April 2010
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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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David Miliband: 'Compelling evidence' Israel was... →
David Miliband said today that there was “compelling evidence” that Israel was responsible for misuse of British passports as part of a plot to kill a prominent member of Hamas.
The foreign secretary confirmed that Britain had demanded the withdrawal of an Israeli diplomat following the “intolerable” use of 12 forged British passports by a hit squad that killed the...
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Dismantling of Saudi-CIA Web site illustrates need... →
By early 2008, top U.S. military officials had become convinced that extremists planning attacks on American forces in Iraq were making use of a Web site set up by the Saudi government and the CIA to uncover terrorist plots in the kingdom.
Elite U.S. military computer specialists, over the objections of the CIA, mounted a cyberattack that dismantled the online forum. Although some Saudi...
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Horror Studies Vol. 1 Iss. 1 →
pieto:
Horror Studies intends to serve the international academic community in the humanities and specifically those scholars interested in horror. Exclusively examining horror, this journal will provide interested professionals with an opportunity to read outstanding scholarship from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including work conceived as interdisciplinary. By expanding the...
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Suicide refugee, Serge Serykh, ‘was member of... →
The mystery of three refugees who jumped to their deaths from a Glasgow tower block took a dramatic turn yesterday when it emerged that one of them had claimed to be a member of the Russian security services and went on to allege that he had uncovered a plot by the Canadian Government to assassinate the Queen.
Serge Serykh, 43, who, along with his wife and stepson, threw himself off a ...
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Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely →
More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.
Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez, a former Texas Auto Center employee who ...
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“We stand on the cusp of one of the bleakest periods in human history when the...”
– We Stand on the Cusp of one of Humanity’s Most Dangerous Moments | Chris Hedges
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China PLA officer urges challenging U.S. dominance →
“China’s big goal in the 21st century is to become world number one, the top power,” Liu writes in his newly published Chinese-language book, “The China Dream.”
“If China in the 21st century cannot become world number one, cannot become the top power, then inevitably it will become a straggler that is cast aside,” writes Liu, a professor at the ...
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Pooping and you! A guide on how to poop properly... →
I’ve had a lot of conversations with people about pooping (online and offline), and only a couple of years ago did I realize the method to the perfect poop. It’s quite counter-intuitive at first (especially looking at some of the FFFFUUUUU poops), but once you try it, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
You sit down without spreading the buttchecks. If you have a tad extra booty,...
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Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11... →
Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU.
The notification came in a letter dated January 6, 2004, addressed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and CIA Director George J. Tenet. The ACLU ...
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Monsanto admits their technology doesn’t work!... →
This was my Saturday’s lyrics to breakfast in sunny Bangalore: Monsanto has decided to tell the truth about something: its technology doesn’t work!, reports The Hindu. I’m going to need a second cup of chai to digest this, Monsanto speaking honest!? Indian farmers and scientist have been seeing this in their Bt cotton fields for a few years: pests become resistant to...
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EU warns members over budgets →
The European Union has reproached a number of its members over inadequate moves to tackle their soaring debts.
Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands all came in for criticism in a report issued by the European Commission on Wednesday for using overly “optimistic” growth forecasts to cut debt levels to the EU limit of three per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
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CultureLab: Window shopping for alternate... →
The first alternate reality to catch my eye was The Race, a project in which Michael Burton envisages humanity embracing the bacteria, viruses and parasites that live on and within our bodies. Instead of fighting a losing battling against drug resistant microbes, Burton’s works suggests we could heed research showing the beneficial effects of many microbes, and modify our bodies to...
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How to Reboot Your Corpse →
Today’s cryonics scientists believe that this future may be a mere 100 years away. Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., the world’s largest cryonics company, charges US $150,000 to freeze and maintain a body and $80,000 for a head, typically paid for with a life insurance policy.
Ralph Merkle, a nanotechnology expert and a director at Alcor, believes the best approach lies...