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"Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me.
2012 United States Government Terrorist Identification Chart
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media | Technology | The Guardian
Gen David Petraeus has previously said US online psychological operations are aimed at 'countering extremist ideology and propaganda'.
In the early morning of May 17, longtime anti-war and immigrant rights activist Carlos Montes awoke to the startling sound of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department SWAT Team breaking down his door. "They came in with guns on their shoulders, yelling. I was shocked," 63-year-old Montes told the Pasadena Star-News . "I thought, let me close my eyes so I can go to sleep and see if I wake up from this nightmare." Authorities searched Montes' home, confiscating his cell phone and computer.
Being Anti-War Is Not a Crime -- But That's Not Stopping the FBI From Raiding Activists' Homes | Activism & Vision | AlterNet
No matter how strict Facebook users may be with their settings, their bid for privacy can be compromised by third-party software developers who make those annoying apps that let users play games with each other—and, apparently, share their personal information with advertisers.
Personal Data Farmed Out by Facebook Apps - Truthdig
Cultural genome project mines Google Books for the secret history of humanity
What exactly is the half-life of celebrity? A new field called culturomics has the answer. Using the largest linguistic database ever created - Google Books - culturomics experts track things like "lexical dark matter," and how long fame really lasts.
Activist Post: WikiLeaks Being Used to Justify "Patriot Act" Legislation For Internet
Senator Mitch McConnell called Assange a "high-tech terrorist" on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday and said, "if it‘s found that Assange hasn’t violated the law, then the law should be changed." Over the weekend, an insightful article by Zen Gardner exposed how WikiLeaks resembles an establishment creation.Stop worrying about when the hard drive in your computer will die.
The Death of the Hard Drive - FoxNews.com
I am sorry I haven't put anything up recently. I have been busy finishing a new series of films for BBC-2 As a background to the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant I am putting up a film I made a while ago called A is for Atom . It was part of a series about politics and science called Pandora's Box.
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: A IS FOR ATOM
Greece has become the most recent country to enter the running for the Best Violent Protest prize, amid French criticism that the UK unfairly disadvantaged nations without a monarchy by poking the Duchess of Cornwall with a stick. The Greek mob opened its protest against austerity measures yesterday with the expected strategy of petrol bombing and vandalism outside the parliament building in Athens, which police countered with a solid tear-gas defence. However, in later rounds the quick-thinking rioters showed their true class and initiative by chasing and beating a government minister who happened to pop out for a souvlaki.
Quality of Greek protests fail to impress British rioters
Students across the country are set to learn an important life lesson today when the government completely ignores all of their protests to vote in a significant rise in tuition fees. There have been a large number of angry protests across the country, as the student body mobilised for an important lesson in futility. Psychologist William Morris told us, “Learning about the futility of our rebellious actions in the face of authority is something many of us never truly understand until we get a job or a career.” ”
Students set to find out just how effective violent protest is
Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
US physics professor: 'Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life' – Telegraph Blogs
Scientists, authors and education experts are meeting this weekend at Cambridge University to investigate how the teenage brain is affected or altered by reading the "Twilight" saga, the "Harry Potter" series and other books that invite fear and anxious emotional responses.
The Answer Sheet - How 'Twilight,' other dark fiction affect teen brains
MIDWAY, Ga. (AP) - Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to save up for a trip to a water park, saying they didn't have a business license or the required permits.