United Nations Changes Its Mind, Now Favors Internet Freedom

Published July 6, 2012 | By Iowadawg

The United Nations has been in a funny place for a while now in regards to the Internet. By funny, of course, I mean terrifying. There has been talk of the UN pushing for the Internet to be put in the hands of a multi-national governmental organization instead of the current NGO multi-stake holder approach. The UN taking control could lead to a disastrous toll on Internet freedom, but the UN apparently also believe that it should be free. Make up your mind, guys!

In what’s being heralded as a “landmark resolution” by Reuters, the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution on Thursday that said free expression and free speech on the Internet is a basic human right. Of course, the UN Human Rights Council has no real power over such things and member nations can still oppress their people all they want. It’s more like the UN just said, “Please Mr. Bad Government, let your people talk about what they want on Twitter. It’s totally cool if you don’t want them to, but we just think it would be nice.”

It’s still nice to see a multinational group affirming what most of us already knew – access to the Internet and being able to freely express ourselves online should be a basic right in all countries. Unfortunately, that is not the case as we still see countries like India, Japan, China and others all trying to crack down on their citizens’ use of the Internet to share information.

The UN also channeled a bit of Uncle Ben yesterday by essentially saying that the great power that comes with the Internet must be coupled with great responsibility. In essence, they feel that governments and ISPs should step up efforts to protect children from the horrors of online gambling and pornography.

In somewhat of a hilarious moment, China and Cuba also put their weight behind the resolution. Both countries begrudgingly said that the Internet is important to “accelerating progress towards development.” The irony of China, a country that routinely blocks Web sites that even remotely criticize the state, standing up for Internet freedom is palpable.

Read it all HERE.

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To know where I would send all islamics, liberals, occupiers and other such shit, North Korea, one would have to know the new leader. And here is his new anthem.

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un gets new official theme song

Onwards Toward the Final Victory airs on state media as part of propaganda drive to build up image of ‘great successor’

In the past decade, the bubblegum pop and kitsch dance routines of South Korea’s K-pop bands have taken the charts by storm in Asia and Latin America. But north across the Korean border, broadcasters are promoting a track less likely to become an international success: a new signature song for youthful leader Kim Jong-un.

The anthem, titled Onwards Toward the Final Victory, is part of a propaganda drive to build up the image of the “great successor”. Radio and television are airing it several times a day and the score has been printed in the official newspaper Rodong Sinmun.

“The song hardens the will of the Korean army and people to devote their all to the prosperity of the country with high national pride,” said the state run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

Unlike the songs associated with his father and grandfather, it does not specifically mention Kim. It takes its title from the closing words of his address marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of his grandfather, the country’s founder, Kim II-sung.

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Here are two freaks. Must be obama lovers for sure.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Good news: The Waldo Canyon fire, which forced 32,000 residents (including our family) to flee, claimed two lives and destroyed 347 homes, is now 100 percent contained. Bad news: Radical environmentalists won’t stop blowing hot air about this year’s infernal season across the West.

Al Gore slithered out of the political morgue to bemoan nationwide heat records and pimp his new “Climate Reality Project,” which blames global warming for the wildfire outbreak. NBC meteorologist Doug Kammerer asserted: “If we did not have global warming, we wouldn’t see this.” Agriculture Department Undersecretary Harris Sherman, who oversees the Forest Service, claimed to the Washington Post: “The climate is changing, and these fires are a very strong indicator of that.”

And the Associated Press (or rather, the Activist Press) lit the fear-mongering torch with an eco-propaganda piece titled “U.S. summer is what ‘global warming will look like.’”

The problem is that the actual conclusions of scientists included in AP’s screed don’t back up the apocalyptic headline. As the reporter acknowledges under that panicky banner:

“Scientifically linking individual weather events to climate change takes intensive study, complicated mathematics, computer models and lots of time. Sometimes it isn’t caused by global warming. Weather is always variable; freak things happen.”

So, this U.S. summer may or may not really look like “what global warming looks like.” Kinda. Sorta. Possibly. Possibly not.

Read it all HERE.

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TV’s Most Random Vacation Episodes

Captured: The title of world’s most expensive whiskey, by a $460,000 bottle

Fooled: A deadbeat dad, lured home after 19 years with the promise of a role in a Jennifer Aniston movie

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Gotta be sugar free and with a good dollop of shit!

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Military veterans who were deployed after the 9/11 attack on America and the World Trade Center, gain employment in the building and construction trades through Helmets to Hardhats, and find themselves rebuilding the new World Trade Center.

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Israel tells the useless nations human rights to f*ck off! Love them for that!

JPost:

Israel reiterated Friday that it would refuse cooperation with a a UN Human Rights Council fact finding mission to probe Israeli Wast Bank settlement activity and Jewish building in east Jerusalem.

The Geneva-based council appointed three international jurists to the mission on Friday, eliciting a rebuke from Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor.

“The fact finding mission will find no cooperation in Israel and its members will not be allowed to enter Israel and the territories. Its existence embodies the inherent distortion that typifies the UNHRC treatment of Israel and the hijacking of the important human rights agenda by non democratic countries,” he said.

The three jurists are: Christine Chanet of France, Unity Dow of Botswana and Asma Jahangir of Pakistan.

“I have appointed three highly distinguished individuals to carry out the Council’s fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem,” said UNHRC President Laura Dupuy Lasserre.

She spoke to the council of the settlement probe as it wrapped up its 20th session in Geneva. The council had ordered the probe at its 19th session in March.

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Winter is coming up!

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What a freaking ass idiot to compare a whore using idiot to our Blessed Lord!

WaPo:

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s office says the Democratic Chicago congressman is struggling with “physical and emotional ailments” worse than previously known.

Jackson, 47, has been treated for what his office last week called “exhaustion.” Now, his office says, things have deteriorated, though a statement declined to say specifically what was ailing Jackson, the son of the civil rights figure and former presidential candidate of the same name. [...]

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), Jackson’s Chicago colleague, told The Post’s Ed O’Keefe recently that he thought the ups and downs of congressional life merely got to Jackson.

“The man said that he is exhausted; even Christ has to step away from the multitudes in order to refresh,” Rush said. “He is very wise to do that.

“To me, it’s not a big thing. His health is what’s more important right now.”

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CNS News: Via Weasel Zippers

Speaking in Sandusky, Ohio on July 5, President Barack Obama used the first-person pronouns “I” and “me” a combined 117 times in a speech that lasted about 25 minutes and 32 seconds.

Obama used “I” 98 times and “me” 19 times, according to a transcript of the speech posted by the White House. A videotape of the speech posted on YouTube shows that Obama spoke for about 25-and-a-half minutes.

During this speech, Obama used “I” or “me” approximately once every 13.09 seconds.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney also frequently used the first-person pronoun in his most recent speech that has been posted in its entiretyon C-SPAN. Speaking in Salem, Va., on Jun 26, Romney used the first-person pronouns “I” and “me” a combined 55 times in a speech that lasted about 18 minutes and 13 seconds.

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Proud to be American!

Only in America (at Slater’s 50/50 in California) can you find the all-bacon ‘Merica burger: “100 percent ground bacon plus thick-cut bacon, a sunny-side-up egg, our new ‘bacon island’ dressing, all topped with bacon cheddar cheese.”

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Planned Parenthood’s pro-eugenics founder Margaret Sanger would be so proud.

Via HuffPo:

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America announced on Friday that it is a sponsor of the 2012 ESSENCE Music Festival this weekend in New Orleans, one of the largest African-American entertainment and cultural events in the U.S.

Planned Parenthood said it will have its own booth at the festival, where it will provide birth control counseling and information and screen the film “A Vital Service: African American Stories of Reproductive Health Care.” Celebrity guests are also scheduled to appear, including Grammy Award-winning singer Estelle; Rocsi Diaz, co-host of BET’s “106 & Park”; actress Keisha Knight Pulliam from “The Cosby Show” and Reverend Al Sharpton.

“African Americans have higher rates of many preventable diseases, including cancers, diabetes, heart disease and sexually transmitted infections,” said Dr. Vanessa Cullins, vice president for external medical affairs at PPFA. “Planned Parenthood wants to help African Americans get and stay healthy, and the Essence Music Festival is a terrific place to engage with and educate people about how to live healthier lives. The festival is a party — but with a purpose.”

The move by Planned Parenthood is sure to anger anti-abortion activists and politicians, who have claimed for years that Planned Parenthood facilitates black genocide by setting up clinics in minority communities.

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Keep all your pets safe while driving!

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Lose money, get more money from the taxpayers!

The Department of Energy recently awarded $25 million to a French company that posted net losses of about $70 million last year, and whose solar division is particularly troubled financially.

As part of its Scaling Up Nascent PV At Home (SUNPATH) project, DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) division announced three awards in June to promote high-volume solar energy production.

The largest of the three awards, totaling $25 million, went to Soitec Solar, a French company, to build a solar production facility in San Diego, CA. While Soitec is not in dire financial straits like some other DOE-backed companies, it posted hefty losses during its last financial year, which ended March 31. A number of its major financial indicators were worse than the prior financial year.

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(CBS News) — The seal is back.

For the first time at one of President Obama’s re-election campaign events, his lectern displayed the presidential seal.

It had been the policy of the Obama White House that the presidential seal would not be displayed at purely political and campaign events.

The policy ended today at Mr. Obama’s campaign speech on the campus of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where the presidential seal adorned his lectern.

Until now, a campaign sign was often affixed to the lectern at campaign events. Earlier in the day, at a campaign speech in Poland, Ohio, a placard bearing the slogan “Betting on America” was affixed to the lectern. The same was the case yesterday at other stops on his bus tour.

Displaying the presidential seal serves to enhance the prestige of the event and contrast Mr. Obama’s incumbency from Mitt Romney’s status as a challenger.

There’s nothing illegal about displaying the presidential seal at a political event being addressed by the president, but until now, the Obama White House felt it was inappropriate.

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Up To 20K Muslims Expected For Mass Prayer Event At DNC The time to gather them up and send them to North Korea!

DeMint: Fact Checking the Fact Checkers

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Prototype For A Government Approved Pizza?

Using seaweed and red peppers, Scottish scientists at Eat Balanced claim to have developed a pizza that provides a third of an adult’s daily recommended amount of vitamins and nutrients.

Developed by University of Glasgow scientist Mike Lean and entrepreneur Donnie Maclean, the pizza from Eat Balanced is touted as a complete meal, fortified with extra magnesium, potassium, folate, and vitamin A. To slash sodium levels and provide more minerals, Lean added locally grown seaweed to the dough, which also provides vitamin B12 and iodine.

Apparently the news of this discovery has gone viral, especially in England, where websites are abuzz with excitement and the creators are currently in talks with a major supermarket for distribution. Unfortunately, upon hearing that this came from the land of Haggis, and will be sold in the land of jellied eels, many will instantly question its flavor or dismiss it out of hand.

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