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Photography- The Dailymail has a piece on a photograph that was taken 2 days after the alleged Assange rape, and some information about the way Assange and his potential victim spent their time.
“It seems an unremarkable image: a group of friends smiling broadly. But this is the photograph Julian Assange hopes will clear his name. The face of the woman on the left has been obscured for legal reasons. For although she is seen beaming, she would later tell police that 48 hours before the picture was taken, the WikiLeaks founder pinned her down in her flat and sexually assaulted her.”
Worth reading.
- We know now that the energy industry in Germany is doing very well, despite the fact that we decided to stop doing Nuclear Energy by 2020. In fact, they’re doing so well that they not only lost money, as they claimed they would, but they also made a lot of money. So much, in fact, that it seems questionable not to lower prices for customers. They pretend to be oblivious of all of this, and demand reparations from Germany. Over $20 billion. At this point it’s worth noting that, due to some really weird history of Nuclear Power in Germany, companies do not have to participate financially in disposing of Nuclear Waste. They run the the plants. They make the money. They charge taxpayers for electricity. And taxpayers also pay for the (insanely expensive) longterm management of Nuclear Waste. (Source)
- The city of Berlin asked communication providers (i.e. internet and phone companies) for 6.6 million datasets between 2008 and 2011. In 116 cases, this led to leads that were of at least some importance in trying to solve crimes. On average, it means that the police looked into 57.000 datasets of innocent citizens, to get leads on one crime. You know my opinion about proportionality. I do not consider this to be proportional. (Source)
- The Huffingtonpost is holding a so-called Shadow Convention:
“To battle the two parties’ neglect of these issues, HuffPost Live and The Huffington Post are hosting Shadow Conventions 2012 — devoting a day during each of the national conventions to focusing on one of the three issues. Today and next Tuesday, a wide array of HuffPost sections — from Politics to Green to Entertainment to Science — are featuring stories and blog posts highlighting the effects the war on drugs is having on so many aspects of our lives.”
August 28th, 2012
