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POPSPiracy: You're doing it wrong "Once they realised they were facing a ship that was responding and was heading towards them, they stopped shooting and attempted to flee,"
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POPSiiNet case could set piracy precedent To me it is a problem between the owner of the rights and the people abusing those rights. They have the details of who downloaded, who uploaded and who sneezed. The laws are cockeyed. In Australia, if you go to the pub, get pissed, drive and have an accident, you can sue the licensee of the pub. The govt will have already booked the licensee for selling to an intoxicated person.
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POPSWho Are The Real Pirates In Africa's Waters? Like the pirates of the ``golden age’’, today's Somali pirates see themselves as fighting for justice. As Sugale Ali told the October 1, 2008, NYT: ``We don’t consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits those who illegally fish in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas. We are simply patrolling our seas. Think of us like a coast guard.’’ ``The truth is, if you ask any Somali, if getting rid of the pirates only means the continuous rape of our coast by unmonitored Western vessels, and the production of a new cancerous generation, we would all fly our pirate flags high. It is time that the world gave the Somali people some assurance that these Western illegal activities will end, if our pirates are to their operations. We do not want the EU and NATO serving as a shield for these nuclear waste-dumping hoodlums.’’
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POPSWas Russia's 'Hijacked' Arctic Sea Carrying Missiles to the Mideast?
Kouts says an Israeli interception of the cargo is the most likely explanation. But this theory, which some Russian analysts put forward in the days after the Arctic Sea was rescued and which Kouts agreed with in his interview with TIME, has been vehemently denied by Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitri Rogozin, who says Kouts should stop "running his mouth." The official explanation coming out of Moscow is simple enough: the Arctic Sea, manned by a Russian crew, set sail from Finland under a Maltese flag on July 22. It was destined for Algeria and carried less than $2 million worth of timber. Then a group of eight Russian and former Soviet hijackers boarded the ship on July 24. The ship's tracking device was disabled in the last days of July and the ship disappeared. On Aug. 12, the Russian navy sent out a search party. Why, with so many other ships carrying much more valuable cargo, would the hijackers target the Arctic Sea and its small load of timber?
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POPSThe Israeli Pirates Unlike the Somali pirates, this piracy will not be televised. Target: Palestinian fisherman (unarmed).
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POPSCourt: Passengers can challenge no-fly list "The TSA, part of the Homeland Security Department, has lists of hundreds of thousands of names of passengers who allegedly pose a risk of terrorism or air piracy, information the agency shares with airlines. Those on the no-fly list are prevented from boarding. Passengers on a separate "selectee" list undergo additional searches." Full article at source.
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POPSMissing Cargo Ship, Nah, Red October Probably Uh Oh, It looks like Europe will have to do some stuff and get their hands dirty with possible hijackers. Joke>>These guys got spooked by an earlier boarding and decided to scuttle.....Article mentioned a "secret cargo" suspected--this from Mikhail Voitenko, editor of the Russian Maritime Bulletin Web site said he believed the vessel was carrying "some kind of secret cargo" which made it attractive to potential hijackers.
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POPSL' Europa di destra - e le nuove alternative Le sinistre defraudate sono aggrappate allo status quo ma nuove forze emergono, che pensano la crisi con sguardo più profondo e lungo. Che seguono con estrema attenzione Obama e presentono, in quel che annuncia, la possibilità di una trasformazione, di un ricominciamento. È il caso dei Verdi in Francia, Germania, Inghilterra, Svezia, Belgio, Grecia, Finlandia. È il caso dei liberali-legalitari di Di Pietro, e perfino di forze inedite come i Pirati in Svezia. Quattro consapevolezze accomunano questi gruppi. Primo, la crisi presente è tettonica, e non si esaurisce nella questione sociale. Secondo: il capitalismo di Stato che ovunque risorge accresce i poteri dello Stato censore sulle libertà cittadine. Terzo: la corruzione che ha accompagnato la crisi può perdurare, perché le urgenze governative sono altre. Quarto: il ricominciamento dovrà accadere in Europa, non negli Stati-nazione
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POPSObama Revisionism, Adams and Jefferson, Friends of Islam . . . hostility to religion. Still, as usual, it's fascinating, especially this bit of history that Obama somehow failed to mention this morning when revisiting (or I should say, revisioning) Adams, Jefferson, and that oh-so-warm relationship between the Morocco and the fledgling United States: I believe on the evidence that it was at this moment that Jefferson decided to make war on the Muslim states of North Africa as soon as the opportunity presented itself. And, even if I am wrong, we can be sure that the dispatch of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps to the Barbary shore was the first and most important act of his presidency. It took several years of bombardment before the practice of kidnap and piracy and slavery was put down, but put down it was, Quranic justification or not.
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POPS Colonialism Much is made in the east about the dreadful history of European colonialism, the bitter legacies of humiliation and dysfunction that empires leave when they withdraw Paul Fregosi in his book Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries calls Islamic Jihad “the most unrecorded and disregarded major event of history. It has, in fact, been largely ignored,” although it has been a fact of life in Europe, Asia and Africa for almost 1400 years. As Fregosi says, “Western colonization of nearby Muslim lands lasted 130 years, from the 1830s to the 1960s. Muslim colonization of nearby European lands lasted 1300 years, from the 600s to the mid-1960s. Yet, strangely, it is the Muslims…who are the most bitter about colonialism and the humiliations to which they have been subjected; and it is the Europeans who harbor the shame and the guilt. It should be the other way around.” Well, yes. But that’s different. via julescrittenden
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POPSA law to ban plagiarists for a year from using print
A few naysayers may argue that print bans might be hard to enforce, and that banning communication based on mere accusations of wrongdoing raises some minor issues of due process and free speech. But if those issues don't trouble us in the Internet setting, why should they trouble us here? Yes, if banned from using print, some students will be unable to do their school work, some adults will face minor inconvenience in their daily lives, and a few troublemakers will not be allowed to participate in -- or even listen to -- political debate. Maybe they'll think more carefully the next time, before allowing themselves to be accused of copyright infringement. In short, a three-strikes system is just as good an idea for print as it is for the Internet. Which country will be the first to adopt it? Once we have adopted three-strikes for print, we can move on to other media. Next on the list: three-strikes systems for sound waves, and light waves. These media are too important to
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POPSHow Embarrassing Supposedly this was snuck in near the end of the legislative session and most senators didn't even read it (which in itself is no excuse). Nonetheless, this shows how radical fringe groups can infiltrate government. And I'm really wondering why, even though this resolution has no power, the media has not paid more attention to something so over the top. It was mentioned on MSNBC yesterday but I've seen nothing since. What a bunch of yahoos.
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POPSWeird legislation going on in France French seem to be steering away from the principles of liberty and freedom, if there are trends such as this in their parlaiment. I mean, what happened to presumption of innocence, to trial, to prosecution and to defence. It seems they are ready to skip the inquiries and start punishing their citizens as soon as they seem to fit certain criterion. This law holds that every download is scanned. This is total surveilance.
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