Q113 Can people with HIV infection or AIDS be denied health, disability, or life insurance?
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Q114 Do confidential HIV test results have to be included in a person #39;s individual medical record?
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ShellyMind: Where Science Meets Art | Michelle Marquez | TEDxYouth@RVA
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Michelle Marquez created a unique experience specially for the audience at TEDxYouth@RVA and we are...
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Animation Boogz Battle | Prelims Tie | Nato vs Hoang ng
Judges: CK Animation (MilkyWay) Boon (Animation Boogz / C.O) MC Kirby (Joyfunk) DJ Slowz ( S.I.N.E / Natural Groove ) Winner: Nato.
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The U.S. and NATO officially end combat mission in Afghanistan
The flag lowering ceremony was held Monday in Kabul. The mission began 13 years ago following the 9/11 attacks. Charlie Rose reports.
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Handover ceremony marks end of US and NATO combat mission in Afghanistan
A flag-lowering ceremony on Monday in Kabul was a key milestone for Afghanistan as the US and NATO marked the end of their combat role in a country still gri...
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NATO intercept Russia military aircraft above Baltic sea
The Dutch air force has released video of the moment it is said to have intercepted Russian military aircraft over the Baltic sea on Monday. More than 30 types of Russian military aircraft...
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(UPDATED) 'It takes two to have a dialogue and until now, Russia has not demonstrated any interest in genuine dialogue,' says NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu
BRUSSELS, Belgium (UPDATED) NATO said Friday, December 12, that Russia showed no interest in talking about its increased military activity, adding there had been no contact between their armed forces since May amid the Ukraine crisis.
The US-led alliance has reported an upsurge in Russian military flights, especially near its Baltic state members, but also further afield around Norway, Britain and far south into the Atlantic.
"It takes two to have a dialogue and until now, Russia has not demonstrated any interest in genuine dialogue," NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu told Agence France-Presse. (READ: NATO warns Russia over 'blatant violations' in Ukraine conflict)
"Nor has it returned to compliance with international law and its international obligations and responsibilities. So I would refer you to the Russian authorities for any further questions."
She recalled that NATO foreign ministers had agreed at a meeting in Brussels earlier this month that regular communications between NATO and the Russian military were needed "to avoid any incidents", and for NATO to "keep channels of military communications open."
In response to Russia's intervention in Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea in March, NATO suspended all cooperation with Moscow but said diplomatic channels would remain open.
Another NATO spokesman, Dan Termansen, separately confirmed the long gap in talks with the Russian military.
"There has been no conversation between the NATO military authorities and the Russian Chief of Defense Staff since May, but the lines of communications are open," Termansen said.
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BRUSSELS: NATO accused Russia Friday of refusing any "genuine dialogue" about its increased military activity, saying there'd been no contact between army brass during the seven months of crisis in Ukraine.
The US-led alliance has reported an upsurge in Russian military flights, especially near its Baltic state members, but also further afield around Norway, Britain and far south into the Atlantic.
"It takes two to have a dialogue and until now, Russia has not demonstrated any interest in genuine dialogue," NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu told AFP.
"Nor has it returned to compliance with international law and its international obligations and responsibilities. So I would refer you to the Russian authorities for any further questions."
She recalled that NATO foreign ministers had agreed at a meeting in Brussels earlier this month that regular communications between NATO and the Russian military were needed "to avoid any incidents", and for NATO to "keep channels of military communications open."
In response to Russia's intervention in Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea in March, NATO suspended all cooperation with Moscow but said diplomatic channels would remain open.
Another NATO spokesman, Dan Termansen, separately confirmed the long gap in talks with the Russian military.
"There has been no conversation between the NATO military authorities and the Russian Chief of Defence Staff since May, but the lines of communications are open," Termansen said.
NATO's comments come a day after Poland's defence minister said he was concerned by the "unprecedented" increase in Russia's military activity over the Baltic Sea.
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Germany: Check out this SPOOKY former NSA spy station via DRONE
Video ID: 20141209-040 Ruptly #39;s drone soared over the now derelict site which was once home to one of the NSA #39;s largest listening stations, in Berlin, Tuesda...
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NSA Protest Interrupts PayPal Founder Talk @ UC Berkeley
Protestors chant "Black lives matter," talk attendees respond "Peter Thiel matters." @6:28 PayPal Mafia don Peter Thiel is the founder of Palantir, a mass surveillance and data analytics corporati...
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Ball State #39;s Stop Watching Us: A Brief Stance on the NSA and Privacy
Ball State students inspired by the Stop Watching Us campaign have made their first video in response to the privacy issues surrounding the NSA.
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Anonymous NSA wiretapping Germany: new facts
Citizens from Germany! We are Anonymous! Many of you believe that CIA has received some seriously damaging information about Chancellor Merkel by wiretapping her cellphone, and now ...
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Glenn Greenwald in Munich: Edward Snowden, NSA, Activism, Democracy Freedom
On the 1st of December 2014, US journalist,Glenn Greenwald was awarded one of Germany #39;s most prestigious award known as the Geschwister-Scholl Prize. Sophie and Hans Scholl were both ...
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Google has worked hard to lock down the personal data it collects since revelations in the last year and a half about mass surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency, company Chairman Eric Schmidt said.
The news of surveillance by the NSA and intelligence agency counterparts at allied nations has damaged the U.S. tech industry on many levels, with many Europeans now distrusting U.S. tech companies to hold on to their personal data, Schmidt said Friday at a surveillance conference at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.
Schmidt learned of efforts by U.K. intelligence agency GCHQ to intercept traffic between Google data centers through a newspaper article, he told the audience. I was shocked, Schmidt said.
Google had envisioned a complicated method to sniff traffic, but the fact that it had been done so directly ... was really a shock to the company, Schmidt said.
After reporters showed Google engineers a diagram of the intelligence agencys methods to tap links between Google data centers, the engineers responded with a fusillade of words that we could not print in our family newspaper, Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg said.
Google responded to the revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden by spending a lot of money to lock down its systems, including 2,048-bit encryption on its traffic, Schmidt said. We massively encrypted our internal systems, he said. Its generally viewed that this level of encryption is unbreakable in our lifetime by any sets of human beings in any way. Well see if thats really true.
Schmidt told the audience that the safest place to keep important information is in Google services. Anywhere else is not the safest place to keep data, he said.
Schmidt touted the incognito browsing feature in Googles Chrome browser and Googles Dashboard feature, which allows its users to set their privacy preferences. He noted that some security experts have questioned his claim that Android is the safest mobile operating system. Both Google and Apple are working very, very hard on security features in their mobile OSes, he said.
Timberg, along with some audience members, questioned Googles own collection of personal data, however. Google itself collects huge amounts of user data, Timberg noted.
Google collects data to help deliver its services, and has, in some cases, killed projects that raised privacy concerns, Schmidt said. I hear this perception that were somehow not playing by the rules of modern society, he said. I think thats wrong. I think the evidence is that Google has been incredibly sensitive to privacy issues.
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Refugees from Africa line up at a makeshift immigrant processing center in Bnei Brak, the only one open to them in Israel. Photo by Simone Wilson
One hour before the 19th Israeli Knesset, or parliament, dissolved forever on Dec. 8, its members made a last-ditch effort to save Holot, the open desert prison they created one year prior to detain undocumented Eritrean and Sudanese immigrants.
On the table was a fifth amendment to the half-century-old Anti-Infiltration Law created to prevent Palestinian refugees from returning to Israel, but amended in recent years to govern the fate of 50,000 Africans who trekked to Israels southern border seeking work and asylum.
The latest amendment comes in response to a Supreme Court ruling in September that found Holot to be unconstitutional. Instead of closing it completely, Knesset members proposed that individual prison terms be limited to 20 months, and that prisoner check-ins be cut from three times per day to once each night.
After the final tally on the night of Dec. 8, the bill passed 41 to 29.
Members of the 19th Knesset, known for their high-drama plenum battles, used the vote to stage a final showdown of ideals.
[We must] keep this country as the nation-state of the Jewish people and not invite a situation in which thousands of infiltrators come here to find work, said right-wing Knesset member Miri Regev, a member of the prime ministers Likud Party. Its a disgrace that parties who call themselves Zionist, like the Labor Party, opposed this bill.
Knesset member Nitzan Horowitz, a former TV reporter belonging to the leftist Meretz Party, fired back. Its too bad Regev and the interior minister didnt read the High Courts first verdict overturning the law, he said. They would have understood that in a democratic state, it is impossible to imprison people without a trial. It doesnt matter whether theyre Blacks from Africa, blonds from Sweden or people from Tel Aviv or Yeruham.
The goal of the new legislation, as stated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when it was drafted on Nov. 30, is to continue driving undocumented Africans out of Israel.
It fits the reality, Netanyahu said of the law. It also fits the rulings of the High Court of Justice. I remind you that Israel has achieved the extraordinary, which Im very proud of, in blocking illegal migration across our borders zero illegal migrants. Part of this entails repatriating illegal migrants. This year we repatriated over 6,000 illegal migrants. This legislation is designed to enable us to continue this trend.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA detention and interrogation program has quickly stirred up a white-hot debate on the use of torture to extract information from our enemies.
And though there is great passion on both sides, this is not a new topic to be argued.
In the late 16th century, some 200 years before the formation of our republic, the French nobleman Michel de Montaigne shifted the centuries-old debate about the use of torture from the question of its effectiveness to the question of its inhumanity. That is, while earlier writers had worried above all about the reliability of testimony extracted from tortured suspects, Montaigne was horrified that a civilized society would make use of such a barbaric practice.
Montaigne's new perspective would come to exercise considerable influence over the ways in which intellectuals and political elites viewed torture down to our own time.
But it was above all a thin volume titled Of Crimes and Punishments, first published anonymously in 1764, that served as the clarion call for the abolition of torture. The secret of the author's identity was not held for long. The Milanese philosopher Cesare Beccaria had completed this revolutionary work at the age of 26.
Beccaria's text would have a cascading influence. Its translation into many languages paralleled an era that saw regime after regime dismantle the use of torture: Prussia in 1754, Denmark in 1770, Poland in 1776, France in 1789, the Netherlands in 1798 and Portugal in 1826.
Beccaria was influential in the United States as well. Thomas Jefferson read him with appreciation, as did James Madison and John Adams. When the Founders crafted the Bill of Rights, Beccaria's ideas made themselves palpable. We see this in the Eight Amendment, which prohibited the use of "cruel and unusual punishments" one of the enduring bases to the principle that neither the courts nor the federal government may use torture.
But the Fifth Amendment, with its stipulation that no person "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself," was perhaps an even clearer constitutional obstacle to the use of torture. If a person suspected of a crime could not testify against himself, then torture could really play no role, since one of the key aims of torturers is to extricate self-incriminating evidence from a suspect, whether of a common criminal or a terrorist.
Historians are right therefore to stress that the period running from the Renaissance (the age of Montaigne) to the Enlightenment (the age of Beccaria) witnessed the emergence of new ideas about the person. These ideas would shape many contemporary values, as reformers drew on them not only to end torture but also slavery and religious repression.
These same ideas were, not incidentally, fundamental to shaping democratic and open institutions. This doesn't mean the ideas were always successful or without contradictions, but they unquestionably enabled a new notion of the human person and the political community to emerge. It is within this cluster of new ideas that men and women came to see torture not merely as ineffective but as fundamentally wrong. Torture degrades both the victim and its perpetuator. It strips both of their dignity and their humanity. The ends cannot justify the means.
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The Fourth Amendment Of The Constitution Is Under Attack
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