Ex-CIA Officer Claims that Open Source Revolution is About to Overthrow Global Oligarchy | Liberty Blitzkrieg. Keith Alexander Unplugged. Greenwald writes: "The almost-complete continuity between George W. Bush and Barack Obama on such matters has been explained by far too many senior officials in both parties. " By Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept 08 May 14 he just-retired long-time NSA chief, Gen. Keith Alexander, recently traveled to Australia to give a remarkably long and wide-ranging interview with an extremely sycophantic “interviewer” with The Australian Financial Review. AFR: What were the key differences for you as director of NSA serving under presidents Bush and Obama? The almost-complete continuity between George W. AFR: Can you now quantify the number of documents [Snowden] stole? It’s hard to recall a better and clearer example of how mindless and uncritical the American media is when it comes to the unproven pronouncements of the U.S.
Ever since then, that Snowden “stole” 1.7 or 1.8 million documents from the NSA has been repeated over and over again by US media outlets as verified fact. Conscience International - International Humanitarian Aid Disaster Relief. Investigative journalist Michael Ruppert has reportedly committed suicide. The 63-year-old former narcotics investigator with the LAPD shot himself after his radio show, according to an announcement by author Carolyn Baker who was a guest on his final broadcast on Sunday. Mr Ruppert was famous for his litany of conspiracy theories which encompassed the CIA to drugs, international politics, the oil industry, Wall Street and 9/11. DN! We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet | Desmond Tutu. 'The negative impacts of Keystone XL will affect the whole world, our shared world, the only world we have.' Photograph: Sue Ogrocki/AP Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change.
Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects. This is why, no matter where you live, it is appalling that the US is debating whether to approve a massive pipeline transporting 830,000 barrels of the world's dirtiest oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. If the negative impacts of the pipeline would affect only Canada and the US, we could say good luck to them. This week in Berlin, scientists and public representatives have been weighing up radical options for curbing emissions contained in the third report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Who can stop it? The taste of "success" in our world gone mad is measured in dollars and francs and rupees and yen.
The longest fast. Imphal is a city of about half a million people marred by neglect, militarization and insurgencies. Auto-rickshaws, the preferred mode of transportation, whip dust storms on half-built roads; a substantial number of commuters wear masks to work. Paona Bazaar, the city center and the largest market, is a cluster of single- or double-storied brick-and-cement buildings in varying states of decrepitude. Policemen and soldiers, armed with assault rifles and on edge, patrol the roads. Garish posters of cheaply produced movies in the Meitilon language stare from billboards and facades of rundown theaters.
(Manipuri insurgent groups banned Bollywood movies and television programs from mainland India as cultural aggression. In hotels and homes, the cable television operators broadcast Korean channels. The rejection of Bollywood and acceptance of Korean kitsch is also rooted in the racial discrimination Manipuris and people from other northeastern Indian states face in Indian cities.) Daniel Ellsberg: Obama Should Say 'Thank You Edward Snowden' The War On Consciousness: The Talk That Gave TED Indigestion by Graham Hancock. Brief summary, with live links, of the 2013 TED controversy My talk, "The War on Consciousness", was presented at the TEDx Whitechapel event in London on 12 January 2013 and posted to the TEDx Youtube channel on 13 February 2013.
A month later, on 14 March 2013, TED deleted the talk from the TEDx Youtube channel (original location here: where it had accumulated more than 132,000 views, and relegated it to an obscure section of its website surrounded by prejudicial statements intended to bias viewers against it from the start and ensure no harm was done to the "TED brand". At the same time a talk by Rupert Sheldrake entitled "The Science Delusion" was also deleted from the TEDx Youtube channel and reposted in the same deliberately obscure fashion. But TED's decision effectively to act as a censor in the very real war on consciousness that is underway in our society has backfired.
Now Presenting.... The Activist Awards. The Kodak Theater in Los Angeles where the Academy Award ceremonies are held. (File)The annual Academy Awards GALA, viewed by one billion people worldwide, is scheduled for the evening of March 2, 2014. Motion pictures and the people who act in and produce them are center stage. Apart from the documentaries, this is a glittering evening of “make-believe” and “make business.” Now suppose our country had another Academy Awards GALA for citizen heroes – those tiny numbers of Americans who are working successfully full-time in nonprofit groups to advance access to justice, general operations of our faltering democratic society, and the health, safety, and economic well-being of all citizens.
This must sound unexciting in comparison with the intensity of the world of film. Until you see what these unsung people do in your local communities, your state, and your country. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. I will not drink SodaStream fizzy water for Passover | American Friends Service Committee. By Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb As we approach the Jewish holy days, we are reminded of the phrase that initiates the Telling of the Story: Let all who are hungry come eat, let all who are oppressed, join us at the table of liberation. Unfortunately, if they are Palestinians living in the West Bank, they may need a special security clearance. That is the case for Palestinian workers who are employed by SodaStream, the increasingly popular home carbonation product sold in 39 countries in 35,000 stores worldwide. Jewish religion commands us to make food choices that do not promote oppression.
Nor is the consumer or manufacturer permitted to derive pleasure or benefit from products that are the result of oppression. That is why I choose not to buy SodaStream, even though this product claims to be environmentally friendly, employs hundreds of Palestinian workers, and even provides an onsite mosque for praying. As it is, when you use the SodaStream device to make fizzy water, you are enjoyin. Final tweets of a young woman with brain cancer are haunting and inspirational - Jacksonville Technology. The final months of Twitter posts from a young Canadian woman with terminal brain cancer have been compiled into a touching video that went viral on Thursday. Sites like Buzzfeed and eBaumsWorld have picked up on the story, and the video, bringing hundreds of thousands of views overnight. The moving montage was compiled by Shannon McKarney, a digital consultant who lives in Toronto. The content came from tweets made by a young woman named Amanda, who had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, and who died in April of 2013.
“I admired the way she had taken on this challenge she faced, she was diagnosed with this terminal illness and she said ‘OK, I’m going to run with it,’” McKarney told BuzzFeed. “So she left her phone on the table and she had adventures.” MORE: Desperate movie critic turns to crowd funding site as last resort Amanda tweeted for the final time on April 10, 2013: "Tomorrow, I go back into the hospital for the last time. Amiri Baraka's Tradition. Long before his death, last week, at the age of seventy-nine, Amiri Baraka attained the status reserved for those Americans whose unruly complexities and contradictions spill beyond the neat categories we prefer for our public figures.
Baraka was part trickster and part provocateur, a brilliant juggler of genres, ideas, and identities, whose career spanned nearly six decades. Words like “controversial” and “polarizing” crowded his obituaries, but these terms, while technically accurate, are about as revelatory as calling winter cold. The received wisdom about Baraka in his later years dismissed him as a relic of the sixties, a rage prophet still shouting in an era when the anger had long since dissipated. But to draw this conclusion was to ignore a great deal of evidence to the contrary. Baraka was foundational for a generation of writers who emerged in his wake, a singular figure whose work laid down the terms of engagement for many, if not most, of us who came to the craft after him.
I am Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg. Edward Snowden is my hero. AMA : IAmA. American Healthcare Debate Misses the Mark. Gibson writes: "The real healthcare debate in this country shouldn't be focused on insurance, but on the fundamental causes of the outrageous costs of healthcare and why even basic health insurance is unaffordable for millions of Americans. " By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News 04 January 14 he real healthcare debate in this country shouldn’t be focused on insurance, but on the fundamental causes of the outrageous costs of healthcare and why even basic health insurance is unaffordable for millions of Americans.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is an improvement over the status quo. Health insurers can no longer deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions, young adults can stay insured on their parents’ plans until they’re 26, and some states have chosen to expand Medicaid under the ACA. I recently wrote about my decision to pay 1 percent of my income in penalties rather than buy health insurance through healthcare.gov. Aitzaz Hasan Dies A Hero After Saving Classmates From Suicide Bomber. Aitzaz Hasan, a teenage student from a remote town in North Western Pakistan, died this week as he saved his fellow classmates from a suicide bomber. Police say he died this week trying to stop the suicide bomber from attacking his school in the country’s “violence-prone northwest.” Local police official, Raheem Khan, said the event took place on Monday in a remote village in Hangu, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, a teacher at the school told investigators that he saw Hasan chasing the attacker before seeing the attacker detonate the bomb that killed them both. Officials believe that the target was in fact the school’s morning assembly of about 450 students according to ABC News. Habib Ali, a senior teacher at the school said, “I saw Aitzaz trying to get hold of a guy and then there was a big explosion.
He was an average student, but was a bold child.” [Image via BBC News] Aitzaz Hasan. Aitzaz Hasan[2] (Urdu: اعتزاز حسن) was a Pakistani school boy from Hangu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province who sacrificed his life while preventing a suicide bomber from entering his school of 2,000 students at Ibrahimzai village of Hangu, on January 6, 2014.[3] Aitzaz's action to save his classmates captured the hearts of many in Pakistan, and he was hailed as a national hero.[4] For his act, the office of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has advised President Mamnoon Husain to confer Aitzaz Hasan with the high civil award of Sitara-e-Shujaat (Star of Bravery) by the Government of Pakistan.[1][5] Life[edit] Aitzaz Hasan was the son of Mujahid Ali.[6] His family included his mother, brother and two sisters.
Aitzaz Hasan was a 9th grader at the Ibrahimzai high school. Hasan's cousin Mudassir Bangash described him as an accomplished student who excelled in all extracurricular activities.[7] Death[edit] Aitzaz died in the hospital.[7] No other students were harmed. [edit] Let the World Be A Black Poem: R.I.P. Amiri Baraka. The inspiring heroism of Aaron Swartz | Glenn Greenwald. (updated below)Aaron Swartz, the computer programmer and internet freedom activist, committed suicide on Friday in New York at the age of 26. As the incredibly moving remembrances from his friends such as Cory Doctorow and Larry Lessig attest, he was unquestionably brilliant but also - like most everyone - a complex human being plagued by demons and flaws. For many reasons, I don't believe in whitewashing someone's life or beatifying them upon death.
But, to me, much of Swartz's tragically short life was filled with acts that are genuinely and, in the most literal and noble sense, heroic. I think that's really worth thinking about today. At the age of 14, Swartz played a key role in developing the RSS software that is still widely used to enable people to manage what they read on the internet. But rather obviously, Swartz had little interest in devoting his life to his own material enrichment, despite how easy it would have been for him.
Suicide is an incredibly complicated phenomenon. Edward Snowden did NOT lie: Michael Green responds to Kevin Ryan. Kevin Ryan Has Unfairly Smeared Edward Snowden January 5, 2014 Kevin Ryan’s recent article, “Flirting with Sauron: The Risks of Trusting the Snowden Story” seriously and unfairly tarnishes the integrity of a likely hero, wrongly calling Edward Snowden a liar. By first misreading and then altering a Guardian quote from Snowden, Ryan claims falsely to have caught Snowden in a flagrant lie. Ryan then (mis)uses that “lie” to impugn and impeach Snowden’s credibility, effectively implicating Snowden as a co-conspirator or principal in Greenwald’s ostensibly shady self-serving dealings with Paypal billionaire Pierre Omidyar.Ryan’s article presents no new facts or insights about Glenn Greenwald’s questionable behavior, nor any legitimate basis for linking Edward Snowden to Greenwald’s putative misbehavior in any way except as its victim.
Kevin Ryan owes Edward Snowden a public apology. Ryan wrote: It was originally reported that the number of documents Snowden had stolen was in the thousands. Nikola Tesla Died 70 Years Ago Today, Listen to His Eulogy by NYC Mayor LaGuardia. Nikola Tesla died 70 71 years ago today on January 7th, 1943 in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel. His eulogy was delivered over the radio — which he invented — by then New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.
If you have a few minutes to remember a genius, you can listen to it right now. If you’re not in a position to watch the above video (which is just the audio laid over a photo of Tesla’s room) then you can read the text of the eulogy below: I have been honored and been asked to read a tribute to a great American, Nikola Tesla, written by another great American, Lewis Adaleigh, both natives of what we know as Yugoslavia but coming from different parts. UPDATE: We initially had this as the 70 year anniversary, not 71. Nikola Tesla Died 70 Years Ago Today, Listen to His Eulogy by NYC Mayor LaGuardia. Aldous Huxley's most terrifyingly accurate prediction about our society (from 1948) *: Testimony of Langston Hughes before the McCarthy Committee. 20th Century Fox Gave Him $25,000 To Make A Movie Trailer. Here's What He Did Instead.
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