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The governments are at it again…
Some pathetic excuses for human beings are slaying animals, taking pictures of the whole thing - happily posing with the remains of animals. They claim that “People do not understand anything about what happens. You are all lost in a world distorted. I open my eyes. It is my mission. My Duty.
To help me I “Chong”, my friend “animal rights” and “Supreme Dave”, an expert on life and treatment for animals.”Please pass this on.
Someone actually did this. Homeless people got paid to be mobile internet (4g) hotspots. This is actually not ripped from Jennifer Government, or the minds of Warren Ellis or William Gibson.
This is real life. Now.
http://homelesshotspots.org/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2113959/Homeless-people-turned-walking-wi-fi-hotspots-2-15-minutes-SXSW.html
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(via How to Determine If a Charity Like Kony 2012 Is Worth Your Money | Lifehacker)
…In this case, you’ll find that, of $13.7 million in revenue, Invisible Children spent 2.8 million on grants (about 20.4% of their considerable revenue). Already, Johnson suggests that at this grant amount, you should “start looking for comparables“—i.e., other charities with the same goals, possibly including those Invisible Children gives grant money to.
If you examine their expenses more closely (Part IX of the 990), you’ll see that, beyond grant giving, not much money at all is going to direct services. Let’s break it down a little:
$2.8 million goes to grants, as noted above
Over $1 million goes to travel
$851k goes to production costs
$357k goes to film costs
$244k goes to professional services
Essentially, the flush non-profit spends as much on travel, film-making, and lobbying as it does on serving. That’s generally a red flag. They also granted more money in 2009 than 2010, even though their revenue increased by over $4 million between the two years. You can read more from the Guardian…
[this is really good info on how to determine if you want to contribute to a particular organization - not just this one… but it is very illuminating to see the inner monetary workings of this one…]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ll2sGipl1qz5q5oo1_500.jpg)
(via How to Determine If a Charity Like Kony 2012 Is Worth Your Money | Lifehacker)
…In this case, you’ll find that, of $13.7 million in revenue, Invisible Children spent 2.8 million on grants (about 20.4% of their considerable revenue). Already, Johnson suggests that at this grant amount, you should “start looking for comparables“—i.e., other charities with the same goals, possibly including those Invisible Children gives grant money to.
If you examine their expenses more closely (Part IX of the 990), you’ll see that, beyond grant giving, not much money at all is going to direct services. Let’s break it down a little:
- $2.8 million goes to grants, as noted above
- Over $1 million goes to travel
- $851k goes to production costs
- $357k goes to film costs
- $244k goes to professional services
Essentially, the flush non-profit spends as much on travel, film-making, and lobbying as it does on serving. That’s generally a red flag. They also granted more money in 2009 than 2010, even though their revenue increased by over $4 million between the two years. You can read more from the Guardian…
[this is really good info on how to determine if you want to contribute to a particular organization - not just this one… but it is very illuminating to see the inner monetary workings of this one…]
Tumblr’s new policy will ban blogs posting “content that actively promotes or glorifies self-injury or self-harm. This includes content that urges or encourages readers to cut or mutilate themselves; embrace anorexia, bulimia, or other eating disorders; or commit suicide.”
This could include pictures of cuts, burns, or scars; pictures of emaciated/ thin/ boney/ eating-disordered people; pictures of suicide; “thinspiration” ; or pictures of words (for example a photo of highlighted words from a book) about the issues self-harm, eating disorders, or suicide.
We, as the users of Tumblr, often post or reblog content such as this, but NOT for the purposes of encouraging others, or ourselves, to engage in damaging behaviour, or for the purpose of triggering our own or others’ mental disorders. We simply post this content because it is an accurate representation of our own thoughts and feelings that we would not otherwise be able to express: to us it is a form of therapy.
We feel that taking this form of self-expression away from us would serve no other purpose than to damage us. This content is not posted with malicious intent: indeed, many of us have “trigger warnings” or disclaimers on our blogs stating this. We feel we cannot be held responsible for how viewers of our blogs interpret the content we post: they visit our blog in order to follow it, so can see the disclaimers, and after all they are not under duress to follow our blogs or view what we post.
In conclusion: the only change necessary is that blogs concerning these topics should at most be required to have a disclaimer or “trigger warning”, or links to recovery sites on their main blog page. It is wrong to shut these blogs down, especially seeing as they have helped so many people suffering from mental disorders by offering them a network of support from other people going through the same thing.
PLEASE: Reblog to spread the word.
Don’t take away someone’s safety place. Sometimes those blogs are the only means of expression they have. It is the only place they can go and not feel in danger and actually help themselves. Taking that away could literally mean the difference between life and death.
Agreed. This is rather upsetting.
Millions of computer users across the world could be blocked off from the Internet as early as March 8 if the FBI follows through with plans to yank a series of servers originally installed to combat corruption.
From SOPA to ACTA to IPRED 2
As far as I am informed, the EU comission plans on reviving IPRED (Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive) to pass a law almost identical to ACTA - under another name.
I couldn’t find news in English to it since the message came from Anonymous in Germany, but apparantly the EU has successfully been working on IPRED for almost a decade.
More information on the general idea and IPRED here
Link to the Anonymous FFM video here (German only, sorry)
MPs in Athens approve severe budget cuts imposed by the EU after rallies against the bill erupt in street violence
The Greek parliament has approved a deeply unpopular austerity bill to secure a second bailout from the European Union and International Monetary Fund and avoid a messy default.
IMPORTANT: FBI tells citizens to spy and collect info on internet users who use proxies (shield IP).
Do you use proxies, VPN or Tor? Or go to Starbucks to access the internet. Are you set on always paying in cash? According to the FBI and DOJ, you may be a terrorist.
A flyer designed by the FBI and the Department of Justice to promote suspicious activity reporting in internet cafes lists basic tools used for online privacy as potential signs of terrorist activity.
The document, part of a program called “Communities Against Terrorism”, lists the use of “anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address” as a sign that a person could be engaged in or supporting terrorist activity.
The FBI and DOJ asks ordinary citizens to gather information like license plate number, spoken language, name and ethnicity and submit it to the FBI if a customer at an internet cafe is using a proxy or shields their IP.
Since when was internet privacy a crime? With the FBI and DOJ concerned with citizens shielding their IP, will it soon become a crime?
