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The Sky is Pink
by Donal 6/28/2012 - 12:24 pm
THE SKY IS PINK from JFOX on Vimeo. Essentially, this is an eighteen minute update to Gasland. Very much worth seeing.
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Big Brother and Silicon Valley
By George Packer, Daily Comment @ newyorker.com, June 18, 2013
The word “HACK” is painted across the main square of Facebook’s campus in letters so large that they can be seen from space. The term has lost its negative connotation in Silicon Valley; freewheeling coding sessions and virtual breaking and entering have become the same thing. The culture of hacking is rebellious, idealistic, and militantly anti-bureaucratic—fitting for an age that glorifies entrepreneurship—and it marks a stark shift from the recent history of scientists in American life. During the heyday of the space program, rocket scientists and computer engineers worked closely with NASA officials. The bureaucrat and the geek were not polar opposites but...
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AZ Wackjob Sends Nephew into Street w/Turban,Fake RPG
Where else but Maricopa County, ArpaioLand: 'A Maricopa County Superior Court jury on Monday found Michael Turley guilty of knowingly giving a false impression and endangerment steeming from hoax in which he sent his 16-year-old nephew into a street with a fake grenade launcher where he pointed it at oncoming traffic. While Turley, 40, filmed the incident, the 16-year-old draped his body in a sheet and wrapped his head in a scarf. The action was suppose to evoke a stereotype of a Middle Eastern terrorist.' .....
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Security sources: Egypt's Sinai on high alert
Ma'an News Agency, June 16, 2013
CAIRO (Ma'an) -- Egypt has declared a state of alert in the Sinai after extremist Islamist fighters set up a military base in the peninsula, Egyptian security officials said Monday. Egyptian forces and police have imposed curfews on Sinai cities el-Arish, Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah. Military helicopters were seen hovering over the cities, a Ma'an reporter said.
Militants from Egypt, Palestine and Mali affiliated to Jihadist groups and al-Qaeda have deployed heavily in bunkers in a desert area in central Sinai, Egyptian security officials told Ma'an. Around 30 "dangerous" militants affiliated to Jihadist and Takfiri groups entered Sinai through tunnels from the Gaza Strip to join the camp,...
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On "The Responsibility to Protect"
In the aftermath of the 2011 Libya intervention, the White House’s recent decision to step up aid to the Syrian uprising, and the appointment by President Obama of two so-called “humanitarian hawks” to high-level positions, the “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) is on the lips of...
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Watch President Obama Discuss the NSA and Syria Tonight on...
By Matt Compton, White House blog, June 17, 2013
Before leaving for this week's G-8 summit in the United Kingdom, President Obama sat down with Charlie Rose in the White House Library for a 45-minute interview on topics ranging from Syria to the National Security Agency.
That discussion will air tonight at 11:00 PM on PBS stations across the country. For more specifics, check your local listings.
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