Category Archives: Viva!

And I can… #poetry #art #love #uganda

True words, feelings, thoughts…

penned in moon dust

you ask me what I do

so many hats sit in a corner

I point…

some are dusty

others can no longer be worn

I’m tired…

paper leaves scatter

rose petals crumble with age

misunderstood…

children I have loved

stories I have told

one heart…

no value a head shakes

pennies fall from my pocket

hope hangs …

trial and error

at times I want to give up

but one word…

inspires me to try

ignited and refreshed

by LOVE!!!

I dedicate this to my dear friends / family in No. Uganda. Your love is not based on aquisition of things, a degree, a profession. It is given freely. That is the kind of love that God has for each of us.

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Trump’s administration deleted data on Puerto Rico’s crisis from FEMA’s website

They don’t think anyne is watching? Trump’s administration deleted data on Puerto Rico’s crisis from FEMA’s website:

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The Trump administration has removed statistics from a federal website that revealed how dire the crisis in Puerto Rico remains in the wake of Hurricane Maria, according to a new report.

As Jenna Johnson reports for the Washington Post, sometime between Wednesday and Thursday morning, the Federal Emergency Management Agency removed information that showed only half of Puerto Ricans have electricity and only 5 percent of the island has electricity. The website was set up to document the federal response to the hurricane.

A FEMA spokesperson told the Post that information about the electricity and water access are still publicly accessible on Status.pr, a site run by Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló. That website is in Spanish.

On Friday, House Democrats criticized Trump’s administration for the removal of the information. “In response to the complete devastation in Puerto Rico, we have seen President Trump focus more on his public perception than on actually providing life-saving food, water, electricity, and medical aid to the Puerto Rican people whose lives are on the line,” Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM), chair of the Hispanic Caucus, said in an email to Vox. “I am outraged by the lack of transparency.”

President Trump has praised his administration’s “amazing” response to the hurricane, tweeting that the White House is doing “a GREAT job.” But as Vox’s Alexia Fernández Campbell has reported, the Trump administration has been slow to respond at virtually every step

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Police chief disregarded IT security regulations

Hire under 30s to run things dummies!

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IT storm: Sweden’s national police chief Dan Eliasson appears to have flouted security protocols.

Sweden’s national police chief flouted IT security protocols just months after being directed not to do so by the Swedish Armed Forces, according to fresh information uncovered by Swedish Radio.

Speaking to Swedish Radio, IT security expert Patrik Fältström described national police chief Dan Eliasson’s apparent disregard for Swedish Armed Forces’ security regulations as “clearly highly unusual.”

“For the Swedish Armed Forces to so clearly explain [this] to the police, and for Eliasson to take such a decision just a few months later is clearly highly unusual,” Fältström said.

Experts say that Eliasson did not have the right to select an encryption system not passed by the armed forces.

Eliasson has defended his actions, saying that existing rules permit the use of encryption systems other than those approved by the Swedish Armed Forces.

Eliasson first came under pressure over what he knew and when in September after Swedish Radio revealed that he had decided, in the spring of 2015, to forgo using approved encryption programmes, required by law, to keep personnel data safe.

Eliasson faced questioning from the parliamentary justice committee over the allegations last month.  

The police requested permission from the Swedish Defence Forces to use an unapproved encryption programme in August 2014. The programme was to be used for back-up copies the police wanted to make of an IT system.

Sources within the police have confirmed to Swedish Radio that this request was firmly rejected.

Several months later, when the police needed support from a private IT provider for maintenance of its payrole system, the directive was ignored and Eliasson selected an alternative encryption programme that was not approved by the Swedish Armed Forces.

Egypt: Mass Arrests Amid LGBT Media Blackout

Cannot hide your shame dummies – governments still want to believe they can control hide what they please – wrong! [HRW] Nairobi -The Egyptian government has intensified its campaign against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their supporters, arresting dozens of people in less than two weeks, Human Rights Watch said today. A media regulatory body has also banned all “positive” reporting on homosexuality.

Namibia: Skulls in U.S. Museum Must Lay Foundation for a Genocide Section

[New Era] Namibians living in the United States of America (USA) last month announced the discovery of eight skulls, which have been identified as of Namibian origin, in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The eight skulls are only a drop in the ocean of thousands of human remains in this museum. Can this discovery really be surprising in view of the fact that human remains in their thousands and thousands have already been discovered in museums in the Federal Republic of Germany, a number of th

Trump disapproval hits 67% in poll | The minute

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• As numbers plunge… Trump warns of ‘calm before the storm’… attacks contraception coverage… moves to nix banking regulations

• Get the day’s politics news in 60 seconds every weekday. By Tom McCarthy

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Only 24% of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction, according to an AP poll. That’s a 10-point drop since June. 67% of Americans disapprove of the job Donald Trump’s doing, including about a third of Republicans.

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Trump was expected to withdraw his endorsement of the nuclear deal with Iran next week, and used a group photograph before a dinner with military leaders and their spouses to warn cryptically that the evening represented “the calm before the storm”.

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‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia

A guy writes about guys only who are building new careers by being anti-addicted to tech and offering nothing. Typical editorial ploy to try to stay in the game by being anti-game. And then some editor or writer will suggest being anti-anti-game as a new ploy to get eyes on page and ad dollars/euros… puleeze!

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Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks alarmed by a race for human attention

Justin Rosenstein had tweaked his laptop’s operating system to block Reddit, banned himself from Snapchat, which he compares to heroin, and imposed limits on his use of Facebook. But even that wasn’t enough. In August, the 34-year-old tech executive took a more radical step to restrict his use of social media and other addictive technologies.

Rosenstein purchased a new iPhone and instructed his assistant to set up a parental-control feature to prevent him from downloading any apps.

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