December 2008
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Swiss approve pioneering legal heroin program →
“GENEVA – The world’s most comprehensive legalized heroin program became permanent Sunday with overwhelming approval from Swiss voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana.
The heroin program, started in 1994, is offered in 23 centers across Switzerland. It has helped eliminate scenes of large groups of drug users shooting up openly in parks that marred Swiss...
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URBAN TAKEDOWN: MUMBAI : Global Guerrillas →
How the small group was able to take down a city.
A nautical assault (coup de main). Several boats. laden with explosives and commandos armed to the teeth, gained entry to the city via the port. This allowed maximal entry velocity into the city’s center. However, a rapid response by the Indian naval units in the area closed off the water as an escape route.
Swarm of the city using...
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““Although some Chinese space programmes have no explicit military intent,...”
– China ‘winning cyber war’, US told
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How to Make Barack Obama Keep His Promises - HTML... →
Best post-electon write-up on what Obama supporters can do next with NetRoots Strategies. Yes WE can.
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20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in... →
title says it all, learning about the MO can make for some ‘grey swans’.
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Experts doubt Al Qaeda link in Mumbai attacks -... →
“There’s absolutely nothing Al Qaeda-like about it,” she said of the attack. “Did you see any suicide bombers? And there are no fingerprints of Lashkar. They don’t do hostage taking, and they don’t do grenades.”
Hoffman agreed that the assault was “not exactly Al Qaeda’s modus operandi, which is suicide attacks.”
But he said the timed...
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The Advertising Slogan Generator. →
littleorphanammo:
My water has been off all day due to a main break and I’ve done absolutely nothing with myself as a result. It just seemed like a good excuse. Well thats not true, I posted a picture of Madonna and have sloganized the word ‘poo’
“Poo Comes to Those Who Wait.”
So true.
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Yoga Banned in Malaysia - Sultan tells Religious... →
The sultan’s unprecedented public comment on the issue has suggested deep divisions over who can speak for Malaysia’s Muslim majority on matters of faith.
In remarks come after Malaysia’s National Fatwa Council declared the practice of yoga prohibited, or haram, saying that it could be traced back to Hinduism and could erode the faith of Muslims.
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Solar panels on graves give power to Spanish town →
Finally, the dead are pulling their weight.
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UK: People who fail to tell the authorities of a... →
Einstein shouldn’t be the only one getting love for vision lately, how about Orwell?
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China 'winning cyber war', US told →
China has developed such a sophisticated and active cyber warfare programme that the US “may be unable to counteract or even detect” an attack, a US congressional panel has warned.
In its annual report presented to the US congress on Thursday, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said China was already stealing “vast amounts of sensitive information from US...
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Citigroup takes a crap, but what would Geithner... →
Citigroup’s Pandit, Rubin and other bandits not shown.
[It’s too bad for Barry that Geither has problems right out the gate…]
While tens of thousands of lower level employees lose their jobs, Citi’s top management including Vikram Pandit and Robert Rubin keep theirs. It’s all in a weekend’s work for the Fed’s Ben Bernanke and Treasury’s Hank...
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Steven Seagal on new Reality TV Show as a Cop →
This will FUCKIN’ RULE.
“Steven Seagal is heading to the small screen, signing to star in a reality series for A&E that will chronicle his little-known life in law enforcement. Segal, an actor and martial arts expert with a seventh-degree black belt in aikido, has been working as a fully commissioned deputy with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana for...
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Meditation Protects Your Brain →
“For thousands of years, Buddhist meditators have claimed that the simple act of sitting down and following their breath while letting go of intrusive thoughts can free one from the entanglements of neurotic suffering.
Now, scientists are using cutting-edge scanning technology to watch the meditating mind at work. They are finding that regular meditation has a measurable effect on a...
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Global Guerrillas on Danger Room Debrief: How to... →
awesome that Wired asked such a level head thinker like Robb for this essential series.
His review of where the current nation-state system is heading is required reading. He also provides some tantilizing solutions.
A proliferation of hollow nation-states globally. Rampant financial bankruptcy — the double digit percentage growth in the U.S. national debt late this year bode danger...
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Cocaine users are destroying the rainforest - at 4... →
“Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted in the UK, a conference of senior police officers as told yesterday.
Francisco Santos Calderón, the vice-president of Colombia, appealed to British users of the class A drug to consider the impact on the environment. He said that while the green agenda would not persuade addicts to give up, the middle-class...
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National Intelligence Council’s latest report:... →
all future trends reports are the saying the same general thing, mostly US is going to lose global dominance… stay aware, things are going to get hairy.
See my tagged line as a pointer: FUTURE
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“So pick an issue and get to work. Choose something that you believe in, but also...”
– to all the obama haters | dysnomia.us
Einstein's formula finally proven →
un:spdracerx:
E = mc², for real.
It’s now official: Einstein was exactly 103 years ahead of his time.
One of my favorite books that describes in layman’s terms the social and culteral meaning behind this quantum physics equation is “E=mc²” By David Bodanis. | Read more (There is a great NOVA special based on this and two other Bodanis’ books. | About )
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U.S. Seeks $300 Billion from Gulf States →
uhm…who really pulls the strings, here?
“The United States has asked four oil-rich Gulf states for close to 300 billion dollars to help it curb the global financial meltdown, Kuwait’s daily Al-Seyassah reported Thursday….”
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2012: “Internet interrupted” →
you see, teh internets is a series of tubes….
“Nemertes Research reckons that 2012 could be a crunch year for the web, as the exaflood (my emphasis–mb) - an exponential explosion of online content resulting from new applications and video - causes slower responses and time outs, ultimately triggering an ‘innovation slowdown’.
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Cocaine, Inc. →
Seeing this pop up a few times on the radar today. Orient, Observe, Decide, Act.
“Colombian cartels have spent billions of dollars to build one of the world’s most sophisticated IT infrastructures. It’s helping them smuggle more dope than ever before. “
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Army 'Human Terrain' Contractor Charged with... →
“People all over the world…”
A member of the Army’s controversial Human Terrain project has been charged with second degree murder, for an alleged revenge killing in Afghanistan.
Don Ayala supposedly shot Kandahar native Abdul Salam in the head, after Salam set one of Ayala’s co-workers on fire in an Afghan village.
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Funerary monument reveals Iron Age belief that the... →
“The finding sheds a striking new light on Iron Age beliefs about the afterlife. In this case, it was the belief that the enduring identity or “soul” of the deceased inhabited the monument on which his image was carved and on which his final words were recorded…”
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What’s going to happen in the future. →
This list takes some givens and expands into some exciting territory. Read the whole article.
1> Power is about to become as cheap as information.
Nanosolar, Konarka, and the dozens of other solar power outfits who are pushing the price of solar down, down, down below the price of coal power, and towards the a few cents a watt for the panel, meaning your daylight power comes down below 1...
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DA who wants Cheney's head is no-show →
Bummer. I wanted a complete surreal court-room drama. Bring some ART into the conversation on the dreadful state of our government’s affairs.
And the DA should note, it’s never Richard, but Dick.
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NYTimes Reviews GNR's "Chinese Democracy" →
a rough one for Axl for sure. He waited too long, made the killing move from anti-hero to tragic hero.
“…Sometime during the years of work, theatricality and razzle-dazzle replaced heart…”
Still, will buy it and drink a few Dr.Peppers while listening.
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The 30 greatest conspiracy theories part 1 →
Finally someone puts together a list. And of course I would post it.
JFK? 9/11? Fake Moon Landing??
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Guerrilla Marketer Sam Ewen says Honesty is the... →
a solid article, “avoid the noise” leading to Ewen’s new tactic.
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BIPT 2019 - DIY WORLD DESIGN →
Anxious? Hopeless? Then you are wasting your precious, limited time.
Here is a portal to world- and self-saving tech from one of hardest working mammals online.
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3rd Obama Think Tank Revealed →
[also see this for the other two]
“Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) — Three blocks from the White House, on the 10th floor of a sleek glass building, young workers pound at computers, with giant flat-screen TVs overhead. It has the look and feel of a high-tech startup.
In many ways it is. The product is ideas. “
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Texas: Dick Cheney and Former Attorney General... →
hmm, guilty by association to federal prison ownership charge. strange… so keep ‘em coming.
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Living the Robin Hood Lifestyle | PSFK - Trends,... →
(via bigelkmountain)
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Online Free Drum Machine - Work it! Fun time.. →
energyface:
sunnycyl: lukees: Amazing! And it’s not flash.
I’ll have to save this for later.