You’d think the USA would do something about this. 😦
Category: government
love the beautiful game, hate FIFA
One of the Saudi coaches flew to Brazil yesterday. Here are his World Cup tickets.
Watch John Oliver Explain Perfectly Why You Should Hate FIFA
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
64 words China is blocking
Here’s a good example why you don’t want YOUR government interfering with internet freedom.
JUNE 4
天安门: Tiananmen (simplified characters)
坦克: tank
liu四: phonetic for 6-4
六四: 6-4
学潮: campus upheaval
ⅥⅣ: Roman numerals for 6-4
IIXVIIIIX: Roman numbers for 1-9-8-9
Jun 4th
陆肆: an alternative way to write 6-4
天安門: Tiananmen (traditional characters)
五月三十五: May 35, aka June 4
瓶反鹿死: a homophone for ‘redress June 4th’
six四: 6-4
six four
TAM: abbreviation for Tiananmen
王维林: Wang Weilin, alleged “tank man”
春夏之交: Between spring and summer
八九: 89
河殇: River elegy
暴乱: rebellion
维多利亚公园: Victoria Park (site of vigil in Hong Kong)
six quatre: 6-4
Tank Man
VIIIIXVI: Roman numerals for 8-9-6
VIIV: 6-4
工自联: Capital/Beijing Autonomous Workers Federation
广场: Square (or plaza)
戒严: Martial law
缅怀: nostalgia—possible reference to Tiananmen Mothers
平反: Redress; vindicate
维园: Victoria Park
学生领袖: Student leaders
学运: Student movement
高自联: Beijing Autonomous University Students Union
liusi: Six four
自由花: Flower of Freedom
8964
历史的伤口: The wound in history
六si: Six four
六four: Six four
六肆: June 4
八平方: 8 squared (that is, 64)
天an门: Tiananmen
国殇: National war dead
侏儒之歌: Song used in Tiananmen commemorations
61后三天: three days after June 1
民主女神: Goddess of Democracy
8qb4: 8964
三月九十六号: March 96th (June 4)
毋忘阝坴镸聿: Do not forget June 4
2的6次方: 2 to the power of 6 (that is, 64)
小平下令镇压: Deng Xiaoping orders martial law
李鹏: Li Peng
lipeng: Li Peng
六4: 6-4
Blood is on the square
六亖: June 4 coded keyword
黄雀行动: Operation Yellowbird, the Hong Kong movement to help activists leave the mainland
six4: June 4
64事件: June 4 Incident
烛光: candle-lit (vigil)
陆四: June 4 coded keyword
89事件: 1989 event64 Tiananmen-Related Words China Is Blocking Online Today
By Jason Q. Ng
Citizen Koch – billionaires buy politicians
Rich guys that hand you money expect results. As do Mafia kingpins.
Citizen Koch is a 2013 documentary film directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal concerning the political influence of American plutocrats following the Citizens United ruling, and of the Koch brothers in particular. …
Click PLAY or watch it the Trailer on citizenkoch.com.
RESET the NET
Two choices.
1. You can simply assume there is no privacy. No privacy online. None on phone.
Or …
2. you can try taking some small steps to discourage the NSA and other organizations from collecting data on you.
I’m switching from Google search to DuckDuckGo, for example. That might help. Apple is now offering DuckDuckGo as an alternative web search engine.
On the other hand, Google is responding to criticism, now offering end-to-end mail encryption, to try to make your email private.
Watch the RESET the NET VIDEO .
Edward Snowden is all in for this protest.
John Oliver on Net Neutrality
The funny man actually explains the issue better than anyone else.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Profanity.
96% of Americans have only 1 or 2 internet providers. For now. That will get worse since the American government has no incentive to protect consumers. Expect even less competition in future. Slower speeds and higher prices than the best of the rest of the world.
Canal Solar Power Project
The Canal Solar Power Project is a project launched in Gujarat, to use 19,000 Kilometre long network of Narmada canals across the state for setting up solar panels to generate electricity. …
The pilot project will generate 1.6 million units of clean energy per annum and also prevent evaporation of 9 million litres of water annually from the canal. The project virtually eliminates the requirement to acquire vast tracts of land and limits evaporation of water from the 750 meter long canal, tackling two challenges simultaneously by providing energy and water security. …
I hope this works.
related –
U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment sponsored by Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) that seeks to prevent the Department of Defense from using funding to address the national security impacts of climate change.
See who voted YES (not to study climate security risk) and who voted NO (to study the risk).
The GOP must change or die, long term. The voters are moving towards accepting Global Warming as a fact while Republicans cling to denial.
Republicans on Dope – just say “NO COMMENT”
Ask Sen. Marco Rubio whether he’s ever smoked marijuana, and the answer you’ll receive might seem a bit hazy.
In an interview with ABC and Yahoo News’ Politics Confidential published Monday, the Florida Republican and potential 2016 presidential candidate said that he will not answer the much-asked pot question.
“Here’s the problem with that question in American politics, if you say you did, suddenly there are all these people saying ‘Well, it’s not a big deal, look at all these successful people who did it,’” Rubio said, later adding, “On the other side of it, if you tell people that you didn’t, they won’t believe you.”
related – Rubio’s Wrong on Recreational Pot
Once again, the GOP is (mostly) on the wrong side of the trend towards ending the idiotic War on Drugs. And decriminalizing marijuana.
Rubio hasn’t the guts to admit he tried pot. That’s what I’m assuming since he hasn’t the guts to answer the question.
America dumbs down
Robert Sawyer linked to this article by Jonathon Gatehouse:
… That inarticulate legacy didn’t end with George W. Bush and Sarah Palin.
Barack Obama, the most cerebral and eloquent American leader in a generation, regularly plays the same card, droppin’ his Gs and dialling down his vocabulary to Hee Haw standards. His ability to convincingly play a hayseed was instrumental in his 2012 campaign against the patrician Mitt Romney; in one of their televised debates the President referenced “folks” 17 times. …
The U.S. is being overrun by a wave of anti-science, anti-intellectual thinking. Has the most powerful nation on Earth lost its mind?
It’s over-stated, but the headline is correct. The USA is getting dumber, not smarter.
Hard to say where it’s all going to end.
Rick McCharles 