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Se hela intervjun med Glenn Greenwald
UG:s reportrar Sven Bergman och Fredrik Laurin träffade journalisten Glenn Greenwald i Rio de Janeiro tidigare i höst för att prata om NSA-dokumenten som Edward Snowden läckt. Här är intervjun i sin helhet i både text och bild.
UG: - Thank you for having us, Glenn. Since all this started, how many non NSA days have you had?
Glenn Greenwald: - I haven't had very many at all, I think you could pretty much count the ones I've had on one hand. Just sort of forced weekend vacations and the like. But you know obviously, when you get tens of thousands of NSA documents, and it's one of the biggest stories of the decade u tend to spend most of your time working on them instead of relaxing and working on other things so that's pretty much my life for 6 months or so.
UG: - Is it possible to describe the pressure on you from media, authorities back fire…
Glenn Greenwald: - Yeah, the pressure has been… nonstop. I think the greatest pressure is knowing that the documents you are dealing with are extremely serious, that the choices you make journalistically can have an effect on a lot of different people. It's something that you are very aware of, in terms of mistakes you might make can have much bigger impact than the normal mistakes you might make.
Glenn Greenwald: - On top of that you are constantly making all sorts of powerful factions angry with the reporting that you are doing, which increases the risk level, causes lots of attacks to be launched on you. Obviously in my own country where most of the reporting has been done about an American agency, there's a great deal of hostility and therefor an attempt to discredit the reporting or discredit me personally.
Glenn Greenwald: - And then on top of that there's media all around the world to... I'm quite happy to say, are eager to do a lot of this reporting, it does create a lot of pressure as well, having to choose the correct media partners, and have to manage all the journalists who want things. So there's a lot of pressure there's a lot of risk, it's fairly intense and nonstop, but at the same time when you go into journalism this is what you want to be doing, and so I look at it as a sort of the prize you pay as a journalist for doing real journalism.
How did it start? Tell us about the unique source that contacted you earlier this year?
Glenn Greenwald: - It was actually December of 2012, so at the very end of last year. I received anonymous email, from someone who very vaguely said that they had information that they thought that I would like to see. But would only communicate with me if I first installed some fairly sophisticated encryption technology. That I had not yet installed, and wasn't very familiar with.
Glenn Greenwald: - Then, because the person who emailed me, wasn't very clear at all about what kinds of things they wanted to talk to me about, let alone, what sort of information that they had, I didn't take it all that seriously, I didn't really prioritize it. I kept it sort of, saying: yes this is something I do, but I never really got around to doing it. Over the next month or so, he kept emailing me with increasing levels of pressure and at one point even… kind of taking me step by step of what I needed to do to install the encryption, and another time actually making a video. Showing me very, in very clear and simple ways what I had to do to install the encryption technology.
Glenn Greenwald: - But it's just something I never found the motivation to do. Because I was working on so many other things and didn't realize its importance. And so… he got frustrated at some point… and went Laura Poitras with whom I had worked on other issues. And... said to her, who did have encryption, he gave her a little bit more information, asked her to involve me, and that's how the three of us began to work together on the story.
UG: - And eventually you flew to Hong Kong to meet the source. And on the plane you started to read some documents. What went through your mind reading them?
Glenn Greenwald: - I had actually bef… he kept wanting me to come to Hong Kong, and I told him that before I would come to Hong Kong I needed at least some… sampling of the documents he had to know that he was real, to know that it was worthwhile to come. And he sent me maybe two dozen docs, before I got on the plane.
Glenn Greenwald: - And I read them, and started reading them instantly, and… it was shocking, I almost couldn't breathe because it was the first time ever the top secret documents had leaked from the NSA, and as you said, I had been writing about surveillance for many years. So to be able to read through actual documents, one which was the prism document, detailing just how extensive the surveillance was, was just shocking, it was ecstatic, it was difficult to believe.
Glenn Greenwald: - And I flew to New York the following day, and as you say, the next day we flew to Hong Kong, before I got on the plane, Laura had told me that she actually had received a huge number of documents from him the day earlier, that she would give to me to read on the plane. And it was really on the plane for the first time I understood the true scope of what he was giving us.
Glenn Greenwald: - Just the sheer magnitude … not only of the documents but also the scope of the surveillance that was revealed. And it was pretty much then when I understood that this was going to be one of the biggest stories journalism, in politics in many yrs. That it was going to implicate countries around the world, not just United states. And.. I think that was when I really started feeling the intensity and the pressure of what it was that we had become involved in.
UG: - So then, in Hong Kong how did you meet Edward Snowden? You didn't know what he looked like?
Glenn Greenwald: - Right, he actually had created this elaborate plan for us to meet. He was very concerned at that time about being surveilled not only by American agents but also by local agents from either the Hong Kong or Chinese authorities, and so he… picked a part of the hotel that he was staying in that he felt was sufficiently free of lots of human communication and human interaction. So that we could meet there without being watched. But not so deserted that it would trigger suspicions if people were there.
Glenn Greenwald: - And he asked us to go there. He gave us a code that we were supposed to use to as a hotel employee shortly before we entered. To signal to him, who would be lurking, that everything was fine, that we weren't followed, and he then told us that he would enter the room at two designated times, if we didn't meet him at the first time, to come, to leave and come back and meet him at the second time. And then he would enter the room holding a rubrics cube. And that would be how we would know that it was him. Because as you say, we didn't know anything about him.
Glenn Greenwald: - We didn't know how old he was, how he looked like, and... anything. And right at the exact time the second time Laura and I was in the room, he walked in, he was holding the rubrics cube, and we introduces ourselves and walked back to his room.
UG: - And then intense days followed, what was the situation like?
Glenn Greenwald: - It was... it was extremely intense, for everybody. We all knew that we had involved ourselves in what was certainly the most significant episode of all of our lives. There was constantly very significant uncertainty hovering over the room. Because we didn't know who knew what about what he had done.
Glenn Greenwald: - We also … Laura and I … had a great deal of questions about who this actually was. And… what had motivated him to do what he did. We needed to make sure that we were confident in his motives, and in the decision that he had made. We needed to be very confident that what he was telling us about him, was actually true. And so it took a long time to build a trust level: between him on the one hand, and Laura and myself on the other.
Glenn Greenwald: - And then, once that trust level was established. Which happened more or less after the first day. I spent, I think, 6 hours in the very first day, bombarding him with one question after the next. Not letting him go to the bathroom, not letting him eat, literally just trying to test him as much as I could the rigor of his honesty. And make sure if there were any contradictions that I would know about them.
Glenn Greenwald: - And once I came, became convinced that he was the one he said he was, that the choices that he made was very well thought through, that he understood what the likely consequences were, we all felt much more confident with each other. And then we set out to work on the documents together to devise a plan for how we were going to begin reporting them.
Glenn Greenwald: - And pretty shortly, after that first day, we developed a very close bond, just as human beings, knowing that we were in this extremely stressful, extreme situation, in a very odd city to be in, which is Hong Kong, it's sort of china, but not china. And… yeah, it was just surreal. We barely slept at all. And we just tried to work as hard as possible to not only write the stories we wanted to report, but to … convince the guardian to be willing to publish them.
UG: - They did, after some days, you published the first articles in the Guardian, why publish so soon?
Glenn Greenwald: - I think there were a few reasons. Number one is that there were just certain documents that were very clear and straight forward about what they were, such as… the court order requiring that the NSA at that, that Verizon turn over all telephone bills of all Americans to the NSA. I felt like there was no reason to hold that document that the Americans had a right to know what was being done to their privacy as soon as possible.
Glenn Greenwald: - Also… there was this amazing courage that had… characterized Snowdens choice. To come forward with all of this material knowing that he would probably end up in prison for the rest of his life at the age of 29. And I wanted to do justice to that courage by being as courageous and fearless in how I reported the story.
Glenn Greenwald: - And I didn't want there to be this long elaborate process of lawyers and editors and … meeting with the government, watering it all down, and creating all kinds of fear around it. And caution on whether or not this was something we should do, I wanted the reporting to be done in the same spirit that had animated his choice. Which meant reporting this aggressively and with the understanding that this deserved to be made public.
Glenn Greenwald: - And… so I wasn't really willing to endure a lot of delay or a lot of institutional uncertainty about what was going to be done here. That was important to me that it would be done boldly and quickly.
UG: - At that point, the US hunt started, how did you maintain operational safety?
Glenn Greenwald: - We used very extreme forms of encryption. The really fortunate aspect was that Snowden was actually trained by the NSA the most advanced forms of information security. He was trained as a hacker to break into other peoples systems on behalf of the NSA. He worked on defense of information, while at the NSA as well. So there was almost nobody better for being able to work with, to advise us on how best secure these materials. And we spent a good deal of time educating our selves and having him teach us about all of the most advanced methods for how to keep this material safe.
UG: - In the hunt for Snowden, the plane, for example, of Bolivia's president Morales was forced down and searched and your partner was detained under the Terrorist Act in Heathrow I think … interrogated for 9 hours, the memory sticks were ceased, are you afraid what might happen to you and people around you?
Glenn Greenwald: - I'm aware of the risks. You know if you are in possession of tens of thousands of extremely sensitive documents that numerous intelligence agencies around the world would like to have for themselves, or would like you not to have, there are obviously risks involving that. There is risk involved in any journalism you do that makes powerful factions angry.
Glenn Greenwald: - The US government and the UK government have demonstrated how extreme they are willing to be, to put a stop to this journalism 09 as you just referenced, and there are other examples of that as well. The UK government is overtly threatening criminal investigations now, there is a criminal investigation, there is lots of people who think they will bring criminal charges against … me or Laura, or my partner or Guardian, or all … of those parties.
Glenn Greenwald: - There's real questions about whether I can safely return to the United States, so... I'm aware of all of these risks. And at the same time, you know, journalism, it can be a dangerous profession. And there are journalists working all around the world under similar threats, if not worse threats. Who may not get as much attention but whose journalism is really important. There are journalists who die in war, who get killed because they do reporting against people who don't reporting being done.
Glenn Greenwald: - And so you just at some point have to accept what the risks are, take whatever reasonable precautions you can against them. And then resolve not to become paranoid or to focus on them and go about doing your work, and I feel like that's what I've been able to do.
UG: - Do you want another water?
Glenn Greenwald: - No, I am good, thank you.
UG: - You are based here I Rio, what about security here. Are you protected here?
Glenn Greenwald: - Yeah, I don't want to talk about the details, but the Brazilian government has actually been extremely supportive. Of the journalism I've been doing, and part because, some of the journalism has exposed pretty invasive and, and surprising surveillance of the Brazilian population and their democratically elected officials, and their commercial interests, including their oil company.
Glenn Greenwald: - And part of it is because … I've been in Brazil for a long time I'm married to a Brazilian citizen. And so there's been a lot of public support for the work that I've done as well. And the Brazilian senate voted formally to offer me security protection... and so … I do feel very safe here.
UG: - Can u explain what these documents are and show?
Glenn Greenwald: - Most of the documents come from the files of the national security agency which is an extremely secretive agency that is within the pentagon the US military. That originally was designed to collect foreign intelligence, but has increasingly become a domestic agency as well. And not only collecting intelligence against foreign governments and militaries, but against populations around the world, including the American population.
Glenn Greenwald: - Some of it comes from its closest ...the NSA:s closest allies, and particularly the GCHQ, which is the British version of the NSA. And… essentially what these documents show, if you put them together and understand what they convey, is that the US government has created a system, in virtually complete secrecy, that has as its objective, the illumination of privacy around the world. Which is not an exaggeration it's not being dramatic, that is truly its institutional objective.
Glenn Greenwald: - Their goal, that they wake up every day to fulfill, is to ensure that all forms of human electronic communication, things that take place over the telephone, or over the internet, is collected by the NSA, and then stored, monitored and analyzed, so that there is no human communication that takes place, beyond the surveillance reach of the NSA. Ultimately that is the real revelation, of all of these documents.
Would you say these files show surveillance state out of control?
Glenn Greenwald: - They show a surveillance state out of control, by definition. They not only are geared toward collecting everybody's communication, without regard to whether there is a reason to be suspicious of u or whether you've done anything wrong. Simply by the fact that u are a human being, they want to have in their possession the information about your communications.
Glenn Greenwald: - But they do that with very little oversight. Very little accountability, in almost no transparency. And so even when the story of the spying of Angela Merkel's cellphone was disclosed, the Obama White House said: "we, the president, had no idea that this was taken place". It's an agency that does what it wants, with almost no real limits, and very few people know what they are doing, let alone are controlling it. And that to me is definition of an out of control surveillance state.
UG: - And these revelation has, have shaken the establishment in country after country I think. But a quite common view on the other hand on the streets of Stockholm for example is well "I have nothing to hide, I'm not a criminal, so I think it is ok for the authorities to monitor us". How do you respond to that?
Glenn Greenwald: - First of all, people who say that they have … aren't doing anything wrong and therefor have nothing to hide, almost never believe what it is that they are saying. And the way that I know that is true, is that these are the same people who put passwords on their email accounts to prevent other people from reading what they are writing. Or under social network accounts to prevent people from seeing their photographs or with whom they are chatting.
Glenn Greenwald: - They put locks on their bedroom and their bathroom doors inside of their homes, so that they have a private space in the world where they can go and not have other people watching. Whenever anybody says that to me, well I have nothing to, I'm not doing anything wrong there for I have nothing to hide, I have asked everybody who tells me that: please email to me all of the passwords to your email account and your social media accounts so that I can simply trawl through whatever it is that you are saying and reading, and.. know what it is you are doing. And I have yet have one person take me up on that offer. Because as human beings we instinctively value the … the ability to have, do things in private. We are social creatures, we are social animals, we need to have a public life, that other people know what we are doing. But we also, just as essential we are, crave a private space. Because its only in that private realm that we can explore what it is that we are doing,... test different limits on what we are willing to be, and that's were creativity reside, is in this private realm.
Glenn Greenwald: - This society which everybody knows who are always being watched, is one that breeds all sorts of conformity you really lose a huge part of what it means to be human of human freedom, when you no longer have a place in the world that you can go and think and read and speak and do things, without anybody else watching.
Glenn Greenwald: - Aside from the political cost of having the state be able to know everything that the population is doing, which makes it very difficult to challenge the state in any meaningful way. He who has all the knowledge is he who has all the power. And it also really threatens and subverts the ability of populations to hold their government accountable. There's all kinds of reasons why a ubiquitous surveillance state is incredibly damaging to values that human beings hold dear.
UG: - I would like to ask you a few questions about Edward Snowden. How credible is Snowden?
I find him incredibly … reliable as a source. I don't know a single time that he's ever told me anything that wasn't completely true. I think that he has been very true to his word about what his intentions are, I remember when I was in Hong Kong and we were talking about his desire to identify himself as a source, which is an incredibly brave thing to do, he said: "I feel obligated to explain to the world why I am doing this and not to hide".
But he said: "After I do that I want to basically disappear, I don't want media attention, I don't want the focus to be on me, I want it to be on the disclosures". He was very true to his word. Showing that his goal wasn't notoriety or fame or attention, but was a real sense on his conscience of what was taking place was wrong. And that he had an obligation as a human being to, reveal it. And so I think almost everything of what he said has proven to be incredibly reliable.
UG: - You are in regular contact with him. How is he doing?
Glenn Greenwald: - He's doing really well. You know when we were in Hong Kong, the assumption of all of us, was that he was going to end up in US custody, sooner rather than later, and the next time we would see him, he was probably going to be on television when he was inside of a court room, chained to his chair in an orange jump suit that prisoners wear in United States.
Glenn Greenwald: - And so the fact that he's able to be free, that is especially important to him, able to participate in the debate that he has helped to provoke, and able to monitor it and watch it, … you know is extremely gratifying. And so I think given the alternative, which is being put in a cage by the US by the next 40 years, he is quite happy with his current situation.
UG: - But at the same time, he was well paid and now he's on the run, he will maybe never be able to return. How would you describe his sacrifices?
Glenn Greenwald: - It's an enormous sacrifice. He unravelled his entire life. He had a long term girlfriend, who he loved who he now can't see. As you say he had a carrier that instantly disappeared. He became the most wanted man on earth by the US government. The most powerful government on the planet. He has been called a traitor, and accused of all sorts of horrible things by people around the world.
Glenn Greenwald: - But he knew all of that was going to happen. And he did it anyway. Because he knew that he could only be at peace with himself if he took this step, and he is at peace with himself. And while there are some people who call him a traitor, he is considered to be hero all by millions, of millions of people.
Glenn Greenwald: - I am certain that he has inspired huge numbers of people including young people to think about and to take similar risks, in pursuit of their vision of justice. … so there's a lot more important things than the ability to return to the US or to have a lucrative carrier.
Glenn Greenwald: - There's the question of how you view yourself according to your own, the dictate of your conscience. And I think he probably sleeps better at night than almost anybody I know. As a result of that metric.
UG : - The criticism, against Snowden and yourself, has been massive, you have been accused of making it easier for terrorists to avoid authorities legitimate efforts to hunt them down. What is your comment to that?
Glenn Greenwald: - It makes no sense that criticism. Because terrorists have known for many, many, many years, that the us, the UK government, do anything they possibly can do to monitor their telephone calls and emails. Which is why Osama bin Laden used human couriers for his most sensitive information. The idea that the US and the UK are monitoring the internet and monitoring telephone calls for terrorist communication has been known forever. We didn't reveal anything that people didn't already know, that terrorists didn't already know in that regard.
Glenn Greenwald: - What we revealed to the world that they didn't already know, is that the vast bulk of the surveillance system is devoted not toward terrorism but toward ordinary innocent people. And is being done for economic espionage. And is being done for questions of political power. And not national security.
Glenn Greenwald: - The people who have learned things from our reporting are not the terrorists. They are ordinary people and democracies all over the world, and that's why this story has resonated the way that it has. And when government leaders say that national security has been damaged, what they actually mean is that what has been damaged are their own reputation and their own credibility as leaders, because they've been exposed as having mislead and deceived the rest of the world about what it is that they are doing. And that's really the nature of the anger.
UG: - Many argue that these documents are classified for a good reason, and to publish them is damaging national security ultimately putting lives at risk.
Glenn Greenwald: - There are.. I will defy anyone person who wants to make that claim. To a point to a single document that we published or a single part of any document that we publish, that in any way jeopardizes lives. This is just a cliché that governments and their apologists start yelling, when you report things that they don't want reported. The reality is that we have been scrupulously careful with these documents. We have had for 6 months now in our possession tens of thousands of documents and I think we have published so far a grand total of 250 or something like that. A tiny percentage. In fact we've been criticized fairly vocally by other people for not publishing enough of the documents. For publishing too little. And that's probably a much more accurate criticism, than the one that says that we've published too much.
Glenn Greenwald: - The governments around the world will misuse their secrecy power to conceal information not because publishing it will harm national security, but because publishing it would be embarrassing to them. And that's the job of journalist. Is to shine a light of what the most powerful fractions and politics are doing. That the public has a right to know. And we've been very careful about not publishing material that could actually endanger any innocent lives… but at the same time, we've been aggressive and will continue to be aggressive and making sure that people around the world will know what their democratically elected governments are doing in the dark.
UG: - The same critics have accused you of being more of a campaigner and activist than a journalist.
Glenn Greenwald: - Right.
UG: - Comment?
Glenn Greenwald: - I think the … this is another cliché, that you are either a journalist or an activist. For me, all journalism is a form of activism. Because every journalist makes all sorts of assumptions, when they publish an article, or a broadcast a news story. About what topics are important, about who of that is respectable enough to be heard, about what kinds of opinions ought to be included in the story and which ones ought to be excluded. All forms of journalism serve one faction or another, they promote some interest they undermine other interest. To me the question is not: "do journalists have opinions or don't they?" Because all journalists have opinions. The question to me is: "are u honest about telling your readers what your opinions are? Or do you dishonestly conceal those opinions and pretend that u have non?".
Glenn Greenwald: - I think it's much more honest to tell readers and people listening to your journalism. Here are the views that I have so they can take them into account. But ultimately the only real question about journalism is: are the facts that u reporting true and accurate and reliable? And we have published 6 months of stories in multiple media and numerous countries around the world, and not a single one of those has been retracted or corrected, because we've been so scrupulous about making sure that the stories are accurate. And that to me is the ultimate answer to those requests in weather what we are doing is journalism.
UG: - What do you think this story and the reaction from some governments has told us about freedom of the press?
Glenn Greenwald: - I think first of all its critical to understand why freedom of the press is an important value for western democracies. And why every… real western democracy will see the need to protect it. It's because the theory of human nature on which western democracy is based is that people can't be trusted to exercise … [sneeze]
UG: - We can take a break.
Glenn Greenwald: - It's fine I just need to sneeze for a second.
UG: - What about the time Fredrik?
UG: - That's fine.
UG: - What do you think this story and the reaction from some governments has told us about freedom of the press?
Glenn Greenwald: - I think the answer to that is critical to understand the purpose of the freedom of the press, and why most real western democracies view that as a critically important value to protect. And I think that it begins with the fact that the theory of western democracies since the enlightenment is an understanding that human beings can't be trusted to exercise great power without other institutions existing to provide a check on how that powers are exercised to push back on it, to make sure it's not exercised in secret. And the leading institution or certainly a leading institution that's designed to do that, to put a check on power is journalism. It's designed to be an adversarial force against the world's most powerful factions. And so when you do real journalism, meaning journalism that actually pushes back against those in power. By definition people in power will dislike it. And there's a range of reactions that they will typically respond with, which we've seen in this story. The full range. So part of it might just be to criticize the reporting to object to it, to contest it. All of which is totally legitimate. And then at the other end is the effort to actually use the force of law to crush it and to smash it and to render it criminal, and outlaw it. And I think we've seen in lots of countries... the sort of better reaction, which is just object and condemn it, but in countries like UK in particular, and to a lesser extent but still pretty substantially in united states, there's an effort to actually attack it. And to make it criminal. And to try and suppress it. And I think interestingly enough what that really illustrates which is that the two countries that are often the loudest about condemning others for attacking press freedoms, the united states and the UK, are probably the two western countries that have the greatest contempt for press freedom, and I think from this story has illustrated that pretty potently.
What do you think about what happened on the Guardian?
Glenn Greenwald: - Well I think it's really extraordinary. That the Guardian, one of the oldest and largest and most respected newspapers in the world, had agents of the British government literally invade their news room. Physically, and force them through all sorts of threats and intimidation, to destroy the laptops on which the journalistic material that they were reporting on was actually kept. I mean this is the kind of thing that u would expect to hear in Iran or China or Russia. And so here UK government … literally overseeing the physical destruction of the Guardians computers to make sure that they can no longer report on this material. Combined with things like detaining my partner under terrorism law, and overtly accusing our journalism of being tantamount to terrorism and subsequent court filings, threatening criminal investigations against editors and reporters... I think the combinations of all of this is designed to create a very intimidating and repressive environment. For press freedom in a way I think shocked a lot of people around the world, because, as I said, we in the west are trained to think that this is a sort of thing that happens in China or Iran. And yet it's happening in the UK.
The Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt has repeatedly said that all countries are conducting signal intelligence and "that's a normal and natural thing" he says, what is your view of his position?
Glenn Greenwald: - Well first of all, not all countries do. But certainly most western countries, most advanced countries that have the capabilities technologically to do it, do it. The question is not: "do you do it, or not do it?" The question is, number one: "what is the extent to what you do it?" And the number two is: "what are the purposes toward which is done?"
Glenn Greenwald: - So … when you talk about the extent of it, there are some countries that target specific people that they know are likely to be involved in violent or other threatening activity. And they monitor those specific individuals whom the court have said there's evidence to believe are engaged in serious wrong doing. Or they monitor the activities of the military of adversary countries, in order to know what those military's are doing. it's very targeted and focused surveillance.
Glenn Greenwald: - Then there are countries that just do bulk indiscriminate collections of the communications of tens of millions of people obviously the vast majority of whom are innocent completely and about whom there is no suspicion. And it is absolutely false to say that every country in the world engages in that type of indiscriminate mass bulk surveillance. The United States does, the UK does, Sweden does… but the vast majority of countries do not.
Glenn Greenwald: - And then theres the question of what is the purpose to which the surveillance is done. And … again I think everybody agrees that if it's genuinely about national security, targeting someone trying to harm the people of your country, or your country, then it becomes legitimate.
Glenn Greenwald: - If it's about mass bulk spying on innocent people, or spying on energy sectors of other countries for economic advantage for your country or for your country's industry. Then if you just look at the pronouncements of the West, in criticizing China for economic espionage, or of Russia, for mass indiscriminate spying, you use those standards, and apply those standards, to these countries, I think you start to get into a much different kind of surveillance which again is absolutely not done by everybody in the world or even the majority.
UG: - Let me put a couple of final questions before we…
Fredrik: - Lampan, slocknat.
UG: - Did it go out?
UG: - Aha.
UG: - A couple of final questions before doing that last piece then.
Fredrik: - I'm impressed that you could repeat yourself.
UG: - Thank you very much Glenn.
Glenn Greenwald: - I have spoken about much of this, but I know it's always a new audience so…it's
Fredrik: - But it's super important that you are so eloquent as you are, my mother who is the viewer…
Glenn Greewald: - Yeah, yeah, yeah, you look at it, I mean like, you ask me about I mean, I've been writing about these issues for a long time so when you have a platform to reach new people you want to take advantage of it and not get synical and think "I've said this a thousand times". You feel you have a responsibility to explain to people why they should care so.
Fredrik: - Glenn do believe me in Norway this is not a big thing but in Sweden we almost had the government toppled because…
Glenn Greenwald: - I remember that there was a whole party that was devoted to that.
Fredrik: Right.
Glenn Greenwald: - What was the name of that party?
Fredrik: - The Pirate Party.
Glenn Greenwald: - Right, exactly, exactly. I remember that, I remember that. I read about that at the time.
Fredrik: - I mean it was a real upheaval.
Glenn Greenwald: - I know.
Fredrik: - The parliament was split, they didn't manage to get the bill through. But in the end they did by coercion.
Glenn Greenwald: - I remember that.
Fredrik: - I could argue that it is a more important question than in some other countries.
UG: - Du säger till Magnus?
Magnus: - Good to go!
UG: - Mr Greenwald, through the NSA-files leaked by Mr Snowden, you have an unique insight in the world wide government surveillance. In your opinion, what has to be done in Sweden and elsewhere?
Glenn Greenwald: - I think it's up to the people of each individual country to ask themselves whether or not they want to live in a society in which their government collects massive amounts of information about them and about other innocent people around the world, in which the internet is no longer this force for democratization and liberalization but instead becomes the most oppressive tool of human control ever known. Because the more we do on the internet the more subject to monitoring in control we become, and… and I think that's the first thing that has to happen, that people are to ask themselves democratically how much they are comfortable living in a society like that. But I think, the other aspect to it, is that much of this surveillance is coming from the United States that is able to exploit its control over the vast majority of the internet system, because it was built in the United States.
Glenn Greenwald: - And there are international ways to remove that level of control from the us government by internationalizing the internet, by building internet… structures that don't depend upon American infrastructure and American soil. I also think that the private competitive drive will solve a lot of these problems, there are already German email servers advertising that people shouldn't use Facebook, and hand over their information to the NSA, but should instead put it on German servers where there are information pretty much more protected.
Glenn Greenwald: - So I think you are going to start to see privacy become an important market force. Where people are actually seeking out the companies that will protect their privacy instead of turning it over to the US government but ultimately this will come from populations putting pressure on their government to find ways to prevent these kind of invasive surveillance, from being perpetrated from the United States.
Although this unique insight through the NSA-files How much do we not know about government surveillance?
Glenn Greenwald: - I can't of course know what it is I don't know by definition, but while we have a lot of documents we probably have a fraction of what it is that the NSA and its allies are actually doing. So undoubtedly there are a huge...ly consequential programs that the documents that were provided by Mr. Snowden don't actually reveal. And that's one of the real questions. Is the kind of transparency that we've been able to bring to the NSA for the first time, shouldn't depend on the willingness of a 29 year old, inside the system to risk his life and to risk imprisonment for the rest of his life to come forward and hand over a bunch of docs to journalist, it should be part of the system itself.
Glenn Greenwald: - That says that democracies is threatened when people in the world don't know what their governments are doing. And so there are undoubtedly a lot of things that we should know about that even once the Snowden documents are fully reported we still won't know about and that is a real problem.
Your investigation of governments may have condemned you to life time of it?
Glenn Greenwald: - Yeah that is a paradox. And.. you know, it's something that I wish wasn't true, but accept, probably is … when I compare that prize that I've had to pay, to the prize that Snowden was willing to pay, or that others whistleblowers has had to pay, you know, I'm perfectly willing to live with that.
Glenn Greenwald: - I've also become very familiar with a lot of encryption technologies, that... number one I've learned how to use, and no two I know from reading the NSAs own documents they are not able to crack, that can at least give some additional privacy to the communications that you have. But… yeah of course it's probably true that I have made myself a permanent target for the rest of my life by the United States government, by the UK government, as a result of the reporting that I've been doing and there is an irony to it as you say because I value privacy a great deal and yet have I had to sacrifice a huge amount to do this reporting.
UG: - Thank you.
Glenn Greenwald: - Ok, very good, thank you.


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|The Palestinian Arab youths apprehended today packed
pipe bombs, and were carrying a pistol
and a knife. The Border Guard provided this photo today.
Their nervous behaviour aroused suspicion, according to Ynet's report. The Border Guards and police stationed at the crossing called on them to stop and undergo a search. The suspects attempted to run from the scene. After a chase and a struggle, they were apprehended but not before dropping a pistol and a knife. They were bodily searched and were found to be carrying five pipe bombs as well as munitions. They are being interrogated this evening. Their bombs were safely disposed of by IDF sappers from the bomb squad. One of the young servicemen is quoted saying: "When it was all over and we realized what they had in their bags, I thought about the fact that we helped save people's lives. It's a great sense of satisfaction."
We have noted numerous times in the past the plain dishonesty that seems to characterize much of the criticism of Israel's security checkpoints strategy. Some examples from many:
- 5-Oct-08: Learning the lessons of the checkpoints
- 25-Oct-08: So who needs security checkpoints?
- 3-Oct-11: So do those security checkpoints serve their purpose or not?,
- 9-Jan-12: Another day, another attempted murder-by-knifing

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1970 Ford Bronco Sport
1970 Ford Bronco Sport
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1970 Ford Bronco Sport
This truck is a blue plate California vehicle. Sold new in the bay area, nbsp;we are the third owner. We have had the truck for 16 years. It was completely rebuilt after an accident in 2006 with a new chassis and new front fenders hood and grill.
It has a 3 and a ½ inch James Duff Ultimate suspension lift with 2 70/30 James Duff auto adjust shocks at each wheel. Mickey Thompson wheels with 15 X 12.50 X 33 inch Dunlop tires. Front suspension has progressive rate coils and the rear suspension has 11 leaf soft ride springs. All the suspension bushings have been updated with urethane. It has a front disk brake conversion and a power brake set up from Wild Horses.
The transmission is a C4 Auto that has been rebuilt. The transfer case has just been rebuilt and re-sealed. The driveshafts have been appropriately modified and lengthened for the lift. The axles are stock front and rear.
The engine is a Ford Motorsports 302 with aluminum GT40 heads, nd Edelbrock intake manifold an Edelbrock performer carb, nd Borla stainless mufflers.. It is rated at 345 HP and 310 ft/lbs of torque. The engine has fewer than 5000 miles on it. It also has an aluminum radiator and trans cooler.
The Body is rust free. As mentioned the chassis has been replaced with a stove enameled, einforced stock chassis from Tom's Bronco parts. The passenger side floor was replaced as well and the entire floor was ground to bare metal and treated with POR-15. The body was painted in 1970 paint code Ford Grabber Orange in 2008 with fender flares in white rock guard. It has a Ford Wimbledon white hardtop that does not leak. We also have a full soft top with soft top bows and roll up windows on the sides and back. It is white. There is also a black Bikini top that comes with the truck.
Both gas tanks have been replaced with new metal tanks from Wild Horses. Also replaced were the sending units, he tank switch valve, he dashboard fuel tank switch and all the plumbing.
All instruments, ights, ignals, eat, ipers etc work. We have replaced the stock front seats with Corbeau recliners and the driver's side has adjustable lumbar support. The center console was replaced with a Tuff locker. Rear seat is a new black vinyl flip and fold installed in the stock location.
Front bumper is a James Duff Prerunner type with mounted and working KC Hilites. Rear bumper is also James Duff with swing-away racks for full size spare wheel/tire and gascan/cooler.
The truck has been in storage for the last 4 years while my son has been out of state. To recommission the Bronco, e have done the following in the last 500 miles:
New Edelbrock Performer Carb
New Distributor, ertronix ignitor, ertronix coil, nbsp;and wires
New High capacity aluminum water pump
New fuel tanks, nbsp;main and auxiliary and all new plumbing
New brake pads and rotors, ew shoes and drums, ebuilt calipers, ew wheel cylinders and new bearings
Gas struts for hood
New fan motor for heater
Transfer case rebuild with bearings, eals and gaskets as needed.
Transmission Service with new filter
This Bronco is a great example of the iconic 4X4. It is on the button and ready to go.
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Cookstown missionary, Maud Kells, has been having high-level discussions about the ongoing investigation into the shooting which nearly claimed her life.
Inspirational Maud - who has worked to help the people of Mulita for almost 50 years - is campaigning to have two "completely innocent" people, arrested in the wake of the shooting, freed from prison.
Ms Kells has revealed that the two people had worked for her, but had been wrongly detained by authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
To date, two men believed to have been involved in the shooting have also been arrested, with attempts ongoing to locate a third person.
Maud told the MAIL she has been speaking by telephone with high-level government representatives regarding the arrest of her former workers.
"These are people who worked for me and they are completely innocent", Maud explained.
These are people who worked for me and they are completely innocent
"They are now in prison but I am delighted that the Governor has phoned me from the capital of Congo. He said he would do his best to get them released.
"I am hoping to talk to the head of the army later also. These people have suffered so much so hopefully there will be a more positive follow-up to that."
Since returning home to Cookstown, Maud says she has received many gifts and donations from the local community.
"Everyone has been so supportive", she continued.
"I could have been paralysed because of where I was shot, and it is a real miracle that I am here at all."
Despite the terrifying ordeal, which took place in January, Maud says she "would love" to return to the Congo to finish building a nursery which will be used by hundreds of children. She is continuing to recover well from her injuries and is regaining her strength surrounded by her family and friends.


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TCC again!9:07:00 PM
When it comes to supper, there are a few supper places we could think of, especially on weekdays..
Since I live in the east, I always think of Changi Airport first!
It is open 24 hours 7 days, rain or shine!
Peachy Passion Tea Freeze
A refreshing taste!
Smoked Salmon & Apple Salad
The best part is that I get to have fruits & salad!
Can't remember the dish name...
Ocean baked dory
What we see in front of us might be unclear to us but as time progresses, the path in front of us would clear up and we'll be able to clear the obstacles!
On me : La Nouveau Mode Crochet Knit top, which is still available in Rose Purple!


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"Look just because some man in a red coat hands you a sword, it doesn't make you a hero!"
~Susan Pevensie, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Movie
What then does make a hero? Does a uniform? I know when I think of a hero, the first thing that comes to mind is our men and women who serve in the military. I don't know if that is because my Gramps Pat who served in WWII, his grandpa who fought in the Civil War, or my uncles who were in Vietnam. I do know that I get teary eyed as I hear
"Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave. O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave."
Since 9/11 another group comes to mind as heroes. They, too, wear a uniform but it is a different style than the military. Police officers and firefighters have been regulated to the status of hero. I know in our community where it is a volunteer firefighting group, I know many who go out at night for an accident or a fire. I even have two students who have come in to class groggy because they were out late on a call the night before. With the fire raging in Canada right now, many would view those who are fighting it as heroes.
What makes a hero? Is it someone who does some great act that goes against the grain of who they are? Is it someone who stands up for what they believe? What is it that defines a heroic deed? Just as courage can be simply doing what you know needs to happen even when you don't want to or don't feel like doing it; so, too, being a hero is doing what you know needs to be done whether or not others would do it.
Take this case in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where Coca-Cola installed cameras on public transportation to see who would give up their seat for someone who needed it. Their statistics are interesting. When I asked high school students to compare them with a similar situation in the US, students weren't too sure Americans would be heroes as often as Ecuadorians.
Quite often this definition of a hero is seen in books, especially fantasy. Someone is thrust into an unknown situation or world and is forced to do what has to be done, but doesn't necessarily want to or feel qualified to do so. Yet, even in the world of make-believe we can see glimpses of truth. Things we can aspire to.
In the real world, we have people who are heroes. After showing the Coca-Cola movie to high school students, I asked them to describe who their hero was. Their answers surprised me. Many of them said their Mom!
Who is your hero? Answer in the comments for a chance to win the first book in my fantasy series.


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Want to know the key to gaining victories? Persistence! That is one thing that all great leaders in history possessed. George Washington persisted and achieved his turning point victory at Valley Forge. General Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines which he solemnly promised he would do.
There have certainly been obstacles in relation to growing the Question Evolution! Campaign
and the fan outreach of Creation Ministries International, but true fans and supporters of Creation Ministries International NEVER give up! And there are signs that 2014 will see great victories and Christian/creationist persistence will pay off mightily.
Specifically, what some members of the atheist and evolutionist communities feared in 2011 is coming upon atheism/Darwinism in 2014. You can read about it at: Waves of attacks on atheism and Darwinism descending in 2014 and Georgetown study provides two clues to shrinking atheism faster
Given this unsettling data for atheists and evolutionists and this very unsettling data for atheists and evolutionists, it is perfectly understandable why some atheists/evolutionists would have some fear for the future of atheism/Darwinism in 2011.
In 2014, let's do some heavy duty demolition of the houses of cards called atheism, agnosticism and Darwinism. Let's make 2014 be the WORST year in the history of Darwinism and atheism! See: A systematic approach to attacking Darwinism in 2014 and beyond
Video: Internet atheism's fast decline
Video: Professor Eric Kaufmann: Shall the religious inherit the earth?
Other resources:
Question Evolution! Campaign
15 questions for evolutionists
Responses to the 15 Questions: part 1 - Questions 1-3
Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 4–8
Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 9-15
Refuting evolution


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Hello, lovely peeps. I hope you all had a fab Christmas. I loved having all of my family under one roof, even if the days were overshadowed by my constant sneeezing.
Bleugh, still not over this darn head cold, so do forgive any typos. Typical really, I wean mysefl off the heavy meds I was on for the whiplash, I suffered, and I get a cold, which leaves me just as fuzzy headed...
#OnlyInMyHouse as we say.
However, I'm not here to moan. Oh no, this is a happy squeal post, because three more of my books have gone into print!
[Ménage Amour: Erotic Consensual BDSM Ménage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, spanking, caning, ice play, erotic asphyxiation, sex toys, HEA]
When Lily Jephson falls asleep at work, her erotic dream is witnessed by none other than her boss's brother. Awkward doesn't begin to describe it, especially when she can't help but respond to the enigmatic Dom. She wants his brother…doesn't she?
Cyrus Cooper loves to play games, and he can't resist the opportunity to yank his brother's chain a bit. Nothing will convince the stubborn Sloan more to finally make a move on Lily, than thinking this delightful subbie is involved with Cyrus.
However, when it becomes apparent that Lily needs help to work through the emotional scars left behind by her early introduction into the lifestyle, Cyrus knows this is far more than a game. The brothers are just the Doms to show her what a true D/s relationship should be like.
Lily thrives under their combined Dominance, but when her old Master re-appears her life is put in danger.
She has never needed her Sirs more.
Available in Print from Amazon Amazon UK B&N
[Ménage and More: Erotic Consensual BDSM Ménage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, public exhibition, spanking, sex toys, HEA]
It's just one night of kinky sex. What could possibly go wrong?
When the birthday present from her Master is one night of no holds barred kinky sex with his ex-army buddy, Carmel Blythe doesn't know what to think. A good subbie obeys her Master's wishes, however, and there is no denying the instant connection she has with this experienced Dom.
Topping Gideon's gorgeous wife is the least Nash Jonas can do to repay the debt he owes the man. After all, Gideon took the bullet aimed at Nash—the very one that cost the other man his army career and put him in a wheelchair. If only Nash could keep those pesky emotions out of the deal.
Gideon cannot stand to see the sadness in his wife's eyes, nor the restlessness in his best buddy's soul. Pushing the two people he loves together will surely satisfy everyone's physical and emotional needs.
Carmel's choice may well change everything…
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~They're the men mothers warn their daughters to stay away from~
In 1957 the tiny village of Middle Brook is caught between two warring MCs, the Mongrels and the Lupines. As a fledgling Guardian witch, not yet in full control of her immense powers, Joanne Lilley knows to stay away. When she witnesses the Mongrels leader being run off the road, the instant connection she feels to the wolf shifter changes everything. Is he the one destined to awaken her?
Henry Hastings is the Alpha of his pack, and the village's Protector. He's a man with a vision—all shifters will unite against the evil that haunts Cumbria at night—something the Lupines vehemently oppose. Finding his mate is a young and innocent witch, wasn't part of that vision, but the fates have decided.
Being with him places Joanne in danger, as her awakened powers are sought by his enemies.
When disaster strikes, Henry is faced with an impossible choice…
Available in Print from Amazon Amazon UK B&N
I will be organising a Goodreads Giveaway for these books in the New year, so watch this space as they say.
That's all from me today.
Do stay naughty, folks.


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Unit Title: Properties of Matter
Unit Time Frame: 5-6 Weeks
Identify compounds as substances consisting of
two or more elements chemically combined.
Create models of common compounds for the following:
water, carbon dioxide, salt, iron oxide, andammonia.
Compare and contrast properties of compounds to
those of the elements that compose them:
- salt:sodium, chlorine
- water:hydrogen, oxygen
- carbon dioxide:carbon, oxygen
Classify substances as: elements, compounds,
and mixtures.
Demonstrate techniques for forming and separating:
mixtures, mixing, magnetic attraction, evaporation,
filtration, chromatography, settling.
Interpret solubility graphs.
Distinguish among solvent, solute,
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Two men were hospitalized after a brawl at Gros Islet, the Saint Lucia Fire Service has reported.
Acting Divisional Officer Jermaine William told the Times that at minutes to eleven O' clock last night a call was received from the Police at the Gros Islet Fire Station.
"The nature of the call was a chopping which involved two males," William disclosed.
He said the Fire Service responded with an ambulance and a fire unit.
"On arrival on the scene the officers encountered the two individuals still entangled in the brawl," William recalled.
He explained that the two were separated and the more seriously injured of the two was treated.
According to the Fire Service official, the patient sustained lacerations to the head, a possible skull fracture and lacerations to the forearm and wrists.
William said the other individual involved in the brawl was removed from the immediate vicinity and treated, while the one with the more serious injuries was transported to Victoria Hospital.
He disclosed that the man had to be restrained because he was still in a 'combative' state.
"The other individual was transported by the police to the Gros Islet polyclinic and later transferred to Victoria Hospital," William said.


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|Does Lou Reed still crossdress?
|Stealer's Wheel
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|If you don't love yourself, you can't love anyone else.
|Interspecies breeding
|Way of the Peaceful Warrior
|Stephen Stills
|Making love out of nothing at all
|UK Number One singles of 2002
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Some Major places to own Yatra
Amarnath caves area unit set at AN altitude of twelve, 700 linear unit in Kashmir Himalayas. Lord Shiva is manifested as AN ice symbol cylinder. The cave shrine is set between Baltal and sheshnag. The cave is receptive pilgrims solely between early July and middle August. cake Amaranth is taken into account to be one in all the holiest Hindu journey centers And an calculable four hundred,000 devotees visit the shrine once a year.
Vaishno Devi is set in mountain range foot hills (altitude five, 250 ft). The Hill vary is thought as Trikuta Bhagwati at a distance of sixty kms from Jammu town within the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The last thirteen kms of the journey should air foot. At the doorway to the cave, the pilgrims pass via a slender tunnel. a chilly stream Charan Ganga flows through it. The pilgrim should buckle down and do the stream to gain the sanctum sanctorum. Vaishnodevi is one in all the holiest places of Hindu deity worship. Mata Vaishnodevi has manifested in 3 totally different forms here. The cave has rock formations of Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and MahaSarasvati.
Haridwar: AKA Hardwar ( Mayapuri ) is one in all the holiest places for Hindus. Per Hindu Puranas (scriptures) Hardwar is one in all the places wherever the nector of immortality (Amrita ) fell when Samudra Manthan ( churning the opaque ocean by Devas and Asuras) event. Stream Ganges enters the Gangetic plains at Hardwar when movement one hundred sixty miles from the supply at Gangotri glaciar in Himalayas. Brahma Kund at Har ki Pauri could be a steps wherever the Amrita is suppose to own fallen. Pilgrims from everywhere the globe take a ritual dip here, that is meant to clean away one's sins and bestow Moksha (salvation) during this life time. Hardwar could be a website wherever Kumbha mela is well known once in three years.
Ayodhya in province is that the birthplace of Bhagavan Ram.
Mathura in province is that the birthplace of Bhagavan Krishna.
Prayag (Allahabad) is within the state of province. Purna Kumbha mela, a gathering of Hindu pilgrims is command each twelve years at the confluence of Ganga and Yamuna and legendary Sarasvati rivers. Tens of voluminous Hindus gather on this auspicious occasion. The Maha Kumbh mela attracts the biggest human gathering on earth.
Kedarnath within the snow-covered Himalayas could be a terribly ancient shrine. The temple is accessible by foot, solely six months in an exceedingly year.
Dwadasha JyothirLingas: per Linga Purana once Brahma and Hindu deity started fighting over WHO was the supernatural being. Devas pleaded with Shiva to intervene. Suddenly, there appeared a Sivalinga before Brahma and Hindu deity as a large column of fireside. Each were schooled by Shiva realize one finish ever. Whoever came 1st would be acknowledged as supreme. Hindu deity assumed the shape of a boar and went down. Brahma, within the variety of a swan, flew upwards. They looked for days however could not realize the tip. Brahma and Hindu deity each realized their mistake and acknowledged Shiva because the supernatural being. The Shivalinga represents that column of fireside as twelve Jyotirlingas. Shaivites endure a tirath yatra to jyothirling kshetras.
• Omkareshwar is AN island on Narmada stream in Madhya Pradesh and residential to a Jyotirlinga shrine and therefore the Amareshwar temple.
• Varanasi (Kashi) in province is home to the noted Vishwanath temple with Jyotirling.
• Deoghar parli in Jharkhand is home to the Vaidyanath Jyotirlinga temple.
• Somnath jyotirling in Prabhas Patan in Saurashtra, Gujarath is acknowledge.
• Dwarka in Gujarath is home to the Nageshwar Jyotirling temple.
• Mahakal Ujjain (or Avantika ) in Madhya Pradesh is home to the Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga temple.
• Srisailam in Kurnool dist, province is home to Jyothirlinga of Mallikarjuna. Sivananda Lahari was composed by Adi Shankaracharya here.
• Bhimashankar close to Pune in geographic region is that the home of a Jyotirlinga. This place is related to Shiva destroying the demon Tripurasura.
• Triambakeshwar, close to Nashik in geographic region, is home to a Jyotirlinga. stream Godavari originates here.
• Grishneshwar in rock-cut temples of Ellora, geographic region incorporates a Jyotirlinga.
• Rameswaram in Madras is home to Ramalingeswara Jyothirlinga temple.
Useful tips about the Yatra
Dress: Pilgrims area unit suggested to hold enough woolens like sweaters, drawers, woolen trousers, monkey cap etc. alternative things may embody wind cheaters, rain coat, bag or blankets, umbrella, waterproof boots/shoes, walking stick, torch etc. women area unit suggested to not endure the trek in saris, instead pants or trousers suits with drawers ought to be used.
Medical Assistance: Medical posts manned by qualified doctors and nursing workers area unit established enroot to cater to the wants of the pilgrims, freed from price. However, pilgrim's area unit suggested holding on any medicines specifically prescribed for them.
Provisions: Essential rations area unit obtainable at honest worth rates from the specially established Govt. Depots at various edge tea-shops and little restaurants area unit started by personal parties. However, pilgrims' area unit suggested holding with them biscuits, toffees, canned food etc. to cater to their immediate wants.
Insurance: seeable of the unsafe nature, pilgrim's area unit suggested insuring themselves before continuing on the Yatra.
Accommodation: smart tented accommodations with allied facilities area unit set-up throughout the Yatra amount.
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Analysts provide investment outlook
Related news:Economic stimulus: Obama confronts doubts on stimulus
Three months ago, Wall Street was on the edge of the abyss.
Reeling from the worldwide credit crisis, stock prices plummeted to their lowest point in 12 years. The Dow Jones industrial average had lost more than half of its value in 16 months.
But, since March 9, the stock market has staged its biggest reversal in more than 70 years. The Dow has jumped 33 percent; the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index, 39 percent; and the Nasdaq composite index, 45 percent.
Yesterday, as if to prove the rally has staying power, the Dow recovered from a 130-point to finish up 1.36.
"The surprising thing has been the speed with which it has happened," said Jim Welsh, who heads Welsh Money Management in Carlsbad.
Now the question becomes: Can stocks continue the rebound?
Peter Morici, an economist with the University of Maryland, predicted that the market will head up through the second half of the year.
"This June rally is no false spring," Morici said.
Yet Richard Russell, author of the Dow Theory newsletter in La Jolla, thinks there is a 50-50 chance the market could fall back to its low point of March within the next three months.
"There's lots of talk about green shoots now, but that's baloney," Russell said. "The best you can say about this economy is that things are getting worse slower."
So what's an investor to do?
Last year, The San Diego Union-Tribune twice put those questions to a panel of five investment analysts. Their recommendations ran from putting money into commodities to investing in foreign currencies to seeking out healthy niches in the troubled stock market. This year, we've returned to four of those five analysts — Herb Greenberg of Greenberg Meritz Research & Analytics in Carmel Valley has bowed out — to get their suggestions.
Michael Pento
Background: Michael Pento is the market strategist of Delta Global Advisors in Huntington Beach. Last summer, Pento predicted that the economy would be in decline for at least two years. He warned investors to stay out of the stock market. He recommended Swiss, Australian and Canadian currencies. People who followed Pento's recommendations would have avoided a lot of losses, but foreign currencies have been choppy. The Australian dollar only last week climbed to where it had been against the U.S. dollar last September.
Economy: "We have mustard seeds of growth sprouting, but I believe that's all being brought about artificially. It wouldn't be happening if not for trillions of dollars that the government has provided, including more than $800 billion for the banking system. Once the government tries to pull those excess reserves out, the economy will crash. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be faced with a difficult choice: Either allow interest rates to rise where they should be, which would bring the recovery to an end, or keep interest rates low, which would lead to massive inflation."
Markets: "The Standard & Poor's 500 index has been trading at 18 times profits for all of 2009. Going back 100 years, the average ratio has been 15. What that tells me is that the economic recovery has already been priced into the market. But I don't think the recovery is coming at all. I'm almost positive we won't see a real return on any of the major stock market averages in 2009."
Investment: "Our money is in commodities."
Brian Bethune
Background: Brian Bethune is the director of financial economics at Global Insight in Boston. In September, Bethune predicted that the market would see turmoil for at least six months. He suggested that risk-averse investors put their money into certificates of deposit.
Economy: "The economy still has not pulled out of the recession. It will probably be at least two or three months until we get the economy to a break-even point. September might be the turning point. I expect growth to be positive in the fourth quarter. And in 2010, more of the fiscal stimulus will kick in. Overall, things are going about as good as you could expect under the circumstances."
Markets: "In March, people overdid it on the downside. Clearly, we've come a long way from staring at the abyss, which was very much overblown. A sharp reduction in the perception of risk on the stock market has gotten the market functioning again. People are taking money out of the bond market and putting it into the stocks. The business sector is well-positioned to leverage any upturn in the economy into profits. It's very possible we'll see profits improve from quarter to quarter for the first time in a long while."
Investments: "The 'deep cyclicals' are a good thing to invest in now: things like heavy machinery, mining and that type of thing. Overall, investors need to be balanced. A balanced approach with investments spread across the economy is probably the best way to go."
Jim Welsh
Background: Jim Welsh is the founder of Welsh Money Management in Carlsbad. In September, Welsh predicted the economy would be weak through 2009 or 2010. At that time, he recommended that investors shift into short-term T-bills.
Economy: "A mirage is taking place. The economic statistics are getting less bad than before. Later this year, the data will show some improvement in the economy. All this government spending will provide some pick-up. But will that be enough to allow a self-sustaining recovery? The improvements that we're seeing now are because the numbers were so extreme they had to get better. There's a gap between the perception of how things seem to have improved and reality."
Markets: "We're potentially coming to the end of this up phase. After this, things could move sideways for a while. And then we could see a pullback of from 5 to 8 percent before the gross domestic product begins to improve this fall. But even after the GDP improves, unemployment will continue to rise, wage growth will be weak and companies will be fighting for every dollar of sales. So the risk is that in 2010, investors will wake up and realize that there's been no real recovery and stock prices could fall again."
Investments: "The key is to be patient and buy things on weakness. I think within the next week or two, we could have some sort of pullback of 5 to 10 percent in the market, which would result in a pullback of 10 to 12 percent for energy, technology or small-cap stocks. After that, we could have another rally that would take the S&P to above 1,000. But after that rally is when things will get really interesting. I think we haven't eliminated the potential that the market will return to its lows of March 9, although I don't think that will happen until late next year or early 2011."
Brent Wilsey
Background: Brent Wilsey is the president of Wilsey Asset Management in Poway. Wilsey, host of 760 KFMB's weekly "Smart Investment" show, said in September that he did not think the economy was performing too poorly and that he thought the bank rescue plan could be enough to "ease some fears on the market." His portfolio lost about 30 percent last year. It has since rebounded 6 to 9 percent. Even so, he thinks it will be mid-2010 before he recoups the territory he has lost since January 2008.
Economy: "I'm hearing a lot fewer negatives and more positives from the people I talk to. Retail sales are improving. Inventories are declining, which means that they'll have to be replenished as the economy ramps up. And in the second half, we'll start seeing some of the stimulus package money going into the economy and putting people to work."
Markets: "We've come a long way since March 9, so it wouldn't surprise me at all to see a pullback. But I think any pullback would be a buying opportunity. The market might bounce around for the next month or two, but I believe that by the end of the year the markets will be up quite a bit."
Investments: "The banking sector will do well over the next 12 months, although we probably won't get the big returns we've had since March. The insurance sector looks pretty good. And with oil above $60 per barrel, energy is looking pretty good."


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Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System.
Bionic eyes successfully implanted into blind human patients. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008.
Blind man's vision is restored by having his son's tooth inserted into his eye.
Post date: Wednesday, February 27th, 2008.
Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-3.
Researchers discover a protein that makes vision possible by allowing the cornea to remain free of blood vessels. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, July 19th, 2006.
Prosthetic retina.
Micro camera implanted into the eye that will restore vision for the blind. (via)
Post date: Thursday, July 13th, 2006.
Researchers have developed materials that can bend radio waves and light in any direction and allow objects to appear invisible.
Post date: Thursday, May 25th, 2006.
Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector.
Device that can see invisible infrared light in color. (via)
Post date: Thursday, May 25th, 2006.
Golf-Ball Finding Glasses.
Lenses that block out dark colors and allow white to pass through making golf balls easy to locate. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2006.
Pierced Glasses.
Eyewear that is mounted to the face by piercing the bridge of the nose.
Post date: Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006.
Mysterious eye fungus that causes blindness is spreading across the U.S. and seems to target soft contact lens wearers.
Post date: Thursday, April 6th, 2006.
Green algae protein injected in retinal cells helps recover visual response in blind mice. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, April 5th, 2006.
Do-it-yourself Lasik surgery kit. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, April 5th, 2006.
Woman without eyes has device implanted into her brain that allows her to see. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, April 4th, 2006.


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Most Accurate MLB Experts Past 4 Years
Moderator: Baseball Moderators
Pogotheostrich wrote:Top to bottom I think the Yankees have the better staff. But Boston has the best 2 SP IMO. Should make things interesting come playoff time.
Transmogrifier wrote:For the record, Schilling's career numbers at Fenway are not good. However, most of those starts were at the very begining of his career (remember, he came up with the Sox, then went to Baltimore, then to Philly).
Career at Fenway:
6 games, four starts, 1-2, 6.04 ERA, 1.54 WHIP, .304 BA.
His one recent start in Fenway (2002):
1 game started, 1 win, 7.1 innings, 2.45 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, .222 BA.
Take them for what they're worth.
Doull7 wrote:This is further proof that the Yankee fans are crazy. There is no way the Yankees have better pitching than the Sox. And it will be proven on April 16 and every other Yankee sox matchup.
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Writing about Barack Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, Politico's Mike Allen (5/27/09) declared:
The media's left-of-center bias is rarely more apparent than during court fights. The coverage running up to the pick was slanted heavily toward the notion of how "pragmatic" Obama's legal views are and how unlikely he was to pick a liberal.
Coverage of Supreme Court fights is one of the best illustrations of corporate media's supposed lean to the left? Only three of the current justices had what could be described as a "fight" over their confirmation: Clarence Thomas (confirmed by a vote of 52-48), John Roberts (78-22) and Samuel Alito (58-42); all the others were confirmed with less than 10 percent of the Senate voting against them.
Despite the allegations of sexual harassment that were leveled against Thomas during his confirmation hearings, media coverage at the time depicted him as highly credible in his denials (Extra!, Special Issue 1992), and generally treated the question of whom to believe as impossible to answer.
Roberts got intensely favorable coverage from corporate media, to the point where Newsweek was denouncing as "conspiracy theories" accurate characterizations of Roberts' record (FAIR Action Alert, 8/2/05). When the pro-choice group NARAL pointed out that Roberts had filed a brief in support of an abortion clinic blockader who had previously been convicted of bombing, this was widely denounced by news outlets as an out-of-bounds attack (Extra!, 11-12/05); can anyone seriously imagine establishment pundits chiding right-wing activists for bringing up legal work Sonia Sotomayor had done on behalf of bombmakers, as if even mentioning such an association were patently unfair?
With Alito as well, corporate media tended to treat his unflappable demeanor as more important than his legal views, giving him generally high marks for his confirmation performance (CounterSpin, 1/20/06).
The only Supreme Court nominee to be voted down by the Senate in recent times was Robert Bork, in 1987 (see sidebar); corporate media have in the subsequent decades created an entirely inaccurate mythology about Bork's unfair treatment (FAIR Media Advisory, 7/21/05; Extra! Update, 4/99). (Two nominees withdrew shortly after being nominated-Douglas Ginsburg in 1987 after NPR revealed that he had smoked marijuana, and Harriet Miers in 2005 amidst complaints, largely from the right, that she was underqualified-Huffington Post, 10/5/05.)
According to Allen, it's during such episodes that corporate media's left-leaning bias is most apparent-and he backed up this claim with the assertion that coverage treated the unlikelihood that Obama would nominate a liberal as a good thing. What's actually apparent is that charges of left-wing media bias never need to be accompanied by actual evidence.
This is true when it comes to charges against judges as well as media. A New York Times piece (5/29/09) on Sotomayor's work with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund was a good example of this principle.
The bulk of the story described various cases that the PRLDEF took on while Sotomayor was involved with it, which was interesting enough. But in making the case for the importance of their front-page story, reporters Raymond Hernandez and David W. Chen wrote: Ms. Sotomayor's involvement with the defense fund has so far received scant attention. But her critics, including some Republican senators who will vote on her nomination, have questioned whether she has let her ethnicity, life experiences and public advocacy creep into her decisions as a judge. It seems inevitable, then, that her tenure with the defense fund will be scrutinized during her confirmation hearings.
Has Sotomayor let her "ethnicity...creep into her decisions"? It's hard to recall anyone asking that about Roberts or Bork. But if you take a look at Sotomayor's actual judicial record, as the SCOTUS Blog did (5/15/09), one thing that leaps out is that she frequently comes down in rulings against the side that she would presumably sympathize with politically-for the "global gag rule," a racist cop and tobacco companies, for instance, and against a disabled black woman and African-American air travelers. A subsequent SCOTUS Blog survey, published the same day as the Times piece, looked at every single race-related case Sotomayor decided on while on the court of appeals; of those 96 cases, she agreed with the claim of discrimination only 10 times (nine of which were unanimous rulings). Either Sotomayor does have the ability to put aside her personal opinions when making a judgment, in other words, or she's a good deal more right-wing than most people believe.
But the lengthy article never allowed anyone to make the case that Sotomayor's decisions do not in fact suffer from creeping Latinoism. Instead, after describing her involvement with the PRLDEF, Hernandez and Chen described a single judicial case that Sotomayor ruled on-Ricci, in which she was one of three appeals court judges that upheld a ruling against a white firefighter's discrimination claim-and then concluded by quoting a right-wing judicial activist: Mr. Levey said that the employment discrimination case filed by the defense fund on behalf of Hispanic police officers raised questions about Judge Sotomayor's credibility in the New Haven case. "It adds to the conviction that this was not accidental, and that she had a very specific agenda here."
In short, the New York Times framed its look at Sotomayor's involvement in Puerto Rican legal affairs as a question of whether such involvement will make her a bad judge, and it allowed no one to offer the case to the contrary. Is that the kind of coverage that Politico thinks makes left-wing bias so apparent?
Or perhaps corporate media's leftism was betrayed by an Associated Press story headlined "Debate Over Who Sotomayor Is a Sensitive One" (5/29/09), which began with reporter Sharon Theimer taking the nominee to task for only starting out in poverty:
There are two sides to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor: a Latina from a blue-collar family and a wealthy member of America's power elite.
The White House portrays Sotomayor as a living image of the American dream, though its telling of the rags-to-riches story emphasizes the rags, a more politically appealing narrative, and plays down the riches.
Yes, somehow the White House picked Sotomayor despite the fact that she is no longer poor-and still pretended that she was the "living image of the American dream," which as we all know is to remain poor one's entire life. (It's actually rather hard to be an impoverished federal judge, since their salaries start at $169,000 a year.)
The AP discovered new layers of Sotomayor's hypocrisy, writing: "On ethnicity, Sotomayor herself has recognized-and contributed to-the dichotomy. She proudly highlights her Puerto Rican roots but hasn't always liked it when others have." The article spelled out this rather confusing charge:
Years ago, during a recruiting dinner in law school at Yale, Sotomayor objected when a law firm partner asked whether she would have been admitted to the school if she weren't Puerto Rican, and whether law firms did a disservice by hiring minority students the firms know are unqualified and will ultimately be fired.
So she's proud of being Puerto Rican, and yet she still takes offense at the notion that she couldn't have gotten into Yale if she weren't? Clearly, in the "left-of-center" corporate media, accusations that your ethnicity might mean you're unqualified for your job are only to be expected.
[See also the sidebar to this piece, Sotomayor vs. Bork: NYT by the Numbers]


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Among the many hand-lettered signs at the Occupy Wall Street protest going on its second week in Manhattan, Mary, an organizer who spoke with The Atlantic Wire on the condition we wouldn't use her last name ("I don't want the feds to raid our apartment") would add one more: "CALL YOUR MOTHERS." Over the weekend, there were mass arrests of the mostly young people protesting, and Mary had been flooded with worried emails from parents. After getting arrested, a kid could be held for as long as three days. "I understand where their mothers are coming from," she says. Still. "It would free up more of our time if people checked in with their mothers more often from the get-go," she adds. "Plus, their mothers will be happier." Getting the press to take you seriously, getting police to arrest you gently -- these are all big concerns for radical political organizers. But another problem is simple logistics.
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LINDSAY LOHAN's MEAN GIRLS co-star AMANDA SEYFRIED fears her former pal and
other child stars go "nuts" because they experience success at such a young
The actress, who is about to lead Hollywood's all-star Mamma Mia! cast onto
the big screen, is convinced young Hollywood stars can't grow-up sane.
And the 22 year old admits Lohan is a perfect example of a young actress
struggling to cope in the fame game.
She says, "I've met some people who are just so freaking distraught and who
don't know how to handle it, and I've met some (kids) who have their head on
straight and are really happy. You try to stick around them.
"I kind of don't expect some of these girls, who've been working since they
were two, to be sane. This business is just weird when you're young."
But the actress was quick to dispel rumours Lohan was a liability on the set
of their hit film.
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"Live With Kelly and Ryan" co-star "Good Morning America" appearance, and made him cancel at the last minute.
According to "American Idol" team to promote the new season. One source said the day before, maybe even as late as the night before, "Kelly threw a s–t fit and told him he couldn't do 'GMA,' so he pulled his appearance."
Seacrest reportedly canceled the gig to stay on Ripa's good side. "She's an executive producer on the show, so she has a lot of pull," another source said. "It's fair to say she has a lot of influence over him. He joined her show. It sounds like she still feels threatened."
A source added that "there's still bad blood" between Ripa and her former co-host Michael Strahan, who left "Live!" for "GMA." Ripa "doesn't want history to repeat itself and Ryan to be lured to 'GMA' too."
Seacrest's spokesperson told Page Six that he had wanted to appear on "GMA" with the new "Idol" judges, but shifting schedules made it too tight, between "Live," his radio show, and "Idol" production commitments. His rep added, "To suggest any other reason for him not participating is completely false or a misunderstanding of the facts." A rep for Ripa told Page Six the allegation that she threw a fit and demanded Seacrest cancel the "GMA" appearance "is absolutely not true."
From the outside, we don't know what really happened. What's clear is that there are still "multiple sources" in the "Live" world willing to continue, if not wholesale create, behind-the-scenes drama. It's juicy gossip! ABC should just point the cameras backstage and let fans watch THAT show -- it would probably get higher ratings than "Idol," "GMA," and "Live."
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Money is something weird, it has a value, but it is not real. So if this virtual value exists in both material and spiritual world, what will it be in spirituality? It seems like the nearest term will be "dharma".
Honestly, if I have a choice, I wouldn't use this term. Sadly I can't find any better one. It means something like your good doings will be "banked" (into metaphysics or spiritual means), and you can use it as cover up for your bad doings, the "karma". Some say it recorded as "akashic record", a system that archives everything in life. (Alright, I am not relating this with Hinduism or heaven and hell stuffs, just borrowing the words.)