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Friday, October 21st, 2011
October 21, 2011
“Bradley Manning’s Mind.” I took a deep breath when I read title over this brief item recently posted on Truthdig:
“An investigative video created by The Guardian examines alleged WikiLeaker Bradley Manning’s psychological condition before he was dispatched to Iraq, concluding that he was probably not fit for overseas duty and that security at his station remarkably lax. The additional reporting provides a fuller picture of Manning’s motivations-and discloses just how easy it was for him to hijack all that classified ‘intelligence.’ ”
Without our defense, a prisoner such as Bradley Manning is defenseless against the media, the military and the government. We can at least spread the word about the Bradley Manning Support Network.
There has already been online discussion among gay folks and the queer left about the “Frontline” show that pathologized Manning, and now The Guardian video report features a soldier with blurred face saying Manning pissed in his pants and curled up on his bunk “in a fetal position.” Maybe he did, after being repeatedly insulted and assaulted by fellow soldiers, by the account of this same anonymous informant.
Why is Manning’s mind the only relevant site of weakness, disability and pathology in the big media stories so far? Why not the sorry condition of our corporate state passing as a democratic republic? And maybe the “Frontline” program which was distributed through the Public Broadcasting Service, and The Guardian should have given us a fuller picture of the motivations that drove their own reporters to recycle the official military narrative about Bradley Manning.
If I take a detour from the very mind and person of Manning, I assure readers we’ll return to him later; by this roundabout route we may view other figures in the landscape more closely, figures who stand tall in the light of a setting sun and who throw long shadows over the republic.
What is the “normal” psychology of soldiers entitled to beat up someone because he’s not much above 5 feet tall and gay? Why not question what the hell is in the minds of “progressives” who will vote by rote for Barack Obama in 2012, even though he just signed an extension of the Patriot Act? Obama was far away from Washington when he used a high-tech version of the autopen (invented by Thomas Jefferson) to ratchet up surveillance of potential traitors and terrorists. In this way the corporate state casts a dumbfounding spell over the Democratic Party, but Obama’s keenest partisans can always claim that the devil made him do it. Necessity is thus the mother of “pragmatism.” The Patriot Act truly makes patriotism the last refuge of scoundrels.
A shame, really, that only Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., held out so stubbornly against the bipartisan majority on the issue of individual rights. Above all, gun rights! As Corey Boles reported in Dow Jones Newswires on May 27, “Before they moved to a vote to finalize the legislation, lawmakers first had to deal with a Paul amendment that would have excluded gun sales from law enforcement officials’ ability to monitor business transactions. Paul said this was a violation of individual rights protected by the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
Ultimately, 22 senators joined Paul in voting against the bill. (In the House of Representatives, 250 voted “yes” and 153 voted “no.”) Rand Paul is an Ayn Randian in the realm of economics, and he argued in Congress that demanding “the right to health care” means demanding the “slavery” of nurses and doctors. The “principled” opposition to the Patriot Act extension was thus spearheaded by a true believer in Ayn Rand, Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. Yet the erosion of civil liberties is one ripe consequence of the very class system defended in Congress by Rand Paul, and by his “libertarian” father, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas. This erosion has advanced under both Republican and Democratic presidents. If an officially Libertarian president was elected, the real cost of the “free market” would still be gated communities for the rich and a strip-mined planet for the poor.
Scott Tucker is a writer and a democratic socialist. His book of essays, “The Queer Question: Essays on Desire and Democracy,” was published by South End Press in 1997. Scott Tucker met Larry Gross in 1975, and they both now live in Los Angeles. Contributor Profile
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Monday, October 25th, 2010
The worst part of driving has to be when you are caught for speeding and have been given a speeding ticket. More often than not, we have actually been speeding, which makes being caught somehow worse. For simplicities sake, it is easiest to just pay your speeding ticket, although in some cases you may be required to appear in court.
Typically paying a speeding ticket fine is a simple process. You can go to the court house in the appropriate area and pay your ticket in person.
Do not hesitate in paying your speeding ticket. You should definitely not hesitate if your ticket has been issued away from home. When you receive a ticket from another state, you will be required to pay the ticket either by phone or by mail. Should you need a copy of your ticket, if you may have misplaced the ticket, you will need to contact the court clerk and ask that a copy of the ticket be sent to you. The court clerk will either send you a copy of your ticket or a statement which outlines your violations and the amount that is due in fines.
Try to keep your speeding ticket paper work organized and somewhere it is accessible. You want to be able to keep track of unpaid tickets to be sure that you do not miss any deadlines. If you have been issued speeding tickets in more than one state, you will need to deal with each ticket separately. You will not be able to make one payment to cover all of the tickets.
The next thing for you to do is to find out if you have any additional fines or any warrants that need to be addressed; these would be something in addition to the speeding fine. When you have all of your information together, you will need to contact the court clerk for the place where the speeding ticket was issued. You will want to let the clerk know that you have unpaid tickets and would like to pay those fines. As a precaution, ask the clerk if there are any additional fines or penalties for you. You will want to know if a warrant has been issued for your arrest, due to unpaid fines.
You will need to bring some form of photo ID to the court. In most cases a driver’s license or school ID will work for this. The court finance office will take your payment, but the actual steps to follow for payment could vary depending on the court. Each court has different payment policies. You can expect that most courts will take a check or cash, money order or credit card. Keep in mind when using a credit card you will likely pay a finance charge.
Finally, if all else fails or if you have found that you cannot work it out by yourself you may want to think about contacting your attorney. Ask your attorney questions about the situation especially if your unpaid speeding tickets have incurred additional fines if the court has issued a warrant of arrest for failure to pay the fine in a timely manner.
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
Have you heard of hybrid cars? Many of today’s consumers are looking to hybrid cars to help them control the cost of their commute in the face of rising gas prices.
One hybrid car consumer is Emily Callahan, a 24-year-old landscape architect. She purchased her first car in Spring of 2007, and chose the Nissan Altima Hybrid. She was one of the first purchasers of this hybrid, a mid-sized sedan that had only come out January of that year.
Ms. Callahan took a number of factors into account when she made her purchasing decision, including fuel efficiency, environmental impact, size, and tax incentives. Because she was one of the first consumers to purchase a hybrid auto, she got the tax refund of around $2300, which was the full sales tax amount paid on the car.
Hybrids have more going for them than just tax breaks of course. Because of very high fuel costs recently, hybrids also save on gas. Callahan told us that the Altima Hybrid gets an average of 36 miles per gallon, and t his adds up to some real savings.
Callahan can compare the cost of her hour-long commute to that of a friend who has a traditional Nissan Altima and also has an hour-long commute. Per week, Callahan spends $75 while her friend spends $100.
Would she go back to a non-hybrid vehicle? Callahan says she would not. Not only does she save money on her commute, but she points out that hybrid cars have zero carbon emissions.
Callahan points out a more unusual benefit to being a hybrid owner: camaraderie. Not only does she save money and help to protect the environment, but drivers of other hybrids recognize her efforts. Once in traffic, another driver of an Altima Hybrid stopped and gave her a thumbs up.
Hybrids offer a number of advantages, and Nissan is just one manufacturer who have hybrids in their lineups. You can also try Saturn, Ford, Toyota, Honda, and Lexus for hybrid vehicles, and there are options from compact cars to SUVs.
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Frbiz.com, one of China’s leading B2B search platforms, reveals Philips OPhone V900.
With living standard gradually increasing, people demand for mobile phones is not limited to communication; more are pursuit of beauty and entertainment properties of mobile phones.
Philips mobile phones will release V900 high-end smart phones in late September. Frbiz.com’s author gets know that V900 is the first Philips OMS platform OPhone smart phones, which also has a large 3.5-inch touch screen, allows users to operate quicker and more convenient. V900 uses aluminium shell, the surface smooth with excellent hand feeling.
As the first Philips OMS platform OPhone smart phone, V900 not only comprehensive upgrade the function in the network, but also equipped with GPS navigation systems, and support Fetion, wireless music clubs, etc. V900 like a hand laptop that to help user greatly enhance work efficiency and experience convenient of life.
V900 also pursuit perfect. The handset of the V900 has an innovative large-scale mesh design at the top of the screen, which makes it easy for users to identify the location of the handset. In addition, both are equipped with a proximity sensor, which can automatically deduce the distance between the face and cell phone screen. If the face is close to the screen, the phone screen automatically closes and locks, effectively preventing misoperation caused by the face touching the screen. When the face is away from the screen, the screen turns on automatically, allowing users to operate the phone easily, which is very user- friendly. At present, many high-end phones are beginning to have proximity sensors, which can really provide a very good experience for users. Besides the sensor, there are XpressMusic keys, which can bring up the XpressMedia sidebar, a fast-activated music player with other multimedia functions.
Author learned that, V900 up to 6.5 hours talk time, the longest standby time of up to 390 hours, compared to similar products, its feature can be quite good.
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Saturday, September 12th, 2009
Frbiz.com, one of China’s leading B2B industry websites, reports microwave ovens that hot on sale on internet.
Glanz D8023CTL-K4 microwave oven: the price is 459 RMB. Glanz D8023CTL-K4 microwave oven in the shape, use white design, the body adopt advanced baking finish technology, and the colour match up with the kitchen appliances were harmonious. Streamlined shape highlights the microwave oven generous appearance.
The microwave oven’s maximum input power is 800W. It uses a computer-style control mode, and 5T Liner material, while it has 23 litres capacity. It has five kinds of microwave cooking fire, and also has automatic menu function, which is convenient for consumer use.
LG MG5348MWM microwave oven: the price is about 998 RMB Model highlights: very beautiful appearance, practical function. Worth mentioning is its use of light tubes and amethyst tube, the two different stacking bop, heat inside and outside evenly. The price is around one thousand yuan and is also the public family choice. The LG MG5348MWM microwave oven uses a black-and-white design, which seems simple and generous. Located on the right side is the menu button. Many commonly used features users can choose directly, and save the adjustment process. This is absolutely practical for consumers. The LG MG5348MWM microwave oven uses patented microwave circular liner technology, an innovative type furnace structure that expands the use of inside space, and the use of the furnace to form the ring reflection to heat food at 360-degrees. It is an effective saving of resources.
Midea’s KD23B QQ microwave oven: the price is about 1,045 RMB. Midea’s KD23B QQ microwave oven exterior design is quite distinctive, the body uses silver colour, and its right has 12 kinds of touch-up menus, the operation is very convenient. Stainless steel liner ensures the life of microwave ovens.
It maximum input power is 1350W, capacity reaches 23L. Midea’s KD23B QQ uses a computer-style control mode, with light waves, microwaves and ultraviolet sterilize functions. For the average family these functions are practical.
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Frbiz.com, one of China’s leading B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name, forecasts China textile trend.
From the operation rule of economy, high-growth brew high-risk, this is indicating that, the textile economy from the rapid development period transit to a stable period.
Frbiz’s data displays that 39 principal industries, 19 industries revenue dipping, a number of of industries still maintain a rapid increases of the profit or accomplish profitability but textile, apparel and home-textiles manufacturing sector increases slowly.
The sale volume of high-end market and wholesale market decreased under the unfavourable factors. It is shows that in a certain period of time, when the goods high and low profits decline, the popularity of affordable goods will become a new profit growth point.
In fact, some well-known home-textile enterprises the terminal operating performance is very good , their real profits are also concentrated in the amount of mass-based products, high-end products of these brands profit only accounted for 10% of the total, while the 90% profits is from mass-market products.
Judging from this, the latest commercial is still facing a lot of troubles and exams, home-textile economy towards recovery is not stable, and pick-up pattern is imbalance. Recovery procedure is still exists questionable and unstable factors. Next level the home-textile businesses should perpetuate towards tool the scientific industry notion, vigorously shove forward the structural adjustment and independent conception, accelerate the industry of novel increases points, towards sweeten the economy recovery quality and efforts towards accomplish stable and rapid commercial industry of house textiles.
To sum higher, textile enterprises simply strive to reach to become greater and stronger, can in market gain place. So the existing industry giants will have more opportunities through mergers and acquisitions to enlarge market portion, persisted to consolidate its directing placement, the entrepreneur requires to compensate seal attention to the integration process, to track the command and trends of the industry giant and to excavate appropriate money opportunities.
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Frbiz.com, one of China’s leading B2B search platforms, displays Mercedes-Bens new generation S-Class sedan.
Mercedes-Benz new generation S-Class models which including Mercedes-Benz S300 and S350, the price for Mercedes-Benz S300’s business version is 930,000 RMB; Mercedes-Benz S300 exalted version is sold 993,000 RMB, Mercedes-Benz S350 deluxe version with 2-drive, the price is 1.39 million RMB; Mercedes-Benz S350 deluxe version AWD, the price is 1.4 million RMB.
The new-generation S-class design combines dynamic and self-confidence temperament, radiator grille which reflects the passion of luxury charm. Eye-catching LED lighting components which not only shows high-tech features of new generation of S-class sedan but also make it appearance looks very dynamic; steering wheel covered with leather, the central armrest uses large pieces of wood to decoration, which further sublimate the car’s luxury.
Mercedes-Benz developed SPLITVIEW, the split-screen display technology enables driver and passengers at the same time through a central screen to see different content, which not only ensure the safety of driving and also increase the vehicle recreation; the internal environment light with three kinds of colours that is so bright. The upgraded COMAND system which not only create a different internal environment but also bring exalted driving experience.
In comfort aspect, Mercedes-Benz equip with control system that with side air stabilization technology. It can effectively improve the cross-winds on the adverse effects of vehicle driving stability, so that make driver fully enjoy the comfortable of travel; In addition, the security aspect, it has ATTENTION ASSIST, which including night view assist plus and the adaptive high-beam assist adaptive and so on advanced equipments, which enable Mercedes-Benz S-class sedan has always been the most safety luxury car in the world.
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
Frbiz.com, one of China’s leading B2B search platforms, recommends four Kinds of cars.
BEYOND F6 F6 has an obvious advantage that is it imitates the appearance of the seventh-generation Accord, so it naturally has spacious and comfortable interior space. This is very attractive for potential customers, because when they have modest budget to buy a mid-sized car, then the appearance is a factor and the demand for interior space is very strong.
Of course, the price is also an indispensable advantage for F6, wealth version 2.0 manual standards is only selling 79.8 thousand RMB, with this price you can get a good F6 car.
BESTURN BESTURN has good appearance and generous face, which is the main reason many people choose it. Flat roof lines to ensure a spacious interior head space, but some people do not like its tail shape, feels relatively short and slightly collapsed. But there is one thing we have to admit that the appearance of design in BESTURN is absolutely success.
Overall, the price range of 1-1.5 million RMB, the BESTURN is a rare all-around car; it is comfortable and generous and also can accelerate control, so the cost performance is very high.
Honda Crosstour 80,000 units of Crosstour were sold in the first half of this year, or an average monthly sale of up to 13,300 units, about the same as last year. Sales for the Crosstour was not so well in the first two months of this year, with less than 10,000 units, but the volume began to catch up significantly, reaching 16,000 units in June. The eighth generation Crosstour adopted a much more human design which has a greater appeal in general, that with a substantial price reduction, enabling it to beat Camry to rank No. 2 among mid-sized cars.
Toyota Camry With 67,000 units sold the first half of this year or an average monthly sales volume of about 11,200 units, the Camry’s monthly sales volume fell behind Crosstour by around 2,000 units. With a low in February of less than 8,000 units, sales were relatively stable for the other five months. Camry is a well-balanced mid-sized car, that when comparing to Crosstour, the Camry 2.4L displacement is more cost-effective.
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Himfr.com, one of China’s premier B2B search platforms, introduces the three kinds of warm wireless telephones on internet.
Nokia E71, the source charge is 2,200 RMB. Nokia portable handsets perpetually give population a feeling of business. Today Firbiz.com ushers in the new wares E71 to consumer. This kind of Nokia E71 portable handset is faultless for occupied professionals and enterprise population who tour frequently. At present, the new handset is proposed at a itemising of only 2,200 RMB.
Nokia E71 with 2.36 inches of the 16 million shade of color video screen, a perseverance of 320 240 pixels, show clearly very good. The body assembled in 3.2 million pixel camera with LED flash. In the written knowledge binding, the infrared and Bluetooth both have, while the handset inside is in addition built-in navigation piece, GPS positioning and navigation. The storage battery scope for is 1500 mAh, body recollection is 110MB, it sustains MicroSD small discern expansion, which largest support 8GB. The procedure benefits symbian OS 9.2 running procedure, S60 3.1 publication interface.
BlackBerry 9500, the quotation cost is 2,599 RMB. Its look is cooling and trendy, with its 3.2-inch screen. Blackberry 9500 is the only full-touch computer display conceive, and it is only 2,599 RMB.
BlackBerry 9500 fuselage framework is big, modeled on European palm design, which is more suitable for men’s palms. The large-screen is 3.2 inches with resolution to 480×360 pixels. With innovative use of touch technology “SurePress” mode of operation, the entire screen is a big button, you can directly press. In addition, it is equipped with a 3.2 million-pixel camera, support auto focus, zooms, and flashlight.
BlackBerry 9500 with BlackBerry OS 4.7.0 upgraded functioning scheme carries GPS purposes, but it is a shame there is no integrated WiFi. In multimedia, the built-in contestant carries AMR, MP3, AAC format melodies contestant and so on; the video contestant carries MPEG4, 3GP and other formats, in supplement it is equipped with a benchmark 3.5mm headphone jack, so you can select expert headphones to relish the flawless sound.
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Sunday, August 30th, 2009
by Lvy Tai
Frbiz.com, one of China’s leading B2B search platforms, forecasts China textile trend.
From the operation rule of economy, high-growth brew high-risk, this is indicating that, the textile economy from the rapid development period transit to a stable period.
Frbiz’s data shows that 39 major industries, 19 industries profits falling, some of industries still maintain a rapid growth of the profit or achieve profitability but textile, apparel and home-textiles manufacturing sector growth slowly.
The sale volume of high-end market and wholesale market decreased below the unfavourable factors. It is displays that within a certain period of moment, when the commodities tall and low revenue deteriorate, the popularity of affordable commodities shall become a novel profit increases point.
In fact, some well-known home-textile enterprises the terminal operating performance is very good , their real profits are also concentrated in the amount of mass-based products, high-end products of these brands profit only accounted for 10% of the total, while the 90% profits is from mass-market products.
Judging from this, the current economic is still facing a lot of difficulties and challenges, home-textile economy to recovery is not stable, and pick-up pattern is imbalance. Recovery process is still exists uncertain and unstable factors. Next stage the home-textile enterprises should continue to implement the scientific development concept, vigorously push forward the structural adjustment and independent innovation, accelerate the development of new growth points, to improve the economy recovery quality and efforts to achieve stable and rapid economic development of home textiles.
To summarise, textile businesses alone struggle towards perpetuate towards become greater and stronger, can within market advantage place. So the latest industry giants shall possess many opportunities across mergers and acquisitions towards bulge market share, persisted towards consolidate its leading grading, the entrepreneur needs towards wage finish consideration towards the integration procedure, towards tail the direction and trends of the industry giant and towards excavate suitable investment opportunities.
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