The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Huh? Aaron Swartz, Precocious Programmer and Internet Activist, Dies at 26 John Schwartz New York Times, 12 January 2013 Aaron Swartz, a wizardly programmer who as a teenager helped to develop a computer code that provided a format for delivering regularly changing Web content and in later life became an unwavering crusader to make that …
Court demands that search engines and internet service providers block Sci-Hub The American Chemical Society (ACS) has won a lawsuit it filed in June against Sci-Hub, a website providing illicit free access to millions of paywalled scientific papers. Extracts & Comment Below the Fold
Elsevier is feeling the strong pressure from a world-wide movement to force them into sensibility about sharing. Universities around the world, including MIT, and many other parties, have signed a strong denouncement here. Buried within the comments, where Elsevier’s Alicia Wise is participating, is this statement that I have accepted in agreeing to do an …
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HOPE X will be held July 18-20, 2014 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. You can get your tickets at http://store.2600.com/hopextickets.html. While our block of rooms at the hotel quickly sold out, it’s still possible to book online at http://hotelpenn.com or by calling +1 212 736 5000. You may still be able to …
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ARMY: US army looks to replace soldiers with robots ATROCITY: EUGENICS attack on the biology of humanity ATROCITY: UK Court Rules Against Pakistani Victim of US Drone Attack Phi Beta Iota: When legal challenges to persistent atrocities fail, violent alternatives will emerge. BOOK: Life at the Speed of Light – From the Double Helix to …
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Free Software Supporter Issue 64, July 2013 Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation’s monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 68,680 other activists. TABLE OF CONTENTS FSF, other groups join EFF to sue NSA over unconstitutional surveillance Donate to Replicant and support free software on mobile …
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I share with Lawrence Lessig the conviction that corruption is the principal threat to humanity. I would add to that my own view that corruption is responsible for 50% of all investments being wasted, be they in agriculture, energy, health, or the military, as representative domains. I also believe that corruption will persist until individuals …
