If you saw Citizenfour and enjoyed it like me, you were left with one question: "What happened in the weeks after Snowden left the hotel room, and before Moscow?"
The answer to that question is about to be revealed.
"His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain is a major donor to the Clinton Foundation , having pledged millions to the Clinton Global Initiative through the Crown Prince’s International Scholarship Program (CRISP). By 2010, he had given $32 million to the initiative.
It has been over two weeks since I last posted an essay in this series on neo-liberalism. I was both hosting out of town company and traveling during that time. Recently I have experienced a number of technical problems on my end too. I hope to avoid any future time gaps of this length between essays.
For those who may be interested in previous essays on this subject, here are the links to those essays.
Aha! Part of this is regarding the redacted name(s) of the Platte River Networks tech and the "Oh Shit" moment!
From The Hill
When it comes to financial corruption, no one holds a candle to HSBC.
And why stop, when you are Too-Big-To-Jail?
However, there might be limits to flaunting the law.
Military.com announced yesterday the release of a new TriCare policy which includes some coverage of treatment for transgender people. TriCare governs medical treatment for military members, their family, and retirees.
The move gives the health care system's regional contractors the go-ahead to cover some transgender care starting Oct. 6.
Full disclosure- I have a mint in box Apple ][c that I've never used and somewhere in a pile of pieces a Romar ][ clone that I used to develop an Applesloth Basic (much faster using Bill Gate's compiler) translation of an Insurance Rating program originally written for a Radio Shack Trash-80.
It was my first gig writing poetry for machines.
I parted ways with Apple after the ][e (the ][c was a trade in my boss gave me for a bonus because he had no use for it and it was slated for the dumpster) because it was clear that Apple was moving away from open architecture to proprietary (and much more expensive due to lack of competition) hardware and never looked back.
Just as well, things kept getting worse and worse with each new machine and useless toy (do you really need an iPod? Really?). On the other hand my Aunty Mame swears by them because she thinks they're easier to use. I disagree.
Normally I keep my opinions to myself (not terribly interested in re-litigating the language wars either which 'C' won hands down and if you don't think so take a look at the volume of software written using it and the number of variants) but what makes Apple newsworthy today is the recent $14 Billion tax judgement levied against them by the European Commission.
Apple claims they're going to appeal but unfortunately for them the European Commission is one of those 'Courts of No Appeal' that the European Union is riddled with. They're not accountable to anyone, least of all voters.
Here are the lies:
1. The West has failed to intervene in Syria - and that's been the problem
2. The conflict is the fault of wicked Assad (and Russia for supporting him)
3.President Assad enjoys little support in Syria
4. Assad has made no concessions and isn't interested in peace and reconciliation
5. Syria's conflict is simply sectarian
It's been a long time since the news media was anything but a joke, but in 2016 they've hit a new low.
