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Shock: Tom Brokaw Acknowledged That America’s Attacks Abroad Increase the Risk of Attacks at Home
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, April 28, 2013Political Opportunism. The Boston Marathon Tragedy Used as a Pretext To Extend the “Global War on Terrorism” | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, April 27, 2013The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Posted by Harry Sifton, Saturday, April 27, 2013The Guardian: Bitcoin: world’s fastest growing currency migrates off the internet – video
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, April 27, 2013
Green, Healthy, & Safe Product Ratings & Reviews | GoodGuide
Posted by Harry Sifton, Friday, April 26, 2013BOSTON TRUTH: The “Chechen Connection”, Al Qaeda and the Boston Marathon Bombings | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, April 25, 2013Bush and His Cronies Bear ‘Ultimate Responsibility’ for Torture — So What’s Stopping Us from Prosecuting Them?
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, April 25, 2013America’s Focus on Terrorism Blinds Us To Everyday Violence and Suffering
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, April 25, 2013SLAVES TO THE ALGORITHM | More Intelligent Life
Posted by Harry Sifton, Thursday, April 25, 2013Why Does America Lose Its Head Over ‘Terror’ But Ignore Its Daily Gun Deaths?
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, April 24, 2013George W. Bush: ‘No Need to Defend Myself’ | Common Dreams
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, April 24, 2013Ted Nugent Kills 455 Pigs With Machine Gun
Posted by Harry Sifton, Tuesday, April 23, 2013Silencing the British People: The Legacy of Thatcherism and the Iraq War | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, April 23, 2013Sarah Palin Calls for Invasion of Czech Republic – The Daily Currant
Posted by Harry Sifton, Tuesday, April 23, 2013Lambert Strether: About the Official Boston Narrative and Whether You Should Trust It
Lambert at Naked Capitalism (scroll down) ..So, about that official narrative and whether you should trust it. In a word, no. Especially you should not trust it when the nice folks from our organs of state security are involved, for the good and sufficient reason that they have a track record of manufacturing the raw materials of narrative — we might call these “events” — to suit their purposes ... [quoting Mother Jones study: FBI terrorist] "Sting operations resulted in prosecutions against 158 defendants. Of that total, 49 defendants participated in plots led by an agent provocateur—an FBI operative instigating terrorist action" ... I retain, perhaps naively, the idea that truth is important[]. We are enmeshed in a fabulously complex system of bullshit and lies, and it’s not possible to combat that system with lies of our own, or bullshit, no matter how good we may be at it; we simply don’t have the budget, or the institutions .. But the truth, at least for “the news,” seems quite difficult to discern. Events are manufactured by state or corporate actors; our famously free press promotes narratives that have at best a discounted relation with reality []. We ourselves, digerati, crowd-source ourselves into witch hunts or go down the Conspiracy Theory rabbit hole .. Leaving aside the human tragedy, in historic terms, the Boston Marathon bombing was not the Battle of the Somme, the Blitz, or the IRA bombings in London. Somewhere in their withered, austere souls, the powers that be must know this, and sense the shoddiness of their performance.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, April 22, 2013
The Excel Depression – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, April 21, 2013Boston bombing: Media haste makes mistakes – CSMonitor.com
Posted by Harry Sifton, Friday, April 19, 2013A Rush to Misjudgment: CNN Faulted for Racially Charged, Erroneous Reports on Boston Marathon Case
.. read transcript at Democracy Now
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, April 18, 2013
Montreal 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, 2013Trudeau makes his debut as Tory attack ads take aim – Politics – CBC News
Posted by Harry Sifton, 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
