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The Death of Truth: Chris Hedges Interviews Julian Assange
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, May 13, 2013Independent Media: Providing the Truth about Empire and Repression | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, May 7, 2013Try DuckDuckGo as your search engine instead of Google.
Posted by Harry Sifton, Thursday, May 2, 2013How to stop using Google – for search, email, video, maps and more | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Posted by Harry Sifton, Thursday, May 2, 2013Act of Terror: arrested for filming police officers – video | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Posted by Harry Sifton, Monday, April 29, 2013The Guardian: Bitcoin: world’s fastest growing currency migrates off the internet – video
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, April 27, 2013
Boston bombing: Media haste makes mistakes – CSMonitor.com
Posted by Harry Sifton, Friday, April 19, 2013Montreal woman’s arrest highlights legal risks of social media – Technology & Science – CBC News
Posted by Harry Sifton, Wednesday, April 17, 2013Information Overload? Don’t Tune Out… Get Informed! | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, April 16, 2013The Cult of Killing and the Symbolic Order of Western Barbarism: How the Media Worships Violence and “Ritualized Atrocities” | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, April 15, 2013NYT: Hacktivists as Gadflies
"For some reason, it seems that the government considers hackers who are out to line their pockets less of a threat than those who are trying to make a political point. Consider the case of Andrew Auernheimer, better known as 'Weev.' When Weev discovered in 2010 that AT&T had left private information about its customers vulnerable on the Internet, he and a colleague wrote a script to access it. Technically, he did not 'hack' anything; he merely executed a simple version of what Google Web crawlers do every second of every day — sequentially walk through public URLs and extract the content. When he got the information (the e-mail addresses of 114,000 iPad users, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Rahm Emanuel, then the White House chief of staff), Weev did not try to profit from it; he notified the blog Gawker of the security hole. For this service Weev might have asked for free dinners for life, but instead he was recently sentenced to 41 months in prison and ordered to pay a fine of more than $73,000 in damages to AT&T to cover the cost of notifying its customers of its own security failure. When the federal judge Susan Wigenton sentenced Weev on March 18, she described him with prose that could have been lifted from the prosecutor Meletus in Plato’s 'Apology.' 'You consider yourself a hero of sorts,' she said, and noted that Weev’s 'special skills' in computer coding called for a more draconian sentence."Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, April 14, 2013
Operation Destabilize Venezuela and the Secret US Embassy Cables: Infiltrate, “Divide Chavismo”, “Isolate Chavez Internationally” | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, April 13, 2013THE MAN BEHIND AVAAZ | More Intelligent Life
Posted by Harry Sifton, Thursday, April 11, 2013Chemical Disasters, Agent Orange, and GMOs: Monsanto’s Legacy Traced in Exposé | Common Dreams
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, April 6, 2013FOCUS | WikiLeaks Was Just a Preview – Taibbi
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, March 25, 2013Harper’s: How to Rig an Election – The G.O.P. aims to paint the country red
this report from Victoria Collier in Harper's came out last Oct and is now available online - it's an important piece + one of the best summaries of voting irregularities I've read so far .. Meanwhile I'm still waiting to see if there's any more tidbits of info about Anonymous' juicy claim to have blocked Rove from hacking/stealing the last election - Thanks Anonymous!Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, March 15, 2013
American “Smoke and Mirrors”: The Politics of Imagined Opinion | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, March 14, 2013Pentagon’s ‘Cyber-Security’ Unit Is About Everything Except Defense
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, March 12, 2013Truthdig – We Are Bradley Manning – Chris Hedges
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, March 8, 2013We Are All Bradley Manning – Chris Hedges
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, March 6, 2013Adbusters: Panting for Breath on a Virtual Shore
Stefanie Krasnow in AdB ..It took millions of years of evolution for life on earth to move out of the oceans onto land, where our phylogenetic ancestors gasped for their first breaths on a pebbled beach. Now, some 590,000,000 years later, we find ourselves panting for air on a virtual shore. We're embarking on the second greatest migration in the history of life of earth, from the physical world into virtuality. In the span of just one generation, we've been completely wooed over by the entirely-cerebral and entirely-virtual adventures accessed when our fingertips apply light pressure to a plastic "mouse." Today, teenagers in America spend seven hours on a screen each day, 11 if you include multitasking hours: this is more time than human beings spend doing anything else, including sleeping .. Gary Small, head of UCLA’s Memory and Aging Research Center, documented that even just five hours of internet use, for web-virgins, substantially rewired the prefrontal cortex of the brain. So we can infer what happens as we spend more and more hours online. The amount of time one spends online is directly correlated to depression, obesity, ADD, ADHD, OCD, and anxiety.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Sunday, March 3, 2013
The “Alternative Media” Challenges Officialdom’s Views | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, February 25, 2013Salon: How Paul Krugman broke a Wikipedia page on economics
Andrew Leonard in Salon ..There’s a lockdown on the Wikipedia page for Austrian economics and wouldn’t you know it, one or way or another, it all seems to be Paul Krugman’s fault. Broadly speaking, Austrian economics[] are characterized by an extreme distrust of state intervention in markets, a distaste for statistical modeling and a general confidence that markets, left to their own devices, will avoid booms and busts and nasty things like inflation. From a political perspective, Austrian economics tends to lurk to the right of even such conservative icons as Milton Friedman .. Two factions were repeatedly deleting and replacing a section of text that had to do with a description of a critique of Austrian economics made by Krugman .. it is amusing that Krugman, a man whose Nobel award [] was lambasted by one Austrian school acolyte as “the worst decision in the history of the prize”[] is indirectly responsible for a Wikipedia Austrian meltdown.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, February 21, 2013
WikiLeaks Is a Rare Truth Teller; Smearing Julian Assange Is Shameful
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, February 20, 2013Netflix, the New HBO
Nancy Hass in GQ..These days, [Ted Sarandos] is the man everyone wants to take a meeting with. People love you when you're handing out the cash, and Sarandos, who looks the part [] but has one of the weirdest résumés in town (graduate of an Arizona community college, worked his way up in the DVD business from video-store clerk, landed at Netflix in 2000 to run distribution), has $6 billion to dole out over the next three years [including] $300 million for original programming .. He hopes to make at least five new shows a year. [] His dream project: a Netflix series created by Warren Beatty. "He's great in long form," Sarandos says. "His only problems have been when he's constrained." .. "The goal," he says, "is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us." His seductive pitch to today's new breed of TV auteurs: a huge audience, real money, no meddlesome executives ("I'm not going to give David Fincher notes"), no pilots (television's great sucking hole of money and hope), and a full-season commitmentTheir new series "House of Cards" is amazing .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Wednesday, February 20, 2013
