Cameron at Davos2014: Protect rule of law, freedom of speech etc. (24Jan2014) – Video

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Cameron claims to protect the rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of media, property rights, and accountable institutions. Yeah right. Yoiu can run a bus...

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1/26/2014 — SERCO, Censorship, and the US Corporation (part 1) — Freedom Frequency – Video

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1/26/2014 -- SERCO, Censorship, and the US Corporation (part 1) -- Freedom Frequency
All about SERCO .. http://chrissysumer.com/2014/01/sercos-web-2/ This show covering the topics of SERCO, Weather Modification, Censorship, The Act of 1871,an...

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Freedom Industries: More like 10K gallons of chemicals leaked into Elk River

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When a Freedom Industries tank leaked into the Elk River Jan. 9 leaving 300,000 people without usable tap water in parts of nine Southern West Virginia counties, state officials said between 3,000 and 5,000 gallons spilled.

Days later, it was revealed 7,500 gallons of MCHM leaked from the tank. It took 12 days after the leak for Freedom Industries to announce the chemical spilled was actually a blend of Crude MCHM and PPH.

Jan. 27 Freedom Industries revised its estimate to approximately 10,000 gallons of chemicals having leaked from its storage tank, according to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, but the company was unsure how much spilled into the Elk River.

Freedom said it recovered about 1,272 gallons of the MCHM/PPH blend in absorbent booms and other control devices at its Etowah Terminal site.

"We are not making any judgment about its (estimate) accuracy," WVDEP Cabinet Secretary Randy Huffman said in a news release. "We felt it was important to provide to the public what the company has provided the WVDEP in writing."

Huffman said the WVDEP is continuing to review the company's calculation.

"This is the first calculation that has been provided concerning the amount of materials that spilled on Jan. 9," he said. "This new calculation does not change any of our protocols in dealing with this spill, nor does it affect the ongoing remediation efforts.

"Our actions have never been dependent on what Freedom has reported to us. From the start, we have acted aggressively to contain the spill and remediate the site."

Freedom indicated to the WVDEP it had 110,375 gallons of the Crude MCHM/PPH blend in three tanks at its Elk River facility Jan. 8. All of the material was transferred to the company's Poca Blending facility in Nitro.

"This figure represents the MCHM/PPH blend that was removed from the three tanks after the incident (i.e. which was not released) and the residual released MCHM/PPH blend that was recovered and transferred to the Poca facility by Jan. 21," Freedom's response to the WVDEP reads. "The difference between the value from the morning of Jan. 9 and the value from Jan. 21 is 10,142 gallons.

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Freedom revises spill estimate upward

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January 28, 2014 Freedom revises spill estimate upward

Anonymous The Register-Herald Tue Jan 28, 2014, 12:01 AM EST

Freedom Industries has revised its estimate to approximately 10,000 gallons as the amount of Crude MCHM/ PPH blend that leaked from a storage tank at its Elk River facility in Charleston on Jan. 9. It is not known how much material spilled into the Elk River and shut down the drinking water supply for citizens across nine West Virginia counties.

Freedom said it has recovered approximately 1,272 gallons of MCHM/PPH blend in absorbent booms and other control devices at the spill site.

The revised number was included in response to a previous West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection order that required Freedom Industries to provide the methodology it was using to determine the quantity of the chemicals released. Freedom Industries initial estimate of the amount of materials spilled was 7,500 gallons. The WVDEP is still reviewing the contents of Freedoms response.

We are not making any judgment about its (estimate) accuracy, state Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Randy Huffman said in a press release. We felt it was important to provide to the public what the company has provided the WVDEP in writing. We are still reviewing the calculation, and this is something that will be researched further during the course of this investigation.

This is the first calculation that has been provided concerning the amount of materials that spilled on Jan. 9, Huffman said. This new calculation does not change any of our protocols in dealing with this spill, nor does it affect the ongoing remediation efforts. Our actions have never been dependent on what Freedom has reported to us. From the start, we have acted aggressively to contain the spill and remediate the site.

In its response to the WVDEP, Freedom said it had 110,375 gallons of Crude MCHM/PPH blend in three tanks Jan. 8 at its Elk River facility. After the release was discovered the following morning, Freedom said it began emptying the three tanks and recovering the released MCHM/PPH blend. All of the material was transferred to Freedoms Poca Blending facility in Nitro.

Freedom said it measured the MCHM/PPH blend that was being stored in six tanks at Poca Blending on Jan. 21 and determined 100,233 gallons were in the six tanks.

This figure represents the MCHM/PPH blend that was removed from the three tanks after the incident (i.e., which was not released) and the residual released MCHM/ PPH blend that was recovered and transferred to the Poca facility by Jan. 21, Freedoms response said. The difference between the value from the morning of Jan. 9 and the value from Jan. 21 is 10,142 gallons. We therefore estimate that approximately 10,000 gallons of MCHM/PPH blend was released the morning of Jan. 9.

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A Dark Past: Should Virginia Pay Those It Robbed of the Right to Bear Children?

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Lewis Reynolds, left, was sterilized at what is now known as the Central Virginia Training Center in Madison Heights, Va., when he was a teenager. Sarah Wiley, right, was sterilized at the same facility when she was 23.

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LYNCHBURG, Va. - Sarah Wiley still remembers some details of the medical procedure she had half a century ago: being taken to the operating room on a stretcher, the administration of ether as an anesthetic and a skeleton in the room that potentially served as a reference tool at the Lynchburg Training School and Hospital in Virginia.

But while other aspects of the operation may remain murky, its results have left a lasting impression on her body and mind.

"I was sad, I didn't like it," says Wiley, now 77. "They told me that I could never have kids."

Wiley was one of between 7,000 and 8,300 people sterilized with Virginia's blessing from the early 20th century until about 1980. At least 60,000 people in roughly 30 U.S. states were sterilized during the same time period, the result of a movement that in part aimed to weed out criminal behavior but also encompassed an even more sinister goal.

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Many of the operations occurred under the umbrella of eugenics, the idea that the human population can be improved through selective reproduction. Those put under the knife to prevent the passing on of potentially harmful hereditary traits often were deemed mentally disabled or "feebleminded" and subsequently, a financial drain on society.

"The change that occurred in this country that allowed sterilization to go on was really less about understanding how the genetics of heredity works and much more about trying to cut down on the number of people who were on welfare who were having babies," says Paul Lombardo, a law professor at Georgia State University who has written extensively on the American eugenics movement.

Now, more than 50 years after Wiley's operation, two Virginia lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle are pushing a bill that would make the state the second in the U.S. to offer restitution to those sterilized under the authority of state law and a U.S. Supreme Court decision that lent constitutional credence to the practice.

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It is essential for Muslims to remember the Nazi’s atrocities and to commemorate their victims

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It is now a universally acknowledged fact that the Twentieth Century represents one of the darkest and bloodiest centuries in the history of humanity. The idea of Social Darwinism, the basics of which were put forth in the 19th Century, was the main reason that dragged the 20th Century into such turbulence, dissension, war and conflict. That makes it crucial to grasp the importance of the impacts Social Darwinism had on the world of thought. With the concept of Social Darwinismwhich lacks any scientific foundationmany people who do not live by the morality of religion started to regard cruelty, violence and persecution as natural. The repercussions of that falsified ideology can still be seen in our world today. The persecutorsin their own mindsclaimed that their cruelty had a scientific foundation; that wrongful mindset made the 20th Century rife with killings perpetrated by totalitarian regimes and organizations that oppressed and slaughtered innocent people for the sake of their own ideological obsessions.

Looking at the terrible sufferings and disasters that fascism has inflicted on mankind will enable one to understand the impact of Social Darwinism on the bloodshed and the genocide the world witnessed during the WW II. Adolf Hitler, the ideologist and leader of the Nazi movement, was undisputedly the most dangerous of the racist Social Darwinists. Under his command, the Nazis carried out industrial-scale genocide against Jews, Gypsies, Eastern Europeans, people they considered inferior races. To understand the meaning of the term inferior races and the roots of that so-called scientific misconception, we should look at the underlying philosophy.

A revealing point is the way the Nazi worldview took Darwin's theory of evolution as its intellectual basis. When putting forward his theory, Charles Darwin claimed that there was a constant fight for survival in nature, and that some races were especially favored in the fight, while others were doomed to lose and be eliminated. As one might expect, these views soon came to represent the scientific foundation of racism.

Under the influence of Darwinian views, the Nazis attempted to annihilate people from many different faiths and nations such as Jews, religious Catholics and Slavic people; they slaughtered mental patients, handicapped people and the elderly in gas chambers. The Nazis carried out this persecution in front of the eyes of the whole world; they committed mass murder with the cruelest methods. The Nazis' racial policies, known as eugenics, represented a proactive approach to the theory of evolution as applied to society. Eugenics refers to the weeding out of the sick and handicapped, and the improvement of the human race by increasing the number of healthy individuals. This is not a new idea; the ancient Greek Spartans were well-known for applying a method of eugenics through the practice of infanticide. They would determine that if a baby was born with some manner of physical defect, it would be left to die of exposure; for the ancient Spartans, this represented an attempt to ensure that Spartan children would grow up to become Spartan warriors as adults.

The concepts of freedom of thought and faith, the right of every person to his or her life, the inadmissibility of inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the fact that everyone has the right to liberty and security of person and the prohibition of slavery, servitude and forced labor are concepts the whole world now embraces and regards as fundamental rights and freedoms. Today these fundamental rights are under the protection of an international treaty, the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. However during World War II, every single one of those rights were violated under Nazi rule with the influence of Darwinist indoctrination. The Nazis began by killing their political opponents, then set about murdering all those innocent handicapped and the mentally ill, whom they saw as being harmful according to their twisted theories of eugenics. They began oppressing and torturing Jews and other minorities living in Germany and then, in 1939, launched World War Two in Europe and within two years turned the areas under their control into a killing fields in the name of racial purity. The Nazis killed 11 million people in their terrible concentration and extermination camps, veritable genocide factories where technology was systematically employed to sadistically murder babies, the elderly and the sick. A total of 55 million people died during that war, at least 30 million of them being innocent civilians killed by the Nazis.

With the rule of the Nazis and their openly exterminationist policies, the world became a place of hitherto unseen savagery. Even today, there are still some anti-Semitic actions taken against the inoffensive Jewish community. In order to prevent a similar tragedy from ever happening again, a worldwide collaboration is exceedingly important. A common cultural campaign must be carried out against anti-Semitic groups and the fact that racism and radicalism has inflicted nothing but the most terrible suffering and disasters on mankind must be explained to everyone.

Muslims must be pioneers in the fight against hatred because true believers see other people as beings God created, and make no distinctions between them on grounds of race, nation, skin color or language. In every human being, they see beauty created by God, and take pleasure in that beauty; their faith makes them loving, compassionate and protective. In the Koran, God has forbidden discrimination on the grounds of race and has revealed that people can attain superiority in His sight through faith:

O humanity! We created you from a male and female, and made you into peoples and tribe so that you might come to know each other. The noblest among you in God's sight is the one with the most fear of God. God is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (Koran, 49:13)

All of mankind has a responsibility to ensure that such atrocities never happen again, and that such monstrous ideas are never again allowed to spread: However, Muslims have a special duty to fight against anti-Semitism as they have long been exposed to such poisonous and false teachings in the past century. It is therefore absolutely essential to denounce anti-Semitism, to remember the Nazi's atrocities and to commemorate the victims of this horrific violence.

The writer is a Muslim opinion leader from Turkey, who has authored more than 300 books in 73 langauages on political, faith-related and scientific topics. Twitter: @harun_yahya

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Xilinx Experts to Highlight High-Performance 7 Series and UltraScale FPGA Designs at DesignCon …

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Presentations and tutorials focus on increasing system performance

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) experts will highlight high-performance FPGA design techniques including 28Gbps backplane transceiver design, 3D stacked silicon package design, and comprehensive DDR4 signal-integrity analysis using high-performance UltraScale FPGA silicon and packaging at DesignCon 2014. Through a series of tutorials and paper presentations, Xilinx experts will share their insights for overcoming system-design challenges and increasing system performance. Learn more about Xilinx UltraScale multi-Gigabit transceivers, 3D stacked silicon, and advanced signal-integrity techniques at http://www.xilinx.com/products/technology/index.htm and by attending Xilinx presentations and tutorials at DesignCon 2014 January 28 - 31, 2014 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.

Xilinx Tutorials

Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 9:00 am - 12:00 pm, Ballroom K

Hands-On Tutorial for Fixture Removal of 28Gbps Tx Measurements

- This tutorial will offer tips and advanced techniques for characterizing a 28Gbps transceiver. Leading experts will provide the opportunity for you to follow along with hands-on computer labs using the latest in software tools for measurement calibration and fixture characterization, simulated fixture channel verification and analysis, and synthesis with in-situ fixture de-embedding with measured data.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 9:00 am - 12:00 pm, Ballroom E

High Density High Performance Package and 3D Interconnect Design

- This tutorial is targeted at design and technology enablement for high-density and high-performance heterogeneous multi-chip integration with 3D interconnects. Multi-chip integration is defined by a broad range of high density interconnect technologies including high density PoP type package, SiP, SoP, TSV, and interposer, and most distinguishingly, addressing interconnect density at silicon level.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Ballroom G

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