14 Heroes & 14 Villains

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Heroes

1. David Kaye, Special Rapporteur to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
2. U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, introduced and was a crucial advocate for the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015.
3. Malkia Amal Cyril, executive director of the Center for Media Justice and co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network, Malkia Amal Cyril’s work
4. MPs David Davis and Tom Watson
5. Maricarmen Sequera is the director of TEDIC, a Paraguayan digital rights organization
6. Journalists Scahill and Begley revealed that American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the world’s largest producer of SIM cards and stole vast quantities of encryption keys
7. As director of the digital liberties organization Bolo Bhi, Farieha Aziz has been at the forefront of the campaign to modify the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2015, currently under consideration in Pakistan.
8. Netzpolitik released confidential documents to the public exposing Germany’s plans to launch bulk surveillance programs
9. a District Court struck down an 11-year-old gag order imposed by the FBI on Nicholas Merrill, the owner of Calyx, an internet service provider.
10. Kakao (formerly Daum Kakao), owns a South Korean internet company with a popular messaging service
11. The U.N. Human Rights Council
12. Moxie Marlinspike (& team), founder of Open Whisper Systems, an open source software group that freely offers the programs Signal, TextSecure, and Redphone
13. Kate Westmoreland is a cybercrime and human rights expert with Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society. Her January paper, Foreign Law Enforcement Access to User Data: A Survival Guide and Call for Action,
14. Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO has vocally resisted government demands to weaken the company’s data security practices

Villains

1. Hacking Team, covertly sold advanced communications surveillance services and resources to multiple governments and entities with poor records on human rights.
2. Prime Minister Manuel Valls, pushed through dangerous new legislation that lacks clarity and precision, and authorizes French intelligence services to exercise broad surveillance powers without prior judicial approval or oversight.
3. Pablo Romero Quezada is the former director of Ecuador’s intelligence agency, the Secretaría Nacional de Inteligencia (SENAIN)
4. Attorney General Githu Muigai fought to preserve Kenya’s Security Laws despite a High Court judgment overturning the legislation.
5. Canadian MP Steven Blaney was the sponsor of Bill C-51
6. U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron

7. Anthony Batts, former Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department in the U.S. Acting under a nondisclosure agreement with the FBI that was signed by a previous commissioner, the Baltimore Police Department used the “Stingray” surveillance device 4,300 times

8. Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi argued before India’s Supreme Court that privacy is not a fundamental right
9. Spanish Judge Javier Gómez Bermúdez jailed seven people without specifying the individualized charges or facts attributed to each suspect, forcing the defendants to make statements without knowing what they were accused of.
10. Telefonica
11. Prime Minister of Thailand, Prayut Chan-o-cha approved legislation to create a National Cybersecurity Committee
12. Washington Post Editorial Board suggested that the U.S. Congress could compel Apple and Google to use their “wizardry” to create a “Secure Golden Key” for the government to access otherwise secure user data
13. Gerhard Schindler is president of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND)
14. U.S. Senator Richard Burr, As chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Burr has been a driving force behind the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) legislation

19 Themes from Journal of International Affairs

1. Fall/Winter 2015 – Breaking Point: Protests and Revolutions in the 21st Century
2. Spring/Summer 2014 – Global Food Security
3. Fall/Winter 2013 – The Gender Issue: Beyond Exclusion
4. Spring/Summer 2013 – The Rise of Latin America
5. Fall/Winter 2012 – Transnational Organized Crime
6. Spring/Summer 2012 – The Future of the City
7. Fall/Winter 2011 – Inside the Authoritarian State
8. Spring/Summer 2011 – Sino-Indian Relations
9. Fall/Winter 2010 – Innovating for Development
10. Spring/Summer 2010 – Rethinking Russia
11. Fall/Winter 2009 – Pakistan and Afghanistan: Domestic Pressures and Regional Threats
12. Spring/Summer 2009 – Africa in the 21st Century
13. Fall/Winter 2008 – Global Finance
14. Spring/Summer 2008 – Water: A Global Challenge
15. Fall/Winter 2007 – Religion & Statecraft
16. Spring/Summer 2007 – Iran
17. Fall/Winter 2006 – Historical Reconciliation
18. Spring/Summer 2006 – The Globalization of Disaster
19. Fall/Winter 2005 – The Politics of the Sea: Regulating Stateless Space

6 Scary Book Selections to Read from Library for September 2015

1. Robert Spencer’s The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS

2. The Demographic Cliff: How To Survive And Prosper During The Great Deflation Of 2014-2019

Chapter 1	The Demographic Cliff Around the World
Chapter 2	Following Japan into a Coma Economy
Chapter 3	Why Real Estate Will Never Be the Same
Chapter 4	A Look at Public and Private Debt
Chapter 5	A Brief History of Financial Bubbles
Chapter 6	Commodity Prices: The Achilles’ Heel of Emerging Countries
Chapter 7	Investment Strategies for the Financial Crisis Ahead
Chapter 8	Business Strategies for the Winter Season
Chapter 9	Government Strategies for Facilitating Free Markets
Epilogue:	A Major Revolution Brews Every 250 Years

3. Humans Are Underrated by Geoff Colvin

• The Cleveland Clinic, which emphasizes empathy training of doctors and all employees to improve patient outcomes and lower medical costs.
• The U.S. Army, which has revolutionized its training to focus on human interaction, leading to stronger teams and greater success in real-world missions.
• Stanford Business School, which has overhauled its curriculum to teach interpersonal skills through human-to-human experiences.

4. The State We’re In: Maine Stories by Ann Beattie

• NY Times
• SF Gate
• Boston Globe
• Vogue

5. A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design by Frank Wilczek: History of mathematics

• Guardian
• FT
• PBS Nova Next “How Physics Will Change—and Change the World—in 100 Years”
• Slate

6. Let’s Be Less Stupid: An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties by Patricia Marx

 

டைம்பாஸ் என்றால் விகடன் – பத்து Vikatan அட்டைப்படங்கள்

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தம்பி டைனோ செய்த பத்து தவறுகள்

அருமைத்தம்பி ஆருயிர் தோழர் டைனோபாய் நடத்தும் ஃபேஸ்புக் கணக்கு முடக்கம் கண்டிருக்கிறது. ஏன்?

1. அவர் அளவுக்கு அதிகமாக வளர்ந்துவிட்டார். அதாவது நிறைய நண்பர்களைப் பெற்று புகழ்பெற்ற மனிதராக விளங்கியதால் ஃபேஸ்புக் வட்டத்தில் பொறாமைக்காரர்களின் கோள்மூட்டல், இந்த பின்விளைவைப் பெற்றுத்தந்தது.
2. டைனோ என்பது அவர் பெயர் அல்ல. அதற்கு பதில் லியோ கர்கா என்பது போல் நம்பகமான புனைப்பெயர் கொண்டிருக்கவில்லை.
3. உண்மையான பெயரிலியாக அவர் விளங்கவில்லை. பல சந்திப்புகளுக்கு வந்து முகம் காட்டிவிட்டார்.
4. முகமிலியாக இருப்பவருக்கான உண்மையான இலட்சணங்கள் அவருக்கு இல்லை: பலான கதைகள் எழுதவில்லை; கிசுகிசுக்களைப் பரப்புவதில் மட்டுமே ஈடுபடவில்லை; புறம் கூறி பிரச்சினைகளை பூதாகாரமாக்குவதிலேயே நேரம் செலவிடவில்லை
5. லிபரல் ரிபப்ளிகனாகக் காட்டிக் கொண்டதால், டெமொகிராட்டுகளின் சதிகளில் இதுவும் ஒன்று.
6. அமெரிக்கத் தமிழர்களின் ஒரே சங்கமமான ஃபெட்னாவிற்கு எதிராகப் பேசினால் இதுதான் கதி.
7. என்னுடைய கேள்விகளுக்கு எல்லாம் பதில் சொன்னபோதே இதை எதிர்பார்த்தோம்.
8. அங்கே முடக்கினால் என்ன… ட்விட்டரில் இருக்கிறோமே என்னும் மெத்தனம்
9. அவர் தமிழ் வெறியர்; தமிழர் தலைவராக இருக்கும் பன்னாட்டு நிறுவனங்களில் மட்டுமே கணக்கு வைத்திருக்கும் பார்ப்பன அடிவருடி; சுந்தர் பிச்சையின் ஆதரவாளர்
10. All Good Things Must Come to an End என்று நினைக்காமல், வேறு பெயரில் அதே முகபுத்தகத்தில் உலவுவதால் வந்த வினை.

 

 

 

 

10 Labour disputes cited in Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady Deflategate

Collective Bargaining cases that helped New England Pats QB who was accused of ball tampering in NFL

1. Abu Dhabi Inv. Auth. v. Citigroup. Inc.

2. Lehman Brothers

3. Postlewaite v. McGraw-Hill. Inc

4. Giddens v. Barclays Capital Inc.

5. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Carolina Power & Light Co.

6. Bell Aerospace Co. Div. of Textron v. Local516

7. Chevron Transp. Com. v. Astro Vencedor Compania Naviera. S.A.

8. United Steelworkers of Am. v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corporation

9. Shearson/American Express Inc. v. McMahon

10. United States v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters

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