Denialism

The career of Chris Bosh, a true NBA original and champion, hangs in the balance

Edit The National 24 Sep 2016

It was always so easy to be dismissive of Chris Bosh. He was the proverbial big fish in a little pond in Toronto, scoring points and racking up all-star appearances yet never accomplishing anything with the Raptors in the play-offs ... He did goofy things, he looked kind of awkward ... More NBA ... A fighter ... But it also feels a bit more like the raging defiance of a man in denial than it does the clear-eyed prognosis of a detached third party....

Farrell scandal puts Catholic church's attitude to Australian law under the microscope

Edit The Guardian 24 Sep 2016

As the royal commission continues its investigation, the question that emerges is whether the church sees itself as a separate realm answerable only to Rome. The furrows deepened on the brow of Father Brian Lucas. His bouncy confidence evaporated in the witness box. He sweated under questioning. He confessed over and over again to be puzzled by his own actions. Puzzled by the actions of others ... Twitter ... The denials were no longer absolute ... ....

The Mystery of Trump’s Man in Moscow

Edit Politico 24 Sep 2016

In March, in a bold “Oh yeah?” moment during an interview with the Washington Post’s editorial board, Donald Trump took the paper’s dare and revealed, then and there, his very short list of foreign policy advisors ... Who? ... Trump on energy policy and Russia .” ... who is Carter Page? ... There were whispers all over Washington that, despite Hicks’s denial, Page was not only still part of the Trump campaign, but its conduit for Russian influence ... ....

On Save North Koreans Day, It's Time To End North Korea's Total Denial Of Human Rights

Edit Huffington Post 23 Sep 2016

This week Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) launches a new report, Total Denial ... Three key policies in North Korea lie at the heart of the regime's total denial of freedom of religion ... Thirdly, the policy of 'guilt by association' ... The report noted that "there is almost complete denial of the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion as well as the right to freedom of opinion, expression, information and association"....

Australian Bureau of Statistics lays blame for census bungle on IBM

Edit The Guardian 23 Sep 2016

ABS tells Senate inquiry IBM did not properly prepare for risk of a distributed denial of service attack ... The ABS chief statistician, David Kalisch, says IBM did not properly prepare for the risk of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that triggered the embarrassing shutdown ... At the time, Kalisch said the ABS the site had received a sequence of denial of service attacks emanating from overseas....

OpenSSL swats a dozen bugs, one notable nasty

Edit The Register 23 Sep 2016

Denial of service dross dead. A dozen flaws have been patched in OpenSSL, including one high severity hole that allows denial of service attacks. ....

Rachel Weisz on the Frightening Reality of Holocaust Denial

Edit Time Magazine 23 Sep 2016

Rachel Weisz has had a busy month. After probing audiences to question the absurdities of modern coupledom in the indie hit The Lobster this spring, the Oscar-winning actress closed out the summer playing a woman of many lives in Complete Unknown and a grieving mother in The Light Between Oceans. Next up, in Denial (Sept. 30), she takes on a true story in which history was, essentially, put on trial ... TIME ... Rachel Weisz ... He sued her ... ....

As if it were actually news

Edit The Guardian 23 Sep 2016

Transhumance, for those new to the concept, refers to the seasonal movement of livestock between summer and winter pastures, and its appearance in the denial of the denial had The Fiver’s head spinning with ever greater centrifugal force, although again this could have been the whisky ... to “release a denial denying our denial of the player’s denial”....

Why We Are Fighting Corruption Headlong - Buhari

Edit All Africa 23 Sep 2016

[Leadership] President Muhammadu Buhari has explained that his administration is fighting the scourge of corruption headlong because it contributes to the denial of the resources required for development ... ....

Blame all around as the Bureau of Statistics deflects criticism of Census 2016

Edit Canberra Times 23 Sep 2016

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has blamed the media for the failure of its census hotline and blamed an overseas denial of service attack for the failure of its census website in a strongly worded submission to a Senate inquiry that also attempts to deflect blame for the overwhelming of its website on its contractor IBM ... ....

Zimbabwe: Humpty Dumpty's Great Fall

Edit All Africa 23 Sep 2016

[The Herald] There is precious little to be done for those who live in denial, are obsessed with Zimbabwe's "chaotic land grab". Others are beginning to see, belatedly, begrudgingly. This week the Telegraph (UK) carried a story headlined Chinese take over former white-owned farms. It turns out they have been allocated a mere five farms in Mashonaland Central to produce tobacco.Then comes this ... ....

AP FACT CHECK: Syria's Assad on Aleppo, siege and airstrikes

Edit Arizona Daily Star 23 Sep 2016

BEIRUT (AP) — During an interview with The Associated Press, Syrian President Bashar Assad made several denials, insisting that the city of Aleppo is not under siege and that Syrian and Russian aircraft did not carry out a strike on… ... ....

IBM lambasted by ABS for failing to handle Census DDoS

Edit ZDNet 23 Sep 2016

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has said IBM should have been able to handle the denial-of-service attack that hit Census systems on the night of August 9 ... ....