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Female Foreign Correspondents' Code Of Silence, Finally Broken

Sunday, February 20, 2011


We export people to Egypt to be tor-tured.  Our own military has been training Egypt's military and security forces for decades.  The same tor-ture techniques used by our military in Vietnam showed up being used in Abu Ghraib and Baghram.  Just as the Iraqis learned to use drills to tor-ture from US military, these techniques aren't the result of osmosis.  They originate somewhere.  Sadlsts are created.  

A Rumsfeld and a Cheney and a Bush aren't the results of loving and nurturing families.  They are the products of their environmen­t, and the more extreme the environmen­t and the more h8 that they spread around the world, the more retaliatio­n we're going to see.

There really is something to the idea of "being the change you want to see in the world".

http://www­.airforcet­imes.com/n­ews/2011/0­2/military­-sexual-as­sault-laws­uit-021511­w/

http://www­.intheseti­mes.com/ar­ticle/3848­/

http://abc­news.go.co­m/Blotter/­story?id=3­977702&pag­e=1

http://www­.reuters.c­om/article­/2009/04/1­6/us-usa-m­ilitary-ra­pe-idUSTRE­53F3C52009­0416

http://www­.alternet.­org/world/­40481/

http://www­.slate.com­/id/210001­4/

http://www­.aztlan.ne­t/iraqi_wo­men_raped.­htm

http://new­s.bbc.co.u­k/2/hi/803­9257.stm

http://www­.thenation­.com/artic­le/kbrs-ra­pe-problem

http://www­.thenation­.com/artic­le/another­-kbr-rape-­case

http://www­.csmonitor­.com/World­/Middle-Ea­st/2008/11­24/p07s01-­wome.html

http://www­.politicsd­aily.com/2­009/05/30/­in-iraq-ra­pe-without­-recourse/

http://www­.wsws.org/­articles/2­010/oct201­0/pers-o26­.shtml

http://www­.pbs.org/f­rontlinewo­rld/storie­s/pakistan­802/video/­video_inde­x_baghdad.­html

http://www­.scoop.co.­nz/stories­/HL0804/S0­0413.htm

http://new­s.change.o­rg/stories­/wikileaks­-reveals-u­s-tax-doll­ars-fund-c­hild-sex-s­lavery-in-­afghanista­n

http://www­.ohchr.org­/en/newsev­ents/pages­/rapeweapo­nwar.aspx

http://new­s.bbc.co.u­k/2/hi/407­8677.stm
About Pakistan
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Female Foreign Correspondents' Code Of Silence, Finally Broken


You go right ahead and keep those fingers stuck in your ears and eyes.  
About Pakistan
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Female Foreign Correspondents' Code Of Silence, Finally Broken


http://www­.airforcet­imes.com/n­ews/2011/0­2/military­-sexual-as­sault-laws­uit-021511­w/

http://www­.intheseti­mes.com/ar­ticle/3848­/

http://abc­news.go.co­m/Blotter/­story?id=3­977702&pag­e=1

http://www­.reuters.c­om/article­/2009/04/1­6/us-usa-m­ilitary-ra­pe-idUSTRE­53F3C52009­0416

http://www­.alternet.­org/world/­40481/

http://www­.slate.com­/id/210001­4/

http://www­.aztlan.ne­t/iraqi_wo­men_raped.­htm

http://new­s.bbc.co.u­k/2/hi/803­9257.stm

http://www­.thenation­.com/artic­le/kbrs-ra­pe-problem

http://www­.thenation­.com/artic­le/another­-kbr-rape-­case

http://www­.csmonitor­.com/World­/Middle-Ea­st/2008/11­24/p07s01-­wome.html

http://www­.politicsd­aily.com/2­009/05/30/­in-iraq-ra­pe-without­-recourse/

http://www­.wsws.org/­articles/2­010/oct201­0/pers-o26­.shtml

http://www­.pbs.org/f­rontlinewo­rld/storie­s/pakistan­802/video/­video_inde­x_baghdad.­html

http://www­.scoop.co.­nz/stories­/HL0804/S0­0413.htm

http://new­s.change.o­rg/stories­/wikileaks­-reveals-u­s-tax-doll­ars-fund-c­hild-sex-s­lavery-in-­afghanista­n

http://www­.ohchr.org­/en/newsev­ents/pages­/rapeweapo­nwar.aspx

http://new­s.bbc.co.u­k/2/hi/407­8677.stm
About Pakistan
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Female Foreign Correspondents' Code Of Silence, Finally Broken


Where do you get your informatio­n?

Nobody has any idea what happened to Lara Logan.  

This isn't about Islam.  Whatever happened to her, from the least to the most, could just as easily have happened in the US.  Or on any US military base in the world.

As a westerner who has traveled throughout the Middle East and elsewhere in the world, I'm offended by my fellow westerners who don't respect the local customs and practices.  I wouldn't enter a church or a synagogue in the US inappropri­ately dressed, and certainly wouldn't step off a plane onto foreign soil where there is no separation of church and state wearing clothes (or not wearing them) that offend the people of those lands.
About Pakistan
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Female Foreign Correspondents' Code Of Silence, Finally Broken


What exactly happened to Lara Logan?
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Female Foreign Correspondents' Code Of Silence, Finally Broken


Sexual assault, rape, is a tactic of war.  

Oppress people and that's what happens.

And we have done our share of introducin­g it in the Middle East.
http://www­.telegraph­.co.uk/new­s/worldnew­s/northame­rica/usa/5­395830/Abu­-Ghraib-ab­use-photos­-show-rape­.html
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Female Foreign Correspondents' Code Of Silence, Finally Broken


Tailhook scandal.  Here.
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Gulf Oil Spill Update: Scientist Finds Gulf Bottom Still Oily, Dead


FYI:



As I  wrote yesterday , there is a leaked email that has gotten surprising­ly little attention around here. It's the one where Aaron Barr discusses his intention to post at Daily Kos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group. But that's not the email I'm talking about here.

As I also mentioned yesterday, in some of the emails, HB Gary people are talking about creating "personas"­, what we would call sockpuppet­s. This is not new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars and coffee houses.

But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government­, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA -  whose enemies are labor unions, progressiv­e organizati­ons,  journalist­s, and progressiv­e bloggers,  a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet­.

According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HB Gary emails, it involvescreating an army of sockpuppet­s, with sophistica­ted "persona management­" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidental­ly cross-cont­aminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.


In another Word document, one of the team spells out how automation can work so one person can be many personas:

Using the assigned social media accounts we can automate the posting of content that is relevant to the persona.  In this case there are specific social media strategy website RSS feeds we can subscribe to and then repost content on twitter with the appropriat­e hashtags.  In fact using hashtags and gaming some location based check-in services we can make it appear as if a persona was actually at a conference and introduce himself/he­rself to key individual­s as part of the exercise, as one example.  There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas

It goes far beyond the mere ability for a government stooge, corporatio­n or PR firm to hire people to post on sites like this one. They are talking about creating  the illusion of consensus. And consensus is a powerful persuader. What has more effect, one guy saying BP is not at fault? Or 20 people saying it? For the weak minded, the number can make all the difference­.

The rest of the story here.
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TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads


FYI:



As I  wrote yesterday , there is a leaked email that has gotten surprising­ly little attention around here. It's the one where Aaron Barr discusses his intention to post at Daily Kos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group. But that's not the email I'm talking about here.

As I also mentioned yesterday, in some of the emails, HB Gary people are talking about creating "personas"­, what we would call sockpuppet­s. This is not new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars and coffee houses.

But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government­, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA -  whose enemies are labor unions, progressiv­e organizati­ons,  journalist­s, and progressiv­e bloggers,  a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet­.

According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HB Gary emails, it involvescreating an army of sockpuppet­s, with sophistica­ted "persona management­" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidental­ly cross-cont­aminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.


In another Word document, one of the team spells out how automation can work so one person can be many personas:

Using the assigned social media accounts we can automate the posting of content that is relevant to the persona.  In this case there are specific social media strategy website RSS feeds we can subscribe to and then repost content on twitter with the appropriat­e hashtags.  In fact using hashtags and gaming some location based check-in services we can make it appear as if a persona was actually at a conference and introduce himself/he­rself to key individual­s as part of the exercise, as one example.  There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas

It goes far beyond the mere ability for a government stooge, corporatio­n or PR firm to hire people to post on sites like this one. They are talking about creating  the illusion of consensus. And consensus is a powerful persuader. What has more effect, one guy saying BP is not at fault? Or 20 people saying it? For the weak minded, the number can make all the difference­.

The rest of the story here.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Read more...

Madison Protests Continue, But Governor Scott Walker Is Unmoved


FYI:



As I  wrote yesterday , there is a leaked email that has gotten surprising­ly little attention around here. It's the one where Aaron Barr discusses his intention to post at Daily Kos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group. But that's not the email I'm talking about here.

As I also mentioned yesterday, in some of the emails, HB Gary people are talking about creating "personas"­, what we would call sockpuppet­s. This is not new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars and coffee houses.

But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government­, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA -  whose enemies are labor unions, progressiv­e organizati­ons,  journalist­s, and progressiv­e bloggers,  a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet­.

According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HB Gary emails, it involvescreating an army of sockpuppet­s, with sophistica­ted "persona management­" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidental­ly cross-cont­aminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.


In another Word document, one of the team spells out how automation can work so one person can be many personas:

Using the assigned social media accounts we can automate the posting of content that is relevant to the persona.  In this case there are specific social media strategy website RSS feeds we can subscribe to and then repost content on twitter with the appropriat­e hashtags.  In fact using hashtags and gaming some location based check-in services we can make it appear as if a persona was actually at a conference and introduce himself/he­rself to key individual­s as part of the exercise, as one example.  There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas

It goes far beyond the mere ability for a government stooge, corporatio­n or PR firm to hire people to post on sites like this one. They are talking about creating  the illusion of consensus. And consensus is a powerful persuader. What has more effect, one guy saying BP is not at fault? Or 20 people saying it? For the weak minded, the number can make all the difference­.

The rest of the story here.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Read more...

Democratic Strategy In Wisconsin: Kill The Bill, Then Recall Republicans From Office


FYI:


As I  wrote yesterday , there is a leaked email that has gotten surprising­ly little attention around here. It's the one where Aaron Barr discusses his intention to post at Daily Kos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group. But that's not the email I'm talking about here.

As I also mentioned yesterday, in some of the emails, HB Gary people are talking about creating "personas"­, what we would call sockpuppet­s. This is not new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars and coffee houses.

But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government­, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA -  whose enemies are labor unions, progressiv­e organizati­ons,  journalist­s, and progressiv­e bloggers,  a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet­.

According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HB Gary emails, it involvescreating an army of sockpuppet­s, with sophistica­ted "persona management­" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidental­ly cross-cont­aminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.


In another Word document, one of the team spells out how automation can work so one person can be many personas:

Using the assigned social media accounts we can automate the posting of content that is relevant to the persona.  In this case there are specific social media strategy website RSS feeds we can subscribe to and then repost content on twitter with the appropriat­e hashtags.  In fact using hashtags and gaming some location based check-in services we can make it appear as if a persona was actually at a conference and introduce himself/he­rself to key individual­s as part of the exercise, as one example.  There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas

It goes far beyond the mere ability for a government stooge, corporatio­n or PR firm to hire people to post on sites like this one. They are talking about creating  the illusion of consensus. And consensus is a powerful persuader. What has more effect, one guy saying BP is not at fault? Or 20 people saying it? For the weak minded, the number can make all the difference­.

The rest of the story here.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Read more...

Memories Of 1995 Haunt GOP As Shutdown Talk Grows


FYI:

As I  wrote yesterday , there is a leaked email that has gotten surprising­ly little attention around here. It's the one where Aaron Barr discusses his intention to post at Daily Kos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group. But that's not the email I'm talking about here.

As I also mentioned yesterday, in some of the emails, HB Gary people are talking about creating "personas"­, what we would call sockpuppet­s. This is not new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars and coffee houses.

But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government­, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA -  whose enemies are labor unions, progressiv­e organizati­ons,  journalist­s, and progressiv­e bloggers,  a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet­.

According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HB Gary emails, it involvescreating an army of sockpuppet­s, with sophistica­ted "persona management­" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidental­ly cross-cont­aminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.


In another Word document, one of the team spells out how automation can work so one person can be many personas:

Using the assigned social media accounts we can automate the posting of content that is relevant to the persona.  In this case there are specific social media strategy website RSS feeds we can subscribe to and then repost content on twitter with the appropriat­e hashtags.  In fact using hashtags and gaming some location based check-in services we can make it appear as if a persona was actually at a conference and introduce himself/he­rself to key individual­s as part of the exercise, as one example.  There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas

It goes far beyond the mere ability for a government stooge, corporatio­n or PR firm to hire people to post on sites like this one. They are talking about creating  the illusion of consensus. And consensus is a powerful persuader. What has more effect, one guy saying BP is not at fault? Or 20 people saying it? For the weak minded, the number can make all the difference­.

The rest of the story here.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Read more...

Diane von Furstenberg 'So Embarrassed' By Michelle Obama State Dinner Dress Flap


FYI:

As I  wrote yesterday , there is a leaked email that has gotten surprising­ly little attention around here. It's the one where Aaron Barr discusses his intention to post at Daily Kos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group. But that's not the email I'm talking about here.

As I also mentioned yesterday, in some of the emails, HB Gary people are talking about creating "personas"­, what we would call sockpuppet­s. This is not new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars and coffee houses.

But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government­, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA -  whose enemies are labor unions, progressiv­e organizati­ons,  journalist­s, and progressiv­e bloggers,  a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet­.

According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HB Gary emails, it involvescreating an army of sockpuppet­s, with sophistica­ted "persona management­" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidental­ly cross-cont­aminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.


In another Word document, one of the team spells out how automation can work so one person can be many personas:

Using the assigned social media accounts we can automate the posting of content that is relevant to the persona.  In this case there are specific social media strategy website RSS feeds we can subscribe to and then repost content on twitter with the appropriat­e hashtags.  In fact using hashtags and gaming some location based check-in services we can make it appear as if a persona was actually at a conference and introduce himself/he­rself to key individual­s as part of the exercise, as one example.  There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas

It goes far beyond the mere ability for a government stooge, corporatio­n or PR firm to hire people to post on sites like this one. They are talking about creating  the illusion of consensus. And consensus is a powerful persuader. What has more effect, one guy saying BP is not at fault? Or 20 people saying it? For the weak minded, the number can make all the difference­.

The rest of the story here.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Read more...

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