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2013/09/242013/09/24

Berto Jongman: BRICS Creating Own Internet — Routing Around the US-UK

The BRICS “Independent Internet” Cable. In Defiance of the “US-Centric Internet” The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff announces publicly the creation of a world internet system INDEPENDENT from US and Britain ( the “US-centric internet”). Not many understand that, while the immediate trigger for the decision (coupled with the cancellation of a summit with the …

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2013/09/23

Stephen E. Arnold: Coping with News Filters

How to Cope with News Filtering Ten years ago, I subscribed to traditional newspapers. Each morning I worked through the Courier Journal, the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Today I rely on the information available to me without charge from various online services. On two recent research projects, I …

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2013/09/202013/09/20

SchwartzReport: Stunning Breakthrough in Quantum Consciousness

Here is an extraordinary breakthrough in physics that may show us how to integrate both local and nonlocal consciousness, and radically change our understanding of the structure of reality. A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics Natalie Wolchover – Quanta Magazine Physicists have discovered a jewel-like geometric object that dramatically simplifies calculations of particle …

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2013/09/182013/09/18

Chuck Spinney: Israel Still Angling for Attacks on Syria and Iran

The author is one of the best journalists in the Middle East. Israel Still Angling for Attacks on Syria and Iran Jonathan Cook Counterpunch:, 2013-09-18 Nazareth. President Barack Obama may have drawn his seemingly regretted “red line” around Syria’s chemical weapons, but it was neither he nor the international community that turned the spotlight on …

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2013/09/182013/09/18

Patrick Meier: MicroMappers: Microtasking for Disaster Response

MicroMappers: Microtasking for Disaster Response My team and I at QCRI are about to launch MicroMappers: the first ever set of microtasking apps specifically customized for digital humanitarian response. If you’re new to microtasking in the context of disaster response, then I recommend reading this, this and this. The purpose of our web-based microtasking apps …

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2013/09/16

Chuck Spinney: Bill Polk Primer on Syria & Chemical Weapons

My friend Bill Polk, a well-known historian with extensive experience in the Middle East and Central Asia and author of many books on these areas, has written a backgrounder on how to make sense out of the Syrian chemical weapons issue. He has given me permission to distribute it. Herewith is his most interesting primer on …

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2013/09/122013/09/12

Penguin: NSA = Zionists Ubber Alles

NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans’ data with Israel • Secret deal places no legal limits on use of data by Israelis • Only official US government communications protected • Agency insists it complies with rules governing privacy • Read the NSA and Israel’s ‘memorandum of understanding’ Complete story (Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian) below the …

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