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It's Official: Tunisia Now Freer than the U.S. | Informed Comment - 0 views

www.juancole.com/...ia-now-freer-than-the-u-s.html

It's Official: Tunisia Now Freer than the U.S. | Informed Comment

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  • thinkahol * on 09 Mar 11
     
    An Arab country with neither secret police nor censorship is unprecedented in recent decades. Tunisia is inspiring similar demands in Egypt and Jordan. When skeptics wonder if the Revolutions of 2011 would really change anything essential in the region, they would be wise to keep an eye on these two developments in Tunisia, which, if consolidated, would represent an epochal transformation of culture and politics. Arguably, Tunisians are now freer than Americans. The US government thinks our private emails are actually public. The FBI and NSA routinely read our email and they and other branches of the US government issue security letters in the place of warrants allowing them to tap phones and monitor whom we call, and even to call up our library records and conduct searches of our homes without telling us about it. Millions of telephone records were turned over to George W. Bush by our weaselly telecom companies. Courts allow government agents to sneak onto our property and put GPS tracking devices under our automobiles without so much as a warrant or even probable cause. Mr. Obama thinks this way of proceeding is a dandy idea.
thinkahol *

Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA | Glenn Greenwald |... - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...e-collusion-new-york-times-cia

Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times CIA Mark Mazzetti's emails with expose degradation of journalism that has lost imperative to be a check power

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  • thinkahol * on 22 Oct 12
     
    "Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA Mark Mazzetti's emails with the CIA expose the degradation of journalism that has lost the imperative to be a check to power"
anonymous

TP: Zypries schützt Telefonbetrüger - 0 views

www.heise.de/...1.html

beweislast bundesjustizministerium geschlossene missbrauch möglich telefonisch telefonwerbung unseriös verträge weiterhin zypries

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  • Unseriöse Anbieter können weiter angeblich am Telefon geschlossene Verträge vortäuschen Die mit Abstand leistungsfähigste Presseabteilung der Bundesregierung befindet sich mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit im Justizministerium: Die von dort kommenden Pressemitteilungen suggerieren mit bemerkenswerten Aufwand das Gegenteil von dem, was das jeweilige Gesetz effektiv bringt
  • Wer etwas unverlangt zugesandt bekommt, der kann es deshalb nicht einfach wegwerfen, sondern muss es zum Postamt tragen und dort zurückschicken.
  • der Verbraucher in Zukunft öfter zahlt und schweigt, statt sich auf einen potentiell aussichtslosen Rechtsstreit einzulassen.
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  • Wer nur solche Waren und Dienstleistungen liefert, welche die Kunden auch bei vollem Bewusstsein bestellt haben, der wird auch bei dieser Rechtslage kaum mit Problemen konfrontiert sein. Fürchten müssten solch eine Rechtslage lediglich die unseriösen Anbieter. Darauf angesprochen, heißt es im Justizministerium, dass solch eine Regelung "von der Bevölkerung nicht gewollt" sei. Statistiken oder Meinungsumfragen dazu können die Mitarbeiter im Justizministerium allerdings nicht vorweisen.
  • Auch die von Zypries angepriesenen Maßnahmen gegen unerlaubte Telefonwerbung dürften in der Praxis – wenn überhaupt – nur sehr eingeschränkt positive Auswirkungen für den Verbraucher haben. Schon bisher ist ungebetene Telefonwerbung nach § 7 Abs. 2 Nr. 2 UWG verboten. Verbraucher konnten solche Anrufe über die Email-Adresse rufnummernmissbrauch@bnetza.de melden. Diese konnte dann ein Inkassoverbot verhängen, was allerdings häufig erst nach Wochen oder Monaten geschah.
Arabica Robusta

Oil City: Where are the Jobs, pt. 2 | Pipe(line)Dreams - 0 views

www.pipelinedreams.org/...l-city-where-are-the-jobs-pt-2

petroleum industry development oil international extractive transparency curse 419

shared by Arabica Robusta on 09 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • There should be a direct relationship between recognized training centers and oil company human resources departments. There isn’t. Basically, people are on their own; it’s not like they can go down to the local jobs office and get advice.  In a country with extremely high levels of unemployment and a huge “419″ internet scamming problem (sorry, Ghana, but it appears you have caught up with Nigeria and Cameroon on this front), potential victims are everywhere.
  • Both Tullow Oil and Kosmos Energy have posted scam alerts on their websites. Here’s the warning from Kosmos: NOTE: POTENTIAL RECRUITMENT FRAUD Kosmos Energy has learned that job applicants in the international oil and gas business, as well as other industry sectors, may be contacted by individuals or organizations that offer false employment opportunities. These communications are often via email and may request personal information or money. Kosmos only makes job offers after candidates have completed a formal interview process and does not ask applicants to pay fees during recruitment. Specifically, please note that any communications from or about the “Kosmos Group” are not associated with Kosmos Energy. This is good, but I don’t know how useful these alerts are. There are a lot of people in Takoradi who don’t have internet access. And even when you get to the Tullow or Kosmos websites, it’s not easy to get information.
  • “We are committed to providing Ghanaian suppliers with full and fair opportunities, providing short and long-term support to help local suppliers to achieve contract pre-qualification. To date 700 local contracts have been awarded by Tullow, including procuring 100% of IT equipment and services in Ghana.” I’m looking forward to having the opportunity to find out more about these 700 contracts when I interview Tullow officials.
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