Month: February 2015
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Hasan Bin Sabbah and the Secret Order of Hashishins
from Disinfo.com: The story of Hasan bin Sabbah is a tale of sex, drugs, myth, and murder. A secluded mountain fortress, a paradisial garden, poison dipped daggers, and covert political maneuverings are the ingredients of this alchemical mixture, which is undoubtedly one of the most intriguing true stories ever told. Hasan bin Sabbah – businessman,…
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“Lucy” : A Movie About Luciferian Philosophy
from VigilantCitizen.com: Luc Besson’s Lucy is a movie about a woman who unlocked the full, 100% potential of her brain power instead of the 10% humans reportedly use. While many viewers were confused by the movie’s odd mix of pseudo-science and action scenes, the core of the movie lies in a whole other realm: It…
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Banned #Iran Director Wins Berlin Film Festival’s #GoldenBear
from theguardian.com: The Iranian dissident film-maker Jafar Panahi won the Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival for his Tehran road movie Taxi in what critics described as a victory for freedom of speech and the art of cinematic storytelling. Panahi, who is banned from making films by the Iranian authorities and forbidden from travelling…
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God Endures, Even As Religion Wanes
from Futurity.org: “Americans’ attitudes toward religion are growing more complex,” says study author Tom Smith. “While fewer people identify with a particular religion, belief in God remains high.” In the United States, belief in God has ebbed over time from about 99 percent in the 1950s to about 92 percent at present. Certitude about God…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode146 – Heavy Love
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode146 – Heavy Love which features brand new sounds from Jesse Baylin, Mikal Cronin, Duke Garwood, Mountain Goats, Lady Lamb The Beekeeper, T Bird & The Breaks, Kristin Diable, Lone Bellow, Chappo, Matthew E. White, José González, Hello Caller, Kat Edmonson and Chastity Belt… Download/Subscribe Previous:…
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Timothy Leary and Marshall McLuhan
from boingboing.net: There is no other 1960s intellectual figure whom Timothy Leary came to admire more than Marshall McLuhan. He considered McLuhan’s famous statement – “The medium is the message” — the most important cultural insight of the ‘60s, a decade saturated with insightful and lasting one-liners, some of the most famous coming from Leary’s…
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New Yorkers Protest City Plan to Destroy Community Gardens
from observer.com: Hundreds rallied at the steps of City Hall on Tuesday to protest the Department of Housing Preservation Development’s plan to build affordable housing on seventeen community gardens. Community activists and elected representatives alike gathered in the hope of removing the gardens off the HPD’s list of properties to be made available for development, the argument…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode220 – Exposing TPP, Suing BoC, Crashing Monsanto
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode220 – Exposing TPP, Suing BoC, Crashing Monsanto Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Negotiators Burn Last Opportunity to Salvage the #TPP by Caving on Copyright Term…
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Symbolic Pics of the Month 01/15
from vigilantcitizen.com: In this edition of SPOTM : Madonna, Amanda Bynes and more proof that the fashion world is sick. VigilantCitizen.com doesn’t fail to impress with this recent compilation! Just incase you were having doubts about the continuity of this occult industry engine…
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The Trip Treatment
from www.newyorker.com: In 2010, Patrick Mettes, a fifty-four-year-old television news director being treated for a cancer of the bile ducts, read an article on the front page of the Times that would change his death. His diagnosis had come three years earlier, shortly after his wife, Lisa, noticed that the whites of his eyes had…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode145 – Hotfoot
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode145 – Hotfoot which features brand new sounds from Nude Beach, Courtney Barnett, Diamond Rugs, Swervedriver, Tosca, Is Tropical, Ting Tings, Au.Ra, Doldrums, Shovels & Rope, Dengue Fever, Twin Limb, Iron & Wine, Isobel Campbell and Strange Wilds… Download/Subscribe Previous: Episode144 – Entertainment **************************************** ♬Liner Notes♬:…
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.@SBWSA New #Documentary, ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’
from sfgate.com: The most significant events in history seem inevitable in retrospect, if only because they are so transformative that it’s hard to imagine the world without them. This goes not only for towering cataclysms like World War II, but social movements that change people’s relationships with each other and with themselves. In this second…
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Tokyo Cyber Security Competition Draws 90 Hackers
from channelnewsasia.com: A cyber security competition began on Saturday (Feb 7) in Tokyo, with organisers aiming to show off the skills of young Japanese hackers by testing them against international rivals. The final rounds of the Security Contest 2014, or SECCON, brought together 90 participants in 24 teams from seven nations and regions: China, Japan,…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode219 – Globalized Healthcare, China’s Real Names, Public Internet Good News
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode219 – Globalized Healthcare, China’s Real Names, Public Internet Good News Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Globalized Healthcare Is Coming Flashback: TISA, Yet Another Secret “Trade”…
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Power psychs people up about… themselves
from sciencedaily.com: We all know the type — people who can talk on and on about their latest adventures, seemingly unaware that those around them may not be interested. They also get really psyched up about their own experiences. A new paper suggests that what separates such people from the rest of us is their…