http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/13/sunday-morning-news Comments On: Sunday Morning News by Unpaid Intern en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:32:11 -0800 The Stranger P.s. to Phoebe, I take back some of the mean things I've said about you.
Posted by Dr_Awesome]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:56:35 -0800 The Stranger Its nothing and to be honest they are according to all other sources greatly exaggerating.

@21 ... I wish I could explain it but since all the information is only a simple search away I guess your just ignorant or make stuff up fit your world view - so its no point
Posted by JensR]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:07:59 -0800 The Stranger
Far be it from me to speak ill of the dead, but I'm having trouble understanding the guy's "legacy".

RSS. Who ever used it? I set up RSS like 10 times and never did use it. The blog post, email notification combo seems far more used...and now the Facebook feed.

Reddit...he didn't found Reddit he got bought up by them. Again another sign that RSS was a dead end. And reddit is just another post an article and comment on it website. The real Internet way to do this is nntp anyway.

Freedom of documents. So here we have another Assange. A guy who does something he wants us to consider brave, by pulling the tiger's tail, and then who runs around screaming help me, help me! Look you either go up against these guys or not, and if you lose you take the fall...alone.

I have never supported all this free content anyway as I think it robs writers and knowledge workers blind (take that Wikipedia).

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:49:02 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 12:59:24 -0800 The Stranger Aaron Swartz, R.I.P.

There is nothing more sad, more disheartening, than the death of a decent person.

I didn't know Aaron Swartz, although I had communicated with him online on several occasions; a highly intelligent young man with a prodigious mind and noble spirit.

Aaron evidently reached the decision, to spare his family and friends future pain, he would forfeit his own life; in ancient Rome they referred to it as "Falling on one's sword."

Yet another fatality of Obama's War On Whistleblowers, the dramatic extension and expansion from the Bush administration.

Today, Gov. Don Siegelman sits in a penitentiary, his only "crime" was wishing to increase educational access for the many; an authentic democrat, so very rare today.

Today, an Iraqi immigrant, Shakir Hamoodi, who sent small sums of money to his close relatives back home for medical and food emergencies, also sits in a penitentiary, yet another humanist, or "criminal" in America?

Today, a brave CIA whistleblower of the criminal and barbaric torture taking place, John Kiriakou, faces two years in jail, thanks to Obama and life in the land of the lawless.

Aaron Swartz, Bradley Manning, Gov. Don Siegelman, Shakir Hamoodi, John Kiriakou and others, too many others, a roster of the best of America, wasted lives in others pursuit of never-ending corruption.

A bizarre BBC report the other day --- and bizarre is the only accurate description for both BBC and their news report --- ran an attack piece on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, nonsensically juxtaposed against the newspaper strike in China!

They --- the BBC and Australian news --- once again perpetrated lies of "sexual assault of two women" against Assange?

Having read all the legal documents, in both English and Swedish, I observed NO verification of such lies, only that Sofia Wilen, the younger woman who first approached Julian Assange, wanted nothing to do with such false allegations, and that the government-affiliated Anna Ardin (one of her many aliases), appears to have been the driving force in stirring up such vicious stories! (When the publicity became too much for Anna Ardin, she was spirited off to Israel, where a member of the Bonnier family was ambassador at that time.)

http://www.nnn.se/nordic/assange/suspici…

The one common factor, known to Americans, which is evident in both the attacks on Wikileaks/Assange and the illegitimate and amoral incarceration of Gov. Siegelman, is Karl Rove.

Rove appears again and again in the background, as the puppet master pulling the strings to take out Gov. Siegelman, and was financed in his multiple trips to Sweden, around the beginning of the WikiLeaks' episode, financed by the Bonnier family, one of the media giant families of Europe and among the top ten media corporations in existence. (Virtually everyone on the Swedish side who has been attacking Julian Assange is financially connected to the Bonnier family: the attorneys, Anna Ardin, the Bonnier-employed reporters, the Justice Minister, etc., the only exception would be Sofia Wilen, the young lady who quickly distanced herself from the horrendously unfolding events.)

Aaron Swartz, both believed in, and fought for, free speech and freedom of the press, an incredibly shrinking freedom which has been all but co-opted by the ruling oligarchs through their corporations today --- does anyone really know who owns AT&T, after all?

Recently, some technically astute friends ran a series of tests, and observed that the most heavily censored sites: Huffington Post, boingboing.net, Naked Capitalism, The Guardian, etc., are considered to be some of the more "liberal" sites on the 'net --- nothing could be further from the truth!

The most heavily censored English-speaking countries on the Web? Canada, the UK and the USA.

Most despicably, network neutrality appears as dead as Aaron Swartz --- and we should all mourn the passing of both noble personages.

In Memoriam

Aaron Swartz

November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co…

Notes and Sources

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct…

"Kiriakou was a CIA veteran who played a role in the agency's capture of the al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan in 2002. Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded by government interrogators and eventually revealed information that led to the arrest of the "dirty bomb" plotter Jose Padilla and exposed Khalid Sheikh Mohamed as the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks. Accounts conflict over whether the waterboarding was helpful in getting intelligence from Zubaydah."

. . . .

"The CIA director, David Petraeus, sent a memo to agency employees noting Kiriakou's conviction, saying: "It marks an important victory for our agency, for our intelligence community, and for our country. Oaths do matter, and there are indeed consequences for those who believe they are above the laws that protect our fellow officers and enable American intelligence agencies to operate with the requisite degree of secrecy."

(Tell that to the wifey, Davey boy! --- sgt_doom)

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/11/fo…

http://www.donsiegelman.org/

http://news.silobreaker.com/the-case-of-…


Posted by sgt_doom]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 12:49:32 -0800 The Stranger @17

Confine your diatribes to Wallingford, where the topics are jacking up a Craftsman to add a second floor and rock wall gardens.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 12:27:09 -0800 The Stranger Test: Try to be gay.
Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 12:23:02 -0800 The Stranger Anti Gay marches

I was swimming at 24 Hour Fitness and thinking what if sexual preference was really that...a preference. Like, a man prefers blondes. No one condemns him for that. No one marches..in fact, they celebrate him. They say, he has an eye for blondes.

Peking Smog

Global justice for sending over lead infused wooden blocks for our 2 yr olds to suck on.


Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 12:12:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:50:18 -0800 The Stranger
Amsterdam is gay. Places that are predominately Catholic are short on gayness, IMHHO.
Posted by SamWayneSmith]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:39:52 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Seattle14]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:39:02 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by reverend dr dj riz]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:38:35 -0800 The Stranger
They want to return to an ideal vision of womanhood set forth in the '50s of the last century? I can only be embarrassed and hang my head in shame.
Posted by Bauhaus I]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:30:42 -0800 The Stranger
Miss America contestants are college-bound and education-focused, rather than modeling-contract focused. Thus, your characterization of Miss America contestants being stupid is largely inaccurate, despite the inclusion of a swimsuit competition.

Miss America is an outdated, sexist program to be sure. But it sends young women to college, which is laudable.
Posted by Miss College-Bound Future]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:23:24 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:21:42 -0800 The Stranger
Of course it is political and religious and full of dislike towards gays.
Posted by Simone]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:46:26 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Confluence]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:42:52 -0800 The Stranger
I suspect most of the Stranger staffers think the same. You want sports "news", you have a goddamn bajillion sports outlets available to you.
Posted by Dr_Awesome]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:26:12 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Focus on the haters, ignore allies or vice versa?]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:13:20 -0800 The Stranger
Didn't even do a cursory google search?

Intern: Youz suck at this gig
Posted by The stranger is truly RETARDED]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:13:20 -0800 The Stranger Media Research Center" and Miss America on firearms policy—two of the last people on earth whose viewpoints on the subject I would ever seek out.
Posted by rob!]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 09:22:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by westello]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 09:17:25 -0800 The Stranger
And I don't have enough explatives to throw out there regarding the latest gang rape in India. So I'll just leave it with FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Does that cheapen the word?
Posted by bugwitch]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 09:03:21 -0800 The Stranger