Thursday, 31 March 2011
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Facebook and How the US stirred up shit in the muslim world
The US government is offering private intelligence companies contracts to create software to manage “fake people” on social media sites. Private security firms employeed by the government have used the accounts to create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues.
According to the contract, the software would “protect the identity of government agencies” by employing a number of false signals to convince users that the poster is in fact a real person. A single user could manage unique background information and status updates for up to 10 fake people from a single computer.
The software enables the government to shield its identity through a number of different methods including the ability to assign unique IP addresses to each persona and the ability to make it appear as though the user is posting from other locations around the world.
Included in leaked emails was a government proposal for the government contract. The document describes how they would ‘friend’ real people on Facebook as a way to convey government messages. The proposal reads:
“Those names can be cross-referenced across Facebook, twitter, MySpace, and other social media services to collect information on each individual. Once enough information is collected this information can be used to gain access to these individuals social circles.
Even the most restrictive and security conscious of persons can be exploited. Through the targeting and information reconnaissance phase, a person’s hometown and high school will be revealed.
An adversary can create a classmates.com account at the same high school and year and find out people you went to high school with that do not have Facebook accounts, then create the account and send a friend request. Under the mutual friend decision, which is where most people can be exploited, an adversary can look at a targets friend list if it is exposed and find a targets most socially promiscuous friends, the ones that have over 300-500 friends, friend them to develop mutual friends before sending a friend request to the target. To that end friend’s accounts can be compromised and used to post malicious material to a targets wall. When choosing to participate in social media an individual is only as protected as his/her weakest friend.”
Other attachments in the leaked emails include quotes from the firm involved HBGary, CEO Aaron Barr saying, “There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas… Using hashtags and gaming some location based check-in services we can make it appear as if a persona was actually at a conference and introduce himself/herself to key individuals as part of the exercise, as one example.”
Additional emails between HBGary employees, usually originating from Barr, discuss the vulnerability social networking causes.
One employee wrote, “and now social networks are closing the gap between attacker and victim, to the point I just found (via linked-in) 112 females, wives of service men, all stationed at Hurlbert Field FL – in case you don’t know this is where the CIA flies all their “private” airlines out of. What a damn joke – the U.S. is no longer the super power in cyber, and probably won’t be in other areas soon.”
Barr also predicted a steady rise in clandestine or secret government operations to stem the flow of sensitive information. “I would say there is going to be a resurgence of black ops in the coming year as decision makers settle with our inadequacies… Critical infrastructure, finance, defense industrial base, and government have rivers of unauthorized communications flowing from them and there are no real efforts to stop it.”
The creation of internet propoganda software is only one of HBGary’s controversial activities. According to Wikileaks competetor and occasional collaborator Cryptome.org, several other progressive organizations were intended to be targeted including anti-war activist, anti-torture organizations and groups opposed to the US Chamber of Commerce.But now we know that three months before the risings in the Muslim world the American government knew in advance as they sent millions of emails out and facebook requests creating resentment. Facebook has more or less become a fascist organisation so get off it. send this post to friends please.
Monday, 28 March 2011
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Saturday, 26 March 2011
foof food
Foodie vacationers looking for a different kind of experience in the UK might want to look at Food Safari, a Suffolk-based business that specializes in creating "Field to Fork" days with some of East Anglia's best food and drink producers. Outings range from catch and cook deep sea fishing excursions and oyster harvests to wild food foraging and pork butchery lessons. And they almost always finish with a first class meal at a gastropub.
For Polly Robinson who, together with publisher husband Tim, runs Food Safari, picky appetites were countered with, "Eat up. Do you have any idea how much work went into putting that food on the table?" Polly's aunt and uncle were among the first organic farmers in North Wales, more than thirty years ago. From them she developed a respect for the food we eat and where it comes from.
"Over the years of going to market, " she says, "I got to know the farmers, how hard they worked. I saw where and how different foods are produced." Reasoning that more and more vacationers enjoy cooking schools, she came up with the idea of telling the "field to fork story - going back several stages from cookery" to the hands on experiences of rearing, gathering and preparing the ingredients.
Read more, see pictures and try recipes.
During the summer and autumn of 2009, other programs included:
Do You Know Where Your Dinner Came From?
Maybe you remember being encouraged to clean your plate with a firm, "Eat up, children in Russia/Africa/Asia (pick whichever matches the decade of your childhood)are starving." I always wondered how eating my scrambled eggs would help.For Polly Robinson who, together with publisher husband Tim, runs Food Safari, picky appetites were countered with, "Eat up. Do you have any idea how much work went into putting that food on the table?" Polly's aunt and uncle were among the first organic farmers in North Wales, more than thirty years ago. From them she developed a respect for the food we eat and where it comes from.
"Over the years of going to market, " she says, "I got to know the farmers, how hard they worked. I saw where and how different foods are produced." Reasoning that more and more vacationers enjoy cooking schools, she came up with the idea of telling the "field to fork story - going back several stages from cookery" to the hands on experiences of rearing, gathering and preparing the ingredients.
What's Involved
The Food Safari program is continually developing. Currently, programs are being offered in Suffolk in the East of England, Programs may be offered in Norfolk and Cornwall in the West Country in the future. The days involve:- A learning experience - a demonstration about wild edible plants, for example, a guided tour of a vineyard or a walk around a pig farm.
- A hands-on experience - helping with winery tasks in season, safely picking stinging nettles, learning how to butcher a side of pork or inventing a sausage recipe and making sausages from scratch.
- A feast at a pub, a seafood restaurant or other suitable place.
Read more, see pictures and try recipes.
During the summer and autumn of 2009, other programs included:
- Seafood in a Day - finding oysters, crabs and seafish, visiting oysterbeds and a smokehouse and a meal at a well known seafood restaurant in Orford.
- Hands-on Vineyard Tour
- Catch and Cook - including a day of North Sea fishing for bass, cod, brill or turbot, learning how to clean the fish and cooking lunch on board.
- Wild Meat in a Day - plucking, preparing, cooking and eating wild birds and game.
- Free Range Pork in a Day - a tour of a pig farm, then a butchery demonstration and sausage making.
- Mushroom and Hedgerow forays, flour and breakmaking days and brewing days were planned for the autumn.
Food Safari Essentials
- Where: Food Safari, 26 Double Street, Framlingham, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP13 9BN
- Telephone: +44 (0)1728 621 380+44 (0)1728 621 380
- Website
- Email:polly@foodsafari.co.uk
- Prices: In 2009 from £75 to £150 per person depending upon the event. Couples discounts available for some programs.
Simone
Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, often shortened to Simone de Beauvoir (French pronunciation: [simɔn də boˈvwaʁ]; January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986), was a French existentialist philosopher, public intellectual, and social theorist. She wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography in several volumes, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues.
She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, and for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. She is also noted for her lifelong polyamorous relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Early yearsSimone de Beauvoir was born in Paris, the eldest daughter of Georges Bertrand de Beauvoir, a legal secretary who once aspired to be an actor,and Françoise (née) Brasseur, a banker’s daughter and devout Catholic, from a well-off background. Her younger sister, Hélène, was born two years later. The family struggled to maintain their bourgeois status after losing much of their fortune shortly after World War I, and Françoise insisted that the two daughters be sent to a prestigious convent school. Beauvoir herself was deeply religious as a child—at one point intending to become a nun—until a crisis of faith at age 14. She remained an atheist for the rest of her life.
Beauvoir was intellectually precocious from a young age, fueled by her father’s encouragement: he reportedly would boast, “Simone thinks like a man!”
After passing baccalaureate exams in mathematics and philosophy in 1925, she studied mathematics at the Institut Catholique and literature/languages at the Institut Sainte-Marie. She then studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, writing her thesis on Leibniz for Léon Brunschvicg. She first worked with Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Claude Lévi-Strauss when all three completed their practice teaching requirements at the same secondary school.
Although not officially enrolled, she sat in on courses at the École Normale Supérieure in preparation for the agrégation in philosophy, a highly competitive postgraduate examination which serves as a national ranking of students. It was while studying for the agrégation that she met École Normale students Sartre, Paul Nizan, and René Maheu (who gave her the lasting nickname "Castor", or beaver). The jury for the agrégation narrowly awarded Sartre first place instead of Beauvoir, who placed second and, at age 21, was the youngest person ever to pass the exam.
After passing baccalaureate exams in mathematics and philosophy in 1925, she studied mathematics at the Institut Catholique and literature/languages at the Institut Sainte-Marie. She then studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, writing her thesis on Leibniz for Léon Brunschvicg. She first worked with Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Claude Lévi-Strauss when all three completed their practice teaching requirements at the same secondary school.
Although not officially enrolled, she sat in on courses at the École Normale Supérieure in preparation for the agrégation in philosophy, a highly competitive postgraduate examination which serves as a national ranking of students. It was while studying for the agrégation that she met École Normale students Sartre, Paul Nizan, and René Maheu (who gave her the lasting nickname "Castor", or beaver). The jury for the agrégation narrowly awarded Sartre first place instead of Beauvoir, who placed second and, at age 21, was the youngest person ever to pass the exam.
Sartre was dazzlingly intelligent and was just under 5 feet (1.5 m) tall.
He allowed Beauvoir to talk about herself.
During October 1929, the two became a couple and Sartre asked her to marry him.
One day while they were sitting on a bench outside the Louvre, he said, "Let's sign a two-year lease".
Near the end of her life, Beauvoir said, "Marriage was impossible. I had no dowry." So they became an imaginary married couple.
Beauvoir chose to never marry and did not set up a joint household with Sartre. She never had children.This gave her time to earn an advanced academic degree, to join political causes and to travel, write, teach, and to have (male and female - the latter often shared) lovers.
He allowed Beauvoir to talk about herself.
During October 1929, the two became a couple and Sartre asked her to marry him.
One day while they were sitting on a bench outside the Louvre, he said, "Let's sign a two-year lease".
Near the end of her life, Beauvoir said, "Marriage was impossible. I had no dowry." So they became an imaginary married couple.
Beauvoir chose to never marry and did not set up a joint household with Sartre. She never had children.This gave her time to earn an advanced academic degree, to join political causes and to travel, write, teach, and to have (male and female - the latter often shared) lovers.
She started her teaching career at a secondary school in Marseilles in 1931 and moved to the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen
A number of de Beauvoir's young female lovers were underage, and the nature of some of these relationships, some of which she instigated while working as a school teacher, has lead to a biographical controversy and debate over whether de Beauvoir had inclinations towards paedophilia.
A former student, Bianca Lamblin, originally Bianca Bienenfeld, later wrote critically about her seduction by her teacher, Simone de Beauvoir, when she was a 17 year old lycee student in her book, Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée. In 1941, de Beauvoir was suspended from her teaching job, due to an accusation that she had, in 1939, seduced her 17 year old lycee pupil Nathalie Sorokine. Beauvoir's rendez-vous were structured around philosophy lessons. Exasperated at having to discuss Kant before climbing into Beauvoir's bed, the student Nathalie Sorokine called Beauvoir "a clock in a refrigerator." When Sorokine's mother complained to the school, Beauvoir was fired, effectively ending her teaching career. De Beauvoir would, along with other French intellectuals, later petition for an abolition of all age of consent laws in France.
When Beauvoir was asked point blank in an interview if she were a lesbian, she angrily denied it. It should be noted, however, that Beauvoir tended to define things narrowly (she also claimed she was not a philosopher, again according to a strict definition). For Beauvoir, a lesbian is a woman who refuses to have anything (sexual) to do with males.
Further, Beauvoir was a major participant in the public erasure of her lesbian identity. A comparison of the unpublished diaries with published works shows a very different representation of the relationship with Zaza in Beauvoir's autobiography Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958) or of Beauvoir's lover Olga as the fictional Xavière in her novel She Came to Stay (1943). It has only recently been recognized that Beauvoir was the model for the lesbian Inès in Sartre's No Exit (1944).
Beauvoir's most explicit writing on lesbianism is found in a single chapter in volume II of The Second Sex, "The Lesbian." Claiming that all women are "naturally homosexual" (she doesn't explain what she means by this, but it seems to have something to do with a predilection for soft skin), Beauvoir distinguishes the lesbian from the heterosexual by her exclusive "refusal of the male and her taste for feminine flesh."
At first reading the chapter seems confused, contradictory, and filled with outrageous statements. It has even been seen as something against men . But not only has it always been considered the first serious philosophical treatment of lesbianism, we can see in retrospect the large extent to which the chapter anticipates current issues of lesbian identity and the performance of gender.
A former student, Bianca Lamblin, originally Bianca Bienenfeld, later wrote critically about her seduction by her teacher, Simone de Beauvoir, when she was a 17 year old lycee student in her book, Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée. In 1941, de Beauvoir was suspended from her teaching job, due to an accusation that she had, in 1939, seduced her 17 year old lycee pupil Nathalie Sorokine. Beauvoir's rendez-vous were structured around philosophy lessons. Exasperated at having to discuss Kant before climbing into Beauvoir's bed, the student Nathalie Sorokine called Beauvoir "a clock in a refrigerator." When Sorokine's mother complained to the school, Beauvoir was fired, effectively ending her teaching career. De Beauvoir would, along with other French intellectuals, later petition for an abolition of all age of consent laws in France.
When Beauvoir was asked point blank in an interview if she were a lesbian, she angrily denied it. It should be noted, however, that Beauvoir tended to define things narrowly (she also claimed she was not a philosopher, again according to a strict definition). For Beauvoir, a lesbian is a woman who refuses to have anything (sexual) to do with males.
Further, Beauvoir was a major participant in the public erasure of her lesbian identity. A comparison of the unpublished diaries with published works shows a very different representation of the relationship with Zaza in Beauvoir's autobiography Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958) or of Beauvoir's lover Olga as the fictional Xavière in her novel She Came to Stay (1943). It has only recently been recognized that Beauvoir was the model for the lesbian Inès in Sartre's No Exit (1944).
Beauvoir's most explicit writing on lesbianism is found in a single chapter in volume II of The Second Sex, "The Lesbian." Claiming that all women are "naturally homosexual" (she doesn't explain what she means by this, but it seems to have something to do with a predilection for soft skin), Beauvoir distinguishes the lesbian from the heterosexual by her exclusive "refusal of the male and her taste for feminine flesh."
At first reading the chapter seems confused, contradictory, and filled with outrageous statements. It has even been seen as something against men . But not only has it always been considered the first serious philosophical treatment of lesbianism, we can see in retrospect the large extent to which the chapter anticipates current issues of lesbian identity and the performance of gender.
turkish pasties
9 Tbsp plain yogurt
6 Tbsp canola oil
1 ½ tsp baking soda
1 ½ tsp salt
1 egg white (yolk goes for top)
2-3 cups flour
Nigella/poppy seeds for top
Filling:
1 ½ cup sliced black olives
Place all of the dough ingredients in a wide and deep bowl. Mix them all and knead with your hands till the dough gets elastic, non sticky and smooth. Grab egg size pieces of dough and flatten with your palms. Place one tea spoonful of black olives in the middle. Give it an oval shape close it up on top as you see in the picture. Stick the edges pressing with your fingers.
Place the pogacas over a greased oven tray and glaze with egg yolk. Sprinkle with nigella/poppy seeds and bake at preheated 350 F (180 C) oven till they get light brown.
ENJOY
TURKCE
Bu harika tarif icin sevgili kardesime tesekkurlerimi sunuyorum!
3 yemek kasigi tereyagi/margarin
9 yemek kasigi yogurt
6 yemek kasigi kanola yagi
1 ½ tatli kasigi karbonat
1 ½ cay kasigi tuz
1 yumurta aki (sarisi uzerine)
Corek otu/ hashas tohumu
2-3 su bardagi un
Ic malzeme:
1½ su bardagi dilimlenmis siyah zeytin
Genis ve derince bir kaba butun hamur malzemelerini alin. Elastik ve kulak memesi yumusakliginda, puruzsuz bir hamur elde edene dek yogurun.
Hamurdan yumurta buyuyklugunde parcalar koparin elinizle acarak oval sekil verin. Ortasina bir tatli kasigi zeytin koyun ve uzunlamasina kenarlarini yukarida birlestirerek sekildeki gibi parmaklarinizla sikistirarak kapatin.
Pogacalari yaglanmis firin tepsisine aralikli olarak dizin ve uzerlerine ayrimis oldugunuz yumurta sarisini surun. Corek out/hashas tohumu serpin ve onceden isitilmis 180C (350F) firinda uzerleri kizarana dek pisirin.
AFIYET OLSUN
fred perry
asda shoes unisex
these blokes didnt givva shit bout fashion see the film
King Charles coin minted at Oxford ,spinks and coins
this coin will be sold at spinks for 28,000 pounds soon. but a word of warning , i went to spinks with a coin that was mint and very very rare, they offered me 75 pounds, what that meant is that business is not one of their strengths. later i was offered by a real businessman 1,000 pounds for the coin.this person had no idea of the worth of my coin but calculated by the date that it must be worth money.anyway if you have anything valuable find out what your coin or object is really worth before going to this company, get it valued, I hate piss takers in business. It was probably because of my london accent that they thought they had a mug in front of them. I later went to christies and they told me it was a fake until I showed them the aurthentication i had got from the british museum so try to avoid auction houses as well, youll lose money if you don't know what you have.
Friday, 25 March 2011
Thursday, 24 March 2011
FUCK NOT NUCLEAR idiot nuclear
Merkel said that Germany will be released as soon as it can from the terror of the nuclear-sooner the better Germany has 17 reactors that will be nine-year-old in 2026 . Over the next three months all German stations will be controlled with a "stress test" and seven reactors will be shut down for maintenance and one permanently, another five will be deactivated in may for controls. If mathematics is not an opinion, as would the form (by the way someone is still prattling on about the safe nuclear "brand new" generation?), Germany by the summer, a world economic power, will have only 4 ballasts (17-8-5 = 4). How will it survive? With the development of renewable energy sources.
The nuclear reactors in Europe are hundreds. France is the first nuclear nation. France has 19 with 58 reactors, in 2009 nuclear energy generated 75.17% of its electricity needs, the first in the world, other Nations arrive up to 30%. An EPR reactor is under construction in France, the second after that of Olkiluoto in Finland which has as partners Enel with 12.5% investment and which has already doubled the costs and construction time.
France has a development model based on nuclear energy, nuclear war is strictly connected to the civilian model kept alive thanks to taxes of the French and the supply of uranium from Niger and from the State-owned Areva (see Greenpeace "Areva's uranium is killing the Niger").
Two incompatible development models are ahead of us, one related to renewable energy and energy saving, represented by Germany, and another nuclear power, France.
On this issue Europe must decide in a referendum. Europeans must decide on Europe's energy policy and their future, not only individual Governments. The western border of Italy deployed 7 nuclear Super Phénix at Marcoule. Someone asked us for permission? If an airliner hit the stations , as happened on 11 September, a central part of France and Italy would become a radioactive desert.
Japan, when it will be resumed,is to abandon nuclear power. World stock markets have already done so, the nuclear industry is gone. Europe needs not statesmen or businessmen like Sarkozy and Berlusconi or idioy cameron and his fat wife but minds like maybe merkel. We are at war and will win.
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
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