October 2009
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The Dinosaur and The Bolshevik →
From The Nation Gorbachev on 1989
by KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL & STEPHEN F. COHEN
October 28, 2009
On September 23, Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and her husband, Stephen F. Cohen, a contributing editor, interviewed former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at his foundation in Moscow. With the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaching, we believed that the leader...
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True to Form - Cronenberg on Ballard →
Director David Cronenberg remembers sitting on the stage at the Cannes Film Festival with J.G. Ballard at the premier of the Movie Crash. He remembers the hostility the film recieved by the press and the comments of Mr. Ballard about the film From Art Forum Magazine
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Mustafa Barghouti and Anna Baltzer on The Daily... →
clingtomymouth:
palestine goes mainstream.
These are important voices for non-violent solutions in Israel and Palestine. Watch and send comments to Jon Stewart supporting his choice to give these activists a chance to make their case. Comedy Central Comment Page
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Artist Name : Low With Tomandandy
Track...
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WatchNinja CG Pop
Chris Brown - I Can Transform Ya (feat. Swizz Beatz & Lil Wayne)
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“If the odds of picking a particular letter at random are one in 26, doing it...”
– ABC polling director Gary Langer, on the odds that the message spelled out in Schwarzenegger’s letter is a coincidence. (via newsweek)
Classic subtext
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The only mammal immune to cancer →
(via andrewnonumbers)
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McCain Moves to Block FCC Net Neutrality →
From Reuters.com
By Tony Bradley
Oct 23, 2009
While the FCC pursues plans to enact some form of Net Neutrality, Senator John McCain attempts to remove anything to do with Internet Protocols (IP) from the jurisdiction of the FCC. Public pressure needs to be applied to make sure Net Neutrality is enabled.
McCain’s bill, the Internet Freedom Act, seeks to do the opposite of what its name...
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BNP & The Press - England
If you are following the Nick Griffin and the BNP controversy in England you should see this
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Ever-Present Surveillance Rankles the British... →
From NY Times:
By SARAH LYALL
Published: October 24, 2009
This part of the articles describes how bad abuse of surveillance is getting.
But the intrusions visited on Jenny Paton, a 40-year-old mother of three, were startling just the same. Suspecting Ms. Paton of falsifying her address to get her daughter into the neighborhood school, local officials here began a covert surveillance...
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Up to 320 Civilians Killed in Pakistan Drone War:... →
From WIRED: Danger Room
By Noah Shachtman October 19, 2009
How many civilians have been killed in the U.S. drone war in Pakistan? The number could be as high as 320 innocents, according to an analysis released today by the New America Foundation. That’s about a third of the 1,000 or so people slain in the robotic aircraft attacks since 2006…..
…Jane Mayer, the New Yorker...
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Former Wells Fargo Loan Officer: Black Churches... →
This is not “news” but should not be forgotten. Sub Prime Mortgages were profitable for those selling them. They sure were expensive for America.
From racewire.org
by JULIANNE HING
Aug 28, 2009
The management there, would encourage the loan officers, the subprime loan officers, to go into Baltimore city and target the churches, the African American churches, to get a...
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WatchOne Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur - TRAILER
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Wired: Threat Level Covers Twitter Arrest
Wired Magazines Threat Level Blog has a good over view and latest news on the Elliot Madison arrest. It is clear to me there is a disconnect between the general public, the Obama Justice department and the murky world of law enforcement. There are so many different policing and intelligence services that share information and go off on a “terror” arresting people and invading their...
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Documents Reveal Fix Was In for Deep-Bore Tunnel
Attention Seattlites
A group that is suing the Washington State Transportation Department over the tunnel project, arguing that WSDOT is illegally moving forward with the tunnel before completing a state-mandated environmental review; has released a boat load of documents. The records come from a massive public-disclosure request.
They are reviewed on PUBLICOLA site today.
From Publicola...
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WatchTibetan Sand Mandala - Timelapse - 30 fps
Via: camera_obscura @flickr
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Remotel Controlled Targeted Killing Program →
The CIA’s invisible covert target killing program. Assassination from the sky by drones. Is this the moral or legitimate use of state power? We are doing it with no restrictions to where.
Listen to Jane Mayer talk about this on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
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CRTC requires Internet service providers to be... →
plsj:
The CRTC’s net neutrality decision. Thx John!
More at: Telecom Regulatory Policy CRTC 2009-657
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A Blog I Follow - Mondoweiss →
About
Mondoweiss is a news website devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective.
Even the comments are worth reading. They bring a some balance to the lopsided main street press. Here is a good example
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“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses...”
– Rabindranath Tagore
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U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs,... →
From Danger Room
By Noah Shachtman
October 19, 2009
In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media.
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“Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts. “
William S. Burroughs
Edge. Edgier. Edgiest →
If you live in LA
Jan Chipchase Nokia Futurist to lecture
Via Future Perfect
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Marching Toward Zombieland →
By James Howard Kunstler
Author of “The Long Emergency”
on October 19, 2009
Last paragraph:
The sense that Wall Street has pulled off a coup d’etat and taken over the machinery of the United States is the most powerful meme out there now, and its power is growing in magnitude every day among all classes of Americans. I can’t say how much it reflects reality. ...
