Victory? They backed off? Whaaaaaaaaaaat? "Based on information about conditions on the ground, and in consultation with law enforcement, we have made a decision to conclude the cattle gather because of our serious concern about the safety of employees and members of the public," BLM Director Neil Kornze said. "We ask that all parties in the area remain peaceful and law-abiding as the Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service work to end the operation in an orderly manner," he said. Great news! Thanks for being the first to post it, Wilikon. I am just glad this did not end up in a blood bath (for now, just for now)
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I have to say I don't remember as a punishment spending time on the newb forum for a while before moving on to the big guys. What was that option retired? If that question was already answered, simply point me to the thread as I do not want to derail this one.
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No wonder many critical bugs are still unpatched and being exploited in the wild.
How does that make sense? The NSA discovering a bug but not publicising it leaves the world no different to if the NSA had never found it, or if there had been no NSA. The NSA knew about this 2 years ago... the bug popped up 2 years ago... I don't think it takes a tin foil hat to put them together here That the NSA is much better at finding software vulnerabilities than the open source community? Plus: You don't know that the NSA knew about it two years ago. You know that a reporter says that two unnamed sources say that the NSA knew about it about two years ago. My game theory, based on evidence, tells me I should not believe the NSA or anyone representing this organization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v7YtTnon90
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I love Russians theese days.
This Whole thing has 1 and 1 intention only:
To enlighten the west of Russian history.
Russia was "occupied" and controlled by non-nationalists for over 80 years. Gorbachev was a freemason who they caught conspiring With the west(THe KGB. And as he admits himself: He was under surveillance constantly). They tried to coup him out and failed. In fear of losing the Soviet and HALF of the world to a force uncontrollable he was ordered by his freemason superiors to dissolve the Soviet Union. Right after he moved to USA.
Facts of the day peeps
Freemasons! We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now *I* am the master.Always those damned Freemasons! It's as if no one can collapse a Berlin wall without their help or something... LOL!
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The thefts help prove BTC has real value. Now people need to be more careful with their precious, rare BTC.
That's the beauty of this paradox. No one steals worthless stuff.
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So bitcoin is not funny magic internet money anymore for those big banks. It is a threat. They are afraid of bitcoin. Sad for the people getting into bitcoin for a quick cash out. Great news for the people seeing the bigger picture...
I don't get it. Bitcoin is doing EXACTLY what it was created to do. Replacing the banking system years from now. What to expect when they run the code themselves realized how beautiful it was.
Normal banking reaction.
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A group of Russian MPs has formally requested that prosecutors investigate former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for treason over the breakup of the Soviet Union, one lawmaker said Thursday. Ivan Nikitchuk, a deputy with the Communist party, said recent events and the Ukraine crisis in particular have led five MPs, including two from the ruling United Russia party, to ask Prosecutor General Yury Chaika to probe Gorbachev, 83. “We asked to prosecute him and those who helped him destroy the Soviet Union for treason of national interests,” Nikitchuk told AFP, adding that Soviet citizens in 1991 were against the country’s breakup. Seeking to create a more open and prosperous Soviet Union through glasnost and perestroika, Gorbachev ended up inadvertently unleashing forces that swept the country he had sought to preserve from the map and himself from power. “The consequences of that destruction can be felt today in the conflicts that we have seen,” said Nikitchuk. He added that this included not only Ukraine but also in other former Soviet countries over the past two decades. In February, a popular pro-Western uprising in Ukraine ousted pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych, who has since taken refuge in Russia. The Kremlin responded by sending troops to Ukraine’s Russian-speaking peninsula of Crimea and annexing it as part of Russia last month. “What is happening in Ukraine can happen in Russia, too,” said Nikitchuk. “This pushed us to write to the Prosecutor General, so that professional lawyers rather than historians investigate the events of 1991.” He added that lawmakers were also concerned about internal enemies stirring unrest. “The fifth column in our country has been formed and works in the open, funded by foreign money,” he said. http://news.yahoo.com/russian-mps-want-gorbachev-probed-treason-over-ussr-144643924.html
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No wonder many critical bugs are still unpatched and being exploited in the wild.
How does that make sense? The NSA discovering a bug but not publicising it leaves the world no different to if the NSA had never found it, or if there had been no NSA. Supposedly the NSA's mission is about protecting, not just spying on the US citizen. Lots of companies are American paying taxes, taxes helping the NSA's employees. But It needs to spy, not to protect thus making everyone exposed to the bug. Because it is its nature. We are the frog, NSA is the scorpion on our back.
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Federal Gov’t to Spend $3M to Fight Climate Change – in the Pacific IslandsThe United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced it plans to award a $3 million grant to fight climate change in the Pacific Islands. “Many Pacific Islands countries depend on tourism, fisheries, and agriculture as their main sources of income, foreign exchange, and economic livelihood,” the grant solicitation said. “Climate change impacts such as beach erosion, sea level rise, warming temperatures, reduced freshwater access, bleaching of coral reefs, increased incidence of vector borne disease, and increasing storm intensities pose risks to these sectors and other economic activities,” it added. According to its website, USAID is described as “the lead U.S. government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential.” The Pacific-American Climate Fund or PACAM is a five-year grant-making facility based in the Philippines and implemented in 12 countries throughout the Pacific: Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu. “Well-managed ecosystems have a greater potential to adapt to climate change, resist and recover more easily from extreme weather events, and provide a wide range of benefits on which people depend, while in contrast, poorly managed, fragmented and degraded ecosystems can increase vulnerability of people and nature to the impacts of climate change,” the grant said. Women and climate change“All applications will be evaluated for potential impacts on women,” the grant solicitation said. “Gender equality and female empowerment are essential for achieving USAID’s development goals. This includes empowering women and girls to participate and benefit from development, through the integration of gender in the entire project cycle – from project planning and implementation to monitoring and evaluation,” it said. “Special consideration will be given to proposals that benefit women, either through specific adaptation interventions, or through opportunities for women’s participation in the activity. Hence, applicants should describe and address specific climate change adaptation interventions by community members that create opportunities for women’s participation,” the grant solicitation added. The grant solicitation, which was posted on March 14, 2014, calls for concept papers to be submitted by March 5, 2015. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-hunter/federal-gov-t-spend-3m-fight-climate-change-pacific-islands
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Front page of Drudge = Good exposure. I also heard about the situation on the radio last night.
Exposure on Drudge does not stop snipers when ordered to shot.
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We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet — Desmond TutuTwenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects. This is why, no matter where you live, it is appalling that the US is debating whether to approve a massive pipeline transporting 830,000 barrels of the world’s dirtiest oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Producing and transporting this quantity of oil, via the Keystone XL pipeline, could increase Canada’s carbon emissions by over 30%. If the negative impacts of the pipeline would affect only Canada and the US, we could say good luck to them. But it will affect the whole world, our shared world, the only world we have. We don’t have much time. This week in Berlin, scientists and public representatives have been weighing up radical options for curbing emissions contained in the third report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The bottom line is that we have 15 years to take the necessary steps. The horse may not have bolted, but it’s well on its way through the stable door. Who can stop it? Well, we can, you and I. And it is not just that we can stop it, we have a responsibility to do so. It is a responsibility that begins with God commanding the first human inhabitants of the garden of Eden “to till it and keep it”. To keep it; not to abuse it, not to destroy it. The taste of “success” in our world gone mad is measured in dollars and francs and rupees and yen. Our desire to consume any and everything of perceivable value – to extract every precious stone, every ounce of metal, every drop of oil, every tuna in the ocean, every rhinoceros in the bush – knows no bounds. We live in a world dominated by greed. We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/10/divest-fossil-fuels-climate-change-keystone-xl
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“I’d Like Nothing Better Than If Thousands of Middle-Class White People Died In An Extreme Weather Event”…[...] Part of being a science communicator is hoping a natural disaster kills as many members of the audience as possible, as soon as possible, with as much media exposure as possible. As a communicator myself, I’d like nothing better than if thousands of middle-class white people died in an extreme weather event—preferably one with global warming’s fingerprints on it. Live on cable news. Tomorrow. The hardest thing about communicating the deadliness of the climate problem is that it isn’t killing anyone. And just between us, let’s be honest: the average member of the public is a bit (how can I put it politely?) of a moron. It’s all well and good for the science to tell us global warming is more dangerous than Nazism, but Joe Q. Flyover doesn’t understand science. He wants evidence. So we’ve probably reached the limits of what science communication can achieve. At this point only nature herself can close the consensus gap—or the fear gap. http://climatenuremberg.com/2014/04/11/communication-dilemmas-1-wishing-death-on-people-without-losing-them/
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By SHIREE BUNDY COX: I have had people ask me to explain my dad’s stance on this BLM fight. Here it is in as simple of terms as I can explain it. There is so much to it, but here it is in a nut shell. My great grandpa bought the rights to the Bunkerville allotment back in 1887 around there. Then he sold them to my grandpa who then turned them over to my dad in 1972. These men bought and paid for their rights to the range and also built waters, fences and roads to assure the survival of their cattle, all with their own money, not with tax dollars. These rights to the land use is called preemptive rights. Some where down the line, to keep the cows from over grazing, came the bureau of land management. They were supposed to assist the ranchers in the management of their ranges while the ranchers paid a yearly allotment which was to be use to pay the BLM wages and to help with repairs and improvements of the ranches. My dad did pay his grazing fees for years to the BLM until they were no longer using his fees to help him and to improve. Instead they began using these money’s against the ranchers. They bought all the rest of the ranchers in the area out with their own grazing fees. When they offered to buy my dad out for a penence he said no thanks and then fired them because they weren’t doing their job. He quit paying the BLM but, tried giving his grazing fees to the county, which they turned down. So my dad just went on running his ranch and making his own improvements with his own equipment and his own money, not taxes. In essence the BLM was managing my dad out of business. Well when buying him out didn’t work, they used the endangered species card. You’ve already heard about the desert tortoise. Well that didn’t work either, so then began the threats and the court orders, which my dad has proven to be unlawful for all these years. Now they’re desperate. http://www.americasfreedomfighters.com/2014/04/09/exclusive-the-bundy-daughter-speaks-out-on-government-terrorism-against-her-family/
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