Month: December 2014
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode139 – Loaded
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode139 – Loaded which features brand new sounds from Flight Facilities, Run the Jewels, DJ Slugo, Museum of Love, 2 Bears, Francisco the Man, Cabana, Knox Hamilton, Chuck Prophet, Velveteens, Waters, Black Pistol Fire and Wampire… Download/Subscribe Previous: Episode138 – Farther **************************************** ♬Liner Notes♬: I gotta…
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Red Planet Shows Signs of Life
from Press TV: NASA’s Curiosity rover has sent back scientific data suggesting new evidence of water on Mars. The rover released pictures indicating that the Gale Crater on Mars used to be a huge lake of water far back in history. With the new evidence of water, the Red Planet must have been suitable for…
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Wrestling with Transhumanism
from metanexus.net: Transhumanism for me is like a relationship with an obsessive and very neurotic lover. Knowing it is deeply flawed, I have tried several times to break off my engagement, but each time it manages to creep in through the back door of my mind. In How We Became Posthuman,1 I identified an undergirding…
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#TortureReport: Corporate Media Comes Down With #Torture Amnesia
from brasschecktv.com: The US news media is displaying shocking amnesia about torture. How long it’s gone, how many of us have been protesting, and who was involved. Bush and Cheney have been mentioned, but here is one name who has escaped attention far.
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The Rise of AdBlock Reveals A Serious Problem in the Advertising Ecosystem
from mondaynote.com: Seeing a threat to their ecosystem, French publishers follow their German colleagues and prepare to sue startup Eyeo GmbH, the creator of anti-advertising software AdBlock Plus. But they cannot ignore that, by using ABP, millions of users actively protest against the worst forms of advertising. On grounds that it represents a major economic…
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Meet the Bilderberg Group, High Priests of Globalization
from andrewgavinmarshall.com: Meet the Bilderberg Group – an annual gathering of 130 of the Western world’s top financial, corporate, political, academic, media, military and policy elites, held every year since 1954. They meet behind closed doors, at five-star hotels, where participants are encouraged to speak frankly – meaning “off the record” and away from the…
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‘Whitey’ #Documentary Indicts More Than Just James J. #Bulger
from latimes.com: The bad guy in “Whitey: The United States of America v. James J. Bulger” is ostensibly Bulger. But Joe Berlinger’s densely detailed new documentary about the legendary Boston mobster is disturbing on so many levels it’s hard not to wonder why Bulger was the only one on trial.
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Taiwan, A Canary In The Coalmine Of Cyber Warfare
from smh.com.au:: For the past two weeks, entertainment giant Sony Pictures has had its computers paralysed by a cyber attack that has resulted in unreleased movies and thousands of confidential documents being released. Taiwan can claim the dubious honour of being one of the most hacked, if not the most hacked, places in the world.…
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Drone ‘near miss’ with passenger plane close to Heathrow airport investigated
from theguardian.com: Air safety chiefs have investigated the first near miss between a passenger jet and a drone near Heathrow airport, amid fears that drones could pose a danger to commercial flights. The UK Airprox Board (UKAB), which will publish its findings on Friday, is expected to record an incident risk rating of A –…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode138 – Farther
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode138 – Farther which features brand new sounds from Hookworms, All We Are, Captain Planet, Chico Mann, Hoot Hoots, Mariachi El Bronx, Warm Soda, Wolf Alice, All Them Witches, Fox and the Law, …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, The Deer, Grapes…
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The Curious Case of Jesus’s Wife
from TheAtlantic.com: For six days in September 2012, some 300 participants came together at Sapienza University, in Rome, for the 10th International Congress of Coptic Studies. Among those presenting was Karen L. King. The author of five books, King is a highly respected specialist in early Christianity whose work focuses on a group of Christians…
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The Canon – Exploring the mystery of humanity’s place in the cosmos
from realitysandwich.com: A footnote from the first chapter of William Stirling’s classic 19th century work, The Canon, provides a centering thought for the themes which will be the focus of the upcoming Evolver Learning Lab that Scott Olsen and I have organized to present the concepts of sacred geometry and alchemical transformation. To avoid misunderstanding,…


