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In Consent of the Networked, internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the purpose of technology is to serve humanity, not the other way around. It’s time to wake up and act before the reversal becomes permanent.
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GV Author Filip Stojanovski posts pictures of Skopje's snowy and icy streets and reports on his blog: “[…] the pavements and the side streets in the municipality of Centar remain icy. Some are covered by layers of ice or re-frozen slush, by old frozen snow, or an unevenly hardened mash of snow and 'salt.' Fokus daily claimed that the authorities avoid declaring nationwide state of emergency in order to ‘prove' that they were prepared for the snow.”
On February 9, 2012, following the widely-discussed leaks of pro-Kremlin mailboxes, LiveJournal, where the leaks were published, became temporarily unavailable, Lenta.ru reported [ru]. Russian representative of Anonymous group @OP_Russia, suggested [ru] that it was a DDoS attack to hide the evidence of massive wrongdoings (including corruption, thievery, political provocations, and cybercrime) [ru] by Nashi youth movement. Later that day @OP_Russia took responsibility for taking down 3 websites of United Russia party: mos-partya.ru, er-region.ru, and er-kaluga.ru.
At OpenDemocracy.net, Olesya Gerasimenko talks to the parents of three young neo-Nazi men who were convicted of race murders: “One has adopted the views of their only child and says that violence is necessary. One blames the politicians that have incited adolescents to street fighting. One cries, convinced of the innocence of his son. They are all different, but they have all asked themselves one and the same question: ‘am I to blame for what happened?’”
While the authorities in Macedonia remain silent on the country's stance on the ACTA, bloggers, such as Airborne, emphasize the need to gain more knowledge [mk], as the traditional media mostly ignore the issue: “Maybe, one of these days, we'll just simply wake up in the ACTA-ruled world.” The new media attempting to fill this gap in local languages include Metamorphosis and IT.com.mk. Endek blog advocates [mk] standing up for Internet freedom by joining international protest movements.
Andrey Rylkov Foundation writes about the first case of enforcement of the domain seizure rules in the “.ru” and “.рф” domain zones. The rules [ru] (Article 5, point 5.5) , updated on November 11, 2011 allow any law enforcement agency (like police, Federal Security Service, Prosecutor's office or Federal Drug Control Services (FDCS)) to request domain seizure without a court order. On February 3, 2012 FDCS successfully seized the domain of rylkov-fond.ru, a website of Rylkov Foundation that had severely criticized situation with drug trafficking.
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Much of the movie is fairly accurate if extremely compacted and the real impact of the film is that it is clearly in vogue in Russia now to romanticize the Russians who fought in the White Army against the Bolsheviks. The biggest inaccuracy, from reading other material, was IMHO whitewashing the White Army, including Semenev’s atrocities, and Kolchak’s personal mistakes in dealing with farmers, the Czechs and the French who ultimately betrayed him.
The movie makes the valid suggestion that he was betrayed because the foreign forces were afraid and wanted safe passage out of Russia so they stabbed him in the back.
The opening scene was an amalgamation of brave military exploits Kolchak committed in both the Baltic Sea in WW1 and the heroic but unsuccessful battle to save Port Arthur from the Japanese 11 years before in 1905… but things did not actually happen the way they did in the scene. I don’t think he barreled through his own mine field like that…but Hollywood would be proud of that scene and he did, in real life, sew mines right before an enemy squadron near the Swedish coast when the rest of his officers were begging him to sail to safer waters.
Kolchak did throw his gold sword overboard when he resigned as leader of the Black Sea Fleet before astonished mutinous sailors. That sword had been given to him by the Japanese when they captured him after the battle for Port Arthur. They apparently admired his bravery. I don’t blame him for not giving it to the mutineers.
The man obviously earned a few movies to be made about him. I hope this won’t be the only such film and, with this and Doktor Zhivago, we still need more films about the Civil War 1918-20.
The ending was just like in the movie “Titanic” which was a brilliant move. Three thumbs up. ;-)