A birthday ... present. The FTC wrote Steve Crocker and Rod Beckstrom. In a nutshell, the no-policy-but-cash framework that has been ICANN's registry policy since the 2004 round does not amuse.
The Article 32 hearing for PFC Bradley Manning will begin today (December 16, 2011) at Fort Meade, Maryland. The hearing is expected to last approximately five days. With the exception of those limited times where classified information is being discussed, the hearing will be open to the public.
Private Manning is represented by David E. Coombs (J.D. Idaho) who's practice specializes in representing members of the United States Army facing criminal and adverse administrative actions.
A recent FOIA request to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for "manuals, documents or other written guidance used to access or analyze data gathered by programs developed or deployed by Carrier IQ" was met with a telling denial. In it, the FBI stated it did have responsive documents - but they were exempt under a provision that covers materials that, if disclosed, might reasonably interfere with an ongoing investigation.
It was a so-so speech. Those of us confined to a gate waiting area for the prior five hours moved towards the CNN monopoly monitor (interrupted every 15m by the TSA "This is a special announcement" loop). The delay irritated important people used their cell phones to "just touch base" with some family or business contacts. For the rest of the gate area he had our complete attention for just about an hour.
I was waiting for a reference to the Glass–Steagall Act of 1932. It wasn't there.
An interesting summary in le monde. She's planning on leaving Foggy Bottom in January, replaced by John Kerry (queue another electoral campaign in Mass).
Greenpeace has carried out a pervasive pentest of the commercial nuclear powered electrical generating stations in France. The government and the industry is disputing the extent of the pentest. Sarko is calling the action (which shows that a bunch of hippies can enter a future Fukashima equipped with a tsunami or a banner to the effect that Kilroy was Here) irresponsible, so the task should have been left to a responsible armed organ of a hostile state or non-state actor. Going non-linear, the spokes-creature for Young UMP, Maxime Buizard, twitted that the Greenpeace activists should be shot as terrorists. He's since recovered a modicum of sanity and may support arrest and trial before execution of critics of the party in power.
What, other than limitless malice, was passing through the minds of Anglo-American targeteers when dumping a 1.8 ton mine at a random point in Koblenz? How is dropping a delayed detonation device of this size causally related to any lawful military end? The entire "strategic bombing" argument, the raison d'etre of the Air Force (which by the way, has been looking for another raison d'etre, along with the ballistic submarine fleet, since the departure of the Soviet Union / Warsaw Pact from the fields of budgetary folly), being that killing civilians will cause civilians to kill the military.
In other News of the Dumb on War a bright young thing in Tonopah Nevada has transfered a intact RQ-170 to the Islamic Republic. Because technology transfer to the OpFors is somehow better than memo transfer to the civilians (that's a Wikileaks reference).
The "China doesn't have nukes" meme is something his campaign could turn on a dime and put him, and the PRC, and the evils of Communism / Yellow Peril / Trade Imbalance / Strong Yuan stories back above the fold.
He didn't know, but he was busy running a main street business. Newt and Mitt and Michelle and Rick and Ron however were not running main street businesses (except perhaps into the ground as lackeys of financial capital and banksters) and they were in a position to know, along with the evils/peril/trade/currency/tibet set of issues, but clearly don't either. So who's too dumb to be the one with the red phone as office decor?
