is the court that should be independent — free of politics — to uphold the constitution, not to trample on the constitution, not to insert politics in the constitution, and not to run the leftist agenda through the court system. That’s not their role.

The Iowa State Bar Association, they’ll tell you — they’ll say “Bob, this is only one opinion. It’s only one opinion. You can’t be that upset at a court because of one opinion.” One opinion: Dred Scott — blacks are property. One opinion: Roe v. Wade — we’ve killed sixty million babies off a court’s opinion. One opinion, the Varnum opinion and you are now seeing same-sex marriage infiltrate this state. One opinion, where a court legislates from the bench, when a court executes from the bench, when a court tries to amend the constitution from the bench, and when a court tries to do that, it is our responsibility as the people — the final arbitrators — to kick them off the bench.

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Vander Plaats’ attempt to compare extending the blessings of liberty to all couples with a decision which claimed black people are “beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect” is obviously the most glaring part of his speech. But he should not be let off the hook for claiming that eliminating marriage equality in Iowa would remove politics from the state judiciary or “uphold the constitution.” In reality, the polar opposite is true.

The Iowa Constitution speaks with far more expansive language and with far greater clarity than the United States Constitution on the subject of equality. It provides that “[a]ll laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation; the general assembly shall not grant to any citizen or class of citizens, privileges or immunities, which, upon the same terms shall not equally belong to all citizens.” Marriage discrimination grants marriage rights to straight citizens which do not equally belong to gay citizens. It is not at all surprising that the Iowa justices unanimously reached the decision they did in Varnum — the Iowa Constitution is unambiguous that marriage discrimination is not allowed.

So when Vander Plaats tries to take revenge against these justices by tossing them out of office, he is the one who injecting politics into the constitution and he is the one who is trying to run his agenda through the court system. Vander Plaats’ campaign is nothing less than an effort to make judges too scared to follow the law when the law conflicts with conservative views.

Occupy revient, un peu de résistance.

Et l’excellent Ian Cook, prof de géographie à Exeter nous envoie ce merveilleux message sur la liste de géo radicale. C’est très très très long, si on veut tout lire et tout regarder, mais de ce que j’en ai vu, ça vaut le détour (trois étoiles au Michelin pas moins).

Follow the Things | Security | Have I Got News For You (tent)
►http://www.followthethings.com/haveigotnewsforyoutent.shtml

To coincide more or less with the 1 year anniversary of the beginning of Occupy LSX, we have just published on our site a debate about ’anti-capitalist’, consumption and protest that began with UK Conservative MP Louise Mensch arguing on a satirical TV panel show that people couldn’t be ’anti-capitalists’ because they were drinking Starbucks coffee, tweeting on their iPhones, and living in ’fancy tents’ outside St Paul’s cathedral in London.

We have located the YouTube clip and collated the online discussions that this provoked and, we think, have produced something that could work as a powerful teaching resource.

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Conservative MP Louise Mensch discovered that OccupyLSX protestors drink coffee and use mobile phones and brought this insightful view to BBC’s Have I Got News For You. Ian Hislop, Danny Baker, and Paul Merton were not in agreement with her (Source: Atwater 2011 link).

Four men with sharpest minds – or rather tongues – in England ganged up and tore to pieces a woman Conservative [a.k.a Tory] MP, Louise Mensch, who suggested in a popular satirical programme ’Have I Got News for You’ that ’occupy’ protesters at the City of London were not steadfast enough in their anti-capitalist action because they a: formed the longest queue in the world for Starbucks coffee; b: had fancy tents; c: used iPhones to tweet about the protest. ‘’You don’t need to return to a barter and a Stone Age to complain about the cuts and the financial crisis?’, said Ian Hislop, the feared editor of satirical magazine ’Private Eye’. ’If you buy coffee, have a tent and use iPhone your opinion is worthless?’ said comedian Paul Merton (Source: Anon 2011 np link).

#occupy #resistance #consommation

C’est le cinquantenaire de 007 bientôt et il se trouve que j’ai une question : pourquoi les super agents ont toujours J. B. pour initiales ?

Jason Bourne
Jack Bauer
James Bond

ll se passe un truc non ?

Casino Royale was written by Ian Fleming in Jamaica over a period of around two months in 1952. On 13 April 1953 Casino Royale was released in the UK in hardcover, priced at 10s, 6d, with a cover designed by Fleming.
►http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming
►http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(novel)

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The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation - Ian Bogost - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/the-great-pretender-turing-as-a-philosopher-of-imitation/259824

Shock at the BBC as reporters are told to start making money - The Independent

►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/shock-at-the-bbc-as-reporters-are-told-to-start-making-money-7879748.

Ian Burrell, Monday 25 June 2012

There are fears for the future editorial independence of the BBC after news journalists were ordered to come up with money-generating ideas for the corporation, a leaked email reveals.

BBC bosses have told reporters to think of money-making schemes and present them to their line managers at forthcoming job appraisals – raising concerns that the organisation’s prized editorial standards will be compromised by commercial imperatives.

ian_black: Will the latest victims in al-Qubair make any difference? #Syria's latest massacre leaves Annan’s peace plan in tatters ►http://t.co/gprfT25L

The Case for a Financial #WikiLeaks | Ian Fraser
►http://www.ianfraser.org/how-financial-whistleblowers-can-avoid-being-stabbed-in-the-back

But fear of being ostracised for “spoiling the party”, coupled with an attachment to the high pay that a financial career can bring (you might call it ‘moral cowardice’) is sufficient to persuade the vast majority of putative whistleblowers to keep schtoom.
That’s why I believe we need a financial version of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. It would protect employees from management retribution and eliminate the social barriers to speaking out.

#finance #banque

Près de 90% des Asiatiques sont myopes à la sortie du lycée - 20minutes.fr
►http://www.20minutes.fr/sciences/928893-pres-90-asiatiques-myopes-sortie-lycee#xtor=RSS-145

Selon les chercheurs, cette explosion des myopies en Asie serait liée à deux facteurs : une augmentation du temps passé à étudier et une diminution du temps passé dehors exposé à la lumière naturelle. Il semble en effet que l’exposition à la lumière du soleil booste le niveau de dopamine, un neurotransmetteur qui jouerait un rôle-clé pour empêcher l’oeil de s’étirer –ce qui rend une image floue.

Pendant longtemps, de nombreux scientifiques ont estimé que la génétique était cruciale dans la myopie. Mais selon le professeur Ian Morgan, si c’est le cas pour certains cas de myopie graves, l’environnement pourrait jouer un rôle primordial. « La facteur qui a changé n’est pas génétique mais bien environnemental », note-t-il.

#Migrations heureuses | Benoît Bréville
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2011/10/BREVILLE/21095

L’ancien vice-président de la Banque mondiale se soucie désormais aussi de morale : devenu économiste à l’université d’Oxford, Ian Goldin défend l’ouverture des frontières pour des raisons « tant éthiques qu’économiques ». Selon lui, les mouvements de population profitent aux pays d’accueil, à ceux de (...) / Économie, #Immigrés, Migrations, #Mondialisation, Relations Nord-Sud, Protection sociale, #Travail - 2011/10

#Économie #Relations_Nord-Sud #Protection_sociale #2011/10