The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Dafna Aizenberg’s Atlas of the World Wide Web visualizes data taken from the internet. Image: Dafna Aizenberg A traditional atlas can tell you a lot about a place—its population, its religious affiliations, its geographical quirks—but it tends to ignore a major aspect of daily life in 2013: the internet. For the past 30 years, the our digital …
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Brazil’s Vinegar Revolution: Left in Form, Right in Content Part 4 of 6: Avaaz – Be the Change the Global Elite Want by Gearóid Ó Colmáin / August 3rd, 2013 In 2006 another ‘democracy’ project made its debut throughout the world. The organization is called Aavaz. According to its website: Avaaz—meaning “voice” in several European, …
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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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Are healthcare costs in developed countries simply opportunistic? One Indian healthcare entrepreneur thinks so. Devi Shetty, heart surgeon turned businessman, has a vision for India — cut-price, life-saving surgery for those who cannot afford it otherwise. Shetty has created 21 healthcare centers around India with a difference; by trimming down operational costs, the price of …
FYI … some of this attached NYT report seems to have been sourced in part on the “meeting at the Aspen Inst., reported by Max Blumenthal in Alternet (See “Shocking ‘Extermination’ Fantasies By the People Running America’s Empire on Full Display at Aspen Summit”), which I distributed earlier this week. Note how the information in …
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Back in 2003 visionary artist Anne-Marie Schleiner wrote an inspiring paper entitled “Fluidities and Oppositions among Curators, Filter Feeders and Future Artists” describing the future role of online curators as nature’s own filter feeders. Anne-Marie is clearly referring to curators to and filter feeder in art world, but her rightful intuitions are equivalently applicable to …
New studies: ‘Conspiracy theorists’ sane; government dupes crazy, hostile Dr. Kevin Barrett PressTV, 13 July 2013 Recent studies by psychologists and social scientists in the US and UK suggest that contrary to mainstream media stereotypes, those labeled “conspiracy theorists” appear to be saner than those who accept the official versions of contested events. In short, …
