2012-10-02, 15:56 | Link #24001 |
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House committee: security requests denied in Libya:
"Despite two explosions and dozens of other security threats, U.S. officials in Washington turned down repeated pleas from American diplomats in Libya to increase security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi where the U.S. ambassador was killed, Republican leaders of a House committee asserted Tuesday. In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chairman Darrell Issa and Rep. Jason Chaffetz of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee said their information came from "individuals with direct knowledge of events in Libya." Issa, R-Calif. and Chaffetz, R-Utah said the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans was the latest in a long line of attacks on Western diplomats and officials in Libya in the months before Sept. 11. The letter listed 13 incidents, but Chaffetz said in an interview there were more than 50. Two of them involved explosive devices: a June 6 blast that blew a hole in the security perimeter. The explosion was described to the committee as "big enough for forty men to go through"; and an April 6 incident where two Libyans who were fired by a security contactor threw a small explosive device over the consulate fence." See: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...c23e29597451d8 All that, and still no increase in security? Heads should roll for this. |
2012-10-02, 16:29 | Link #24007 |
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The number of executives I've run into in my corporate life .... greedy AND incompetent usually describes them, sometimes they're also just jackass mean.
I've run into more than one that actually got visibly excited about firing someone who made a mistake.
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2012-10-02, 16:38 | Link #24008 | ||
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Another thing : oil companies buy oil futures themselves so they can control the price of oil they supply to a certain region. It is more of a case of dog-eat-dog between the mega corps. Quote:
I don't see anything wrong with greed - that is what drove us to learn our trades and to make money from it. But there is a limit to greed; and the inability to handle it is wholly caused by a substantial knowledge in the trade; namely incompetence. Being able to wave hands and being able to put something durable and useful together with them are the main indicators of whether this person is good at work or not.
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2012-10-03, 00:43 | Link #24014 | |
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Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) changed how we think about culture
The Marxist historian reclaimed and popularised the value of popular culture, something so integral to our lives today it seems bizarre it was ever denigrated. Quote:
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2012-10-03, 01:28 | Link #24015 | |
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What is Republic Act 10175, also known as the Philippine Cybercrime Prevention Law of 2012?
http://www.gov.ph/2012/09/12/republic-act-no-10175/ Quote:
Now that is NOT FUN.
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2012-10-03, 02:56 | Link #24016 |
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Univision exclusiva
woah... there's more to Fast & Furious ATF/DOJ boondoggle than initially thought.
(from close caption) Univision had (exclusive) access to the list of serial numbers for weapons used in Fast and Furous and to the list of guns seized in MX. After cross-referencing both lists it became clear that at least a hundred of them were used in crimes of all kinds. We found 57 weapons that were not mentioned in congress' investigation. Last edited by flying ^; 2012-10-03 at 03:13. |
2012-10-03, 05:45 | Link #24017 |
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"Critical but stable" world nods at more risk
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...89206F20121003 Intelligence effort named citizens, not terrorists http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...10-03-02-36-15 Not so much of a surprise here.
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2012-10-03, 08:07 | Link #24018 |
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle4583591/
Toronto spending $300,000 to remove existing bike lanes. |
2012-10-03, 13:46 | Link #24020 |
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MPAA Chief Says SOPA, PIPA ‘Are Dead’:
"Former Sen. Christopher Dodd, now chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, said the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act aren’t going to be floated again in Congress. “These bills are dead. They are not coming back,” Dodd told the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco late Tuesday. He served 30 years as a Democratic senator from Connecticut, so he’s obviously in the know." See: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...ays-sopa-dead/ |
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