“Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. … Facebook,Google, Yahoo — all these major U.S. organizations have built-in interfaces for U.S. intelligence. It’s not a matter of serving a subpoena. They have an interface that they have developed for U.S. intelligence to use.”
— Julian Assange, founder of whistleblower site WikiLeaks, in an interview with RT (Russia Today). So does the government use Facebook to spy? Well, yes, the Department of Justice has acknowledged doing so, according to a post on ReadWriteWeb last month. But Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes told PCWorld: “There has never been a time we have been pressured to turn over data — we fight every time we believe the legal process is insufficient.” Assange, who has been said to have a “torrid” relationship with the media — he has worked with the Guardian and the New York Times, but his relationships with both have soured — also had some choice words for the industry. “It really is my opinion that media in general are so bad that we have to question whether the world wouldn’t be better off without them altogether. … One of the hopeful things that I’ve discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies. … So if we have a good media environment, then we also have a peaceful environment.”
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China Swings to Defense of Pakistan
Dalai Lama a terrorist, Osama a spiritual soldier.
BEIJING—China on Tuesday stood by its ally Pakistan amid growing questions in the U.S. about whether the country was complicit in harboring Osama bin Laden.
A ministry spokeswoman praised Pakistan's "vigorous" efforts to fight terrorism. "China will continuously and firmly support Pakistan to lay out and implement antiterror strategies based on its own domestic situation," Jiang Yu told a regular news conference.
One well-known television commentator and personality, Hou Ning, posted what amounted to a eulogy. Bin Laden "defied the most unconquerable country and military with his thin and weak body, continuously embarrassed and defeated them, played a drama that was the most magnificent and respectable in human history," he wrote. Mr. Hou didn't respond to a request to comment Tuesday evening.
Yan Feng, a professor of literature at Shanghai's elite Fudan University, who previously served as a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, appeared conflicted by bin Laden's death in a post on his Sina Weibo account, which he later deleted. "I will not join the troop of crying on the death of bin Laden. I will not hail it either," he wrote. "But purely from an individual's point of view, he's one rare idealist and spiritual soldier in the current world."
South Korean first lady's ancestors from Ayodhya
She is a descendant of a princess from Ayodhya who arrived on a boat and married a King of Korea's Gaya Kingdom in AD 48.
The tragic death of Arunachal CM is suspicious - I smell Chinese hand; He is a big follower of Dalai Lama;
He has also rubbished the Hans claim on Arunachal;
Crash occured near Chinese border;
Why is the GOI keeping quiet about Chinese threat?
Indian media is not talking about this;
YSR also got killed in a chopper and Scindia as well...
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