Indian student killed in Australia - India's FM condemns the attack with a warning to Aus govt

"We were under the impression that the message had been registered with the people and the government of Australia. We were assured by the Prime Minister that the government of Australia and the provinces would take the most stringent actions according to the law of the land." - Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, Indian Foreign Minister @0.32+ Last year's attacks triggered violent protests and strained bilateral ties between the two countries. The latest attack has prompted India to issue Australia a warning..... "I would like to convey that if more attacks to this nature continue to take place in Australia then government of India will have to sincerely think as to what other courses of action that lies with government of India and I am hoping that government of India will not be pushed to take such positions." - SM Krishna @1.20+ Australian Deputy PM Julia Gillard's easy "condemnation" (@1.51+) was + is no kind of solution. It is mere excuse-making + a kind of affirmation that racist attacks are still somehow permitted. What IS actually needed in Australia is CHANGE + genuine acknowledgement of Australian white settler society's main problem - that it is completely up itself, uhh. Shame on their complicit Labor Party!!! *



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Jonathan Zittrain: "Minds for Sale"

A new range of projects is making the application of human brainpower as purchasable over the cloud as additional server rackspace. Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, dives into the ethics and issues surrounding cloud labor in this talk from the Berkman West reception at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California on November 18, 2009. INDEX 0:00 Open 1:47 West Coast vs East Coast 2:05 Ubiquitous Human Computing or "Minds for Sale" 2:32 The Tween Bot 4:14 Crowdsourcing "The Future of the Internet" 7:36 A tour of the Ubiquitous Human Computing pyramid 8:37 Example 1: The X-Prize 10:24 Example 2: Innocentive 12:08 Example 3: LiveOps 15:43 Example 4: SamaSource 16:16 Example 5: Amazon's Mechanical Turk 20:13 Example 6: The ESP Game 22:47 Example 7: Human Computing for Electronic Design Automation 24:01 Example 8: Google 25:24 Why Should We be Pessimistic? 26:38 Child Labor on PBS 28:11 Laboring for a Devious Cause 29:23 US Border Webcams 30:05 Smart Drive 30:45 Internet Eyes 32:09 Identifying Protesters 33:21 A Speculative Example 35:05 Mechanical Turking your way to a Fake Reputation 39:36 Mechanical Turking your way to a Political Movement 41:20 Captchas Sweatshops 43:03 "Crowding Out" 44:41 The Future of Crowdsourcing and How to Stop It 47:14 Clickworkers of the World Unite! 50:45 Monetizing Kindness 52:25 Q&As



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Stimulus Plan, $30M for Rats? Democrat Big Government Spending Bill, Pelosi's None-earmark

How can Democrats look themselves in the mirror after voting for this porkulus spending bill? They are growing our government. They are growing our debt. They are steeling our grandchildren's money to spend on their selfish "needs". They are criminals, and should be rounded up, placed in prison, and forced to do hard labor for the rest of their pathetic lives. jbranstetter04 Experts: Stimulus bill could backfire on US The US Senate has taken an important step in the fight against recession by passing the $838-billion economic stimulus bill, but the bill's protectionist clauses could backfire and hamper the country's recovery, Chinese economists said yesterday. The Senate approved the stimulus package on Tuesday after a long and fierce debate. But it is still bickering with the House of Representatives on tax cuts and details of government deficit as they try to hammer out a compromised version for US president Barack Obama to sign into law. "It's a major step to save the US economy, though uncertainties about the US economic prospects persist," said Dong Yuping, an economist with the Institute of Finance and Banking of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. "Such worries over the uncertainties cannot be dispersed in the short term," Dong said. What's worse, the US stimulus bill retains some protectionist clauses such as those on "buy American" products only and the one that restricts banks and other financial institutions that get taxpayers' money as bailout funds from ...



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How to Deduct Employee Benefits on Schedule C, Line 14

If you are a Sole Proprietor with employees, there are numerous employee benefits that you can deduct on Schedule C. Are you aware of what those are? If not, read on and get the scoop on this type of deductible small business expense.

First, let's discuss what should not be deducted on Line 14. Note that the Schedule C description for Line 14 reads as follows: "Employee benefit programs (other than line 19)." So we go to Line 19 and read "Pension and profit-sharing plans." In other words, do not include pension plan expenses or other employer-provided retirement plan expenses on Line 14.

Now on to the good news: what kinds of expenses can you deduct on Line 14? Here's an overview of the most common types of employee benefit plans:

1. Accident and Health Insurance Plans. Do you provide a health insurance plan for your employees? The amount of premium you pay is a deductible business expense for you and a tax-free benefit to your employees. Some employers pay 100% of the premium on behalf of their employees. Others share the expense, with the employer paying part and the employee paying part. If you are sharing the expense, be sure to only deduct your part of the premium payment.

Also, be careful not to deduct any health insurance premium you pay for yourself on Line 14. Self-employed individuals are never considered an employee of the Sole Proprietorship, so you are not allowed to deduct your own health insurance premiums on Schedule C. You may still qualify for a health insurance deduction, but you must take the deduction on Form 1040, Line 29. Check the rules on that, however, as there are specific criteria for qualifying.

One more comment here: If your spouse happens to be an employee of your business, you can put her on the health insurance policy as the primary insured, and you would be covered as one of her dependent family members. End result: you do get to deduct your own health insurance premium on Schedule C. There are at least two tax advantages to this approach: 1) You don't have to qualify for the Form 1040, Line 29 deduction, which is disallowed if you have a loss on Schedule C; and 2) Taking a deduction on Schedule C rather than Form 1040 reduces not only your federal income tax, but also your Self-Employment Tax, resulting in an approximate 15% additional tax savings.

2. Group Term Life Insurance Plans. Again, you only get to take this deduction for your employees, not for yourself. Sorry!

3. Dependent Care Assistance Programs.

Looking for more small business tax tips? For a free copy of the 25-page Special Report "How to Instantly Double Your Deductions" visit http://www.YouSaveOnTaxes.com Wayne M. Davies is author of 3 ebooks on tax reduction strategies for small business owners and the self-employed.

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Love Your Heckler

Labor Day weekend 2009 was over the top! A friend of mine and I preached open air at the Pismo Beach Pier on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. We arrived on Saturday at around 2PM. It was a glorious time serving along side my brother in Christ. While he preached, I prayed, passed out tracts, and served as a single-man "rent a crowd." Brother Robert had an appointment at 4PM, so after that, I was on my own. I reasoned within myself, 'better leave now, you shouldnt continue by yourself.' But at the same time I questioned my motive for wanting to leave. What was it? I was thinking of my own safety. My self-centered-reasoning was not based on loving GOD lifting up the Name that is above every name. My motive for wanting to leave was not based on loving man. I was more concerned for my own wellbeing instead of thinking of what was best for those who are lost, dying, under the wrath of God, and who desperately need be saved and enjoy peace with God. I understand that God can save people without me He is in need of no help! But at the same time, I also understand this, "brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And ...



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More Perspective - Dismal Employment Data - Bloomberg

Interview with Linda Barrington, Labor Economist at The Conference Board (Open Exchange)



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How are we being Controlled and Who is Doing it? Part 2

LEAA came into existence in 1968 with a huge budget to assist various US law enforcement agencies. Its effectiveness, however, was not considered too great. After spending $6 billion, the FBI reports general crime rose 31 percent and violent crime rose 50 percent. But little accountability was required of LEAA on how it spent its funds. LEAA's role in the behavior modification research began at a meeting held in 1970 in Colorado Springs. Attending that meeting were Richard Nixon, Attorney General John Mitchell, John Erlichman, HR Haldemann and other White House staffers. They met with Dr. Bertram Brown, director for the National Institute of Mental Health, and forged a close collaboration between LEAA and the Institute. LEAA was a product of the Justice Department and the Institute was a product of HEW. LEAA funded 350 projects involving medical procedures, behavior modification and drugs for delinquency control. Money from the Criminal Justice System was being used to fund mental health projects and vice versa. Eventually, the leadership responsibility and control of the Institute began to deteriorate and their scientists began to answer to LEAA alone. The National Institute of Mental Health went on to become one of the greatest supporters of behavior modification research. Throughout the 1960's, court calendars became blighted with lawsuits on the part of "human guinea pigs" who had been experimented upon in prisons and mental institutions. It was these lawsuits which ...



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