Below is an interview with former NY Times journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, Chris Hedges who with other journalists and activists, has filed a lawsuit in NY against President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta for their bringing into law provision 1021 B2 of the NDAA. This interview occurred after recent oral arguments in the case were heard before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on February 6, 2012.
Our community resides on a framework of anti-ethics. And until we recognize this, walk away from it, and build something else, where all individuals are respected and graced with honor, we will only be the indentured subjects of the one-eyed man, in the blind kingdom of cruelty and exploitation.
Interview with Daniel Ellsberg and Jake Appelbaum on regarding the NDAA lawsuit. Two part video interview. http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/2/6/part_2_daniel_ellsberg_and_jacob_appelbaum_on_the_ndaa_wikileaks_and_unconstitutional_surveillance
A 2011 interview, (below), with Aaron Swartz, hacker and activist. He discusses how the Wall Street Journal is planning their own “leaks” site. Apparently even though the New York Times harshly criticizes Julian Assange and Wikileaks, over 1/2 of all their papers contain source material they obtained from Wikileaks. Swartz was later targeted by the US government, and committed suicide, on January 10, 2013.
This common mechanism in our culture has particulalr significance in the evolving world of social media, where group dynamics rapidly develop opinion through 140 characters of information, (on Twitter). But as Chomsky describes, very few people have the stomach to acknowledge the impact or workings of this industry,even though it is very transparent.
Jesselyn Radack, a former Justice Department attorney and whistleblower, discusses the expanding culture of secrecy in the US government as well as in our most respected institutions, including academia and the press.
Glenn Greenwald wrote an article today about a recent statement that came out of the White House and made it to the New York Times this past Sunday. The Times article discussed how Obama’s team had hurried before the election to put into law some restraints on killing by robots, (by drone).
It’s Thanksgiving so my thanks today are for Mr Obama, who over the past few days took graceful and fair actions when helping to forge an agreement to forestall the increasingly perilous fighting between Israel and Palestine.
Thought today: We talk of poverty being limiting, and constraining one’s ability to capitalize on one’s human potential, but we never discuss the intentional bestowing of poverty by those in a dominant class or position on those who the group feels is destabilizing to their continued control.
“True substances were explained as metaphysical points which, Leibniz asserted, are both real and exact; mathematical points being exact but not real and physical ones being real but not exact.”
This is the most stunning thing to see or imagine. “Scientists believe they have discovered why elephants have trunks – they used them as underwater snorkels… New research suggests that the animals evolved from mammals like the sea cow which is still found in some of the world’s oceans. “
A piece of furniture with a planet translated onto it’s surface, which glows in the dark. In this case the moon. It seemed fitting with the recent Mars landing. When I first read about this cabinet, I thought it would be trite, but it isn’t; actually it’s very beautiful. Source: inhabitat
Beautiful video to watch. From Xeni Jardin. You may know Joi as a serial entrepreneur, a twittering globetrotter VC, a World of Warcraft junkie, or the CEO of Creative Commons, but he has a more traditional side, too. In this video, Ito welcomes us into his back yard in Japan, where he and his… Continue Reading
This was written by Giulio Prisco, a scientist in Madrid, who has some interesting insights about the drive towards interoperability: “Besides the virtualization of reality, there is an important trend toward the realization of virtuality, with technologies that permit giving physical reality to information and virtual objects. The WRLDs system allows users to generate both… Continue Reading