Photography is Not a Crime

Tales of War French POWs passing by a Hotchkiss 25 mm antitank gun, carrying one of their woundeds. Thulin, Belgium, May 1940 (Source: ecpad.fr) machtzumsieg: Photo taken from my new book “Uniforms and medals of the German army 1933-1945” Recorded by a USAF P 47D pilot : a Luftwaffe pilot escaping his Fw 190. The grave of a German soldier at Romeries, France. German soldiers from a bike company sleeping near Hensies. A panzer commander form the 4.Panzer-Division at the Gembloux battle (Belgium). Sick of the little wannabe nazis on Tumblr. A USAF B 17 after a direct flak hit above the railroad it was supposed to bomb. Soviet soldiers fighting in the streets of Stalino - now known as Donetsk - in Ukraine, 1943. (Source: worldwar-two, via lout-ka)

Mises Economics Blog What the Latest "Hot News" Ruling Means for Financial Web Sites - And Maybe Your Blog The hot news doctrine, created a century ago to prevent telegraphy from spoiling the prospects of East Coast newspapers, is having a resurgence in the digital era. It's just been used to squash publications by financial news aggregator Web sites. There's a fascinating piece explaining this news over at MediaShift--centering on the federal district ruling from May 18th, Barclays Capital Inc. versus TheFlyOnTheWall.com, that forbids the financial news aggregator Web site from broadcasting daily stock recommendations made by the financial firms analysts. It's one of the first and biggest tests of the "hot news" doctrine in the Internet era, and there's a possibility it may help define how news aggregators operate in the future. What exactly is "hot news"? Nowadays the Net has changed how news is shared, and its influence has altered the TV and paper-based news publishing industries.

Société : Le jour où la classe moyenne se soulèvera | Presseurop.eu Nos dirigeants ne réalisent pas qu'ils sont assis sur un baril de poudre, prévient le philosophe polonais Marcin Król. Car la classe moyenne à qui l’on refuse toute perspective de promotion sociale, pourrait voir la révolution comme son dernier recours pour se faire entendre. Contrairement aux idées reçues, ce ne sont pas les pauvres et les malheureux qui font les révolutions en Occident, mais bel et bien les classes moyennes. Ce fut le cas de toutes les révolutions, à commencer par la Révolution française, à l’exception près de la révolution d'Octobre, qui a été un coup d'Etat perpétré dans une situation de désordre politique extrême. Quand la classe moyenne décide-t-elle de déclencher la révolution ? Citoyens de deuxième catégorie Dans le cas classique de la Révolution française, le rôle d'avant-garde révolutionnaire a été joué par des avocats, des entrepreneurs, des employés de l'administration publique de l'époque et par une partie des officiers de l'armée. Domination des vieillards

What Do the Montgomery Bus Boycotts and Trash Collection in San “Dr. King did not make the boycott, the boycott made Dr. King.” ~ Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement The lessons of the past keep being repeated, over and over and over, and… Blogger Mike “Mish” Shedlock posted a fascinating story on his website regarding a situation in San Francisco. When the local garbage company and its union found out about “Joe” they complained to the city. None of this is really that surprising. Consider: When the Montgomery Bus Boycotts began, black people immediately tried to find alternative means of transportation. Any competent student of U.S. history knows how all this played out. One arm of the State ostensibly stopping another arm of the State from infringing on black folks is an example of the irony of coercion. Either way, we’ll never know.

PolicyTool - Policy for the Masses Bernard Stiegler : « Le marketing détruit tous les outils du savoir » - Société de consommation Texte publié intégralement dans la revue Soldes [1], que vous pouvez vous procurer dans l’une de ces librairies ou lors de l’événement organisé au Point éphémère à Paris le 24 mars (voir à la fin de l’article). Peut-on sortir de l’ère industrielle ? J’ai la conviction profonde que ce qu’on appelle humain, c’est la vie technicisée. La forme de vie qui passe par la technique, qu’elle soit du silex taillé ou du silicium, organisée comme aujourd’hui par un microprocesseur ou par autre chose. Quand on appréhende les questions dans leur globalité, il est inconcevable de faire face à cette poussée démographique avec des moyens non industriels. D’où vient cette hégémonie du capitalisme financier ? En 1977, au moment du mouvement punk, c’est l’enclenchement d’une catastrophe annoncée. Comment s’opère cette destruction des savoirs ? Aujourd’hui, 180 millions de Chinois sont dépressifs et partout ailleurs les gens sont dépressifs. Le marketing triomphant… ? Quel rôle pour les nouvelles générations ?

Trash Collecting Entrepreneur Squashed In San Francisco In response to Seattle Trash Collectors Make Average of $109,553 But Want More; 1,600 Apply to Haul Trash if Teamsters Strike I received an Email from Michael about union monopolies in San Francisco. Michael Writes ... Here in San Francisco picking up a garbage costs about $37/can per week.A contractor I know got fed up, canceled his service as did his neighbor. In regards to trash hauling wages in Seattle, many people wondered how Waste Management arrived at the figure of $109,553 per employee. It should not have been two difficult to find. As I stated in the first link, $109,553 is simply preposterous, yet the union complained and even authorized a strike. Trash collection can easily be done for a third of what the union gets as "Joe" in San Francisco proved. Seattle should put the contract to a genuinely competitive bid as should San Francisco. No doubt some will crow this example proves privatization does not work.

10 Ways To Avoid Being Sued On Twitter Adrianos is an Internet Defamation attorney in Los Angeles and authors the California Defamation Law Blog. Follow him @adrianos. Let me cut to the chase. You DO NOT want to be sued on Twitter. Being sued already stinks enough. Trust me. But being sued for a tweet is even worse. First off, think of what your friends will say. Second, imagine what your customers will say when they read about it online and the headline reads, “Drunk Twit Gets Sued For Tweets.” Worst of all, you could lose your privilege to Tweet under Twitter’s Terms of Service. So how do you avoid this? 1. Remember when your mother told you not to say anything if you didn’t have anything nice to say. 2. I will be the first to admit that I’ve experienced what is known as “Twitter Rage.” Sometimes I lash out at the offender with a particularly pointed public tweet. I’ll usually go for a run or go to the gym and lift some weights. 3. The second reason it’s important has to do with defamation law. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

How the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists From left, Greg Boertje-Obed, Sister Megan Rice, and Michael Walli. (Photo: Saul Young/News Sentinel)In just ten months, the United States managed to transform an 82 year-old Catholic nun and two pacifists from non-violent anti-nuclear peace protestors accused of misdemeanor trespassing into federal felons convicted of violent crimes of terrorism. Now in jail awaiting sentencing for their acts at an Oak Ridge, TN nuclear weapons production facility, their story should chill every person concerned about dissent in the US. Here is how it happened. In the early morning hours of Saturday, July 28, 2012, long-time peace activists Sr. Megan Rice, 82, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, and Michael Walli, 63, cut through the chain link fence surrounding the Oak Ridge Y-12 nuclear weapons production facility and trespassed onto the property. Describing themselves as the Transform Now Plowshares, the three came as non-violent protestors to symbolically disarm the weapons. Sr. Still no security. Sr.

The Myth that Laissez Faire Is Responsible for Our Present Crisi The news media are in the process of creating a great new historical myth. This is the myth that our present financial crisis is the result of economic freedom and laissez-faire capitalism. The attempt to place the blame on laissez faire is readily confirmed by a Google search under the terms "crisis + laissez faire." On the first page of the results that come up, or in the web entries to which those results refer, statements of the following kind appear: "The mortgage crisis is laissez-faire gone wrong."" Recent articles in The New York Times provide further confirmation. The mentality displayed in these statements is so completely and utterly at odds with the actual meaning of laissez faire that it would be capable of describing the economic policy of the old Soviet Union as one of laissez faire in its last decades. Laissez-faire capitalism has a definite meaning, which is totally ignored, contradicted, and downright defiled by such statements as those quoted above.

Met warns officers off photographers 2013 Cost of Cyber Crime study The Metropolitan Police has issued guidance to its officers to remind them that using a camera in public is not in itself a terrorist offence. There has been increasing concern in recent months that police have been over-using terrorism laws and public order legislation to harass professional and amateur photographers. The issue was raised in Parliament and the Home Office agreed to look at the rules. The guidance reminds officers that the public do not need a licence to take photographs in the street and the police have no power to stop people taking pictures of anything they like, including police officers. The over-used Terrorism Act of 2000 does not ban photography either, although it does allow police to look at images on phones or cameras during a search to see if they could be useful to a terrorist. The guidelines also remind coppers that they will often work with the media, which can impact on the Met's reputation. More from the Met here

Turkey protests: Unrest rages in Istanbul and Ankara Turkey has entered a second day of violent protests, with fresh clashes between police and demonstrators in Istanbul and the capital, Ankara. The unrest began as a sit-in over plans to redevelop Gezi Park in Istanbul's Taksim Square, but escalated after police used tear gas. Tear gas was again fired on Saturday at protesters in Istanbul and Ankara. In a defiant speech, PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted that the park project would go ahead. He also said that police would remain in Taksim Square to preserve order. Correspondents say that what began as a local issue has spiralled into more widespread anger at the government and ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party. Transport lockdown Hundreds of demonstrators marched over the bridge connecting the Asian and European shores of Istanbul on Saturday morning to try to reach the main square. Police fired tear gas to try to disperse them and some protesters threw rocks. Clashes were also reported in the Besiktas district. 'Creeping Islamisation'

Read for yourself: The full text of Arizona's controversial ille You may have heard a little something recently about this ongoing emotional controversy all across the United States over a frustrated Arizona’s homegrown legislative answer to the problem of an unsecured federal border with Mexico, illegal immigrants flowing across and the numerous side effects of such social movements including crime. As The Ticket wrote at the time of the bill's signing, the state and its Republican Gov. Jan Brewer are disappointed in the ongoing inadequate federal response.(See related story links below.) Democrat President Obama criticized the state's move as "misguided." Meanwhile, a new poll here shows most Americans kind of like Arizona's legislative solution to federal inaction. So today, as we often do here, The Ticket is publishing for the first time the entire Arizona illegal immigrant law. Yes, yes, this may expunge some of the fun of likening Arizona to Germany, the racial.... ...profiling allegations and organizing boycotts of boycotters. -- Andrew Malcolm