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To: Snowshoe who wrote (101073)	6/13/2013 11:40:29 PM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By Eva Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217616

grass-root hong kong are getting warmed up to sympathize young edward a demonstration by the democracy groups is planned for tomorrow in front of consulate of team usa, to chant human rights and such should be interesting nearby is a garden that would be good for picnic afterwards we in hk also got girlz groupings and should edward gets to remain in hk, he best like to deal w/ hk girlz sashaying youtube.com if young edward turns out to be double spy, wonder what device got to him by which maneuver in the mean time re grass roots well, before, more sashaying youtube.com (the way to upset my wife is whenever i chant "joey joey joey" before turning on the cd :0) scmp.com Human rights groups organise Hong Kong protest to support Edward SnowdenLocal rights groups are planning a march to press home their call for the Hong Kong government to protect the personal safety of Edward Snowden, the former CIA man holed up in the city after blowing the whistle on US internet surveillance. But the city's government remains tight-lipped on Snowden. He was not mentioned in a meeting between Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday, government sources said. In-media, a website supporting freelance journalists, says it is planning a demonstration this week at the US consulate and outside government headquarters to support Snowdon. Organiser Damon Wong Chun-pong said he was inviting more groups, including international human rights groups, to join. The Civil Human Rights Front, which is responsible for the annual July 1 pro-democracy march, has agreed to join. "We are yet to agree on the theme of the march but basically we want to express concern about the personal safety of Snowden here," Wong said. "If the US makes an extradition request, the Hong Kong government should not yield to pressure. It should confirm Snowden as a political asylum seeker and give him protection." Tony Henderson, of the Humanist Association Hong Kong, urged the government not to try to second-guess what Beijing would expect, as it was likely to stay in the background. Hong Kong has autonomy in extradition matters, but the the chief executive must comply with instructions from Beijing if failure to do so would "significantly" affect China's defence or foreign affairs interests. The city, unlike the mainland, has an extradition treaty with the US. The Foreign Correspondents' Club said Snowden's case was a strong test of the government's commitment to freedom of expression and of the press. "The FCC will watch closely how the government handles his case, and in particular how it responds to any pressure from authorities both in Washington and Beijing to restrict his activities or to impede access by the media," it said. But international rights groups remain cautious. Tawanda Hondora, deputy director of Amnesty International in London, said his organisation had no action plan to back Snowden as it knew little about his plans. "Our concern is the US government must come clean. It is unacceptable to spy on foreigners." Simon Young, director of the University of Hong Kong's centre of public and comparative law, said the government should keep a low profile as long as the US made no extradition request. Besides applying for refugee status from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and fighting extradition in court, Young said, Snowden could file an asylum claim to the city's government on the grounds of threat of torture. Illustration: Henry Wong THE WHISTLE-BLOWERS’ FATE Americans accused of divulging secrets to the media have escaped long prison sentences, a pattern that may reassure Edward Snowden. Use of the Espionage Act to prosecute leaks to the press is murky because there are so few examples, said Elizabeth Goitein, a national security expert at New York University. The act carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for each criminal count. In the nine such criminal cases in US history, two people served no prison time, one person was sentenced to 10 months in a halfway house and three defendants received sentences of about two years. Daniel EllsbergProsecutors used the law in 1971 to charge Daniel Ellsberg, a national security analyst who passed defence documents known as the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times. A judge dismissed the case on evidence that the government had wiretapped Ellsberg, possibly illegally. Lawrence Franklin, a former US Defence Department employee who pleaded guilty in 2005 to giving classified information about Iran to pro-Israel lobbyists, was initially sentenced to more than 12 years in prison. But after the government's case fell apart, US District Judge T.S. Ellis imposed a new sentence of 10 months in a halfway house. John KiriakouFormer CIA officer John Kiriakou is serving the longest prison sentence, two and a half years, of the nine people indicted for telling secrets to the media. However, in a plea agreement with prosecutors, he was convicted under a different law for disclosing the identity of a covert agent. Three cases are unresolved, including that of US soldier Bradley Manning, the accused source of secret files given to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. Reuters

To: Snowshoe who wrote (101073)	6/14/2013 12:13:56 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 217616

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To: Snowshoe who wrote (101073)	6/14/2013 4:57:01 PM
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2012 marked the 20th anniversary of the first email attachments, and the first photo on the world wide web... Les Horribles Cernettes nowiknow.com When we think about the multimedia experience that the web is now today, we lose sight of its more humble beginnings. Originally conceived by British computer scientist and CERN researcher Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, the web made its debut on December 25, 1990. But that rudimentary system consisted of (and was defined as) a web browser, a single web server, and a few web pages — and, more importantly, they were not publicly accessible. It would not be unveiled to the public until August of the following year when Berners-Lee and his student, Robert Cailliau, announced their “World Wide Web” project on an online newsgroup. And even then, the existing web pages were text documents (or more accurately, hypertext documents) which users could navigate through via links. There were no images. That changed on July 18, 1992 or thereabouts. According to Silvano de Gennaro, the photographer of the picture above (and later, the husband of one of the Cernettes), Berners-Lee asked him “for a few scanned photos of ‘the CERN girls’ to publish on some sort of information system he had just invented, called the ‘World Wide Web.’” Not knowing the future levity of this “World Wide Web” thing, he happily obliged, scanning the photos in and sending them to Berners-Lee’s machine. (And via FTP at that — email attachments were only a few months old then.) Berners-Lee put the photograph on a web server and the rest is history.