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February 01 2012
Vandaag is een zwarte dag.
De pagina die u probeert te bereiken is op last van de rechter onbereikbaar gemaakt.
Op 11 januari deed de Rechtbank Den Haag uitspraak in de zaak die BREIN had aangespannen tegen XS4ALL en Ziggo. De rechter heeft geoordeeld dat we de website van de Pirate Bay ontoegankelijk moeten maken voor onze klanten. In het vonnis staat een aantal IP-adressen en domeinen en subdomeinen die we moeten blokkeren. Bovendien heeft de Stichting BREIN van de rechter de macht gekregen om die lijst uit te breiden door ons een fax met extra adressen te sturen, zonder dat ze daarvoor opnieuw langs de rechter moeten. XS4ALL is het daar fundamenteel mee oneens, dus gaan we in Hoger Beroep.
January 31 2012
The countries of the world sized according to the amount of government spending
In the words of the World Bank, which published it in a report issued this week ("Golden Growth: Restoring the lustre of the European Economic model", here), Europe is the world's “lifestyle superpower”. As opposed to America, which spends almost as much as the rest of the world put together on defence, Europe spends more than the rest of the globe combined on social policies.
In many ways this is an admirable aspect of Europe's economic model, which combines high living standards with high standards of social welfare. The trouble is, such spending is helping to bankrupt governments—not least because those very same caring policies ensure that Europeans live longer, requiring more expenditure on health care and the payment of pensions for more years.
January 22 2012
Vreemdelingendetentie in Nederland
Het is een schande dat ongewenste vreemdelingen in Nederland gestraft worden zonder een misdaad begaan te hebben, en zelfs slechter behandeld worden dan moordenaars, verkrachters en andere criminelen.
Dit is al jaren aan de gang, veel mensen weten ervan en schamen zich diep. We zijn door de Amnesty International, de Raad van Europa en de Verenigde Naties veroordeeld aangesproken op schendingen van basale menselijke rechten - en doen er niets aan.
Aan minister Leers en staatssecretaris Teeven: ik hoop dat u, de rest van uw leven, zwetend van angst wakker wordt in het besef dat uw buitensluiting, onrechtmatige detentie en langdurige eenzame opsluiting slechts een zoveelste slechte droom was.
Voor duizenden is dit de dagelijkse realiteit, en wij zijn er dankzij de herhaaldelijke, grootschalige en onvergeeflijke nalatigheid van bewindsvoerders verantwoordelijk voor. Slaap zacht.
January 19 2012
The Banker
January 14 2012
The Impossible Hamster
(and economic growth)
January 12 2012
Rechter verplicht providers om 'The Pirate Bay' te blokkeren
Vandaag heeft een rechter, op basis van onjuist geïnterpreteerde informatie, beslist dat XS4ALL en Ziggo 'The Pirate Bay' moeten gaan blokkeren.
Hierbij moeten deze (en als de jurispundentie standhoudt ook alle andere) providers klakkeloos alle IP adressen en DNS-records die Brein aanlevert blokkeren - en is de facto de vrijheid van meningsuiting ondergeschikt aan commerciële belangen verklaard. Daarnaast is het lijnrecht in strijd met de beslissing van de Tweede Kamer om net-neutraliteit zeker te stellen.
Vind jij dit belachelijk? Teken de petitie.
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January 10 2012
Free Speech 2.0
Protesters questioning the loss of freedom brought about by the NDAA are promptly arrested and whisked out of public sight.
January 07 2012
Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk
Once again, a good time to post Naomi Klein's message: we have to stretch out to reach a different kind of narrative if our aim is for this civilization to survive.
December 29 2011
Whose side are you on, boys?
December 19 2011
Steve Keen on the depression
Steve Keen, one of the few economists to have predicted the global financial crisis, about the possibility of another Great Depression, and how to avoid it.
You don't get into the situation we are in now, without extremely bad thinking'Another Great Depression is all but inevitable' - that's the view of Steve Keen. He's been called the 'Merchant of Gloom', but he's one of the few economists to have predicted the global financial crisis. While he used to be a lone voice in challenging the economic consensus, more and more people are now listening to him.
His way of avoiding depression?
- Write off the debt
- Bankrupt the banks
- Nationalise the financial system
December 15 2011
German TV reflecting on Russia's elections
December 11 2011
Femen: tits and activism
A new kind of feminism operating in the divide between sex and sexism.
December 10 2011
Debtocracy
For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. "Debtocracy" seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media.
November 22 2011
President Barack Obama: “I want to be very clear in calling upon the Egyptian authorities to refrain from any violence against peaceful protesters. The people of Egypt have rights that are universal. That includes the right to peaceful assembly and association, the right to free speech, and the ability to determine their own destiny. These are human rights. And the United States will stand up for them everywhere.”
Does “everywhere” include the U.S.A.?
Starring on this photo:
Lieutenant John Pike
Records Unit Manager
Phone: 530-752-3989
Mobile: 530-979-0184
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Pike has received 2 Meritorious Service Awards from UC Davis
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November 18 2011
New tests confirm superluminous neutrino's
New tests conducted at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of INFN by the OPERA Collaboration, with a specially set up neutrino beam from CERN, confirm so far the previous results on the measurement of the neutrino velocity. The new tests seem to exclude part of potential systematic effects that could have affected the original measurement.
"A measurement so delicate and carrying a profound implication on physics requires an extraordinary level of scrutiny - said Fernando Ferroni, president of Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) - The experiment OPERA, thanks to a specially adapted CERN beam, has made an important test of consistency of its result. The positive outcome of the test makes us more confident in the result, although a final word can only be said by analogous measurements performed elsewhere in the world".
"One of the eventual systematic errors is now out of the way, but the search is not over. They are more checks of systematics currently under discussion, one of them could be a synchronisation of the time reference at CERN and Gran Sasso independently from the GPS, using possibly a fiber" said Jacques Martino, Director of National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics of French CNRS.
Nigal Farage: What gives you the right to dictate to the Italian people?
November 11 2011
The European Stability Mechanism
... or the end of sovereign democracy as we know it
Nederlandse? Bekijk vertaalde versie en teken de petitie. Het oorspronkelijke verdag vind je hier.A new treaty is on it's way of being ratified by Europe's parliaments to instantiate an extra-governmental organisation, the ESM, which has full juridical immunity. It can order virtually unlimited amounts of money (starting with 700 billion) to be paid within 7 days without the possibility of democratic control.
Do we really want to:
- Allow virtually unlimited amounts of national debt to built up in order to save the Euro?
- Have no way to control the amounts of money being lended in order to bail the Euro out?
- Have no way of holding the ones in control over the ESM responsible for their actions?
If you don't, please write your local politicians. We cannot let this happen.
Looking for the original treaty? Download it hereNovember 04 2011
Wie is de eigenaar van De Nederlandsche Bank?
Hoewel er in 1998 een nieuwe bankwet is gekomen, die de aandelen van De Nederlandsche Bank volgens de letter van de wet (nationalisatie) exclusief bij de overheid brengt, is het ook zo dat DNB zelf aangeeft dat de NV vorm een zekere vorm van onafhankelijkheid geeft… Toch een rare zaak als er maar één eigenaar is. Waarom zou die dan niet mogen aangeven hoe er gewerkt moet worden?
November 01 2011
BBC Speechless as trader forecasts global monetary collapse
Financial expert Alessio Rastani: 'Governments don't rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules the world [and] Goldman Sachs does not care about the rescue package.'
He's become the face of the global debt crisis and an internet sensation. The self-styled City trader who stripped away the jargon and bluster of the financial world and summed up our woes in just three minutes. "I go to bed every night dreaming of another recession," Alessio Rastani explained in a BBC interview. "It's an opportunity."
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