Monday, November 14, 2011
Press committee challenges
'indecency' broadcast fines
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Enforcement of a federal policy regulating "indecent" programing on the public airwaves severely restrains the ability of broadcast journalists to report on matters of public interest and concern, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press argued in a friend-of-the-court brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court.
http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=12235
Although there is a news exemption for brief, unplanned expletives or indecent material that makes it on the air, the cpmmittee argues that not only is the determination of what is indecent highly subjective, so is the determination of what is a news program. In addition, “Indecency fines so large they potentially force broadcasters out of business raise serious constitutional concerns about the permissibility of the penalties.”
Only a clear standard, or “bright-line rule,” applied to the regulation of fleeting expletives in any media format can protect news reporting on matters of public interest and concern, the brief argued.
A “system of self-regulation by the broadcast industry is a feasible alternative,” it noted, adding, that “broadcasters are fully capable or policing themselves in a manner that serves the Federal Communications Commission's legitimate interest in protecting children while avoiding the constitutional threats that arise from government regulation of content.”
“The First Amendment was adopted to protect the very kind of news reporting that is threatened by these subjective FCC standards and astonishing, disproportionate fines,” said Reporters Committee Executive Director Lucy A. Dalglish. “We’ve seen lower courts admonish FCC indecency rulings and fines against news broadcasters as arbitrary and capricious. Now the Supreme Court has the opportunity to ensure that all news media are given the right to police their own content consistent with their internal standards and public accountability.”
The Reporters Committee was joined in its brief in Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations and Federal Communications Commission v. ABC Inc. by the E.W. Scripps Co. The brief is available on the Reporters Committee website.
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'indecency' broadcast fines
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Enforcement of a federal policy regulating "indecent" programing on the public airwaves severely restrains the ability of broadcast journalists to report on matters of public interest and concern, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press argued in a friend-of-the-court brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court.
http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=12235
Although there is a news exemption for brief, unplanned expletives or indecent material that makes it on the air, the cpmmittee argues that not only is the determination of what is indecent highly subjective, so is the determination of what is a news program. In addition, “Indecency fines so large they potentially force broadcasters out of business raise serious constitutional concerns about the permissibility of the penalties.”
Only a clear standard, or “bright-line rule,” applied to the regulation of fleeting expletives in any media format can protect news reporting on matters of public interest and concern, the brief argued.
A “system of self-regulation by the broadcast industry is a feasible alternative,” it noted, adding, that “broadcasters are fully capable or policing themselves in a manner that serves the Federal Communications Commission's legitimate interest in protecting children while avoiding the constitutional threats that arise from government regulation of content.”
“The First Amendment was adopted to protect the very kind of news reporting that is threatened by these subjective FCC standards and astonishing, disproportionate fines,” said Reporters Committee Executive Director Lucy A. Dalglish. “We’ve seen lower courts admonish FCC indecency rulings and fines against news broadcasters as arbitrary and capricious. Now the Supreme Court has the opportunity to ensure that all news media are given the right to police their own content consistent with their internal standards and public accountability.”
The Reporters Committee was joined in its brief in Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations and Federal Communications Commission v. ABC Inc. by the E.W. Scripps Co. The brief is available on the Reporters Committee website.
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Economists see major flaws
in the global capital system
The wave of indignation and protests targeting the monied interests is a logical consequence of a deeply flawed capital system, argue two well-known non-Marxist economists.
Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate economist at Columbia University, writes that "Spain’s protesters, and those in other countries, are right to be indignant: here is a system in which the bankers got bailed out, while those whom they preyed upon have been left to fend for themselves."
He adds, "Worse, the bankers are now back at their desks, earning bonuses that amount to more than most workers hope to earn in a lifetime, while young people who studied hard and played by the rules see no prospects for fulfilling employment.
Stiglitz, author of Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy, writes:
"The rise in inequality is the product of a vicious spiral: the rich rent-seekers use their wealth to shape legislation in order to protect and increase their wealth – and their influence. The U.S. Supreme Court, in its notorious Citizens United decision, has given corporations free rein to use their money to influence the direction of politics. But, while the wealthy can use their money to amplify their views, back on the street, police wouldn’t allow me to address the OWS [Occupy Wall Street] protesters through a megaphone."
Nouriel Roubini, an economics professor at New York University, asserts that though Karl Marx "oversold" socialism, " he "was right in claiming that globalization, unfettered financial capitalism, and redistribution of income and wealth from labor to capital could lead capitalism to self-destruct," adding: "As he argued, unregulated capitalism can lead to regular bouts of over-capacity, under-consumption, and the recurrence of destructive financial crises, fueled by credit bubbles and asset-price booms and busts."
Roubini continues:
"Even before the Great Depression, Europe’s enlightened “bourgeois” classes recognized that, to avoid revolution, workers’ rights needed to be protected, wage and labor conditions improved, and a welfare state created to redistribute wealth and finance public goods – education, health care, and a social safety net. The push towards a modern welfare state accelerated after the Great Depression, when the state took on the responsibility for macroeconomic stabilization – a role that required the maintenance of a large middle class by widening the provision of public goods through progressive taxation of incomes and wealth and fostering economic opportunity for all."
Comment: Even before Marx, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations amounts to a 1,000-page denunciation of the monied elite as mis-using Parliament for its advantage but to the detriment of the economy. He was among the first to denounce merchant lobbies and what these days is called "crony capitalism."
ACLU urges police restraint at Occupy sites
The American Civil Liberties Union is urging authorities to beware use of excessive force against Occupy protesters.
The ACLU is urging supporters to sign this open letter:
We appreciate the many law enforcement agencies and mayors across the country who respect the First Amendment rights of the Occupy protesters. The protestors are exercising core constitutional freedoms to assemble peacefully and speak out. We hope you will recommit yourself to safeguarding those fundamental freedoms.
When police respond to peaceful protest with excessive force, the result is to make people afraid to exercise their free speech rights. The Constitution was intended to protect us from exactly that.
[We urge you to respect/Thank you for respecting] the rights of protestors to speak out and assemble peacefully.
Newz from Limbo is a news site and, the hosting mechanism notwithstanding, should not be defined as a web log or as 'little more than a community forum'... Write News from Limbo at Krypto78=at=gmail=dot=com... The philosophical orientation of Newz from Limbo is best described as libertarian... For anti-censorship links: http://veilside78.blogspot.com/2010/12/anti-censorship-spectrum_23.html (If link fails, cut and paste it into the url bar)...
in the global capital system
The wave of indignation and protests targeting the monied interests is a logical consequence of a deeply flawed capital system, argue two well-known non-Marxist economists.
Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate economist at Columbia University, writes that "Spain’s protesters, and those in other countries, are right to be indignant: here is a system in which the bankers got bailed out, while those whom they preyed upon have been left to fend for themselves."
He adds, "Worse, the bankers are now back at their desks, earning bonuses that amount to more than most workers hope to earn in a lifetime, while young people who studied hard and played by the rules see no prospects for fulfilling employment.
Stiglitz, author of Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy, writes:
"The rise in inequality is the product of a vicious spiral: the rich rent-seekers use their wealth to shape legislation in order to protect and increase their wealth – and their influence. The U.S. Supreme Court, in its notorious Citizens United decision, has given corporations free rein to use their money to influence the direction of politics. But, while the wealthy can use their money to amplify their views, back on the street, police wouldn’t allow me to address the OWS [Occupy Wall Street] protesters through a megaphone."
Nouriel Roubini, an economics professor at New York University, asserts that though Karl Marx "oversold" socialism, " he "was right in claiming that globalization, unfettered financial capitalism, and redistribution of income and wealth from labor to capital could lead capitalism to self-destruct," adding: "As he argued, unregulated capitalism can lead to regular bouts of over-capacity, under-consumption, and the recurrence of destructive financial crises, fueled by credit bubbles and asset-price booms and busts."
Roubini continues:
"Even before the Great Depression, Europe’s enlightened “bourgeois” classes recognized that, to avoid revolution, workers’ rights needed to be protected, wage and labor conditions improved, and a welfare state created to redistribute wealth and finance public goods – education, health care, and a social safety net. The push towards a modern welfare state accelerated after the Great Depression, when the state took on the responsibility for macroeconomic stabilization – a role that required the maintenance of a large middle class by widening the provision of public goods through progressive taxation of incomes and wealth and fostering economic opportunity for all."
Comment: Even before Marx, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations amounts to a 1,000-page denunciation of the monied elite as mis-using Parliament for its advantage but to the detriment of the economy. He was among the first to denounce merchant lobbies and what these days is called "crony capitalism."
ACLU urges police restraint at Occupy sites
The American Civil Liberties Union is urging authorities to beware use of excessive force against Occupy protesters.
The ACLU is urging supporters to sign this open letter:
We appreciate the many law enforcement agencies and mayors across the country who respect the First Amendment rights of the Occupy protesters. The protestors are exercising core constitutional freedoms to assemble peacefully and speak out. We hope you will recommit yourself to safeguarding those fundamental freedoms.
When police respond to peaceful protest with excessive force, the result is to make people afraid to exercise their free speech rights. The Constitution was intended to protect us from exactly that.
[We urge you to respect/Thank you for respecting] the rights of protestors to speak out and assemble peacefully.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Econotix
Sneak tax hike looming
for middle class, poor
Divided debt committee lawmakers are poised to levy a $60 billion back-door tax hike on the middle classes and curb benefits payments to the poor and senior citizens, according to a published report.
The lawmakers are leaning toward resetting the government's inflation index, which, the Associated Press reports, would bump up taxes because annual adjustments to the tax brackets would be smaller, resulting in more people jumping into higher tax brackets because their wages rose faster than the new inflation measure. Annual increases in the standard deduction and personal exemptions would become smaller.
Such a back-door tax hike, however, may well prove difficult for the no-new-tax-wing of the Republican Party to swallow.
Social Security checks will rise less when inflation rises because the government will measure inflation differently. Likewise, more people will be cut off from food stamps and other benefits because their incomes won't cross the official poverty line so easily.
There seems to be bipartisan consensus on this debt reduction method -- first floated by the Obama administration -- because most of the impact will kick in by stages and won't be felt right away.
The committee of six Democrats and six Republicans is striving toward a plan to cut government red ink by some $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years. Changing the inflation index alone would put them a sixth of the way there, the AP report said.
“I think the thought process behind this is, slip this in, people won’t understand it,” Max Richtman, head of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, is quoted as saying.
Comment:
Was the old inflation index an inaccurate gauge of inflation, or is the recalibration to a lower reading a crooked flim-flam?
As far back as Adam Smith, economists have argued that large national debt is always curtailed by the method of debasement of purchasing power of money. The inflation index trick of course cuts purchasing power of Social Security recipients. It cuts purchasing power of middle class earners. It will have much less effect on the extremely affluent, who have numerous means of avoiding being shunted to higher tax brackets.
Banker bonuses said to spur crazy risk-taking
Writing in the New York Times, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a finance professor and former Wall Street trader, argues that banker bonuses encourage wild risk taking and should be abolished.
This, he argues, would neutralize what economists call the principal-agent problem, in which the investors' agent has much to gain from what amounts to self-dealing.
Taleb teaches risk engineering at New York University Polytechnic Institute and is the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. (Comment: interesting book.) He is a hedge fund investor and a former Wall Street trader.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/
Adam Smith wrote in the 18th century about the agents of monopolistic companies harming the company and the economy in general by attending more to their own trading than to the interests of the company.
Judge questions sealing of anthrax files
A federal judge is asking why records should remain sealed in a soon-to-be-settled lawsuit over the death of a Boca Raton man in the 2001 anthrax attacks, reports the West Palm Beach News.
Newz from Limbo is a news site and, the hosting mechanism notwithstanding, should not be defined as a web log or as 'little more than a community forum'... Write News from Limbo at Krypto78=at=gmail=dot=com... The philosophical orientation of Newz from Limbo is best described as libertarian... For anti-censorship links: http://veilside78.blogspot.com/2010/12/anti-censorship-spectrum_23.html (If link fails, cut and paste it into the url bar)...
Sneak tax hike looming
for middle class, poor
Divided debt committee lawmakers are poised to levy a $60 billion back-door tax hike on the middle classes and curb benefits payments to the poor and senior citizens, according to a published report.
The lawmakers are leaning toward resetting the government's inflation index, which, the Associated Press reports, would bump up taxes because annual adjustments to the tax brackets would be smaller, resulting in more people jumping into higher tax brackets because their wages rose faster than the new inflation measure. Annual increases in the standard deduction and personal exemptions would become smaller.
Such a back-door tax hike, however, may well prove difficult for the no-new-tax-wing of the Republican Party to swallow.
Social Security checks will rise less when inflation rises because the government will measure inflation differently. Likewise, more people will be cut off from food stamps and other benefits because their incomes won't cross the official poverty line so easily.
There seems to be bipartisan consensus on this debt reduction method -- first floated by the Obama administration -- because most of the impact will kick in by stages and won't be felt right away.
The committee of six Democrats and six Republicans is striving toward a plan to cut government red ink by some $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years. Changing the inflation index alone would put them a sixth of the way there, the AP report said.
“I think the thought process behind this is, slip this in, people won’t understand it,” Max Richtman, head of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, is quoted as saying.
Comment:
Was the old inflation index an inaccurate gauge of inflation, or is the recalibration to a lower reading a crooked flim-flam?
As far back as Adam Smith, economists have argued that large national debt is always curtailed by the method of debasement of purchasing power of money. The inflation index trick of course cuts purchasing power of Social Security recipients. It cuts purchasing power of middle class earners. It will have much less effect on the extremely affluent, who have numerous means of avoiding being shunted to higher tax brackets.
Banker bonuses said to spur crazy risk-taking
Writing in the New York Times, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a finance professor and former Wall Street trader, argues that banker bonuses encourage wild risk taking and should be abolished.
This, he argues, would neutralize what economists call the principal-agent problem, in which the investors' agent has much to gain from what amounts to self-dealing.
Taleb teaches risk engineering at New York University Polytechnic Institute and is the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. (Comment: interesting book.) He is a hedge fund investor and a former Wall Street trader.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/
Adam Smith wrote in the 18th century about the agents of monopolistic companies harming the company and the economy in general by attending more to their own trading than to the interests of the company.
Judge questions sealing of anthrax files
A federal judge is asking why records should remain sealed in a soon-to-be-settled lawsuit over the death of a Boca Raton man in the 2001 anthrax attacks, reports the West Palm Beach News.
Newz from Limbo is a news site and, the hosting mechanism notwithstanding, should not be defined as a web log or as 'little more than a community forum'... Write News from Limbo at Krypto78=at=gmail=dot=com... The philosophical orientation of Newz from Limbo is best described as libertarian... For anti-censorship links: http://veilside78.blogspot.com/2010/12/anti-censorship-spectrum_23.html (If link fails, cut and paste it into the url bar)...
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Journalists are facing arbitrary arrest
as they cover Occupy demonstrations
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photographer is the latest journalist to be arrested while covering the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations that have sprung up across the nation, raising questions about how police should define and handle reporters documenting the protests.
Although the detentions and arrests have raised alarm with some media organizations, police contend that it is often difficult to separate the journalists covering the events from those participating in the protests, especially when making mass apprehensions.
The Sentinel’s Kristyna Wentz-Graff was on Wednesday photographing the arrest of a protester who was marching as part of a solidarity rally that started at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, when she herself was restrained and arrested by an officer. She and the other two protestors have since been released without charge and the city attorney's office has yet to determine whether they will issue citations.
The Milwaukee Police Department said in a series of posts on their Facebook page that Wentz-Graff and the two protesters they arrested ignored repeated orders to clear the streets, and that officers did not know that the photographer was a journalist until she arrived at the Milwaukee Police Department.
“She never identified herself as a journalist to officers. We know there are often many people with cameras at these events and they are not always news people,” they wrote.
In a statement to the paper, Martin Kaiser, Sentinel editor, disputed that account.
"At no time did Kristyna Wentz-Graff ignore any commands by any officer," Kaiser said. "She came upon the scene to do her job as a photojournalist. She was clearly not part of the protest. She was wearing her Journal Sentinel photo press credential. She was carrying photography equipment while taking photographs of police making arrests when she was grabbed by a police officer and handcuffed. Her arrest was completely uncalled for and violates the First Amendment. No reason for her arrest has been provided."
In a video taken by the university's PantherVision, a man watching the photographer’s arrest from the sidewalk can also be heard yelling “she’s a journalist.”
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has also come out in support of Wentz-Graff and the Sentinel.
Wentz-Graff’s apprehension is not the first arrest of a reporter in Milwaukee this year, nor is it the first arrest of a reporter covering demonstrations related to the Occupy Wall Street movement that started in mid-September.
Perhaps garnering the most attention are the reporters who have been arrested at the original Occupy Wall Street protest in New York, where some journalists had voiced concern over being arrested or roughed up by police.
The Columbia Journalism Review for example, in an article titled “Who’s a Journalist?” published in October, wrote critically of the New York City Police Department’s policy of credentialing journalists.
The piece highlighted the arrests of three individuals, a reporter with WNET’s Metro Focus, a freelancer for The New York Times’ “City Blog” and a freelancer for AlterNet, all of whom had some press identification but not the specific NYPD credentials.
“Why did this happen?” the article asks, referring to the general policy of the NYPD to handle journalists separately from the protestors. “Part of the answer is simply a byproduct of the everyone’s-a-journalist rhetoric that defines our media these days. The more proximate answer, though, has to do with how the NYPD has decided to determine who is a journalist.”
The article noted that the NYPD recently began extending credentials to bloggers and journalists from nontraditional media organizations, but that they still need to meet requirements such as proving their reporting history. Applicants often have to wait behind a backlog of requests to get a credential that does not guarantee any specific access.
However, New York Press Club Consulting Director Peter Bekker told CJR that "it’s not a high hurdle."
Bekker added that the important distinction to make is “are these people marching with the protesters? Or are they covering them?”
And with so many of the protesters documenting the demonstrations themselves, as the Milwaukee Police Department noted, it can be difficult to tell and determine how to handle these different kinds of documentarians.
Many journalists are just temporarily detained, while others are charged with offenses such as disorderly conduct or unlawful assembly.
Just last week a reporter from the Nashville Scene—who was charged with public intoxication—was one of dozens arrested at the Tennessee protest, according to The Tennessean. That charge was complicated by the fact that the alternative-weekly reporter, Jonathan Meador, caught his own arrest on tape and sounds lucid as he tells officers that he is a member of the media and is getting off the plaza police were raiding to enforce a city curfew. A voice can also be heard on the audio, presumably an officer, saying “Tell them when you get him up there to charge him for resisting arrest.”
The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security told the Scene that the commissioner will review the arrest and respond appropriately and that “It is not our intent to interfere with a journalist doing his or her job.”
Also this week freelance journalist-cartoonist Susie Cagle was among 101 people arrested at the Occupy Oakland protests, days after the controversial clashes with police and protestors there. According to a KGO-TV San Francisco interview, Cagle said she was wearing her press pass visibly and told police she was covering the event, to which they said they would “take care of that” in a minute.
“But then it turned into 14 hours at two jails,” she said.
According to KGO-TV, Cagle will have to appear in court next month to sort out her case. She also said that she planned to return to the Occupy Oakland protests because she feels obligated to report this story now more than ever.
— Kirsten Berg,
Friday, November 4, 2011
O'Reilly remark rekindles
'intelligent design' dispute
The intelligent design controversy is still with us, as the reaction to Bill O'Reilly's recent remark in its favor demonstrates.
Media Matters, which seeks donations to "fight conservative misinformation," is among those who draw a bead on the Fox News commentator's recent assertion.
O'Reilly: "Intelligent Design Does Not Contradict Science"
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201111020018
Paul Conant, editor of Newz from Limbo, has written on the topic from a logico-mathematical perspective. A typical reader would have a tough time with parts of Conant's latest essay, The knowledge delusion,
http://kryptograff5.blogspot.com/2011/11/draft-03-knowledge-delusion-essay-by.html
which discusses the book The God Delusion by the Darwinist Richard Dawkins, but yet might be able to glean something of value from it.
Other of Conant's pages have been gathered together with links published in the post below.
Econotix
Corzine sad over 'what has transpired'
Jon Corzine, the Wall Street wheeler dealer and former New Jersey governor, resigned today, saying he was sad over "what had transpired."
His statement:
I have voluntarily offered my resignation to the Board of Directors of MF Global. This was a difficult decision, but one that I believe is best for the firm and its stakeholders.
I feel great sadness for what has transpired at MF Global and the impact it has had on the firm’s clients, employees and many others.
I intend to continue to assist the Company and its Board in their efforts to respond to regulatory inquiries and issues related to the disposition of the firm’s assets.
'intelligent design' dispute
The intelligent design controversy is still with us, as the reaction to Bill O'Reilly's recent remark in its favor demonstrates.
Media Matters, which seeks donations to "fight conservative misinformation," is among those who draw a bead on the Fox News commentator's recent assertion.
O'Reilly: "Intelligent Design Does Not Contradict Science"
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201111020018
Paul Conant, editor of Newz from Limbo, has written on the topic from a logico-mathematical perspective. A typical reader would have a tough time with parts of Conant's latest essay, The knowledge delusion,
http://kryptograff5.blogspot.com/2011/11/draft-03-knowledge-delusion-essay-by.html
which discusses the book The God Delusion by the Darwinist Richard Dawkins, but yet might be able to glean something of value from it.
Other of Conant's pages have been gathered together with links published in the post below.
Econotix
Corzine sad over 'what has transpired'
Jon Corzine, the Wall Street wheeler dealer and former New Jersey governor, resigned today, saying he was sad over "what had transpired."
His statement:
I have voluntarily offered my resignation to the Board of Directors of MF Global. This was a difficult decision, but one that I believe is best for the firm and its stakeholders.
I feel great sadness for what has transpired at MF Global and the impact it has had on the firm’s clients, employees and many others.
I intend to continue to assist the Company and its Board in their efforts to respond to regulatory inquiries and issues related to the disposition of the firm’s assets.
WHO IS PAUL CONANT?
Why not use a site such as Changedetection.com http://changedetection.com/ to keep track of changes to this page?
If a link is a dud or goes to an unreadable page, copy the headline, put it in quotation marks and use a general search engine, such as Google. It's quite possible another version of the article will turn up.
Paul Conant, editor of Newz from Limbo, also writes occasional web essays under the site names N-fold and Kryptograff, among others.
Newz from Limbo is dedicated to the principle of freedom of speech and press and of theological and academic inquiry.
The N-fold and Kryptograff web sites discuss often eccentric ideas in science and math. Such essays are to some extent Conant's notes to himself, rather than polished articles. They may be found at various addresses and domains, including Angelfire and Blogspot.
Conant, writing under the byline 'Roger Conant,' was for years a newspaperman in metro New York and has contributed to the New York Times. He served as a combat correspondent in Vietnam. He has no formal scientific training but enjoys corresponding with mathematicians and scientists.
You are free, in principle, to email Conant at Krypto78 attt gmail dottt com.
You are at liberty to make mirrors of any or all Conant pages, including the few that are copyrighted. The purpose of the copyright for those pages is simply to guard against significant alteration of the content.
(If URLs below malfunction, copies of Conant's pages are found at
http://paulpages.blogspot.com/ )
Conant's anthrax attacks report
A new look: U.S. twisted facts to pin anthrax attacks on ill scientist
http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-new-look-U-S-twisted-f-by-Paul-Conant-911_911-Commission_911-Profiteers-Political_911-Timeline-141107-793.html
A mildly revised version
http://conantcensorshipissue.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-new-look-us-twisted-facts-to-pin.html
Conant's 9/11 pages
Why not use a site such as Changedetection.com http://changedetection.com/ to keep track of changes to this page?
If a link is a dud or goes to an unreadable page, copy the headline, put it in quotation marks and use a general search engine, such as Google. It's quite possible another version of the article will turn up.
Paul Conant, editor of Newz from Limbo, also writes occasional web essays under the site names N-fold and Kryptograff, among others.
Newz from Limbo is dedicated to the principle of freedom of speech and press and of theological and academic inquiry.
The N-fold and Kryptograff web sites discuss often eccentric ideas in science and math. Such essays are to some extent Conant's notes to himself, rather than polished articles. They may be found at various addresses and domains, including Angelfire and Blogspot.
Conant, writing under the byline 'Roger Conant,' was for years a newspaperman in metro New York and has contributed to the New York Times. He served as a combat correspondent in Vietnam. He has no formal scientific training but enjoys corresponding with mathematicians and scientists.
You are free, in principle, to email Conant at Krypto78 attt gmail dottt com.
You are at liberty to make mirrors of any or all Conant pages, including the few that are copyrighted. The purpose of the copyright for those pages is simply to guard against significant alteration of the content.
(If URLs below malfunction, copies of Conant's pages are found at
http://paulpages.blogspot.com/ )
Conant's anthrax attacks report
A new look: U.S. twisted facts to pin anthrax attacks on ill scientist
http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-new-look-U-S-twisted-f-by-Paul-Conant-911_911-Commission_911-Profiteers-Political_911-Timeline-141107-793.html
A mildly revised version
http://conantcensorshipissue.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-new-look-us-twisted-facts-to-pin.html
Conant's 9/11 pages
How did the twin towers fall? Questions remain
9/11 probers skipped key forensic tests
9/11 blasts still echo in tangled files
Thumbnail of NIST's 9/11 scenario
The worst of Hearst
Waterboarding and 9/11: connecting the dots
Omissions and disparities in trade center fall rate data
Scientists clash over 9/11 collapses
Scientist questions 9/11 probe's professionalism
Activist scientist backs official 9/11 theory
Noted scientist pans 9/11 doubters
Experts can't verify official 9/11 theory
Trade center engineer backs new collapse probe
Physicists challenge 9/11 tale
Another physicist sees 9/11 conspiracy
http://znewz1.blogspot.com/
Scientist scorns official 9/11 yarn
http://conantcensorshipissue.blogspot.com/2012/05/mathematicians-strong-background.html
Explosives traces found in 9/11 dust? Media ducked
http://paulpages.blogspot.com/2011/11/slightly-revised-nov.html
Scientist scorns official 9/11 yarn
http://conantcensorshipissue.blogspot.com/2012/05/mathematicians-strong-background.html
Explosives traces found in 9/11 dust? Media ducked
http://paulpages.blogspot.com/2011/11/slightly-revised-nov.html
Secret wiretap power grab well before 9/11
NSA shocker fans 9/11 suspicion
Osama 'didn't mind' whether brother died on 9/11
FBI leery of Osama 'confession'
Simulating Osama
Psst... we're going to blame Iraq
Ellsberg scorns official 9/11 probes
GOP insider: 9/11 fit White House plan
Greenspan stokes 9/11 controversy
9/11 news coverage and obstruction of justice
Modern network theory and 'improbable conspiracies'
Crash course in entropy
The case of the missing energy
The physics of collapse times
Greenspan's 9/11 skepticism
Where are key Pentagon 9/11 photos?
Pentagon 9/11 disparities
Defense contractor aids stalled 9/11 probe
The prosecutor's fallacy
A general continuing fraction recursion algorithm for square roots
The Monty Hall problem over easy
Null set uniqueness theorem
Tests for divisibility by 9 or 11
Freaky facts about 9 and 11
I have added some new material on Force 1089.
I have added some new material on Force 1089.
A set of 'gamma' constants
An interesting zero?
http://www.angelfire.com/az3/nfold/1funzero.html
Conant math, science and logic pages
The many worlds of probability, reality and cognition
http://randompaulr.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-many-worlds-of-probability-reality_5678.html
An objection to Proposition 1 of Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus'
Conant math, science and logic pages
The many worlds of probability, reality and cognition
http://randompaulr.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-many-worlds-of-probability-reality_5678.html
An objection to Proposition 1 of Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus'
Most TSP families grow polynomially (a concern for code experts?)
When algorithms collide: An infinite sum that isn't (or is it?)
A geometric note on Russell's paradox
Nondenumerable sets of reals
The cosmos cannot be modeled as a Turing machine or Turing computation
A short proof of the Schroeder-Bernstein theorem (draft)
In search of a blind watchmaker
Do dice play God? A review of Irreligion
The knowledge delusion (reflections on Dawkins)
http://kryptograff5.blogspot.com/2011/11/the-knowledge-delusion-essay-by-paul.html
Drunk and disorderly: the rise and fall of entropy
http://paulpages.blogspot.com/2013/10/drunk-and-disorderly-rise-and-fall-of.html
Plato and Cantor vs. Wittgenstein and Brouwer
Drunk and disorderly: the rise and fall of entropy
http://paulpages.blogspot.com/2013/10/drunk-and-disorderly-rise-and-fall-of.html
Plato and Cantor vs. Wittgenstein and Brouwer
On the consistency of ZFC
An algorithm for implying all reals
Time thought experiments
Einstein, Sommerfeld and the twin paradox
Infinitely long noncomputable statements (a proof)
Information theory and intelligent design
Does math back 'intelligent design'
Pseudorandom thoughts on complexity
The Kalin cipher (Google temporarily shut down my site when this appeared)
Toward a signal model of perception
http://paulpages.blogspot.com/2013/11/edited-version-posted-march-3-2013-i_7324.html
Thoughts on Wolfram's 'Principle of Computational Equivalence'
http://paulpages.blogspot.com/2013/04/thoughts-on-wolframs-principle-of.html
On Hilbert's sixth problem
http://paulpages.blogspot.com/2013/11/edited-version-posted-march-3-2013-i_7324.html
Thoughts on Wolfram's 'Principle of Computational Equivalence'
http://paulpages.blogspot.com/2013/04/thoughts-on-wolframs-principle-of.html
On Hilbert's sixth problem
The world of null-H
http://kryptograff.blogspot.com/2007/06/world-of-null-h.html
A note on periodicity and probability
http://kryptograff5.blogspot.com/2013/08/draft-1-please-let-me-know-of-errors.html
Conant reportorial pages
A note on periodicity and probability
http://kryptograff5.blogspot.com/2013/08/draft-1-please-let-me-know-of-errors.html
Star Wars, AI and quantum computing
Cheney wiretap role surfaces
Biotech or bioterror: a global dilemma
Joe McCarthy: still making trouble
Conant to Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Psyops against the press
AIDS doomsday by 2028?
Fox News: trumpet of Israel's hard right
Psychotronic mind games
Richard Perle: hawk of many hats (this Disinfopedia article has been modified by others)
Media math still fuzzy in Florida presidential tally
Conant belles lettres pages
Since Grandpa Died -- a play in one act (with Liz O'Donnell)
http://paulpages.blogspot.com/2011/11/since-grandpa-died-play-in-one-act.html
Cody -- a short play or prose poem
http://rt66annals.blogspot.com/2011/12/cody-short-play-or-prose-poem-asterisks.html
The law the prophets and fig newtons
http://paulpages.blogspot.com/2011/11/since-grandpa-died-play-in-one-act.html
Cody -- a short play or prose poem
http://rt66annals.blogspot.com/2011/12/cody-short-play-or-prose-poem-asterisks.html
The law the prophets and fig newtons
Route 66 (poetry)
sites contain a number of math and logic discussions:
Monday, October 31, 2011
Reporters, whistleblowers team up
in drive against graft, cronyism100Reporters
A new web site links "top journalists from around the world to write about corruption."
Diana Jean Schemo and Philip Shenon came up with the idea for the site, 100Reporters, which is "aimed at filling a void in the current media landscape by reporting primarily on corruption and accountability in politics, business and governments," according to a statement.
In the statement, Diana Jean Schemo, the site's executive editor, said: "For the first time, we're bringing together professional reporters and citizens in a new partnership to expose graft and corruption in the United States and around the world. 100Reporters will cover corruption not as an isolated episode, but as an ongoing story with lasting implications. Whether talking about hunger in Somalia or uprisings in the Arab world or the revolving doors of Washington, the most important stories of our day tie into corruption. 100Reporters exists to bring those connections to light."
The group 100Reporters represents a new take on a familiar mission: using the power of the pen to hold government and business leaders accountable. Its primary mission is to cover corruption of all sorts, from the pervasive bribery that raises the cost of ordinary government services, to extortion, to the sweetheart contracts that perpetuate poverty and strangle competition.
According to Schemo, "Our unique perspective focuses on corruption in all its complexity, tracing not only its results, but the roles of parties all along the food chain."
Every year, corrupt leaders and their cronies siphon more than $1.26 trillion from the national economies of developing nations, according to the Global Financial Integrity Project. For every $1 that enters Africa in development aid, some $10 leaves the continent in illegal cash transfers. Said Schemo, "That money could be used to build roads, schools, water treatment plants and hospitals. This is information the public needs to know."
The site is also relying on citizen journalists through its "Whistleblower Alley," a secure portal where users can safely submit information-anonymously, if they choose, about corruption anywhere in the world. Such evidence can include original reporting, documents or photographic evidence of corrupt dealings or corrupt individuals. The goal is to embrace technology's potential to build new forms of journalism around a towering, intractable global issue, and to bring citizen journalists into the reporting of stories wherever possible.
Additionally, 100Reporters has formed partnerships with other news operations, including Global Post.com, the Center for Public Integrity and the Global Financial Integrity Project. Starting in November, stories will be offered for syndication through Thomson Reuters to hundreds of newspapers around the world. Expanding the publication base of 100Reporters will allow the new website's stories to reach the widest possible audience, especially in nations that typically shut down the Internet as a response to serious reporting.
The 100Reporters team includes scores of award-winning journalists from across the globe: Pulitzer winners David Johnston and Joel Brinkley, Richard Behar, Frank Foer, Lucy Komisar, Mike Sager, Lydia Chavez, Ken Silverstein, Micki Maynard, Roberto Guareschi of Argentina, Wanjohi Kabukuru of Kenya, Paul Radu and Stefan Candea of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project in Eastern Europe, Andrew Marshall in Singapore, Phil Gunson in Caracas, and many other stars of investigative journalism. The chairman of the 100Reporters Board of Directors, Ron Nixon, is an award-winning investigative correspondent for The New York Times and creator of the Ujima Project.
Limbo comment: Wikileaks may be in trouble, but here we have yet another emulator. Wonder if the national bank card cartel will block 100Reporters from conducting business (no need to worry about that pesky 5th amendment protection covering right to transact business), especially in light of the fact that an aim seems to be the ultra-elite "crony capitalists" who have proved the Occupiers' point with coordinated nationwide crackdowns and a propagandistic CBS News broadcast that could serve as a justification for the crackdowns.
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