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The draft treaty is contrary to well-established norms for the protection of the individual
Global Internet Liberty Campaign
In all, 23 organizations have signed a letter warning that the treaty will do serious damage to civil liberties under the guise of helping law enforcers catch computer criminals.
They warn that if the treaty is adopted it will dramatically restrict the free flow of information and ideas.
British signatories to the protest letter say the treaty goes further than the controversial UK's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act in giving police powers to snoop with impunity.
Draft details
Since 1997, the 41-nation Council of Europe has been working on the Cybercrime Treaty, which tries to harmonize laws against malicious hacking, virus writing, fraud and child pornography on the net.
It also aims to ensure that police forces in separate countries gather the same standard of evidence to help track and catch criminals across borders.
Late last month, the Council released the 22nd draft of the treaty for perusal by interested groups, and immediately won condemnation from civil liberty groups for its draconian tone.
Thirty-five organizations co-ordinate d by umbrella organization the Global Internet Liberty Campaign urged the Council to change the treaty saying: "The draft treaty is contrary to well-established norms for the protection of the individual."
Critical mass
Last week, a new draft of the treaty was released, which the Council claims, answers many of the criticisms made of the treaty in the hundreds of e-mails, letters and faxes it received after the initial posting.
But many of the organizations which voiced concern over the first public draft say the new version does little to allay their fears.
The treaty "continues to be a document that threatens the rights of the individual while extending the powers of police authorities", they say. The groups believe that unless significant changes are made, the treaty will have "a chilling effect on the free flow of information and ideas" on the internet.
The GILC claims changes to the treaty have only been made to mollify US concerns about conflicts with the First Amendment rather than because of any concerns for fundamental civil rights.
Closed doors
"No-one is opposed in principle to an international treaty," said Caspar Bow den of the Foundation for Information Policy Research and one of the signatories to the protest letter. "But there's all sorts of things wrong with this one."
Mr Bow den said one of the most worrying aspects of the treaty was the fact that it had been drafted behind closed doors and gave no forum to organizations keen to contribute. "There's no intention to have a public conference where the differences of opinion can be thrashed out," Mr Bow den said.
Those signing the protest letter say the treaty rides rough shod over privacy concerns by giving law enforcement agencies wide-ranging snooping powers they can use without getting the permissions required when domestic surveillance is carried out.
The snooping powers can also be invoked for much more mundane crimes than those typically thought to justify invasive surveillance.
The treaty also allows people to be charged with computer crimes even though the country where they live does not consider what they did as a crime.
By BBC News Online internet reporter Mark Ward
Barack Obama has questioned, implicitly, the value of English as a primary language. Why shouldn't the rest of us learn to speak Spanish? What is so "special" about English?
Pandering to Hispanic voters is at the heart of this latest swerve in Obama's insubstantial campaign, but picking on English is a very silly and very dangerous tactic towards a vital national and international issue.
Obama himself is the best argument for a black in America learning to master English. The candidate speaks English perfectly and that has made him the first viable black presidential candidate. If he spoke English like most inner city blacks, then -- unfairly perhaps -- millions of whites would have privately dismissed him as not up to the job of president. It is profoundly selfish of him to profit from his excellent English, and then to suggest that young Hispanics and other immigrants who have difficulty with English remain in their linguistic ghetto.
What should Obama be saying instead? How about something like this: "I was blessed to be raised in a home in which good English in a vernacular easily understood was normal. My ability to communicate in English well was not something that I had to work had to achieve, but it was something that opened many doors to me that would otherwise be closed to a young black man. If you want to succeed in America, just as Italians, Japanese, Jews, Greeks and so many other minorities have done, master English."
Obama is also dead wrong in pretending that English is "just another language" and that insisting Americans speak, read and write English is some sort of ethnic bias. English, instead, is the great unifier of mankind. Three of the eight members of the G8 -- America, Britain and Canada -- are English-speaking. India, the largest democracy in the world, uses English as its principal administrative language. Australia, which along with India is set to be one of the next nations admitted to the G8 group, is English-speaking too.
Pakistan, a tinderbox in the world today, uses English as a principal administrative language. Zimbabwe, another serious trouble spot, has a large number of English-speaking citizens. Nations like Malaysia and Nigeria, which sit on important religious and political rifts in our world, have large numbers of people who are English-speakers. Hong Kong, which is a crucial link between China and America, has millions of English-speakers.
In places from Belize to Bangladesh, from Singapore to South Africa, English is an important language and, in many cases, the most important language. Bismarck once said that the most important political fact of the 19th Century was that the British and the Americans spoke the same language. Nothing has made that observation less valid today. Understanding English is so important that hundreds of millions of people who do not live in English-speaking lands have learned English. Even our old enemy, the now dead Soviet Union, made English compulsory. This was not out of love for America "the main enemy," but because a grasp of English was such a priceless asset.
English is not just like any other language, any more than Latin in 1000 C.E. was "just another language." Anyone who wanted to seriously study anything, to exercise influence anywhere, or to advance professionally or commercially needed to know Latin even more than he knew the tongue of the land in which he lived. Because everyone who was anyone read and spoke Latin, Copernicus, a Pole, could give lectures in Italian universities. Doctors and lawyers today are seriously handicapped if they are completely ignorant of Latin. That is how strong the tug of dominant languages is across history.
English is like Latin. It is the means of mutual understanding, the vehicle of clear communication, the tool of study and research. Pilots of Chinese airliners landing in Tasjkent must speak English to the air traffic controllers: it is the universal language of modernity.
If Obama does not know these things, then he is too ignorant to safely sit in the Oval Office. If Obama knows these things, but prefers to dissemble, then he is worse than simply a political liar: He is a political liar whose lies, he knows, ruin people's lives.
on "Obama's Poor English Lesson"
from : www.americanthinker.com
Is it really possible to tell people's characters and personalities from their faces?? The Chinese certainly think so. two thousand years ago, the art of reading the faces, Mian Xiang, was developed, and today Chinese woman still be a shy and boring husband. So how can they tell?? well, they say there are ten different types of faces. For example, a triangular face is a fire-face and a square face is a wall-face. All ten types suggest different personalities and characters.but it is not only the shape of the face that is important. The nose, mouth, eye, chin, and ears all hold extra information about a person. How does Mian Xiang work?? here are some things to remember. Beautiful faces are not always the best; people with ugly faces may be luckier! People with jade-faces may have had difficult childhoods. this kind of face is diamond-shaped. The late Diana, Princes of Wales, had a jade-face. Some one who has one eye a little larger than the other may have parents who are divorced, or may they have been unhappy children. A bigger left eye means that the person may be very charming. A bigger right eye suggests the person might be a jealous type. If a person's ears are higher than their eyebrows, he or she might be famous before the age of 30.
Currently, Britain gets three-fourths of its electricity from natural gas, coal, and nuclear power. But domestic production of natural gas in the North Sea has peaked and is declining rapidly, and the Labor Party intends to retire by 2016 coal and nuclear power plants that now generate a third of Britain’s electricity. The plants will be shut down largely to comply with European Union environmental regulations.
To keep the lights on, the Labor Party plans to rely on renewable energy sources, which the government promises will generate 40 % of Britain’s electricity by 2020.
However, a number of recent studies cast doubt on the feasibility of Labor’s 2020 target. In July, the non-partisan Renewable Energy Foundation released a report warning that “a near fatal preoccupation with politically attractive but marginal forms of renewables seems to have caused a blindness towards the weakening of the UK’s power stations.” The report predicted steep increases in energy bills.
Last week, Iain Fells, emeritus professor of energy conversion at the University of Newcastle, issued a report, “A Pragmatic Energy Policy for the UK,” which states that the 2020 renewable energy targets were “demonstrably unattainable.” Prof. Fells warned of massive, disruptive blackouts if Britain continued with its current energy policy.
Acupuncture Provides Cost-Effective Relief For Asthma Patients
0 komentar Diposting oleh karamel di 10.08Any kind of ailment can be costly to treat, and asthma is no exception. Inhalers are increasing in price, and consumers are looking for more cost-effective methods of dealing with such respiratory disorders. Asthma affects more than 15 million people in the United States, and the strain of living with asthma has been compounded by inflated average wholesale prices.
Acupuncture, a 5,000-year-old Chinese medical practice, is proving to be one way for some asthma patients to manage their symptoms without over-paying. In a study conducted by the University Hospital of Vienna, over 70 percent of patients with long-standing asthma reported a significant improvement in their symptoms after 10 weeks of acupuncture treatment.
Bronchospasms associated with asthma result from over-stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system. Stimulation of acupuncture points can relieve both physical and emotional stress because they trigger the release of endorphins in the brain. Asthma sufferers can therefore experience both a physical release from bronchial constriction, and also an emotional or psychological release from the fear of constriction and suffocation.
Acupuncture is also more cost-effective than many Western drug therapies. In 1990, costs related to asthma were estimated at $6.2 billion. According to the American Lung Association, the average cost for one hospital stay for a child with asthma is $4,000. Acupuncture, by contrast, costs an average of $85 per session and can eliminate the need for emergency hospital visits and Western drugs. An estimated 70 to 80 percent of the nation's insurers covered acupuncture treatments in 1996, making it an even more viable option for those with asthma.
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One the last day of October, you can see little witches, monsters, black cats, and ghosts walking in the street. They knock on the doors, and the ask the people in the houses for sweets. This is called "trick or treating". There are pumpkins in the windows and doorways. Some of them have very scary faces. These pumpkins are called "jack-o'-lanterns".
Many years ago, people thought that the spirits of the dead returned to earth on October 31. but now it's just a fun holiday in the United States, Great Britain, and other English speaking countries.
Many children and adults wear costumes and go to parties. Sometimes, they listen to scary stories or watch scary movies. They eat cookies and sweets and have a good time.
Massive critical acclaim usually help to mute frienzied tabloid excess, but the case of Nicole Kidman, she gets the kudos and the headlines. In 2006, the Academy Award winner became the highest paid actress in the film industry, well-deserved after her performences in film like To Die For, Moulin Rouge, and The Hours.
Real English (Total English immersion) in EF English First
0 komentar Diposting oleh karamel di 23.30The small class full time to guarantee our native speaker the certivicate and experiance can consentred full of study requisites each by student, while to present lot of choose face to face and push you talk like as original announcement.
Facilitas audio-video and computer multimedia will give you motivation for more fast and efektive to learn english.
