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Monday, August 5, 2013
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Twitter hands down new rules to beat abusive talk
LONDON (AP) ? Twitter is handing down new rules to control abusive language, the company said Saturday, a move which follows a barrage of nasty, harassing, and threatening messages directed at high-profile female users of the microblogging site.
In a message posted to its website, Twitter says it is introducing a one-click button to report abuse and updating its rules to clarify that it will not tolerate abusive behavior.
The one-click button means that users will not have to navigate to Twitter's help center in order to fill out an abuse form ? a process some said was too cumbersome to deal with a mass of angry messages ? while the new rules includes a stricture against "targeted abuse," something which could include slamming a single user with messages from multiple accounts, creating an account purely to harass someone, or making threats.
The company also promised to devote more staff to weed out offending messages.
In a series of statements posted to Twitter, General Manager Tony Wang issued his own apology "to the women who have experienced abuse on Twitter and for what they have gone through."
"The abuse they've received is simply not acceptable," he said. "It's not acceptable in the real world, and it's not acceptable on Twitter. There is more we can and will be doing to protect our users against abuse. That is our commitment."
The relative anonymity of the Internet means it has long been hard to police abusive or threatening speech, but the issue recently received attention in Britain after several women went public about the sexually explicit and often luridly violent abuse they receive from online bullies, often called trolls.
Many argue that trolls are an annoyance which should just be ignored, but the catalogue of graphic threats made public by the women involved have ignited a national debate over the impunity of those spewing the hatred online.
Wang said in a tweet that the new anti-abuse policy will apply worldwide.
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Twitter's announcement:
http://blog.uk.twitter.com/2013/08/our-commitment.html
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/twitter-hands-down-rules-beat-abusive-talk-133312784.html
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Sunday, August 4, 2013
Top US officials meet to discuss embassy threat
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Map shows U.S. embassies and consulates that will close; 3c x 3 inches; 146 mm x 76 mm;
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Top U.S. officials met Saturday to review the threat of a terrorist attack that led to the weekend closure of 21 U.S. embassies and consulates in the Muslim world and a global travel warning to Americans. President Barack Obama was briefed following the session, the White House said.
Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice, led the meeting and then joined Lisa Monaco, Obama's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism, in briefing the president, the White House said in a statement.
"The president has received frequent briefings over the last week on all aspects of the potential threat and our preparedness measures," according to the statement.
Among those at the meeting Saturday afternoon were the secretaries of state, defense and homeland security and the directors of the FBI, CIA and the National Security Agency, according to the White House. Also attending was Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
In an interview Friday with ABC News, Dempsey said officials had determined there was "a significant threat stream" and that the threat was more specific than previous ones. The "intent is to attack Western, not just U.S. interests," he said.
The global travel warning was the first such alert since an announcement before the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The warning comes less than a year since the deadly September attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, and with the Obama administration and Congress determined to prevent any similar breach of an American embassy or consulate.
The State Department's warning urged U.S. travelers to take extra precautions overseas. It cited potential dangers involved with public transportation systems and other prime sites for tourists, and noted that previous attacks have centered on subway and rail networks as well as airplanes and boats.
Travelers were advised to sign up for State Department alerts and register with U.S. consulates in the countries they visit.
The statement said that al-Qaida or its allies might target either U.S. government or private American interests. The alert expires on Aug. 31.
The State Department said the potential for terrorism was particularly acute in the Middle East and North Africa, with a possible attack occurring on or coming from the Arabian Peninsula. The diplomatic facilities affected stretch from Mauritania in northwest Africa to Afghanistan.
U.S. officials pointed specifically to Yemen, the home of al-Qaida's most dangerous affiliate and the network blamed for several notable plots against the United States, from the foiled Christmas Day 2009 effort to bomb an airliner over Detroit to the explosives-laden parcels intercepted the following year aboard cargo flights.
"Current information suggests that al-Qaida and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks both in the region and beyond, and that they may focus efforts to conduct attacks in the period between now and the end of August," a department statement said.
Yemen's president, Abdo Rabby Mansour Hadi, met with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday, where both leaders cited strong counterterrorism cooperation. This past week, Yemen's military reported a U.S. drone strike killed six alleged al-Qaida militants in the group's southern strongholds.
Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., the House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, said the embassy threat was linked to al-Qaida and concerned the Middle East and Central Asia.
"In this instance, we can take a step to better protect our personnel and, out of an abundance of caution, we should," Royce said. He declined to say if the National Security Agency's much-debated surveillance program helped reveal the threat.
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Online:
State Department alerts: www.travel.state.gov
Smart Traveler Enrollment Program: www.step.state.gov
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MSNBC's Alter Sneers: GOP the 'Suicide Caucus'
MSNBC contributors Jonathan Alter and Joy Reid sound much like a good metronome: their commentary never changes, marching on at an endless, fixed pace. Alter and Reid have made a career at the Lean Forward network out of comparing Republicans to slave owners, terrorists, and drunks.
Their latest assault on the GOP came on Friday?s Now, with Reid serving as guest host in place of Alex Wagner. Discussing the latest attempt by Senate Republicans to defund ObamaCare, Alter blasted the ?suicide caucus? GOP, claiming ?smarter conservatives understand? that shutting down the government over ObamaCare ?is suicidal.?
Throughout the segment, Alter could barely utter a word without demonizing Republicans for their latest efforts. The Bloomberg View columnist berated the ?basic hollowness? of the GOP, calling their ?foundation of...fiscal responsibility? a ?charade?:
They don?t care about the deficit. It?s like Dick Cheney said: deficits don?t matter. So what had been at the foundation of the Republican Party for 100 years, fiscal responsibility, is now revealed as a charade.
Alter went even further, arguing that Republicans can only agree on one issue:
The only thing they believe in is tax cuts for the wealthy. They are unified by literally nothing else. Not even foreign policy any more.
I think you [Matthew Yglesias] have gotten to, sort of, where my mind is on where the Republican Party is, Jonathan. That a lot of it is about what liberals would define as cruelty. It is about punishing poor people.
Alter enthusiastically agreed. In fact, the only dispute between Alter and Reid was over who would characterize the GOP in a more extreme, insulting way:
REID [laughing]: The meanness caucus, right.
ALTER: No, no, no. The suicide caucus. Because there?s a group that wants to shut down the government over ObamaCare, over the funding of ObamaCare, and the smarter conservatives understand that this is suicidal, that they will be blamed.
The pundits were quick to spell political doom for the GOP if the government shuts down on October 1. But many of these left-wing voices ? particularly Reid, Alter, and MSNBC host Karen Finney, who were all alive and politically aware during the Clinton presidency ? forget the government shutdown of 1995.
Although liberal media outlets were quick to blame Newt Gingrich?s Republican caucus when the shutdown occurred, few pundits ? much less average Americans ? remember the shutdown today, or hold a grudge against the GOP. What?s more, the Republicans were not punished by the voters in the 1996 congressional election, actually gaining seats in the Senate and limiting damage in the House, with Clinton?s re-election failing to recapture the majority for Democrats.
No one can know for sure how the impending government shutdown will play out, for either political party. But you can be assured that on MSNBC, it?s a foregone conclusion.
See the full transcript below:
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Now with Alex Wagner
August 2, 2013
12:05 p.m. Eastern
JOY REID: And, I mean, and Karen [Finney] ? I think traditionally what House members were were appropriators. This is what they did. But just to build on what Matthew said, this is what was in the [Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development (THUD)] bill cuts: it was cut of community development block grants in half, cut a lead hazard control program to get lead out of homes, eliminate a program funding infrastructure, cuts to homelessness assistance, FAA spending. But even the fact that, just with this level of specificity, there were House Republicans who said I can?t go home for this recess having done that.
KAREN FINNEY: And don?t you love that Eric Cantor gave a speech a couple months ago where he said: I don?t understand why people think we just want to take things away from people. Really? Cause there?s a good list right there to start with. Yeah, but I think what?s happening is this is where their rhetoric is meeting accountability, right?
I mean, despite the lovely packet that they?re all going to go home with about how to have these town halls stacked with supporters, at some point they?re going to be held accountable for these votes and they know that. One thing I want to say on the health care piece ? part of that is they also believe that the more they vote against it, the more they continue ? the harder it is for people to believe that it is law. Cause remember, 40 percent of people don?t think it?s law at this point. That?s a part of the symbolism. It?s part of the symbolism when they talk about cuts. They don?t want to get into specifics, but the point being ? then they want to be able to run on the rhetoric of what it was that they said they were going to do, not the actual specifics.
REID: And just to your point, 36 percent of people want to repeal it. Just looking at the most recent polls. National Journal did a poll. Thirty percent want to wait and see. Twenty-six percent want to provide more money. So there?s not an actual, real base for it [repeal]. Jonathan, you wrote a whole book about this whole ? ?The Center Holds? is the name of the book, we should give it a bit of a plug. But the whole idea of it was that Republicans? ? kind of ? ideology is fixated on Obama.
I want to read you a set of statistics about the base of the Republican Party and why they may be doing these ObamaCare repeal votes. A Pew poll recently showed GOP voters, their dissatisfaction is that this party isn?t conservative enough. Fifty-four percent want the leaders to move further to the right. Forty percent want the party to become more moderate. What does that say about this caucus? responsibilities to the people who actually vote for them? Aren?t they actually doing what their real base wants?
JONATHAN ALTER: Well, they?re trapped between what their base says it wants and what their constituents want ? and they?re not necessarily the same thing. What we are seeing over the last couple of years, to take a kind of larger view, is the basic hollowness of the Republican message is coming to the fore. You remember that debate ? it was a Fox debate and they were asked, if you had a ratio of 10 to one ? 10 spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases ? they all rejected it. And this, again, is another example this week.
They don?t care about the deficit. It?s like Dick Cheney said: deficits don?t matter. So what had been at the foundation of the Republican Party for 100 years, fiscal responsibility, is now revealed as a charade. The only thing they believe in is tax cuts for the wealthy. They are unified by literally nothing else. Not even foreign policy any more.
(...)
REID: And that ? I think you [Matthew Yglesias] have gotten to, sort of, where my mind is on where the Republican Party is, Jonathan. That a lot of it is about what liberals would define as cruelty. It is about punishing poor people.
ALTER: It is the meanness caucus. If you actually look at what they want to cut first, what are at the top of their list? Food stamps. This is not a program that is going to people who are doing okay. It?s a program going to people who are hurting or meeting a requirement. It?s not like this is a bunch of bums who are getting ? these are people who need it.
And the connective tissue which the Republican Party ? Bob Dole, by the way was one of the architects of the food stamp program.
REID: Right.? The food stamp, he ??? ?
ALTER: Jesse Helms supported food stamps. The connection between the modern day Republican Party and the Republican Party of 25 years ago, that understood there was a role for government in ameliorating poverty ? in lessening suffering ? that tissue has been severed. But the big thing now that?s going on that fascinates me is the tactical difference between the extremely conservative pragmatists and the extremely conservative suicide caucus ?
REID [laughing]: The meanness caucus, right.
ALTER: No, no, no. The suicide caucus. Because there?s a group that wants to shut down the government over ObamaCare, over the funding of ObamaCare, and the smarter conservatives understand that this is suicidal, that they will be blamed.
REID: It?s insane. That it?s insane.
Source: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/andrew-lautz/2013/08/02/msnbcs-alter-sneers-gop-suicide-caucus
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Saturday, August 3, 2013
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Friendly competition reigns in war canoe race
SKOWHEGAN -- Professional canoeists mingled with amateurs at the 13th annual Sundowner race, where competitors for the first time traded in two-seat canoes for 12-seat war canoes.
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