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Witht the article's focus on financial political tit-for-tat among the bigs, and the recent protest against Oshkosh being awarded a vehicle contract, I figured the reasons = $100 bills.
The increase in graft and decrease of the dollar may have Warthog closer.
Kanadian Konservative writer Mindy Alter deals with another Kanadian "human rights" "hate speech" law aimed at silencing anyone with the temerity to criticize Moslems.
From TFA:
Spoken like a true believer in the efficacy of Canada's "human rights" inquisitions. The fact is, however, that what always – always - emerges from such measures is, to employ the most apropos and colourful lingo, do bupkes to protect Jewry, serve the interests of those who admire shariah-style speech restrictions, and end up biting us Jews in the tuches.
(See, for example, the experience of attorney David Matas, who was subjected to a lengthy prosecution by Manitoba's "human rights" racket for saying something at a conference that offended a Muslim; at the time, her name was kept secret such that Matas and B'nai Brith Canada, the organization he represented, did not know who had lodged the official "human rights" complaint against them.)
It is heartening that CIJA, the organization that subsumed and replaced the Canadian Jewish Congress - for many years, one of the foremost opponents of free speech in the land - has twigged to the dangers of the anti-"hate speech" mishegas, and has spoken out against the proposed bill.
Someone else who was late to see the damage wrought by anti-hate speech provisions in Canada's "human rights" codes, but who vociferously opposed them towards the end of his life, was Alan Borovoy. I wrote about him and his "aha" moment in a letter last week to the National Post, a response to this column by the great Barbara Kay (the letter was considered for publication but didn't make it in):
Some years ago, I attended a talk by the late Alan Borovoy, one of the architects of Canada's "human rights" apparatus. During the talk he lamented the fact that the system he, with the best of intentions, had helped animate, had taken a very wrong turn. Instead of concerning itself with adjudicating and eliminating instances of discriminatory practices in the areas of say, employment and apartment rentals, "human rights" had morphed into something monstrous, something that, shades of Orwell's 1984, was seeking to eliminate free speech, the human right that's a prerequisite for - and that safeguards - a free society.
It seems to me that Jacques Fremont, in his guise as chief of the Quebec Human Rights Commission, is exactly the sort of lumbering Frankenstein monster that Mr. Borovoy - who, after all, was the "doctor" who gave the beast life - was warning us about. Given a little power, this "human rights" commissar isn't content with solving picayune instances of discrimination in daily life. He claims for himself the right to oversee nothing less than a complete overhaul of society such that an individual's very thoughts, should they go to a place that dares to question or criticize or question any aspect of one of the world's religions, would be deemed unlawful--a crime against the state.
While I can't presume to speak for Mr. Borovoy, I am confident that he would decry this deplorable and frightening overreach by a "human rights" body, and encourage Quebecers and, indeed, all Canadians to do the same.
Alan Borovoy, "human rights" advocate extraordinaire, finally saw the light. Sadly, the likes of Ms. Lita-Rose Betcherman, Jew and former "human rights" commissar, as well as - go figure - David Matas, likely never will.
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"Most of the public discussion regarding cyber threats has focused on the confidentiality and availability of information; cyber espionage undermines confidentiality, whereas denial of service operations and data deletion attacks undermine availability," he wrote. "In the future, however, we might also see more cyber operations that will change or manipulate electronic information in order to compromise its integrity (i.e., accuracy and reliability) instead of deleting it or disrupting access to it."
The bottom line, Clapper says: "Decision making by senior government officials (civilian and military), corporate executives, investors, or others will be impaired if they cannot trust the information they are receiving."
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How many things found or not found on servers or computers have been outside plants or actions? If you demand a legal trail of receipts of evidence to make sure such has not been tampered or altered, how can you validate the same of PC et al?
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Backups. Checksums. File permissions (much more restrictive then for reading). Selinux and similar (a program cannot access what it has not business to accede even when run by system administrator). Peripherals/partitions in read-only mode. Unmutable files.
[DAWN] THE attacks on professionals associated with the media over the past few days in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. are the most recent tragic additions to the list of journalists and other media workers who have been harmed or killed over the years in Pakistain. Late Tuesday night, a Geo News DSNG van came under fire in Karachi, seriously injuring two men. While the driver was reported to be in stable, pH balanced condition, sadly satellite engineer Arshad Ali Jafri departed this vale of tears. A day later, in the same city, former television journalist Aftab Alam sustained fatal bullet wounds when two men on a cycle of violence opened fire on him. The grief and agony of the families of these latest victims are unimaginable; and yet, there's more. Also on Tuesday, journalist Abdul Azam Shinwari, who reports from the tribal areas, was injured when he was fired upon after an elaborate waylay procedure. One is not sure of the motive behind the attack in the case of Mr Shinwari, as the assailant chose not to kill the journalist. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... this in no way detracts from the seriousness of the crime; in fact, it underscores the impunity with which media workers are targeted in the country, by a variety of actors.
Where shadowy elements within the state have not escaped being accused of using violence against journalists -- the case of the slain Saleem Shehzad remains unresolved -- other groups, from separatist elements in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... to holy warriors in the northwest, have often enough displayed their willingness to literally shoot the messenger. The state, meanwhile, has erected for itself a pantheon of shame through its refusal to pursue such cases with vigour and alacrity. To date, the only media person's murder that comes to mind as having being resolved is that of Wali Khan Babar. Media organizations, too, appear willing to sacrifice a few pawns rather than cooperate and come up with joint strategies to protect their workers. Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened... intimidatory tactics continue against Pakistain's media workers, who, it seems, have nowhere to turn
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[DAWN] THE words sound serious, but we'll have to wait to see if the action that follows is too. Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan upped the ante somewhat when he said recently that the finances of religious seminaries must be scrutinised, and the latter will have to be encouraged to use registered bank accounts to transact and make payments. Although the State Bank claims there is no policy barring madressahs from opening bank accounts, the reality is that many of them continue to use the personal accounts of their staff to carry on their financial affairs. This practice conceals the source of funding, as well as the identities of the parties with whom they are transacting, opening the door to abuses that might even dovetail with bad boy activity in some cases. If the minister is able to get madressahs to start using their own bank accounts, it will be a positive step towards bringing some transparency into their affairs.
But the job is likely to prove harder than what the minister imagines. Simple jobs regarding the madressahs have taken far more effort than the state imagined. Take as an example the relatively straightforward task of counting the number of madressahs in each province, and then geo-tagging them so as to have a map showing locations and other details of each of them. Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... had a very difficult time obtaining an exact count of the number of madressahs operating within the province, and more recently Sindh has concluded an exercise in geo-tagging them. Through that exercise it has been learnt that almost one-third of all seminaries in the province are unregistered. This is a large number and getting them to first register themselves with the state, then compelling them to open bank accounts in their own name and using only these accounts to carry on their financial affairs will take a great deal of focused effort and coordination. The exercise must be carried out though because transparency in sources of funding for religious seminaries is required, and this cannot happen so long as their dealings are either done in cash or through accounts opened in the names of their staff members. One only hopes that the minister has thought his statement through and intends to follow up on it with energy, because the wider goal of uprooting bad boy narratives and hate-filled ideologies cannot be fulfilled without plugging this vital gap.
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Success will come down to enforcement. Big fines for violations might do the trick. Who wants to volunteer to set the example?
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[DAWN] THE attacks on professionals associated with the media over the past few days in 
[DAWN] THE words sound serious, but we'll have to wait to see if the action that follows is too. Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan upped the ante somewhat when he said recently that the finances of religious seminaries must be scrutinised, and the latter will have to be encouraged to use registered bank accounts to transact and make payments. Although the State Bank claims there is no policy barring madressahs from opening bank accounts, the reality is that many of them continue to use the personal accounts of their staff to carry on their financial affairs. This practice conceals the source of funding, as well as the identities of the parties with whom they are transacting, opening the door to abuses that might even dovetail with
