Be pro-social
The British govt is planning to track every every phone call, every email, and every text message in the UK. All people, criminals and non-criminals, will have all of their contacts stored in a database. Welcome to Nineteen Eighty-Four.
“In a study of Christian church members who approached their church for help with a personal or family member’s diagnosed mental illness, researchers found that more than 32 percent were told by their pastor that they or their loved one did not really have a mental illness.”
Australia is creating regulations that all ISPs will be forced to follow: if the govt blacklists a website, then visiting the site from Australia will be a crime.
In a legal filing, lawyers for the US govt claimed that even if 17 Chinese Uighurs were not dangerous to US interests before they went to Gitmo, that after being detained for so long, they are now dangerous. In other words, we made them dangerous. Mission Accomplished.
A nice anecdote about making the pie bigger–helping the middle class–vs. tax cuts for the rich, or “trickle-down economics.”
Despite 9/11, despite cut-throat competition from airlines that lose money, and despite rising fuel costs, SWA never had a losing quarter until this now. If we let the other airlines fail, would they be replaced with airlines that can post 67 straight quarters of profits?
“EPA officials, who were under a federal court order to set a new health standard for lead by midnight Wednesday, said the new limit would better protect health, especially children’s.”
“About 200 people chanting anti-Muslim slogans demonstrated on Thursday at the opening of the first mosque in the formerly communist eastern part of Germany.”
“An extremist Islamic militia in Somalia has threatened to launch attacks in neighboring Kenya if the Kenyan government trains Somali government troops, a spokesman said.”
Nebraska allows guardians to leave children at any hospital without facing abandonment charges. Many have criticized it, but this story proves that it is working. A woman, who prosecutors say has neglected her child, left the child in Nebraska instead of continuing the neglect.