April 2010
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How much does one search on Google cost? →
IT research firm Gartner estimates Google’s data centres contain nearly a million servers, each drawing about 1 kilowatt of electricity. So every hour Google’s engine burns through 1 million kilowatt-hours. Google serves up approximately 10 million search results per hour, so one search has the same energy cost as turning on a 100-watt light bulb for an hour.
This doesn’t...
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US special forces 'tried to cover-up' botched... →
US special forces soldiers dug bullets out of their victims’ bodies in the bloody aftermath of a botched night raid, then washed the wounds with alcohol before lying to their superiors about what happened, Afghan investigators have told The Times.
Two pregnant women, a teenage girl, a police officer and his brother were shot on February 12 when US and Afghan special forces stormed their...
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George Bush Patron Protector of the Church of... →
justinfinity:orlingrabbe:
In the US, 11,750 allegations of church priest child sex abuse have so far featured in actions settled by archdioceses – in Los Angeles for $660m and in Boston for $100m.
In 2005 a test case in Texas failed because the Vatican sought and obtained the intercession of President Bush, who agreed to claim sovereign (ie head of state) immunity on the pope’s behalf. Bush...
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Ervin Laszlo: Quantum Consciousness: Our... →
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WikiLeaks video Exposes 2007 'Collateral Murder'... →
vruz:
by Dan Froomkin
[…]The helicopter crew, which was patrolling an area that had been the scene of fierce fighting that morning, said they spotted weapons on members of the first group — although the video shows one gun, at most. The crew also mistook a telephoto lens for a rocket-propelled grenade.
The shooting, which killed Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and driver Saeed...
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WatchWikileaks and Whistle-blowers on Vimeo
recommended.
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“We reproduce catastrophe because we ourselves are traumatized - both as a...”
– David Watson - The Pathology of Civilization, Against the Megamachine (via commondense) (via poortaste)
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Who owns your genes? →
What we said: This month, six breast cancer patients filed suit against Myriad Genetics, a company that owns both the patent on two genes that are associated with an increased risk for breast cancer and ovarian cancer and the patent on testing to measure those risks. Some of these women are suing because they can’t afford the $3,000 fee Myriad charges to determine their risk for breast...
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Pirate Bay's neo-Nazi sugar daddy →
The trial of the Pirate Bay operators in Sweden has generated huge amounts of media coverage. But one of the most interesting things about Pirate Bay hasn’t got a mention.
In his daily dispatches for WiReD, court correspondent Oscar Schwartz swoons over the boyish charm of “likeable” and “winning” Pirate Bay PR guy Peter Sunde. But there seems to be something ...
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Restore Public Water Supply for 400,000 Haitians →
We’re rebuilding Port-au-Prince’s public water system, which was destroyed by January 2010’s devastating quake. Our first aim is to provide clean water to 400,000 Haitians, as we did before the quake.
Chip in if you can. If you ever been without clean water for even a day, you’ll know how important it is. Things are still pretty bad in Haiti.
March 2010
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“We need a more authoritative world. We’ve become a sort of cheeky,...”
– James Lovelock thinks world should be more authoritative, less democratic
I’ve been a fan of the Gaia hypothesis, was weary of Lovelock’s insistence to make most of our power nuclear (renewable resources is now very doable on a global scale), but this statement is really turning me off...
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CIA report into shoring up Afghan war support in... →
publiccommunication:
Afghanistan: Sustaining West European Support for the NATO-led Mission—Why Counting on Apathy Might Not Be Enough (C//NF)
The fall of the Dutch Government over its troop commitment to Afghanistan demonstrates the fragility of European support for the NATO-led ISAF mission. Some NATO states, notably France and Germany, have counted on public apathy about Afghanistan to...
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Sell-off in US Treasuries raises sovereign debt... →
The yield on 10-year Treasuries – the benchmark price of global capital – surged 30 basis points in just two days last week to over 3.9pc, the highest level since the Lehman crisis. Alan Greenspan, ex-head of the US Federal Reserve, said the abrupt move may be “the canary in the coal mine”, a warning to Washington that it can no longer borrow with impunity. He said ...
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Newly Released FBI Documents Support Sibel... →
Thanks to a FOIA request, new evidence has emerged from the FBI’s own internal communications that appear to support many of the claims made by Sibel Edmonds regarding (largely though not exclusively) GOP collusion in the spying activities of the Turkish government.
This is no small matter, as it involves blackmail and bribery of high-level officials like former Speaker of the House, Dennis...
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Seven arrested in FBI raids linked to Christian... →
vruz:(via ericmortensen)
Sources have said the FBI was in the second day of raids around the southeastern Michigan city of Adrian that are connected to a militia group, known as the Hutaree, an Adrian-based group whose members describe themselves as Christian soldiers preparing for the arrival and battle with the anti-Christ.
Lackomar said he heard from other militia members that the FBI...
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Severe Nuclear terror risk in Britain? →
Bomb makers who have been active in Afghanistan may already have the ability to produce a “dirty bomb” using knowledge acquired over the internet.
It is feared that terrorists could transport an improvised nuclear device up the Thames and detonate it in the heart of London. Bristol, Liverpool Newcastle, Glasgow and Belfast are also thought to be vulnerable.
Lord West, the...
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WikiLeaks Statement on Recent Intimadations →
Over the last few years, WikiLeaks has been the subject of hostile acts by security organizations. In the developing world, these range from the appalling assassination of two related human rights lawyers in Nairobi last March (an armed attack on my compound there in 2007 is still unattributed) to an unsuccessful mass attack by Chinese computers on our servers in Stockholm, after we published...
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Disputed Bay of Bengal island 'vanishes' say... →
A tiny island claimed for years by India and Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal has disappeared beneath the rising seas, scientists in India say.
The uninhabited territory south of the Hariabhanga river was known as New Moore Island to the Indians and South Talpatti Island to the Bangladeshis.
Recent satellites images show the whole island under water, says the School of Oceanographic...
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“Jones told the hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China that...”
– Go Daddy Leaves, Fallout from Google China row grows
headshots on file to have a website? yowza.
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Coca-Cola Causes Serious Depletion of Water... →
New Delhi: In a major development, a High Power Committee established by the state government of Kerala in India has recommended today that Coca-Cola be held liable for Indian Rupees 216 crore (US$ 48 million) for damages caused as a result of the company’s bottling operations in Plachimada.
The Coca-Cola bottling plant in Plachimada has remained shut down since March 2004 as a result of...
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China: Female Astronauts Must Be Married with... →
The men chosen to lead China into outer space are often referred to locally as “superhuman beings” — and not just because they train to cross the final frontier. Would-be taikonauts have to meet near impossible standards that are meant to weed out the less-than-flawless. Chinese astronauts cannot suffer from chronic sore throats or runny noses. They mustn’t have food...
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CIA, State Department Apparently Acting on Plan to... →
thedaytheytriedtokillme:
Keep following this one.
A scary tweet from Wiki:
If anything happens to us, you know why: it is our Apr 5 film. And you know who is responsible. 7:33 PM Mar 23rd via bit.ly
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Edmonton man renames himself 'God' →
EDMONTON - God confesses to be a convicted criminal who spent five years in prison for trying to smuggle a suitcase of marijuana into Japan.
He also lives in Edmonton, and, thank God for name changes.
A college student formerly known as John Paul LaPointe fought the Alberta government to have his moniker changed to God Dieux - and won.
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OPERATION NORTHWOODS →
criminalwisdom:
“Operation Northwoods was a plan circulated in the U.S. government in 1962 to stage false flag terrorist attacks inside the U.S. and abroad to provoke “military intervention in Cuba”. The plan called for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other operatives to commit genuine acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and elsewhere. These acts of terrorism were to be blamed on Cuba in order...
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Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn... →
A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.
In addition to causing significant weight gain in lab animals, long-term consumption of high-fructose...
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Portugal credit rating downgraded over debt... →
Portugal’s credit rating has been downgraded from AA to AA- by leading credit rating agency Fitch over concerns about its high levels of debt.
Earlier this month, Portugal passed an austerity budget aimed at cutting its budget deficit.
The downgrade heightened concerns about the health of some of Europe’s heavily indebted economies, forcing the euro lower against the dollar ...
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Bernard Madoff beaten up in prison →
Madoff, 71, suffered a broken nose, fractured ribs and cuts to his head and face after he was reportedly attacked last December by a prisoner who believed Madoff owed him money.
After pleading guilty last year to running an enormous Ponzi scheme which tricked investors out of billions of dollars, Madoff is serving a 150-year-jail sentence at Butner federal prison in North Carolina.
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In Thailand, A Little Black Magic Is Politics as... →
The images were shocking - and strange. On Tuesday, thousands of Thai protesters splattered buckets of their own blood outside the Prime Minister’s office in Bangkok as a Brahmin priest in flowing white robes lit incense, chanted spells and cast a curse upon the government.
As theater, it was both effective and mysterious: clips of the blood curse led international news broadcasts,...
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UK keeps three times as many patents secret as the... →
UK patents are being declared state secrets more than three times as often as those filed in the US, according to information released to New Scientist.
An average of nine secrecy orders were imposed for every 10,000 patents filed in the UK since 2003, compared with less than three per 10,000 filed in the US, figures released for the first time by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO)...
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