"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always." Mohandas Gandhi
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

Monday, June 09, 2008

Mudança de casa para Novo Blog

Depois de ter começado a brincar com o Wordpress online e já a pensar em outros vôos, resolvi criar um novo blog, deixando o actual, rikhard-scientia, apenas como histórico.

Antes de mais uma pequena explicação para o título do novo blog, O Vigia.
Quando era mais pequeno adorava ler livros da Marvel, nestes existia uma personagem que eu achava bastante curiosa e ao mesmo tempo intrigante e misteriosa, o Uatu, mais conhecido por, The Watcher, ou em português, O Vigia.

O Vigia, era um alien, devido à minha personalidade também a mim já me chamaram isso ;), apesar de não possuir os 10m de altura do Vigia, agora possuo mais uma característica que me aproxima dele, a falta de cabelo ;) e o enorme gosto de me considerar um cidadão do Mundo, também me aproxima dessa personagem, que apesar de não poder, protegia o Planeta Terra, da mesma maneira e fazendo apenas aquilo que posso, tento também proteger o nosso planeta, tentando alertar os meus concidadãos terrestres para os perigos que a nossa civilização/planeta enfrentam no presente e futuros próximos.

Sejam pois bens vindos ao meu novo espaço, O VIGIA.

Uatu, o Vigia - Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre
São seres extremamente poderosos cujas características físicas mais marcantes são sua calvície e enorme estatura (mais de 10 metros). Eles se dedicam a observar os acontecimentos do Universo, mas são terminantemente proibidos de interferir no curso da história. Uatu é o vigia responsável pela Terra e suas proximidades e já interferiu mais de uma vez para salvá-la, o que o levou a ser julgado (revista Captain Marvel # 39) e marginalizado por outros vigias.

Uatu mora numa fortaleza na Lua terrestre, na região conhecida como "Área Azul", parte de uma cidade construída e abandonada pelos Krees, onde lhe faz companhia a espécie terrestre dos Inumanos (que tiveram de se transferir para a Lua por estarem sendo afetados pela poluição da Terra).
Uatu the Watcher - Marvel Universe: The definitive online source for Marvel super hero bios.
Billions of years ago, the technologically-advanced extraterrestrial race known as the Watchers decided it was their duty to help the universe's less advanced races. In their first such experiment, proposed by Ikor, a delegation of four brought atomic energy knowledge to the planet Prosilicus. The Prosilicans accepted the gift, but used it to develop nuclear weapons and engaged in an auto-genocidal war. Ashamed, the Watchers vowed never again to interfere in the affairs of other races. Ikor drafted a code of ethics based upon strict noninterference and passive observation that was so strict that if another being were dying at a Watcher's feet, the Watcher would offer no aid. With their new code established, the Watchers evacuated their homeworld and relocated throughout the galaxies, each Watcher choosing a solar system where they could observe and mentally record the lives of other races for the sake of eventually sharing it with their fellow Watchers. The Watchers would then sporadically reassemble to pool their knowledge and share what they had witnessed.

Sunday, June 08, 2008

Porque não atacam os supostos terroristas quem exerce as políticas que eles dizem abominar?

Depois de muito ler sobre os diversos atentados que ocorreram e ocorrem um pouco por todo o mundo, entre os quais os mais visíveis, 11 Setembro 2001 nos EUA, 11 Março 2004 em Espanha e ainda os de 7 Julho 2005 em Londres, nos quais as vítimas são inocentes e vítimas das mesmas políticas e acções que próprios terroristas se queixam, porque razão não atacam eles quem decide essas políticas e quem na realidade as implementa?

Por diversas vezes e com dias e horas marcadas, os poderosos de todo o mundo se juntam para decidir sobre as vidas de todo um planeta, como é o caso do encontro do grupo Bilderberg, que ocorre durante este fim de semana, porque razão nunca existem atentados ou tentativas nestes encontros?

De tudo o que li e o que a história nos ensina com o terrorismo de estado (Operação Gladio da Nato, Operação Northwoods, etc), existe uma única razão, os grupos de terrorismo como a Al-Qaeda, não passam de operacionais da Nova (Des)Ordem Mundial, criados e patrocinados para levarem a cabo campanhas de terror ("False Flag Operations") contra inocentes.

Se assim não fosse porque razão não são efectuados atentados nesses encontros, onde se reúne a elite mundial?

Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
U.S. Corporate Media Blackout On Bilderberg Meeting

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Saturday, June 7, 2008

Ben Bernanke, Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton amongst a host of other global power brokers have all convened in Chantilly Virginia to secretly discuss the future of the world - yet not one mainstream U.S. corporate media outlet has uttered a single word about the 2008 Bilderberg conference.

Saturday, June 07, 2008

Fotos do encontro do grupo Bilderberg neste ano de 2008 - Obama e Hillary também presentes e ainda Rui Rio e António Costa bem como Pinto Balsemão

O grupinho fascista e um dos principais impulsionadores da Nova (Des)Ordem Mundial, o Bilderberg, está este ano reunido de 6 a 8 de Junho, na Virginia no Westfields Marriott Hotel, Chantilly, VA.

Presentes estiveram também os dois candidatos do partido Democrata, Obama e Hillary, é só mais uma prova que não existe distinção alguma entre os fascistas do partido Republicano e os do Democrata, ambos estão lá para se servirem do povo e não para o servir.

Que estariam estes senhores e senhoras todos a planear, a próxima guerra, as próximas súbidas do preço de bens alimentares e do crude? As medidas que levarão a mais milhares de crianças mortas por dia, em guerras e por falta de comida e água potável?

A foto a seguir mostra o respeito que estes senhores têm pelos carneirinhos que os bajulam e que ainda perdem o precioso tempo a votar neles.

A lista deste ano tem diversas personagens para além das já mencionadas acima, reparem que mais uma vez lá está o sr da SIC e agora também António Costa da câmara de Lisboa e Rui Rio da câmara do Porto, como podemos nós confiar em gentinha deste calibre?

PRT Balsemão, Francisco Pinto Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister

PRT Costa, António Mayor of Lisbon

PRT Rio, Rui Mayor of Porto


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Também nós temos infelizmente muita gente nesse grupinho, eis alguns que aparecem na lista do jornal Semanário:

"O SEMANÁRIO publica, em exclusivo, a lista de todos os
portugueses que já estiveram em reuniões de Bilderberg,
um clube que é considerado uma espécie de governo-sombra
a nível mundial. Uma das principais tarefas dos jornalistas que
investigam o clube é não só saber quem participa
nas reuniões mas, sobretudo, acompanhar o seu percurso nos
tempos seguintes. Quase todos, ascendem a altos postos. Na
reunião que teve lugar de 3 a 6 de Junho, em Stresa, em
Milão, Santana Lopes e José Sócrates estiveram
presentes, juntamente com Pinto Balsemão. Curiosamente, Santana
seria primeiro-ministro dois meses depois e nem passaria um ano para
José Sócrates chefiar o Governo. Outros três
intervenientes na crise política de 2004, o Presidente da
República, Jorge Sampaio, Durão Barroso, então
primeiro-ministro, e Ferro Rodrigues, então líder do PS,
também estiveram em reuniões de Bilderberg. Sampaio
esteve presente em 1999, na reunião


de Sintra. Durão é um velho conhecido de Bilderberg,
tendo estado presente em 1994, 2003 e já este ano, na Alemanha,
na qualidade de presidente da Comissão Europeia. Já Ferro
esteve presente na reunião de 2003."


DEU Ackermann, Josef Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG
CAN Adams, John Associate Deputy Minister of National Defence and Chief of the Communications Security Establishment Canada
USA
Ajami, Fouad Director, Middle East Studies Program, The Paul H. Nitze
School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
USA Alexander, Keith B. Director, National Security Agency
INT Almunia, Joaqu
i'
n Commissioner, European Commission
GRC Alogoskoufis, George Minister of Economy and Finance
USA Altman, Roger C. Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc.
TUR Babacan, Ali Minister of Foreign Affairs
NLD Balkenende, Jan Peter Prime Minister



BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Bilderberg: The ultimate conspiracy theory
BBC News Online Magazine

The Bilderberg group, an elite coterie of Western thinkers and power-brokers, has been accused of fixing the fate of the world behind closed doors. As the organisation marks its 50th anniversary, rumours are more rife than ever.

Given its reputation as perhaps the most powerful organisation in the world, the Bilderberg group doesn't go a bundle on its switchboard operations.

‘CIA Secret Experiments’, da National Geographic - um documentário obrigatório

Um documentário explosivo e que nos faz pensar; recomendo que seja visto por todos, assim poderão perceber que existem pessoas que fazem investigação que não olha a meios para atingir os fins, e os fins não são minimamente aceitáveis.

“This powerful National Geographic video documents how for decades, top secret government projects worked virtually non-stop to perfect means of controlling the human mind. Though for many years the government denied that these projects even existed, the details have long been preserved in thousands of pages of now declassified government documents reluctantly released through the Freedom of Information Act. LSD and electroshock therapy in huge doses given to unsuspecting citizens are only a part of this unbelievable program.

CIA Secret Experiments blows the lid off years of chilling experiments, drawing on the above-mentioned declassified documents and interviews with some of the victims. Hear from John Marks, the author of In Search of the Manchurian Candidate, who originally broke the story of the CIA’s abuses by unraveling the mysteries contained in the declassified documents. Learn how many of the most important records pertaining to the mind control experiments were destroyed by the director of the CIA in an attempt to prevent the details from ever being known.http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20080606125526721

CIA Secret Experiments

It’s the height of the Cold War and the United States government is desperate to combat the spread of Communism. The CIA launches a highly c…all » “It’s the height of the Cold War and the United States government is desperate to combat the spread of Communism. The CIA launches a highly classified, top secret research program into the covert use of biological and chemical agents. In simulated attacks on enemy populations, entire cities in America are contaminated with bacteria, exposing millions of Americans to germ warfare. But the real focus of the research is on mastering the art of mind control. Psychiatrists at top academic institutions work under secret contract with the agency. Psychiatric patients, prisoners, even unwitting members of the public are exposed to a startling array of experiments designed to facilitate interrogations, induce amnesia and program in new behavior. Every psychological technique is explored, including hypnosis, electroshock therapy and lethal cocktails of drugs. What was the extent of these brainwashing experiments? How did the CIA become involved in such far-reaching and disturbing research? Join us as National Geographic presents: CIA Secret Experiments.” http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7593041103799709699

Citações de Linus Torvalds (criador do Kernel Linux)

Algumas citações do criador do Kernel Linux, o Ditador Benevolente, Linus Torvalds!!!

Foram descaradamente surripiadas daqui....


The 10 Best Linus Torvalds Quotes
1. “Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.”

2. “Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.”

3. “My name is Linus, and I am your God.”

4. “See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.”

5. “The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.”

6. “Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph.”

7. “Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”

8. “When you say, ‘I wrote a program that crashed Windows,’ people just stare at you blankly and say, ‘Hey, I got those with the system, for free.’”

9. “I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.”

10. “Now, most of you are probably going to be totally bored out of your minds on Christmas day, and here's the perfect distraction. Test 2.6.15-rc7. All the stores will be closed, and there's really nothing better to do in between meals.”

With thanks in part to http://thinkexist.com/.

Friday, June 06, 2008

Citações

"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and
jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing
thousands and pillaging the very hills?": Kahlil Gibran



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"Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the
government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different
ways. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside
there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their
own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a
few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror": Niccolo
Machiavelli, The Prince


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"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it": Mohandas
Gandhi


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"In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is
neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave":
John James Ingalls

O Top das ferramentas de segurança e redes, disponíveis nos repositórios do Ubuntu

Um artigo muito interessante sobre ferramentas de segurança e redes disponíveis nos repositórios do Ubuntu, claro que Debian e Sidux também as têm disponíveis.

Algumas que já usei e que gosto bastante:

Snort - Flexible Network Intrusion Detection System
Tshark -
Wireshark network traffic analyzer (console interface)
WireShark -
Wireshark network traffic analyzer

Kismet -
Kismet is a 802.11b wireless network sniffer

Nmap - Nmap is a utility for network exploration or security auditing
Traceroute -
Traces the route taken by packets over an IPv4/IPv6 network

Whois -
This is a new whois (RFC 3912) client rewritten from scratch

host - DNS lookup utility

Chkrootkit -
Checks for signs of rootkits on the local system

Wipe -
Secure file deletion

Aide - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment
TripWire -
file and directory integrity checker

Debsums -
Verify installed package files against MD5 checksums


Sondagem: Irelanda pode recusar o tratado de Lisboa; Jim Corr dos "The Corrs" contra o tratado, afirma ainda que os atentados de 9/11/2001 foram uma "False Flag operation"

Irish Examiner | Irish News | News from Ireland
A defeat on polling day next Thursday would represent a devastating failure for Brian Cowen in his first big test as Taoiseach and damage the Government’s reputation in Europe.

Opponents of the treaty outstrip supporters for the first time.

The poll showed 35% of people intend to vote no, with just 30% saying they will vote yes. The remaining 35% are undecided.


The figures represent a remarkable turnaround since the corresponding poll just three weeks ago. Then, 35% of people said they would vote yes, with just 18% saying they would vote no.

Se tudo correr bem e se esta sondagem de alguma forma se vier a confirmar, a Europa ainda tem uma hipótese de não cair totalmente nas mãos dos senhores da Nova (Des)Ordem Mundial, pelo menos por mais algum tempo.

De certeza que esta situação se repetiria um pouco por todas as nações da UE, caso os seus cidadãos tivessem tido a oportunidade de se manifestar relativamente à mentira do "tratado de Lisboa", que mais não é que uma constituição Europeia, com vista a acabar com os estados e as suas constituições, a caminho de um estado, um governo, um exército, uma religião, a nível mundial, quando as quatro grandes regiões se unirem, Américas, Europa, África e Ásia.

Ainda há não muito tempo o sr Bush e os seus correligionários assinaram um tratado com o Canadá que criou NAU, a qual possúi também uma moeda, o Amero.

Durante uma entrevista na rádio, Jim Corr dos "The Corrs" mostrou-se contra o tratado, afirmando ainda que os atentados de 9/11/2001 foram uma "False Flag operation", ou seja que teriam sido levados a cabo por elementos muito pouco recomendáveis do próprio governo dos EUA, menciona ainda algumas das mais recentes investigações do físico Steven Jones e Kevin Ryan, sobre vestígios de uma substância, thermate, que poderão provar a existência de explosivos nas três torres, WTC1/2 e WTC7, as quais teriam ruido através de demolições controladas e não devido aos embates dos aviões e das temperaturas, até porque nem

http://largowinchx.free.fr/The%20Corrs/TheCorrs06.jpg

as temperaturas atingiram os valores que alguns media afirmam, nem o WTC7 foi atingido por qualquer avião, já para não mencionar que as torres tinham sido concebidas para aguentar múltiplos embates de aeronaves da dimensão das que foram usadas nos atentados de 11 Setembro 2001.



Jim Corr on The Lisbon Treaty & The New World Order.

Já por diversas vezes escrevi sobre o tema.

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Alemanha quer aprovar lei "anti-terror" usando spyware

Estes últimos dias têm sido férteis por parte de países europeus e não só, no crescente atentado às liberdades e privacidade de todos nós.
Atentar contra estes direitos é estar cada vez mais a destituir o ser humano dos seus princípios mais básicos.

Desta vez foi na Alemanha, estes senhores e senhoras acham por bem, segundo eles, aprovar uma lei que lhes vai permitir espiar o que cada um faz nas suas casas, usando para tal spyware, que tentaram infiltrar nos computadores das vítimas, por forma a obter delas o que desejam.

Apesar de afirmarem que será só usada em casos específicos, todos sabemos que não vai ser assim, nunca o é.

Bem vindos à Nova (Des)Ordem Mundial.

German government approves plod-spyware law | The Register
The German government yesterday passed a controversial anti-terror law that would grant police the power to monitor private residences, telephones and computers.

Instead of tapping phones, they would be able to use video surveillance and even spy software to collect evidence. Physically tampering with suspects' computers would still not be allowed, but police could send anonymous e-mails containing trojans and hope the suspects infect their own computers.
German government approves plod-spyware law | The Register
Privacy and civil liberties groups are strongly opposed. They point at a recent scandal at Deutsche Telecom, which illegally monitored phone call records to see if it could stop leaking information to journalists. Sebastian Edathy, chairman of the Bundestag's domestic affairs committee, yesterday told Deutsche Welle that "we don't want a spy state." He believes the proposed measures are "uncharted territory in the law".

Como fazer backup de blogs no Blogger (blogspot.com)

Depois de já se ter escrito umas quantas coisas nos nossos blogs, surge o pensamento, e como posso eu guardar todos estes "posts" de forma rápida e eficaz?

Algumas hipóteses para fazer backup de blogs alojados no blogger, creio que serão válidos também para outros, pelo menos as que envolvem o wget e o httrack.

Para quem como eu usa Software Livre e especialmente o excelente Debian GNU/Linux e seus descendentes, Ubuntu, Sidux etc:

$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install wget httrack

A maneira talvez mais fácil é instalar a extensão DownThemALL(dTa), e depois usar o seguinte endereço:

http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=N

substituindo blogname, pelo nome real do blog, no meu caso rikhard-scientia, onde N é o número de "posts", N=1000 deve chegar, no Blogger dá para ver o número de posts, entrando na página onde se pode criar outra mensagem/post.

Outra maneira é usar o wget, que está disponível na maioria dos sistemas operativos:

wegt -r --level=1 -H -k -p -erobots=off -U Mozilla http://url.do.blog

ou ainda usando o excelente httrack:

Num terminal, digite:

apt-get install httrack

Depois é só seguir os passos:
  1. Abra o terminal e digite httrack para iniciar o programa;
  2. Digite o nome do projeto quando aparecer "Enter project name";
  3. Agora digite o diretório que você deseja salvar o site, por exemplo, /home/seu_usuário/blog;
  4. Quando aparecer a mensagem "Enter URLs", digite a URL do seu Blog;
  5. O próximo passo tem várias opções para você escolher, no nosso caso escolha a opção 1;
  6. Para o proxy não precisa digitar nada, apenas tecle enter, a não ser que você queira usar um proxy;
  7. No próximo campo também não é necessário digitar nada, tecle enter;
  8. Agora
    você precisa digitar o seguinte: -*/*search* -*/*widget*, assim mesmo
    separado por um espaço em branco, isso vai agilizar muito o tempo de
    backup e não vai baixar coisas desnecessárias;
  9. Tecle Y para confirmar;
  10. Espere :D
Retirado deste site:
http://mudandoparaolinux.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Suécia vai tornar legal as escutas a todo o tráfego de mail e telefone; Russia apaga indesejáveis da TV; UK adultos vão parar a base de dados

A Suécia prepara-se para aprovar uma lei que vai tornar legal monitorizar todo o tráfego de mail e telecomunicações que passe pelas suas fronteiras.

Mas também como já vem sendo hábito, trata-se de uma lei para proteger e ajudar as suas multinacionais, básicamente espionagem industrial...ou seja, a teoria de que será para segurança dos cidadãos, mais uma vez não passa de areia para os olhos dos carneirinhos.

"A broad array of organizations will have use of the system, including the Department of Transportation, the Department of Agriculture, the police, secret service and customs, and in some cases major businesses."

Ou seja, mesmo que não sejamos suecos, mas devido ao funcinamento da rede Internet, podemos estar a ser escutados da mesma forma que os suecos.

Trata-se de um sistema como o já investigado pela UE, dicionário Echelon, usado pelos EUA, UK, CAN, AUS, NZ.

Eu até pensava que os países nórdicos eram bem mais inteligentes relativamente a esta paranóia securitária que o mundo está cada vez mais a viver, mas parece que estou errado.

Se isto não é caminhar cada vez mais para um mundo securitário, não sei o que será!!!

Como se já não bastasse, também os nossos "amigos" Russos, nomeadamente o ditador ex-KGB, Vladimir Putin, também tirou um coelho da cartola e vai de usar tecnologia digital para remover dos ecrâs as pessoas que discordam dele.

Como se não bastasse os senhores mais securitários do planeta, empatados com os dos EUA, o Reino Unido, pretendem que todas as pessoas, com salário ou sem, e que vão trabalhar com crianças ou pessoas vulneráveis, têm de ser registadas obrigatóriamente numa base de dados.

Bem Vindos à Nova (Des)Ordem Mundial.

ECHELON - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ECHELON is a name used in global media and in popular culture to describe a signals intelligence collection and analysis network operated on behalf of the five signatory states to the UKUSA agreement; Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, known as AUSCANZUKUS.[1]

The system has been reported in a number of public sources.[2] Its capabilities and political implications were investigated by a committee of the European Parliament during 2000 and 2001 with a report published in 2001.[3]

In its report, the European Parliament states that the term ECHELON is used in a number of contexts, but that the evidence presented indicates that it was the name for a signals intelligence collection system. The report concludes that, on the basis of evidence presented, ECHELON was capable of interception and content inspection of telephone calls, fax, e-mail and other data traffic globally through the interception of communication bearers including satellite transmission, public switched telephone networks and microwave links. The committee further concluded that "the technical capabilities of the system are probably not nearly as extensive as some sections of the media had assumed".[3]
World+dog ignores Sweden's Draconian wiretap bill | The Register
Sweden is on the verge of passing a far-reaching wiretapping program that would greatly expand the government's spying capabilities by permitting it to monitor all email and telephone traffic coming in and out of the country.

So far, hacks from the mainstream Swedish press seem to be on holiday, so news about the proposed law is woefully hard to come by. That leaves us turning to this summary from the decidedly left-leaning Swedish Pirate Party for details. We'd prefer to rely on a more neutral group, but that wasn't possible this time. According to them, here's a broad outline:

The En anpassad försvarsunderrättelseverksamhet bill (which loosely translates to "a better adapted military intelligence gathering") gives Sweden's National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) direct access to the traffic passing through its borders. Now remember, we're talking about the internet, which frequently routes packets though multiple geographically dispersed hops before they reach their final destination.

This all but guarantees that emails and voice over IP (VoIP) calls between Swedes will routinely be siphoned into a massive monitoring machine. And we wouldn't be surprised if traffic between parties with no tie to the country regularly passes through Sweden's border as well, and that too would be fair game. (For example, email sent from a BT address in London to Finland is likely to pass through Sweden first.)

Once intercepted, the data will be searched for certain keywords, and those that contain the words will be pulled aside for additional scrutiny. A broad array of organizations will have use of the system, including the Department of Transportation, the Department of Agriculture, the police, secret service and customs, and in some cases major businesses. The bill allows Swedes to be singled out, as well.
World+dog ignores Sweden's Draconian wiretap bill | The Register
"Surprisingly enough, there hasn't been that much written about it, even in the Swedish media," said Patrik Runald, a Swedish national and a security response manager for F-Secure who works in San Jose, California.

"The funny thing is when asked what do you want to look for, [backers of the bill] don't really specify what they're interested in," he continued. "It's a very broad bill. They basically can interpret whatever they like."
Kremlin Rules - It Isn’t Magic - Putin Opponents Vanish From TV - Series - NYTimes.com
MOSCOW — On a talk show last fall, a prominent political analyst named Mikhail G. Delyagin had some tart words about Vladimir V. Putin. When the program was later televised, Mr. Delyagin was not.
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Kremlin Rules

In a still frame from video, the incomplete digital erasure of a Putin critic named Mikhail G. Delyagin from an episode of the program "The People Want to Know" can be seen. Mr. Delyagin's leg and hand remain visible, to the right of the man holding the microphone.

Not only were his remarks cut — he was also digitally erased from the show, like a disgraced comrade airbrushed from an old Soviet photo. (The technicians may have worked a bit hastily, leaving his disembodied legs in one shot.)

Mr. Delyagin, it turned out, has for some time resided on the so-called stop list, a roster of political opponents and other critics of the government who have been barred from TV news and political talk shows by the Kremlin.

The stop list is, as Mr. Delyagin put it, “an excellent way to stifle dissent.”

It is also a striking indication of how Mr. Putin has increasingly relied on the Kremlin-controlled TV networks to consolidate power, especially in recent elections
A quarter of UK adults to go on child protection database | The Register
“The death of informality”. That was how Josie Appleton, convenor of the Manifesto Club, described the results of the second government consultation on the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA).

The ISA is the child of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.

From next year, all those who wish to work, either paid or unpaid, with children or vulnerable adults will need to be vetted. Those who fail the vetting will be barred from obtaining such work. Individuals who seek to work in these areas, knowing that they have been barred, will be committing a criminal offence. Registration will cost £64 per person, although this will be waived for those only wishing to work in an unpaid voluntary capacity. This initiative will be supported by a central database, holding the details of 11.3 million people, or slightly more than a quarter of the adult population. This is an increase of nearly 3 million over initial Home Office estimates, making it the most extensive database of its kind in the world. The scheme launch has been put back to next year as a result of ‘concerns about data security’ and extra work needed to ensure its database was ‘robust’.

The ISA is due to take up its full responsibilities in October 2009. It recently announced its appointment of a board to supervise future work, under the chairmanship of Roger Singleton, former chief executive at Barnardo’s. Concern focuses on two areas.

According to Appleton, who is co-ordinating a national campaign against this new legislation, 'The vetting database is based on the misconception that it is possible for the state to regulate every interaction between adults and children. If only 'state-approved' adults can relate to children, we'll see the death of the many informal clubs, societies and nurseries that are so important for children's development.'

Parabéns UEFA

Já não nos chegava ter de aturar horas a fio a palhaçada à volta da selecção de mercenários, agora vamos ter mais umas quantas parvoíces e horas desperdiçadas a discutir o não assunto,FCP vs Benfica vs o resto do mundo, onde quase todos deveriam ser punidos nesta altura ou em outras.

Enfim! É este o país que temos, até parece que estamos cheios de jazidas de petróleo e diamantes e nada mais temos com que nos preocupar-mos.

Parafraseando uma das belas tiradas dessa gente da bola que a usou em relação ao Benfica, usando agora Portugal, pode-se afirmar que "Portugal estava à beira do precipício, mas demos um passo em frente!"

Já nem sei que diga!!! Triste Portugal!

IPcalc - uma bela ferramenta de redes

$ ipcalc 192.168.1.2
Address: 192.168.1.2 11000000.10101000.00000001. 00000010
Netmask: 255.255.255.0 = 24 11111111.11111111.11111111. 00000000
Wildcard: 0.0.0.255 00000000.00000000.00000000. 11111111
=>
Network: 192.168.1.0/24 11000000.10101000.00000001. 00000000
HostMin: 192.168.1.1 11000000.10101000.00000001. 00000001
HostMax: 192.168.1.254 11000000.10101000.00000001. 11111110
Broadcast: 192.168.1.255 11000000.10101000.00000001. 11111111
Hosts/Net: 254 Class C, Private Internet

ipcalc takes an IP address and netmask and calculates the resulting broadcast,
network, Cisco wildcard mask, and host range. By giving a second netmask, you
can design subnets and supernets. It is also intended to be a teaching tool
and presents the subnetting results as easy-to-understand binary values.

Enter your netmask(s) in CIDR notation (/25) or dotted decimals (255.255.255.0).
Inverse netmasks are recognized.
If you omit the netmask ipcalc uses the default netmask for the class of your network.



No seu site, também existe a funcionar como ferramenta online.

Para utilizadores como eu de Debian e Debian based, como o Sidux, Ubuntu e derivados, está a um $sudo aptitude install ipcalc

Nota: em Sidux não se deve usar o aptitude mas sim o apt-get

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

Para quem como eu acha que todo o movimento de Software Livre e o Open Source, devem muito a este homem, e porventura cada vez mais.

Cá fica um livro, o qual se pode fazer download sobre os ensaios mais pertinentes de Richard M. Stallman.

Documentation of the GNU project -- Books in Print
Free Software, Free Society book cover image
Author: Richard M. Stallman
Introduction: Lawrence Lessig
Editor: Joshua Gay
ISBN 1-882114-98-1
Hard Cover Edition with dust jacket
$25.00
224 Pages
Publication Date: October 2002
Category: Ethics, Law, Computer Software


Free Software, Free Society book cover image


The intersection of ethics, law, business and computer software is the subject of these essays and speeches by MacArthur Foundation Grant winner, Richard M. Stallman. This collection includes historical writings such as The GNU Manifesto, which defined and launched the activist Free Software Movement, along with new writings on hot topics in copyright, patent law, and the controversial issue of “trusted” (more properly called “treacherous”) computing. Stallman takes a critical look at common abuses of copyright law and patents when applied to computer software programs, and how these abuses damage our entire society and remove our existing freedoms. He also discusses the social aspects of software and how free software can create community and social justice.

Given the current turmoil in copyright and patent laws, including the DMCA and proposed CBDTPA, these essays are more relevant than ever. Stallman tackles head-on the essential issues driving the current changes in copyright law. He argues that for creativity to flourish, software must be free of inappropriate and overly-broad legal constraints. Over the past twenty years his arguments and actions have changed the course of software history; this new book is sure to impact the future of software and legal policies in the years to come.

Lawrence Lessig, the author of two well-known books on similar topics, writes the introduction. He is a noted legal expert on copyright law and a Stanford Law School professor.

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this book provided the copyright notice and this permiss
ion notice are preserved on all copies.


Mais más notícias sobre o documento ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement)

Há dias atrás já havia escrito sobre este tema, mas aqui fica mais informação a partir da ars technica sobre mais um meio que os grandes blocos económicos, USA, EU, Canada, Japan, se preparam para introduzir colocando mais uma vez de lado o direito à privacidade.

Estamos quase lá, já falta pouco para uma verdadeira Nova (Des)Ordem Mundial, o estado securitário está aos poucos a tornar-se realidade.

Mais informação na Wikileaks.

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a proposed plurilateral trade agreement that would impose strict enforcement of intellectual property rights related to Internet activity and trade in information-based goods. The agreement is being secretly negotiated by the governments of the United States, the European Commission, Japan, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Canada, and Mexico.[1][2] If adopted at the 34th G8 summit in July 2008, the treaty would establish an international coalition against copyright infringement, imposing a strong, top-down enforcement regime of copyright laws in developed nations. The proposed agreement would allow border officials to search laptops, MP3 players, and cellular phones for copyright-infringing content. It would also impose new cooperation requirements upon internet service providers (ISPs), including perfunctory disclosure of customer information, and restrict the use of online privacy tools. The proposal specifies a plan to encourage developing nations to accept the legal regime.

The European Commission, the Office of the United States Trade Representative, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and other government agencies have acknowledged participating in ACTA negotiations, but they have not released documents relating to the proposed agreement. Public interest advocates in Canada filed an access to information request but received only a document stating the title of the agreement, with everything else blacked out.[2] On May 22, 2008, a discussion paper about the proposed agreement was uploaded to Wikileaks, and newspaper reports about the secret negotiations quickly followed.[3][4][2][5]
The real ACTA threat (it's not iPod-scanning border guards)
A worldwide DMCA on steroids: now isn't that scarier—and way more plausible—than iPod-scanning airport guards?

The real ACTA threat (it's not iPod-scanning border guards)
Such was the predictable fallout from a leaked document outlining a new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) being negotiated between the US, Canada, the EU, Japan, and other nations, and it has lead to a spate of lurid online accusations that border agents will soon be searching iPods and laptops for illicit copies of Zoolander. The reality is less thrilling but potentially more serious.

Michael Geist - U.S. Report Says ACTA Deal Gaining Steam
While Industry Minister Jim Prentice and Canadian officials continue to remain mum about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a report out of the U.S. suggests that there is considerable reason for public concern. Congress Daily (sub req) quotes a high-level official from the USTR as indicating that the talks are gaining steam, with a binding international agreement likely by the end of the year. The USTR official continued by noting that the treaty will focus on international cooperation, enforcement practices, and a legal framework. The article confirms that the USTR comments are consistent with the document leaked last week that has led to front page headlines in Canada.
The real ACTA threat (it's not iPod-scanning border guards)
The real issues

What is interesting about ACTA is a different set of provisions. The first is one that would allow countries to bring criminal penalties against those who commit "willful infringements without motivation for financial gain to an extent as to prejudicially affect the copyright owner (e.g., Internet piracy)."
The real ACTA threat (it's not iPod-scanning border guards)
The document has lead Canadian legal scholar Michael Geist to write this week, "The effect of these reforms will dramatically reshape Canadian law with Prentice and Prime Minister Stephen Harper rolling out the red carpet for President George Bush's demands and leaving Canadians wondering how their consumer, property, and privacy rights suddenly disappeared."

Mais um livro a adquirir - "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"



The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt (Hardcover - Aug 27,
2007)

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy[1] (a condensed version used the title The Israel Lobby[2]) is the title of a work by John Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Walt, The Robert and Rene Belfer Professor of International Relations at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, that has gone through several versions from 2002 to 2007. The most recent version is The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, a New York Times Best Seller, published in September 2007 by Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux.

The work's thesis is that "the United States has been willing to set aside its own security in order to advance the interests of another state [Israel]", and that U.S. Middle East policy has driven primarily by domestic politics, especially the "Israel Lobby," defined as a "loose coalition of individuals and organizations who actively work to steer U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel[2] direction."

The authors state that the "core of the Lobby" is "American Jews who make a significant effort in their daily lives to bend U.S. foreign policy so that it advances Israel's interests." They note that "not all Jewish-Americans are part of the Lobby," and that "Jewish-Americans also differ on specific Israeli policies."

in Wikipedia

Monday, June 02, 2008

Portugal, um país de tristes carneirinhos amestrados pelos media

Esta tarde e início de noite de domingo, 1 de Junho de 2008, ficou marcada por mais um triste espectáculo dos nossos meios de (des)informação, conseguiram estar horas a fio a nada dizer, com a palhaçada da deslocação de meia dúzia de mercenários que tentam convencer o zé povinho que adoram representar o país.

Esta autêntica palhaçada, orquestrada com o beneplácito dos magnatas da comunicação social, usando para tal os seus papagaios amestrados e os desgovernos e pseudo políticos para os seus desvarios e com o triste contributo dos carneirinhos amestrados, é completamente estupidifciante, ridícula, sem o mínimo de sentido.

Vivemos num país cheio de problemas, muitos dos quais devido à falta de cultura e ao fraco nível de escolaridade do seu povo, muito por culpa da ditadura em que vivemos mergulhados durante anos, onde o FADO, FÁTIMA e o FUTEBOL eram a droga que alimentava o povo e o mantinha calado e sem pensar.

Pergunto-me se existirão reais diferenças entre esses tempos e os de hoje.

Portugal não pode ser apenas isto.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Instalar flash 10 em Debian/Kubuntu/Ubuntu AMD64 - afinal não funciona :(

EDIT 2:

Afinal o problema era a extensão Flashblock, parece que o flash10 e talvez o flash9, não gostam muito no FF3.

EDIT:


Afinal continua a dar bronca, agora nem o konqueror funciona, o Firefox3 funciona a meio gás, no youtube funciona quando lhe apetece, no Vimeo funciona sempre....arrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeee mas quando é que os gajos da Adobe lançam o plugin para AMD64....

Alguém pode ajudar?
Obrigado desde já!

Desta vez tendo feito um upgrade ao meu Kubuntu e tendo ficado tudo ok, ainda assim resolvi apagar uma data de tralha que tinha para aqui e resolvi deixar os 32Bits e passar ao AMD64, só a home ficou e muito bem, aliás poupou logo uma data de pequenas configurações.

Mas o flash 9 tem-me dado dores de cabeça, ainda não percebi se é dele próprio, do Firefox3 do nspluginwraper ou de falta de jeito mesmo, mas a verdade é que apesar de instalado e de funcionar bem no Konqueror e no Firefox3 quando o arranco, neste últimi passado algum tempo de eu ter o browser aberto deixa de funcionar, só relançando de novo o browser é que a coisa vai lá, o que não me dá muito jeito, porque sou viciado em TABS, tenho neste momento 64 abertas e preciso delas.

Fiz uma busca na net para ver se havia alguma maneira mais célere de instalar o flash10, e encontrei esta dica para o instalar.

Funcionou, pelo menos para já, mas tive de fazer mais um comando para o flash10 arrancar, o qual não está completo neste howto:

$sudo nspluginwrapper -v -a -u

Por fim, entrando no Firefox3 e fazendo:

about:plugins

deverá aparecer:

Shockwave Flash

File name: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0 b218
MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

Install Adobe Flash Player 10 on Ubuntu 64bit - My Science Is Better
1. Make sure you don't have any other flash plugin installed on your system:
sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper

1.1 To be sure we don't have any other old flash libs let's cleanup the folders where it usually resides:
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper


2. Install ia32-libs and latest nspluginwrapper
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs nspluginwrapper


3. Download the latest flash player from Adobe Labs and extract it:
cd ~
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_install_linux_051508.tar.gz
tar zxvf flashplayer10_install_linux_051508.tar.gz
sudo cp install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
rm -rf ~/install_flash_player_10_linux/

4. Use nspluginwrapper to install the plugin and link it to firefox
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/


in My Science Is Better

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Ataques de Anthrax nos EUA vieram do próprio exército dos EUA

Logo após os atentados de 11 de Setembro de 2001, assistiu-se a diversas operações chamadas de "False Flag" com técnicas de "PsyOps", guerra psicológica.

Nas notícias todos os dias eramos bombardeados com supostos ataques da Al-Qaeda usando Anthrax.

Segundo diversas informaçõs, desde o Washington Post, passando pela NewScientist, não deixam margens para dúvidas, os ataques foram planeados e levados a cabo por quem tinha acesso a um dos locais mais seguros do mundo, as instalações de armas biológicas dos EUA, em Fort Detrick.

George Washington's Blog: Even Fort Detrick Scientists Themselves Think the Killer Anthrax Came from their Facility
"Fort Detrick is run by the United States Army. It's the most secure biological warfare research center in the United States," a bioterrorism expert told FOX News."
Três dos quatro suspeitos que o FBI investiga, são empregados dessas instalações militares


Anthrax attack bug "identical" to army strain - 09 May 2002 - New Scientist
The DNA sequence of the anthrax sent through the US mail in 2001 has been revealed and confirms suspicions that the bacteria originally came from a US military laboratory.

The data released uses codenames for the reference strains against which the attack strain was compared. But New Scientist can reveal that the two reference strains that appear identical to the attack strain most likely originated at the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick (USAMRIID), Maryland.

The new work also shows that substantial genetic differences can emerge in two samples of an anthrax culture separated for only three years. This means the attacker's anthrax was not separated from its ancestors at USAMRIID for many generations.

George Washington's Blog: Even Fort Detrick Scientists Themselves Think the Killer Anthrax Came from their Facility
There is strong evidence that the anthrax attacks were a false flag attack. Indeed, the bioweapons expert who actually drafted the current bioweapons law (the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989) while working for President George H.W. Bush has said that he is convinced the October 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people were perpetrated and covered up by criminal elements of the U.S. government. The motive: to foment a police state by killing off and intimidating opposition to post-9/11 legislation such as the USA PATRIOT Act and the later Military Commissions Act. See also this.

At the very least, the FBI and the White House are actively covering up for the person who really did it.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Proibido usar laptops, ipods, mp3 players, telemóveis, etc - "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)" - Mais um atentado às Liberdades

A administração dos EUA, em conjunto com o Canada e a UE, preparam-se para aprovar mais um tratado que trata todos os cidadãos destas regiões como criminosos.

A lei, com o pomposo nome de "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)", nada mais é do que mais uma forma de defender as todas poderosas multinacionais e as suas já famosas defensoras como a RIAA e a MPAA bem como as suas congéneres.

Mas não ficam só pela fiscalização de tudo o que levamos nesses aparelhos quando nos deslocamos a cada uma dessas regiões, já de si era triste ser-mos tratados como traficantes de narcóticos, mas em casa também vamos ser tratados como criminosos, uma vez que esta lei, acordo, pretende que os ISP's entreguem informação confidencial sobre os usos da rede internet dos seus utilizadores sem um mandato do tribunal.

Ou seja, querem transformar as polícias e as alfândegas em polícias de copyright, e o mais extraordinário é que os agentes teriam a responsabilidade de determinar qual é o material que infringe ou não esse suposto acordo/lei.

Sempre quero ver como no local vão provar que os ficheiros ogg vorbis ou flac que criei a partir de cd's que adquiri legalmente são legais ou não, ou os filmes que tenho em Xdiv, Theora ou x264.

Uma outra agravante é os supostos agentes que vão vasculhar a nossa vida pessoal, poderem processar-nos sem que haja queixa por parte da suposta entidade que estaríamos a "prejudicar".

E ainda dizem que existe democracia e liberdade, estamos a caminhar para algo bem pior que a ex-URSS, Cuba, Coreia do Norte, pelo menos lá tinha e tem-se consciência que não existe realmente respeito pela dignidade humana, pelas mais simples liberdades, enquanto que cada vez mais na UE/UK/USA/Canada/AUS não as tendo ou cada vez mais as perdendo, usam-se todos os subterfúgios para mascarar a sua falta.

É um fartar Vilanagem!.

Está na altura de começar a encriptar tudo.

Como utilizador de Software Livre tenho à mão excelentes ferramentas, que felizmente estão também disponíveis nas outras plataformas, ferramentas tais como o excelente GNUpg, T r u e C r y p t, e a extensão para o gmail, FireGPG.
Ainda podemos tornar anónima a nossa navegação na web, usando o Tor em conjunto com o Firefox, bem como encriptar as comunicações que efectuamos em Instant Messaging e VoIP, como o OpenWengo.

Copyright deal could toughen rules governing info on iPods, computers
Called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the new plan would see Canada join other countries, including the United States and members of the European Union, to form an international coalition against copyright infringement.

Copyright deal could toughen rules governing info on iPods, computers
The deal would create a international regulator that could turn border guards and other public security personnel into copyright police. The security officials would be charged with checking laptops, iPods and even cellular phones for content that "infringes" on copyright laws, such as ripped CDs and movies.

The guards would also be responsible for determining what is infringing content and what is not.

Copyright deal could toughen rules governing info on iPods, computers
The agreement proposes any content that may have been copied from a DVD or digital video recorder would be open for scrutiny by officials - even if the content was copied legally.

Copyright deal could toughen rules governing info on iPods, computers
The leaked ACTA document states officials should be given the "authority to take action against infringers (i.e., authority to act without complaint by rights holders)."

Anyone found with infringing content in their possession would be open to a fine.

They may also have their device confiscated or destroyed, according to the four-page document.

The trade agreement includes "civil enforcement" measures which give security personnel the "authority to order ex parte searches" (without a lawyer present) "and other preliminary measures".

Monday, May 26, 2008

Tese de estudante sobre a Al-Qaeda leva-o à prisão

Isto é cada vez mais de loucos, agora porque um estudante, resolve estudar as tácticas da suposta organização terrorista Al-Qaeda, prendem-no porque fez downloads de documentos referentes a esta.

Nem sequer a informação prestada por parte dos seus supervisores da Universidade de Nottingham lhe valeu.

De referir que o documento sobre a Al-Qaeda foi puxado a partir de um site governamental dos EUA.

Qualquer dia estão a deter os historiadores.

Haja paciência!
Parece que desta vez é preciso mesmo uma REVOLUÇÃO, mas a nível Mundial!


Student researching al-Qaida tactics held for six days | higher news | EducationGuardian.co.uk
Student researching al-Qaida tactics held for six days





· Lecturers fear threat to academic freedom

· Manual downloaded from US government website



Polly Curtis and Martin Hodgson

Saturday May 24, 2008

The Guardian



A masters student researching terrorist tactics who was arrested and detained for six days after his university informed police about al-Qaida-related material he downloaded has spoken of the "psychological torture" he endured in custody.



Despite his Nottingham University supervisors insisting the materials were directly relevant to his research, Rizwaan Sabir, 22, was held for nearly a week under the Terrorism Act, accused of downloading the materials for illegal use. The student had obtained a copy of the al-Qaida training manual from a US government website for his research into terrorist tactics.

The case highlights what lecturers are claiming is a direct assault on academic freedom led by the government which, in its attempt to establish a "prevent agenda" against terrorist activity, is putting pressure on academics to become police informers.

in Guardian



Saturday, May 24, 2008

Mail ao IPQ relativo ao apelo da África do Sul

Acabo de enviar aos (i)responsáveis do IPQ este mail, se lhes mostrar-mos o nosso descontentamento pode ser que vão acordando da letargia m$...

Os contactos estão aqui.
Exm.ºs Senhora e Senhores,


Caros Representantes do IPQ,

O meu nome é Ricardo Nunes, trabalho há cerca de 10 anos na área da informática.

Tendo em conta que vivemos num mundo globalizado e onde diversos sistemas têm de interagir, onde a INTEROPERABILIDADE tem de ser assegurada, venho por este meio recomendar-lhes a leitura do apelo submetido ao ISO/IEC pelo organismo responsável pela normalização da África do Sul, a respeito da avaliação da DIS29500 enquanto norma ISO.

http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/files/080523dis_29500_appeal_letter_iso_2008022.pdf
http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/05/the-south-afric.html

Deixo já aqui a conclusão do documento enviado pela África do Sul:

Conclusion

In conclusion, South Africa challenges the validity of the final vote that we contend was based upon inadequate information resulting from poorly conducted BRM. Moreover, we challenge the validity of a process that, from beginning to end, required all parties involved to analyze far too much information in far too little time, involved a BRM that did not remotely provide enough time to perform the appointed purpose of that procedure, and for which an arbitrary time limitation was imposed to discuss and resolve a significant number of substantial responses, despite the Directives for not requiring any such limitation as to duration.

It is our opinion that the process followed during all stages of this fast track has harmed the reputations of both ISO and the IEC and brought the processes enshrined in the Direcives into disrepute, and that this negative publicity has, in turn, also harmed the reputations of all member bodies of ISO and the IEC.

Yours faithfully

*signed*

Mr M Kuscus
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)


Agradeço a atenção,
Sem mais de momento,

Cordialmente,

Listas de livros, comprados recentemente e a adquirir nos próximos tempos....

Apesar de nos últimos tempos ter gasto um bocadito em livros, estou a criar mais uma listinha, infelizmente não serão quase de certeza para adquirir na feira do livro, uma vez que por lá não aparecem os que quero adquirir, uma vez que quase na sua maioria não existem traduções e sairiam mais caros.

Ainda não consegui meter na cabeça porque carga de água não se vendem livros estrangeiros na feira do livro, afinal são livros.

Últimamente adquiri estes excelentes livros, infelizmente não tenho tido tempo de ler tanto quanto queria.



Livros adquiridos


by Webster Griffin Tarpley (Author)
"In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda..."


The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions And Distortions by David Ray Griffin (Paperback - Nov 30, 2004)



Freedom Next Time by John Pilger (Paperback - Jul 3, 2007)



The Web of Deceit: Britain's Real Role in the World by Mark Curtis (Paperback - May 15, 2003) - Import




Livros a adquirir

Censored 2007: The Top 25 Censored Stories (Censored) (Paperback)by Peter Phillips (Author), Project CensoredRobert Jensen (Introduction)

Censored 2007: The Top 25 Censored Stories (Censored)

"The best-selling Censored series highlights the year's twenty-five most important underreported news stories, alerting readers to deficiencies in corporate media and the resurgence of alternative media. Among the top censored stories of the year, Censored 2007
highlights the environmental and economic repercussions of Hurricane Katrina, the newest findings on global warming, escalating trends in human trafficking, and the use of napalm in Iraq."


9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press by David Ray Griffin (Paperback - Mar 2008)


The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger (Paperback - April 2003)


Friday, May 23, 2008

Oil for Dummies - "The Role of the Market Speculation in Rising Oil and Gas Prices, Senate Staff Report"

Este excelente relatório do Senado dos EUA explica o porquê do elevadissimo preço do barril de crude, e nada tem a ver com as leis de oferta e procura, aliás as reservas dos EUA nunca estiveram tão altas e só o DOD - departamento de defesa dos EUA - gasta num dia o equivalente à Suécia toda.

Chamo a atenção especialmente para o ponto 4.

The Role of the Market Speculation in Rising Oil and Gas Prices, Senate Staff Report

Published June 27, 2006


The U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations conducted an investigation of market speculation and oil/gas prices. They reported the following findings and recommendations:

“A. Findings

1. Rise in Speculation. Over the past few years speculators have expended tens of billions of dollars in U.S. energy commodity
markets.

2. Speculation Has Increased Prices. Speculation has contributed to rising U.S. energy prices, but gaps in available market data
currently impede analysis of the specific amount of speculation, the commodity trades involved, the markets affected, and the extent of price impacts.

3. Price-Inventory Relationship Altered. With respect to crude oil, the influx of speculative dollars appears to have altered the historical relationship between price and inventory, leading the current oil market to be characterized by both large inventories
and high prices.

4. Large Trader Reports Essential. CFTC access to daily reports of large trades of energy commodities is essential to its ability to detect and deter price manipulation. The CFTC’s ability to detect and deter energy price manipulation is suffering from critical information gaps, because traders on OTC electronic exchanges and the London ICE Futures are currently exempt from CFTC reporting requirements. Large trader reporting is also essential to analyze the effect of speculation on energy prices.

5. ICE Impact on Energy Prices. ICE’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other evidence indicate that its
over-the-counter electronic exchange performs a price discovery function — and thereby affects U.S. energy prices — in the cash market for the energy commodities traded on that exchange.

http://www.senate.gov/~levin/newsroom/supporting/2006/PSI.gasandoilspec.062606.pdf

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Notícias interessantes - Baltasar Garzón quer julgar Bush por Crimes de Guerra (upd)

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Spanish Judge Calls for Bush to be Tried for War Crimes



Judge Baltasar Garzón, sometimes callled “Super Judge”
sits on Spains second highest criminal court.

BY VICKY SHORT

Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish judge who sought to prosecute Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, has called for US President George W. Bush and his allies to be tried for war crimes over Iraq.

Writing in El Pais on the fourth anniversary of the invasion, Garzón stated, “Today, March 20, marks four years since the formal start of the war on Iraq. Instigated by the United States and Great Britain, and supported by Spain among other countries, one of the most sordid and unjustifiable episodes in recent human history began.

“Breaking every international law, and under the pretext of the war against terror, there has taken place since 2003 a devastating attack on the rule of law and against the very essence of the international community. In its path, institutions such as the United Nations were left in tatters, from which it has not yet recovered.” “Instead of commemorating the war,” Garzón continues, “we should be horrified, screaming and demonstrating against the present massacre created as a consequence of that war.”

He then writes that George W. Bush and his allies should eventually face war crimes charges for their actions in Iraq: “We should look more deeply into the possible criminal responsibility of the people who are, orwere, responsible for this war and see whether there is sufficient evidence to make them answer for it.” “For many it would be merely a question of political responsibility, but judicial actions in the US are beginning to emerge, as is the case of the verdict passed on one of vicepresident Cheney’s collaborators, [I. Lewis Libby] which point in a different direction.”

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Are the Bin Laden Tapes Fake?



Kristina Borjesson, BuzzFlash

Late in December 2007, The Associated Press reporter Salah Nasrawi wrote a story about a bin Laden audiotape that had just been released. Headlined "bin Laden Threatens Israel, Warns Iraqis," Nasrawi's piece details Osama's dire threats to expand al Qaeda's jihad in Israel and to "liberate Palestine, the whole of Palestine from the (Jordan) river to the sea," threatening "blood for blood, destruction for destruction."

Then, 11 paragraphs down, Nasrawi writes: "The authenticity of the tape could not be independently confirmed. But the voice resembled that of bin Laden. The tape was posted on an Islamic militant web site where al-Qaeda's media arm, Al-Sahab, issues the group's messages."

If the tape can't be vetted, it shouldn't be used. That's Journalism 101. At the very least, the fact that it can't be authenticated should be mentioned in the story's title and continuously mentioned throughout the story as the quotes are being used. Worse, all the mainstream TV outlets picked up on Nasrawi's story and liberally quoted "bin Laden" without bothering to use the word "purported" or another adjective indicating they had no proof it was bin Laden on the tape. Collectively, what these journalists are doing is worse than outright lying to the public. They are literally helping dangerous people with deadly hidden agendas create a virtual reality by unquestioningly conveying their messages.


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40 Years Since RFK Assassination, Mounting Evidence of CIA Involvement


BY MATT SULLIVAN / RCFP

Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated 40 years ago this month at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Sirhan B. Sirhan, a 24 year old immigrant, is the alleged lone gunman and is presently serving a life sentence.

In a new book, An Open and Shut Case, Dr. Robert Joling and Philip Van Praag have joined a growing list of people who don’t believe that Sirhan acted alone.

Joling and Van Praag, both forensic scientists, claim that after analyzing audio recordings of the assassination they have concluded that at least 13 shots were fired. The handgun Sirhan used only had the capacity to fire eight shots. They believe that there were two guns and that the fatal shot came from behind Robert Kennedy, while witnesses claim that Sirhan was in front of Kennedy. According to a March 27, 2008 ABC report by Pierre Thomas, Joling claims, “It can be established conclusively that Sirhan did not shoot Senator Kennedy. And in fact not only did he not do it, he could not have done it.”



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Navy Releases McCain's Records

USS Forrestal, July 29, 1967 - The worst accident aboard a US Navy surface vessel since WWII

BY WAYNE MADSEN/WAYNE MADSEN REPORT

The Navy released John McCain’s military record after a Freedom of Information Act request from the Associated Press. The record is packed with information on McCain’s medals and commendations but little else. The one thing that the McCain campaign does not want to see released is the record of McCain’s antics on board the USS Forestal in 1967. McCain was personally responsible for the deadliest fire in the history of the US Navy. That catastrophe, with 27 dead and over 100 wounded trumps McCain’s record as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.

WMR has learned additional details regarding the deadly fire aboard the Navy aircraft carrier, the USS Forrestal, on July 19, 1967 in the Gulf of Tonkin. The additional details point to then-Lt. Commander John McCain playing more of a role in triggering the fire and explosions than previously reported.

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Rice Directed Torture from White House

Condi Rice

BY SHEILA CASEY / RCFP

In December 2005, Condoleezza Rice testified to Congress “The United States does not permit, tolerate or condone torture under any circumstances.”

But ABC News has now revealed that during 2002 and 2003, Rice led dozens of meetings to discuss specific torture techniques with the National Security Council Principals Committee in the White House Situation Room. The committee included Vice President Dick Cheney and former Bush aides Attorney General John Ashcroft, CIA Director George Tenet, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell. They approved using the “enhanced interrogation techniques” of sleep deprivation, waterboarding, sexual assault, pushing and slapping.

Ventura Breaks Through Mainstream Media Dam With 9/11 Questions
Ventura Breaks Through Mainstream Media Dam With 9/11 Questions
Jesse 'The Mind' Defends Questions About Towers' Telling Collapse on Hannity & Colmes and National Talk Radio Programs: "How can two planes bring down three buildings?"

Aaron Dykes / Jones Report | April 8, 2008


Former Governor Jesse Ventura broke through enemy lines yesterday, exposing major inconsistencies with the official 9/11 story and holding his own against some of mainstream media's most disingenuous hosts, including Fox News' Sean Hannity and Opie & Anthony from XM Satellite radio.

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FBI Refuses to Turn Over Documentation
Used to Identify 9/11 Planes

By Matt Sullivan
The FBI claims that federal investigators made no attempt to identify plane wreckage pursuant to the investigation of 9/11. Researcher Aidan Monaghan submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the FBI seeking documents “revealing the process by which wreckage recovered by defendant, from aircraft used during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was positively identified by defendant . . . as belonging to said aircraft”

In response, Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Rose, representing the FBI, states;. “The identities of the airplanes hijacked in the September 11 attacks was never in question, and, therefore, there were no records generated” pursuant to the identification of the aircraft.

In other words, in the case of the greatest crime in US history, involving the greatest loss of civilian life ever, with nearly 3000 dead, the FBI claims that it made no attempt to formally identify the remains of the murder weapons. This would certainly seem to be a monumental oversight and incompetent blunder if it was true, but the publicly available information suggests that counsel’s statements are false on at least two counts.

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From the Gulf of Tonkin to the Strait of Hormuz

Photos of patrol boats then and now

Matt Sullivan

To anyone old enough to remember the Vietnam War, the similarities between the recent Iranian speedboat encounter and the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident are hard to miss. The Navy claimed, in August 1964, that the destroyer Maddox had come under attack by small North Vietnamese gunboats. This “confrontation” was seized upon by war hawks in the Johnson administration and used as the justification for “The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution”, a dramatic escalation of hostilities in southeast Asia. There’s only one problem with the Tonkin incident­—it never happened.

It’s been suspected for many years that the Tonkin Gulf incident was a fraud, but official acknowledgement has been a long time coming. In October 2005, the New York Times reported that Robert J. Hanyok, a historian for the U.S. National Security Agency, had concluded that the NSA deliberately distorted the intelligence reports that it had passed on to policy-makers regarding the incident. A full report was released in January 2008 by the National Security Agency and published by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS).

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Japanese Diet Debates 9/11Truth

On January 11, extraordinary testimony from Japan’s upper house of legislature (Diet) was transmitted into Japanese homes and offices nationwide. For over 20 minutes, Yukihisa Fujita, an opposition party leader of the upper house and member of the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, challenged the Prime Minister and cabinet ministers to justify Japan’s continued participation in the US global war on terror. He questioned the ministers as to what proof, if any, the US has offered as to the facts of 9/11.