"If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. "
- Michael Crichton
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"The first duty of a man is to think for himself"
- José Martí
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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."
- Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays
“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”
"Machen Sie die Lüge groß, machen es einfach, immer wieder sagen, und irgendwann werden sie es glauben"
Adolf Hitler
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This day 20140212: Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested and
subsequently deported from the Soviet Union for writing The Gulag
Archipelago, an exposé of the Soviet forced labour camp system.
anyone else see the irony here? kos
The tolerance threshold has been crossed.
rnn
Imperial College
London is the biggest beneficiary of Atomic Weapons Establishment
funding, with £7.7m allocated between 2010 and July 2012. Photograph:
Alamy
The guardian au
Nuclear weapons research body gives £8m a year to British universities
A report due out on Wednesday exposes the extent of links between the Atomic Weapons Establishment and universities. read
The 1% Should Be Afraid: The New Norm in the Workplace Is Unstable
Tuesday, 11 February 2014 10:16 By Laura Flanders, Truthout | Interview and Video
(Photo via Shutterstock)A new study from Oxfam published just ahead of this year's World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, reported that just one percent of the world's population controls nearly half of the planet's wealth and 70 percent of the world's people live in countries where income inequality has been growing in the last 30 years. In the US, the gap between rich and poor has grown faster than in any other developed country. The top one percent has captured 95 percent of all growth since the putative "recovery" of 2009. This is the "new normal." Is it sustainable? read
The Reg: One good thing about Flappy Birds crapp flap: It's a handy 'tech' media rating system [Wed Feb 12 2014]
Policy News
But activists say results are heavily doctored – even in US
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Agency reports 11 aircraft a day are hit by foolish flashers
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Bromwich botherer told: Competition overseer stays (with slightly smaller remit)
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Historic Navy blimp home to get Choc Factory makeover
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This battle's over but the war machine keeps turning
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Industry alliance weighs in to antitrust complaint with accusation of overpricing
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+Comment 'Jen from the IT crowd' syndrome strikes
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20 - count 'em - 20 PCs allowed into industrial zone
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Borg's legal fees in Innovatio case were five times the settlement
Security News
Critical fixes for Windows and IE among update load
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No real risk to network as flood of traffic suspends trading for many
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NTP flaw used again, effects minimal
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Yet PCI-DSS has 'largely been a failure', wails securo-bod
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'Ooh, somebody stop me!'
Software News
Analysis We'll just presume you have it already
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Big Red is really, actually, going on sale in Redmond's cloud on March 12th
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A boutique chocolate factor to counter slavery
Science News
The signal is less than the noise
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Psychoboffins' studies discover why, as well: 'Trolls just want to have fun'
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Water, water, might be everywhere, but we can't spot it
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Non-flammable electrolyte found hiding in plain sight
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” - Napoleon Bonaparte.
Information Clearing House
The Terrifying Surveillance Case of Brandon Mayfield
By Matthew Harwood
With NSA overreach, nobody is safe from confirmation bias.
American Justice?
Which of these men has inflicted most suffering and death, who is most deserving of prison time?
In the Darkness of Dick Cheney
The Smile of Secret Power
By Mark Danner
It was Dick Cheney, more than any other official, who set the terms for the post-September 11 world we all share.
US-France's New Terror Tango
By Finian Cunningham
The
portrayal of criminal wars of aggression inflicted on foreign countries
as some kind of noble role of leadership upholding global security and
peace" is truly sickening.
Israel Starts New Propaganda War To Beat Boycott
By Catherine Philp
ISRAELI
spies have been ordered to dig up intelligence showing that supporters
of an economic boycott are linked to terrorists and enemy states.
When Squeezed, Both Netanyahu and Abbas Will Accept Kerry's Plan
By Aaron Magid
he moment
of truth has almost arrived. After endless visits, U.S. Secretary of
State John Kerry will soon present the interim American framework to
both sides.
Israel's Stone Cold Justice
Video - Four Corners - ABC - Australia
Israel's military is facing a backlash at home and abroad for its treatment of children in the West Bank, occupied territory.
Julie Bishop 'Deeply Concerned' by Mistreatment of Palestinian Children in TV Report
By Jonathan Swan
The
Abbott government has also indicated it no longer believes Israel, as
an "occupying power", should be forced to comply with the 1949 Geneva
Conventions.
Women, Decapitated, Hanged or Shot in the Muslim world
By Robert Fisk
The number of women sentenced to death across the Middle East has very little to do with justice.
Do We Learn Anything from History?
By W.J. Astore
As
a good Catholic, I was taught that wisdom begins with the fear of God.
A secular version might be that wisdom begins with the fear of
history.
Hard News
15 Iraqi soldiers killed in pre-dawn attack:
The style
of the attack, targeting a station housing security forces guarding an
important piece of infrastructure, mirrored that of a similar shooting
in the northern town of Tuz Khurmatu on Sunday in which six policemen
were killed.
State media: Syria allows some men to leave Homs:
The
Syrian government on Tuesday allowed over a hundred men of fighting age
to leave rebel-held areas of the besieged city of Homs after they were
questioned and cleared of rebel links, state media said.
Russia, China snub U.N. talks on draft Syria aid access resolution:
Russia
and China on Monday rebuffed the United States, France and Britain and
other states by failing to attend negotiations on a draft U.N. Security
Council resolution to boost aid access in Syria, diplomats said.
Russia says draft UN resolution on Syria aid 'one-sided':
Lavrov
said those behind the draft were seeking to mount pressure on Russia
and China by discussing their proposal with the media and urged the
Security Council to instead ready a resolution condemning "terrorist
activity" in Syria, Interfax reported.
The Syrian Opposition, Explained:
There are
believed to be hundreds, if not thousands, of armed groups fighting in
Syria. These opposition groups are fighting the Assad regime, but
recently turned on each other with increased ferocity
Syria-bound trucks filled with US dollars, says opposition party leader:
Trucks en
route to Syria that were stopped last month in the southern province
of Adana were carrying US dollars, Democratic Left Party (DSP) Chairman
Masum Türker claimed on Sunday at a press conference for a municipal
candidate.
Report: Germany Has Evidence of Turkish Hand in PKK Killings in France:
German
security services have evidence that Turkish intelligence agents were
behind the killing of three female activists of the Kurdistan Workers'
Party (PKK) in Paris more than a year ago, Germany's respected Der
Spiegel weekly reported.
John Kerry peace plan "to recognise Israel as a Jewish state":
John
Kerry's framework agreement for Middle East peace will describe Israel
as the state of the Jewish people, it has reported, despite fierce
Palestinian opposition
Rouhani: Iran's doors are open to the IAEA:
Iranian
president Hassan Rouhani says his country will keep its doors open to
the UN nuclear watchdog, sending a message that Iran is willing to
further work with the international community to ease concerns about
its nuclear program.
Pakistan: 10 Killed in Peshawar Grenade Attack:
Last
week, the Pakistani Taliban's Jundallah faction had claimed
responsibility for an attack on another cinema, warning of more attacks
in future.
U.S. Debates Drone Strike on American Terror Suspect in Pakistan:
The
Obama administration is debating whether to authorize a lethal strike
against an American citizen living in Pakistan who some believe is
actively plotting terrorist attacks, according to current and former
government officials.
5 Taliban militants killed, 18 others detained in Afghan operations:
Afghan
national security forces also seized weapons, ammunition and explosives
during the military operations, interior ministry added in its
statement.
Elite US troops trained to use backpack nukes:
In a
detailed report by Foreign Policy, the publication chronicles the
creation of the Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SAMD), a portable
nuclear weapon that could be carried into battlefield by a single
solider.
Video shows U.S. abduction of accused al-Qaeda terrorist on trial for embassy bombings: Video -
After
dawn prayers Oct. 5, Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, a wanted al-Qaeda
terrorism suspect, returned to his family's home in Tripoli, Libya.
Egypt Marshal al-Sisi to run for presidency - Arab League ex-head:
"el-Sisi
has decided to propose his candidacy on the post of President. He will
announce this decision himself in the nearest future," Moussa said.
NSA spying undermines separation of powers::
The program makes it easy for the president to spy on and blackmail his enemies.
Americans find swift stonewall on whether NSA vacuumed their data:
Since
last year's revelations about the National Security Agency's massive
communications data dragnets, the spy agency has been inundated with
requests from Americans and others wanting to know if it has files on
them. All of them are being turned down .
Snowden makes a point: Editorial:
The federal government leaks to condemn leaks
'Biggest ever'? Massive DDoS-attack hits EU, US:
The
attack reached 400 gigabits per second in power - some 100Gbps higher
than the notorious Spamhaus cyber-assault of March 2013 that at the
time was branded the largest-ever attack in the history of the
internet.
China, Taiwan agree to open offices after historic talks:
China and
Taiwan, at odds for more than six decades, agreed at historic talks on
Tuesday to set up representative offices as early as possible, though
sensitive political issues like a formal peace treaty were not up for
discussion.
Majority of Americans Favor Ties With Cuba, Poll Finds:
After
more than a half-century of official United States hostility toward
Cuba punctuated by a comprehensive trade embargo, a majority of
Americans - and an even greater majority of Floridians, home to this
country's largest Cuban-American population - now favor normalizing
relations
Nicaragua's new constitution becomes law:
Changes
to Nicaragua's constitution have gone into effect, paving the way for
its leader, Daniel Ortega, to run for a third consecutive term in 2016.
Four Latin American countries agree $85 bn free-trade deal:
Chile,
Colombia, Peru and Mexico have signed a treaty to eliminate tariffs on
92 percent of goods and services. The Pacific Alliance is free trade
area of some 210 million people, accounting for more than a third of
all Latin American and Caribbean GDP.
Britain's 100 years of conflict:
The Guardian charts every conflict in which British forces have engaged since 1914
'Biblical flooding' spreads across UK in worst rainfall in over 200 years :
England's
largest river, the Thames, has burst its banks, devastating homes in
the southeast in the worst floods in 50 years. PM David Cameron has
called the flooding "biblical," as economists predict the crisis will
cost close on $1 billion.
U.S. Sailors Sick From Fukushima Radiation File New Suit Against Tokyo Electric Power:
Citing
a wide range of ailments from leukemia to blindness to birth defects,
79 American veterans of 2011's earthquake/tsunami relief Operation
Tomadachi ("Friendship") have filed a new $1 billion class action
lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power.
Exxon oil spill town 'deserted land', residents still getting sick, forced to abandon homes:
On March
29, 2013, Exxon's Pegasus pipeline spilled thousands of barrels of
Canadian crude oil in a suburban area near the town of Mayflower,
sparking strong opposition to oil sands exploitation and the Keystone
XL project
Idaho cop shoots disabled man's service dog at son's 9th birthday party:
Rick
Clubb told the Twin Falls Times-News that his son's 9th birthday party
was nearly finished at around 5:30 p.m. on Saturday when Filer Police
Officer Tarek Hassani showed up at his home over a complaint about dogs
running loose in the neighborhood.
UK: Revealed: Big Pharma's hidden links to NHS policy:
NHS
bosses allowed a lobbying company working for some of the world's
biggest drugs and medical equipment firms to write a draft report which
could help shape future health policy
Florida Ordinance Makes it Illegal for Homeless to Use Blankets to Protect Themselves from Weather:
So many
Americans live in a perpetual state of fear about the future. Going
paycheck to paycheck, one long string of bad luck away from total
catastrophe.
Scandal-plagued Barclays bank raises bonuses after axing thousands of jobs:
Barclays,
which is seeking to repair a reputation badly damaged by its role in
the Libor interest rate-rigging scandal of 2012, increased the money
available for staff bonuses by almost 10 percent to £2.378 billion
($3.907 billion, 2.858 billion euros).
Forget Bitcoins, what about time as currency?:
Time
banks are organizations that treat time as a currency; in place of
money, members earn, accumulate and spend time credits.
The next step: 3D printing the human body:
As
3D printing advances at an astonishing rate, will it soon be possible
to 3D print a human body? Rhiannon Williams investigates
Cop Kills Service Dog at Boy's Birthday Party: "I Love Dogs"
Amanda Warren
Lessons to Learn From a Tech-Age Ice Storm
Catherine Frompovich
Today We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance
Adi Kamdar
19 Statistics About The Drugging Of America That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
Michael Snyder
TV Propaganda And The Mind Control Culture
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Bob Tuskin
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