[Cape Argus] Cape Town - GF Jooste Hospital, in the heart of the Cape Flats, had a phenomenal reputation as the training ground for skilled doctors and so I was thrilled when I was offered a community-service post there. After two months on the wards, I moved to the casualty unit. I joined a team of four doctors and it didn't take long for me to figure out what was expected of me and my colleagues.
Sure, we were required to save lives, but the real measure of our success in the unit was our ability to assess and manage patients quickly, refer them elsewhere, and create space for more to come in.
This task, however, was not as straightforward as it seemed, because as hard as we were working to offload patients, the people we were referring them to were as reluctant to accept them.
Every day we engaged in endless haggling with medics, surgeons, gynaes, psychiatrists and, in moments of desperation, social workers to justify why they needed to take over the care of these patients. No one wanted the additional burden on their already overflowing workloads. Welcome to government run healthcare.
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FTA: "Two of my colleagues contracted TB a combination of being physically run down and the overwhelming exposure to the infective organisms." Article seems more about professional burnout and a declining standard of living than about government health care per se. The 0.1% live in a separate reality.
When [ANC] party bigwigs had an apparent change of heart in March and went to campaign in Bekkersdal in March this year, they were greeted with brickbats and burning tyres, prompting their bodyguards to open fire with live ammunition. Boitumelo Nkuna, 22, a local community leader, said it was their own Marikana although, miraculously, no one was killed.
The ANC says on its election posters it has a good story to tell but what about us? Are we part of that good story? We have been abandoned, said the articulate young man who trained to be an accountant but has no prospect of work.
For young children in Bekkersdal, the best form of entertainment is seeing how big a splash they can make by throwing rocks into the open sewers that stagnate next to their corrugated iron shacks. Terrifyingly large rats scamper through piles of rubbish banked up at the end of every red-dust lane and communal toilets overflow with maggots after months of going unemptied.
Rates of tuberculosis and other diseases are high because of the filthy conditions, and with nothing for older children to do, drug use is also prevalent.
Even when you hang your clothes out to dry, you have to watch them or they will steal them to sell and buy nyaope (a cocktail of marijuana, low-grade heroin and ground-up HIV pills), said Mr Nkunda.
One hosepipe is shared by 20 streets long queues form in the early morning as people try to wash their clothes, children and selves before, if they are lucky, going to work.
It was there that the Telegraph met Mrs Makereke and was welcomed into her two-roomed shack. She cooks on a primus stove by the chinks of bright South African sunlight that pierce through the gloom and bedsheets hung up to keep out the cold as winter approaches. On the wall was a 2014 calendar featuring a South African flag and a picture of Nelson Mandela. Next to it is pasted a tattered photograph of Mrs Makereke in her auxiliary nursing graduation gown. She has several diplomas in nursing but with no hospital nearby, scrapes a living as a volunteer community care worker paid expenses only.
[DAWN] THE news from Nigeria is blood-curdling. Shrouded initially in mystery, the kidnapping of almost 300 Nigerian girls last month has now been owned by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , with its chief threatening 'by Allah' to sell those girls in slave markets. In a chilling demonstration of his intentions, in the name of Islam, Boko Haram chief Abubakr Shekau released an hour-long video that showed his hooded acolytes raising rifles and shouting 'Allah-o-Akbar' as Shekau flaunted his criminality to the Nigerian people by declaring, "I kidnapped your girls". Describing the girls as "slaves", he had no qualms about saying he would repeat his actions. Over 50 of the girls have managed to flee, two have died of snakebite, many have been forced to marry and some have been forcibly converted -- all in the name of Islam.
Last week, two kabooms killed or injured more than 100 people, and police believe Boko Haram wanted to demonstrate its destructive power as Nigeria prepared to host the World Economic Forum. So far acts of terror by the Boko Haram Death Eaters and security crackdowns have led to over 1,500 deaths this year alone. But there is no indication yet that the Nigerian government has the political will to purposefully take on the turbans who have chosen murder and abduction as a strategy to advance their political aims for which they claim religious sanction. The Nigerian government has come under intense criticism at home for focusing all security measures on the WEF delegates and for ignoring the urgent task of recovering the girls.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the issue doesn't concern Nigeria alone. Seen against the background of religious militancy that has rocked Mohammedan (as well as non-Mohammedan) countries from Indonesia to Morocco, Boko Haram's latest act of crime against humanity poses a question or two to the entire Mohammedan world, especially its intellectuals and Learned Elders of Islam. Will the Mohammedan world stay quiet over this debasement of their religion and look away from the Nigerian people's trauma? Girls are kidnapped from schools because Boko Haram says it opposes 'Western' education. That an education can be 'Western or Eastern' is a debatable issue, but even if 'Western education' is all that devilish, was the mass kidnapping of the girls the best way to register protest? The Mohammedan world now must speak up. Those who accuse the Western media of tarring all Mohammedans with the same brush now have an excellent chance of correcting this erroneous perception by denouncing Boko Haram's evil deed in unequivocal terms and by dissociating the international Islamic community from such fiendish crimes. In fact, such Islamic seats of learning as Deoband, Qom and Al Azhar must unite in expressing their abhorrence of the atrocity in Nigeria.
Al Azhar did, so points for them. Haven't said anything about similar behavior with Coptic girls at home, but still.
Silence will mean the Mohammedan world's tacit approval of Boko Haram's misogynist brigandage.
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These assholes need to die.
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Dear Dawn writer - the Muslim world is silent because they fully agree with it - 'tacit' approval, my ass.
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Reader comments atre mixed. manyn approve but many come wih the usual takiyah. However we must remind this is a newsperr in English so what we have is a sample of literate english-speaking pakistanis who have an internet connection not sample of Pakistani public opinion.
Sorry guys but this is a distillation of what true Islam is all about. The essence of the moon-god cult on public display concentrated as the flavor in a wine-reduction sauce.
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Many Muslims are decent people _despite_ Islam but they are in denial about their religion. Boko Haram is merely imitating Muhammad's example as evidenced by any biography of him even those approved by the highest Muslim instances;
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Doesn't the Quran say that captured women can be used any way the captors wish? Used as concubines, sold as slaves, whatever. Boko Haram is just imitating the Prophet(bpuh).
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yes Rambler,
the Quran 4:24 and 23:5-6 combined with supporting hadith and exegesis pretty clearly allow kidnapping of infidel women and their use as sex slaves
it is, however, not clear if the sex slaves may be beaten for the pleasure of their kidnapper nor whether they may be beaten for not working as hard as the kidnapper would want
in this case, also, I think the sex slaves are being passed around within the kidnapping party; this I think is prohibited as the Quran and supporting verses assume that one individual owns each slave rather than owning them in common
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The head 'boko' (who couldn't stop scratching himself) said that the girls had been married off to the other 'bokos', so it is all 'halal'. I have had personal interaction with three muslim men. They were all deceitful. One was all happy that he was shortly going to palestine to marry his 12 year old brokered bride.
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TheTimes notes that the percentage of Americans ages 16 and older who are working is 62.8 percent -- the lowest since the late 1970s. That was when Jimmy Carter was president.
One quibble with the lead paragraph - thirty-five or so years ago, it was global cooling, then it was global warming, etc.
First there was "global warming." Then many researchers suggested "climate change" was a better term (around the time the East Anglia scientists were outed as lying bullshit artists? Just asking! - ed.). Now, White House science adviser John Holdren is renewing his call for a new nomenclature to describe the end result of dumping vast quantities of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into Earth's atmosphere: "global climate disruption." No mention of Obama's U.S. economic disruption, natch...
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Ultimate surrender. Can't prove warming. Can't even prove any systematic "change." So now we blame people for bad weather. Any word on what sort of sacrifice the angry weather gods are demanding?
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My son was watching this 'science' show last night about Venus. The narraitor, it think it was Ben Affact (sp?) or something was talking about how 'Venus was a goddess from hell full of heat and volcanoes and of course lots and lots of CO2 and if we didn't change our ways we were going to end up the same way!'. It was more of a Religious sermon the scientific presentation.
Never did he mention that Venus was much closer to the sun - or that the CO2 Venus has wasn't man-caused.
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And yet the people spouting this crap still take private jets all over the world and have a bigger carbon footprint than 10 average American combined.
Until these idiots start practicing what they preach and on top of that render themselves carbon neutral, I ain't buying it.
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Please, lets not forget the Methane, a very high contributor to Climate Change Disruption. As I have said before these Democrats give me the sh*ts and thereby increase my methane output tenfold. After Big O's last edict, I am anticipating them passing some sort legislation, or encorporating a rule via Obamacare, or even an Executive Order, which addresses this condition, and raises additional revenue.
Cynical. Me?
Why, Yes....pfffft!
Oh, pardon me, I just passed some gas.
(IRS) - that will be 1 Dollar please for your "Methane Offset Tax".
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Venus is hotter mainly because it's got MORE atmosphere 93 times more pressure.
At an height were the pressure is the same as Earth's surface, the temperature is only hotter by a factor relating to the suns distance.
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Didn't know that BP - thanks. The narrator didn't mention that either. And he really did say that if we didn't change our ways we would end up the same way as Venus.
Is this the kind of crap being taught in schools nowdays? Why do I have a bad feeling that it is?
Not exactly a recent article, but still pertinent, it seems to me.
[IsraelTimes] Iran, not Israel, faces an existential threat, according to a top US analyst who is considered one of the world's leading scholars on the Iranian nuclear issue.
In a research paper published last week, Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said that, in preparation for a nuclear Iran, Israel has been working in recent years to extend the range of its missiles, and that it now poses a real threat to all of the Islamic Theocratic Republic's major population centers.
"Israel now poses a more serious existential threat to Iran than Iran can pose to Israel in the near term," he wrote.
Cordesman, a former national security aide to Senator John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution... , said Iran is likely within the range of Israeli missiles carrying thermonuclear warheads, which employ hydrogen fission and are far more powerful than standard atomic warheads. He attributed the information to "a variety of media and think tank reports."
"Israel long ago extended the range of its nuclear-armed land-based missiles, probably now targets Iran with thermonuclear weapons, and is examining options for sea launched cruise missiles," he wrote.
According to the CSIS report, entitled US-Iranian competition: The Gulf Military Balance II, "A mix of several air and ground bursts in an Israeli thermonuclear or high fission yield attack on five key cities -- Tehran (capital) 7.19 million; Mashhad 2.592 million; Esfahan 1.704 million; Karaj 1.531 million; Tabriz 1.459 million -- would probably destroy Iran as a nation in anything like its current form."
According to Cordesman, Iran will not have the ability to threaten Israel with a long-range nuclear warhead for several years. Today, the Islamic Theocratic Republic can attack Israel with small bombs from the sea, or with long-range non-nuclear missiles, he noted.
Or pop them over the border on Hizb'allah rockets...
"It seems likely that Israel can already deliver an 'existential' nuclear strike on Iran, and will have far more capability to damage Iran than Iran is likely to have against Israel for the next decade," Cordesman wrote.
Israel has never admitted to maintaining a nuclear arsenal.
Iran says that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only and has no military component, a claim that Israel and Western powers reject.
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Yeah, but why would the Juices use 5? Everyone knows, the science is settled, the concensus is in, that one ESM burst is all it takes. Really. You can read about it on the internets.
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The preferred Israeli weapon is the neutron bomb. Saudi Arabia has been warned that 'never again' means that Mecca and Medina could be made a radiation wasteland for one hundred years if the existence of Israel were threatened.
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A neutron bomb or officially known as one type of Enhanced Radiation Weapon is a low yield fission-fusion thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb) in which the burst of neutrons generated by a fusion reaction is intentionally allowed to escape the weapon, rather than being absorbed by its other components. The weapon's radiation case, usually made from relatively thick uranium, lead or steel in a standard bomb, are instead made of as thin a material as possible to facilitate the greatest escape of fusion produced neutrons. The "usual" nuclear weapon yieldexpressed as kilotons of TNT equivalentis not a measure of a neutron weapon's destructive power. It refers only to the energy released (mostly heat and blast), and does not express the lethal effect of neutron radiation on living organisms.
Compared to a pure fission bomb with an identical explosive yield, a neutron bomb would emit about ten times the amount of neutron radiation. In a fission bomb at sea level, the total radiation pulse energy which is composed of both gamma rays and neutrons is approximately 5% of the entire energy released; in the neutron bomb it would be closer to 40%. Furthermore, the neutrons emitted by a neutron bomb have a much higher average energy level, closer to (14 MeV) than those released during a fission reaction (12 MeV).[8] Technically speaking, all low yield nuclear weapons are radiation weapons, that is including the non-enhanced variant, from 0 up to about 10 kilotons in yield, all have prompt neutron radiation, as their most far reaching lethal component, after which point the lethal blast and thermal effects radius begins to out-range the lethal ionizing radiation radius. Enhanced radiation weapons also fall into this same yield range and simply enhance the intensity and range of the neutron dose for a given yield.
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If deterrence doesn't work against the irrational people in charge of Iran, then maybe both Iran and Israel face an existential threat from Iran's government.
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The difference is that Israel wouldn't use it unless it is very necessary. Iran would use it at the drop of a hat and Dinnerjacket has often said as much.
At the end of Animal Farm, the revolution ended in tyranny when "All Animals are Equal" was rewritten with the addendum "But Some Animals are More Equal than Others." A revolution that began with the promise of equality reverted to inequality in the name of the equality revolution. America's civil rights revolution began with, "All Americans are Equal" and ended up with, "All Americans are Equal... But Some Americans are More Equal than Others."
...The elite in America were the administrators of special privileges overseeing the mass ranks of privileged victims demanding special college admissions, workplace quotas, community funding, special payments, immunity from the law and immunity from ever being offended by another human being. A bit like a jail with jailers and trustees, niet?
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When Arlington and the myriad veteran cemeteries are 'equally' filled, not with beloved spouses but those who actually bore the consequences of being call upon to give the last full measure of devotion, then whatever grievance group is squawking may have a point. It's still a long road to that 'equality'. It's never about real equality, rather power, privilege and prerogative without responsibility or consequence of the butcher's bill paid by someone else.
Disclosure: I have a beard but only coz I shave every few days or so. My wife thinks a beard makes me look older, which it prolly does, but the main factor for me is laziness. This blog entry was too funny not to post. The writer is female, BTW Via Gerard Vanderleun:
YOU GUYS ARE RUINING MY BEARD FETISH. Ever since I was a little girl, I've loved a man with a beard. To me, they meant strength, power, MANLINESS. Someone who could protect me. Unfortunately, you guys have turned it into a fashion statement. The beard has turned into the padded bra of masculinity. Sure it looks sexy, but whatcha got under there? There's a whole generation running around looking like lumberjacks, and most of you can't change a fucking tire.
Look, I get it. I really do. I understand the motivation behind your beardedness. In fact, I even pity you. Thousands of years of evolution priming you guys to kill stuff, and chase stuff, and fuck stuff⌠and now what? You're stuck at a desk all day. No battles to fight. No wars to wage. So you assert your masculinity the only way you know how. You brew beer. You grow some hair on your face. I've seen you, hipsters, sitting in downtown eateries, with your rock chick girlfriends, dipping your truffle fries, trying not to get the aioli in your mustache. I've seen the quiet desperation in your eyes. I know you're screaming into the void.
But I still hate you for it. You're confusing me. It's now on me to suss out who is the real man and who is the poseur. Sadly, I fear most of you are the latter. Before this explosion of whiskers on trendy men everywhere, if I saw a bearded man it was safe to assume certain things about him. Like, he probably owned a hammer. Or washed his hair with a bar of Irish Spring. His beard was probably scented with motor oil and probably had remnants of last night's chili in it.
But you vegan nancyboys are a different breed altogether. You have your mountain man scruff, but you maintain it. You groom it. With products. A quick google search of "beard grooming products" turns up literally thousands of articles explaining how to have the most lustrous beard possible. Take this one from Philadelphia Magazine, where they tested TWENTY DIFFERENT VARIETIES of beard oil. The result of this intrepid testing?
"I'm talking softer, more manageable whiskers that hold their shape better and smell nice, besides. Doesn't sound so bad put that way, does it?"
Yes. Yes it does, you GIANT PUSSY. Am I reading Cosmo? What the fuck is going on here? Betty White has bigger balls than you. Look, I know I sound harsh, but I'm actually trying to rein myself in. A beard is meant to keep your face warm. Seriously, that's it. You guys had your warm beards so you could go out and hunt us food, and we had our boobies with warm milk to feed the young'uns. That's why I love beards. It is a natural, physiological response. I want a man who can keep me safe. How did it all get so twisted?
I don't want to go back to Cro-Magnon days. I'm glad we have more gender equality and I like not having to worry about being eaten by larger creatures. But I am calling for a moratorium on the hipster beard. I demand that you reach for a razor if any of the following are true:
Your beard is accompanied by a bowtie or horn-rimmed eyeglasses. Why on earth do you want to look like Sigmund Freud? At least he could blame this strange look on his massive cocaine problem. Sometimes a cigar is just a douchebag.
You grew a beard to be "ironic". But you don't exactly understand what "ironic" means, or why having a beard would be ironic if you did.
You take time off from your entry-level graphic design job only to attend South by Southwest, take your French Bulldog to the vet, or lie on your futon and weep.
You do not know what an Allen wrench is, but can explain, in detail, the difference between a macchiato and an Americano. I had to Google macchiato, and watching Arma 2 game videos with Spanish speaking players I hear pinche Americano, all the time.
There is an existing Instagram photo of you wearing a knit beanie and chewing on a stalk of wheat.
How'd you do, boys? Better go get your moisturizing shave gel. It's time to stop playing at being a man. But don't throw all those perfectly good whiskers in the trash. Give them to your upcycling, DIY girlfriend and let her decoupage some photo frames, or something. But please, just get rid of it. Another trend will soon come along to occupy your technology-addled attention span. And me? I have some beard-ogling to get back to.
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I have a beard, I can change a tire,shoot a rifle or pistol and all else, I'm a Master Mechanic AND a Machinist, if i can't fix it, I'll make a new one. And I have enough smarts to do whatever I want.
And, I'm currently building a Solar System.
(House power)
So this doesn't apply to me. (Thank god
So there.
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I would have a beard... if it didn't bug the everloving shit out of me.
I sure as fuck wouldn't groom it other than trim it so it didn't look like I was a castaway.
Better question for this lady is... if this guy with a beard was dropped in the middle of nowhere with a 20' section of 550 cord and a multi tool, could he survive a couple weeks and get back to civilization (assuming he wouldn't just go native and stay in the wild).
If the answer is no, he is a man child and needs to be reviled as one.
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We the bearded do not give a shit about your lady problems with our beards. Instead, spend some time getting pretty, while we shoot stuff and fix broken things.
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This caused me to wonder what message jaw shavers are trying to evoke. I mean, hair grows all over the body but some choose to only shave it off the jaw (and other parts).
Don't know the answer but for me but the beard is my message that I find it less work/time than keeping it properly shaved.
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The only things she left out was the Man-skirt (not to be confused with a real, honest-to-God Kilt)and the Murse (far too many of them in PugetSoundostan)
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I read this a couple days ago or whatnot and was laughing so hard the kids quit their playthings to see what I was laughing about.
Then read the comments. There are people out there taking the wrong things too seriously. I think the point of this op/ed; the wussification of the Man.
I have a three letter reason why I have no beard: SCBA. Last I was in hipsterville, this article nails it - them ain't beards, themz balldusters.
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Very Fuuunnnnnyyyyyy!
I wear a beard (or should I say, the beard lets me carry it!) and brush it to keep the tangles down but by god I am not a SISSY!
Oh, yes, I draw the line at kilts and "personal" shavers. Itchy, itchy.
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Maybe we need a PhD in masculinity program. Change tires. Catch and clean fish. Drive a stick. Develop some minimum level of upper body strength. Eschew sports which require shaving ones legs. BBQ competence. Know how to shoot and clean a gun. Basically, everything which makes you a better person and which the Left hates. Make those pussies earn their beard.
d. Properly cuss a lawnmower
5. Assemble a socket set worth stealing
vi. Own a great dawg at some point in your life and cry about it in private
Seven. Be fierce around mice
1000. Tip heavily when you can
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I love a well-kempt beard on a man (not a scraggly one or one of those Smith Brothers bushes).
What I can't stand is the so-called "beards" that are really just a 2- or 3-day growth. Talk about razor burn!
I don't care if you don't want to shave, but don't try to kiss me until you do, or until you grow an actual beard.
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Poor girl needs to get out of the city for a weekend. Come out here to the flyover states where men wear beards because they want to, not because they think it will attract some superficial bitch. Girls problem is she likes city life and all those drinks with silly names. You cant have both, you cant live in NYC or DC and hang out with real men. If you want a real man you have to get out of there, they are dirty, chauvinistic, and when they two step they will lead and you better follow or you will be gone. If your OK with that I have some guys down here that you would love to meet.
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I can't seem to grow a beard. It gets about just-over-stubble long and just stops (and itches) so I shave. (Besides the wife want's it that way).
I figure either have one - or don't.
Wasn't there a story here a few weeks ago about hipsters who are getting hair transplants (from other parts of their body to their chin) in order to grow a beard?
US Government Begins Rollout Of Its 'Driver's License For The Internet'
[techdirt] An idea the government has been kicking around since 2011 is finally making its debut. Calling this move ill-timed would be the most gracious way of putting it.
A few years back, the White House had a brilliant idea: Why not create a single, secure online ID that Americans could use to verify their identity across multiple websites, starting with local government services. The New York Times described it at the time as a "driver's license for the internet."
Sound convenient? It is. Sound scary? It is.
Next month, a pilot program of the "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace" will begin in government agencies in two US states, to test out whether the pros of a federally verified cyber ID outweigh the cons.
The NSTIC program has been in (slow) motion for nearly three years, but now, at a time when the public's trust in government is at an all time low, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST -- itself still reeling a bit from NSA-related blowback) is testing the program in Michigan and Pennsylvania. The first tests appear to be exclusively aimed at accessing public programs, like government assistance. The government believes this ID system will help reduce fraud and overhead, by eliminating duplicated ID efforts across multiple agencies.
But the program isn't strictly limited to government use. The ultimate goal is a replacement of many logins and passwords people maintain to access content and participate in comment threads and forums. This "solution," while somewhat practical, also raises considerable privacy concerns.
[T]he Electronic Frontier Foundation immediately pointed out the red flags, arguing that the right to anonymous speech in the digital realm is protected under the First Amendment. It called the program "radical," "concerning," and pointed out that the plan "makes scant mention of the unprecedented threat such a scheme would pose to privacy and free speech online."
And the keepers of the identity credentials wouldn't be the government itself, but a third party organization. When the program was introduced in 2011, banks, technology companies or cellphone service providers were suggested for the role, so theoretically Google or Verizon could have access to a comprehensive profile of who you are that's shared with every site you visit, as mandated by the government.
Beyond the privacy issues (and the hints of government being unduly interested in your online activities), there are the security issues. This collected information would be housed centrally, possibly by corporate third parties. When hackers can find a wealth of information at one location, it presents a very enticing target. The government's track record on protecting confidential information is hardly encouraging.
The problem is, ultimately, that this is the government rolling this out. Unlike corporations, citizens won't be allowed the luxury of opting out. This "internet driver's license" may be the only option the public has to do things like renew actual driver's licenses or file taxes or complete paperwork that keeps them on the right side of federal law. Whether or not you believe the government's assurances that it will keep your data safe from hackers, keep it out of the hands of law enforcement (without a warrant), or simply not look at it just because it's there, matters very little. If the government decides the positives outweigh the negatives, you'll have no choice but to participate.
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A few years back, the White House had a brilliant idea: Why not create a single, secure online ID that Americans could use to verify their identity across multiple websites
Actually the idea of a flat-network and single log-on originated back in the 1990's at the US Army Intelligence and Security Command [INSCOM], Fort Belvoir, VA. Former NSA director General Keith Alexander and his able sidekick, Dr. Jim Heath were the architects. It was called JIOC at the time. Unfortunately, their concept was quickly hijacked by the Army's amazingly unsuccessful and costly Distributed Common Ground System [DCGS] program.
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Huge privacy issue first of all. But the glaring hypocrisy that they would impose an ID requirement on the Internet and continue to omit an ID requirement for voting is just stunning.
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Re:#11. 93 per cent of the media are liberals. And they want to regulate the 7% that are conservative. Should be the other way around in a massive way. But they will not be happy until there is no right. Marxists.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
John 
An idea the government has been kicking around since 2011 is finally making its debut. Calling this move ill-timed would be the most gracious way of putting it.
