18 Million E-Mail Addresses and Passwords Stolen in Germany
This may be of interest to some folks here, and I’ve not yet seen anything on it.On 27 March prosecutors in Verden in northern Germany seized a list of about 18 million stolen e-mail addresses and...
View ArticleMicrosoft Patches IE Security Vulnerability, Also for XP
According The Official Microsoft Blog, a patch for the recently discovered security vulnerability in Internet Explorer, versions 6 through 11, went live at 10 a.m. PDT yesterday, 1 May 2014. Adrienne...
View ArticleParents Identify 77 of the 136 Girls in the Boko Haram Video
At one point there was some question as to whether the 136 young women shown in the video were actually the ones abducted from Chibok. However, Spiegel Onlinereported yesterday that 77 of them have...
View ArticleRestaurant Shows More Skin — Potato Skin
From ThinkProgress:Atomic Grill, a barbecue restaurant in West Virginia, recently got an UrbanSpoon review that owner Daniel McCawley felt went too far: it wanted his staff to “show more skin.”“I’m...
View ArticleMore misogyny
Babulal Gaur, the Home Minister of Madhya Pradesh and therefore the minister responsible for law and order in the state, speaking today on the subject of rape (Reuters):"This is a social crime which...
View ArticleFirst-ever criminal proceedings for gang rape in Egypt
From Al Jazeera:Egypt's prosecution service has referred 13 men to trial for alleged sex attacks on women at Cairo's Tahrir Square, including during inaugural celebrations for new President Abdel...
View ArticleThe Great European Heat Wave and Drought of 1540
In a paper ‘The year-long unprecedented European heat and drought of 1540 – a worst case’ in the journal Climatic Change an international group of 32 scientists shows that in 1540 Western Europe...
View ArticleSuccessful first prosecution for gang rape in Egypt
This is a brief but satisfying follow-up to my diary First-ever criminal proceedings for gang rape in Egypt from last month. In that diary I reported that 13 men had been referred to trial by Egypt’s...
View ArticleThere are now close-ups of the Siberian crater
The Siberian Times has a long article, First pictures from inside the 'crater at the end of the world', on the recently discovered crater in the Siberian Yamal Peninsula that was previously reported on...
View ArticleUPDATED: Israel and Hamas agree to 12-hour ceasefire for Saturday
At 16:30 EDT SPIEGEL ONLINE posted an article whose title translates to Gaza conflict: Israel and Hamas agree to a 12-hour ceasefire. This comes a few hours after Netanyahu rejected John Kerry’s...
View ArticleBREAKING: UN Security Council unanimously calls for a ceasefire in Gaza
At 00:29 EDT SPIEGEL ONLINE published Krieg in Gaza: Uno-Sicherheitsrat fordert einstimmig sofortige Waffenruhe (War in Gaza: UN Security Council unanimously demands ceasefire). According to the...
View ArticleA Sheriff with No Sense of Proportion
This is a little late, bit doesn’t seem to have been noticed here; I saw it only because it found its way into the German news at SPIEGEL ONLINE yesterday. From the 9 April 2015 Tampa Bay Times:A...
View ArticleA Happier Interaction between Florida Police and a Homeless Man
An earlier diary detailed a truly disgusting interaction between Sarasota police and a homeless man. Coincidentally, this came just after I ran across the story of a very different interaction between...
View ArticleJulian Bond Died Last Night
Just received this note from Morris Dees (Southern Poverty Law Center):It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of legendary civil rights activist Julian Bond, SPLC's first president. He...
View ArticleShe’s almost up there with Roy Moore...
Thanks to Right Wing Watch for bringing this to my attention.Rena M. Lindevaldsen is the interim dean of the Liberty University School of Law. She is also the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs,...
View ArticleMSF start petition for U.S. consent to independent investigation of the...
This will be short.After the Kunduz hospital bombing of 3 October, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC) for an...
View ArticleMore Hospitals Bombed, This Time in Syria
This was posted yesterday to the website of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; Doctors Without Borders):At least 35 Syrian patients and medical staff have been killed, and 72 wounded, in a significant...
View ArticleDallas 1, Roanoke 0
From ThinkProgress:Speaking to MSNBC on Saturday morning, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings was asked to discuss the growing anxiety over Syrian refugees entering the United States, purportedly over concerns...
View ArticleMédecins Sans Frontières Petition Update
Most here will probably remember that some time ago Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders; MSF) started a petition at Change.org asking President Obama to consent to an independent...
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Trans Day of Resilience Art Project
Thanks to an e-mail from Equality Ohio, I recently made the acquaintance of Trans Day of Resilience, ‘an art and activism project that recognizes and supports trans women and femmes of color in their...
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