Btw this piece of ugliness is again being flogged by "the usual suspects"...

http://www.baltimorenews.net/story/558581

Here's the original draft GA resolution, though it may have been amended by now:

http://www.undemocracy.com/A-RES-62-154.pdf

Originally written by Jacek K. on October 27, 2009 1:01 PM ...that they made a choice by their free will to accept the US-UK-Russian Yalta arrangement. They never did.

I don't know anyone who believes Poles, or anyone else in E Europe, accepted Yalta.  Proof of that assertion is that all the "mixed" governments established there had been overthrown by 1948 and replaced with Moscow-aligned communist monopolies.

The Chamber of Commerce is suing the Yes Men over the parody press conference the group pulled off last week.

The Chamber has filed a civil complaint in the US District Court of Washington, DC, accusing Yes Men Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos (also known as Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, respectively) of trademark infringement, unfair competition and false advertising. The Chamber's suit also lists several members of the DC-based activist group the Avaaz Action Factory as co-defendants. The conduct of those who organized the event was "destructive of public discourse," the Chamber argues.

As the Yes Men have a new film in theaters currently, The Yes Men Fix the World, the Chamber also alleges that the prank was part of a "comprehensive scheme to promote their movie by wrongdoing against the plaintiff"—rather than an event meant to call attention to the organization's views on climate change.

"The defendants are not merry pranksters tweaking the establishment," said the Chamber in a press release issued with the suit. "Instead, they deliberately broke the law in order to further commercial interest in their books, movies, and other merchandise."

The Chamber has already issued a complaint regarding the parody website that the Yes Men created for the event.

Despite the fact that the Yes Men have pulled off similar stunts spoofing Exxon, Dow Chemical, Halliburton, George W. Bush, and the World Trade Organization, among powerful entities, they've never actually gone to court over them, according to the group. The Chamber appears to be taking the hoax a bit more seriously than previous targets of their humor.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/10/chamber-take-yes-men-court

One company is aiming change the disjointed nature of England’s massive surveillance infrastructure by putting crowds, rather than the government, in charge. Kris Kotarski, reports for the Calgary Herald that the British company Internet Eyes is allowing people to anonymously monitor some closed circuit televisions (CCTVs), and make money while doing it.

Internet Eyes turns surveillance into a game, where anonymous users try to spot shoplifting or vandalism on CCTVs, and then report the crimes for possible cash rewards. The company charges its viewers £20 per month and £1 per crime alert, and offers users a chance at £1,000 per month as a reward for reporting the most crime. It’s like “crowdsourcing” repressive surveillance of a country, or, as Kotarski calls it, a move toward “iPod fascism.” http://www.utne.com/Politics/Mob-Surveillance-and-Crowdsourced-Fascism.aspx?utm_content=11.19.09+Politics&utm_campaign=Politics&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email

Well Poles were not spying that much on one another under the communism.

They may be spying more now, when  they want good jobs.   

The Cuban regime is almost pathologically homophobic, which, as was mentioned, doesn't seem to bother our elite "opinion makers" one bit.  They don't seem to be bothered by the notion of preventive detention arising from "pre-crime" scenarios either...

http://www.colegaweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2316&Itemid=134

Raúl sez: I'm a lover, not a gay-basher.