Secret Black-ops Iron-ons, and the Wrath of KHAN! this weekend at Machine [Update 11/1/15 Trevor Paglen at Artsy.] On Friday, May 23rd at 8pm, geographer and artist Trevor Paglen will be giving a talk on the network of hidden budgets, state secrets, covert military bases, and disappeared people that military and intelligence insiders call the “black world.” Suprisingly, […]
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How much Virtual Water is in your shirt? Virtual Water is a measure of all the water it takes to make the products you use. Waterfootprint.orgcalculates that a new cotton shirt uses 2,700 liters. That’s a tally of the water evaporated in irrigating and growing the cotton, and the water needed to wash away the fertilizers and […]
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Also tagged artificial fertilizer, Economics, future, Gaia, inflation, Open Source culture, Peak Energy, Peak Food, Peak Minerals, peak oil, Peak Water, politics, six degrees, social networks
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
online liveJoin the conversation at the Free Press Action Network where we’ll be live blogging during the hearing. We’ll be discussing the hearing, current Internet policies, and what we can do to protect Internet freedom for the future.Live Chat During the FCC HearingDATE: Thursday, April 17TIME: 3- 10 p.m. ET / 12-7 p.m. PTLOCATION: www.freepress.net/actionIn recent […]
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Six Degrees has problems ScienceFriday.com’s version Chances are you’ve heard of the ‘small world’ idea of six degrees of separation. But is it correct? The idea traces back to an experiment begun in 1967 by Stanley Milgram, in which he tried to trace how many acquaintances it would take to pass a letter between two […]
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from — Edward Hasbrouck <edward@hasbrouck.org> <http://hasbrouck.org> The deadline for public comments on the USA Transportation Security Administration’s proposed rules to make would-be travellers obtain individualized prior permission for all journeys by air to, from, overflying, or even *within* the USA is this Monday, 22 October 2007. If you have a chance before 5 p.m. Washington […]
Saturday, October 20, 2007
from http://machinist.salon.com/ How Comcast blocks your Internet traffic The broadband company’s audacious scheme to interrupt your data proves why network neutrality rules are crucial. By Farhad Manjoo Oct. 19, 2007 | Bless the Associated Press for unearthing, through careful and diligent investigation, Comcast’s shameful, hidden Internet traffic-management scheme. Comcast, the AP determined, actively manages data […]
Sunday, September 30, 2007
this is priceless! tit for tat? equal treatment under the Law? How will Americans like it now when Iran or other countries treats us like we treat them? When Americans are held with suspended Human Rights?! Look out! don’t notice these double -standards! Really one good Bateson binding Bonds! Is this the begining of Fair […]
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Also tagged Ahmadinejad, awareness expansion, CIA, CIA Not!, Double Bind Theory, Government Lies, Gregory Bateson, media ecology, Media Lies, NSS, politics, Spook Country, tetrad, war is terrorism
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Friday, September 28, 2007
by image x. Joseph Nechvatal Mid-September 2007, Marrakech http://www.nechvatal.net from http://transition.turbulence.org/blog/2007/09/28/review-of-digital-contagions/trackback/ Though no J. G. Ballard or William S. Burroughs, Jussi Parikka nevertheless sucks us into a fantastic black tour-de-force narrative of virulence and the cultural history of computer viruses (*), followed by innumerable inquisitive innuendoes We may wish to recall here that for Deleuze […]
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Monday, September 24, 2007
from Salon.com Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1 Demonizing the Iranian president and making his visit to New York seem controversial are all part of the neoconservative push for yet another war. By Juan Cole Sep. 24, 2007 | Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad‘s visit to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly […]
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Monday, September 17, 2007
Seton Hall Law CONSTITUTION DAY September 17, 2007 Constitution Day will be held in the Law School Auditorium Press Release (September 7, 2007) Seton Hall School of Law on Second Life: Constitution Day Program on Interrogation and Intelligence Gathering to be Featured at Virtual Guantánamo Bay Detention Center [Read Press Release here] Seton Hall Law […]
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Copyright 2007 Chalmers Johnson This article was originally posted at TomDispatch.com. Suprise Attacks As an idea, if not an actual entity, the Central Intelligence Agency came into being as a result of December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. It functionally came to an end, as Weiner makes […]