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"Bayard Rustin was for years one of the least known and celebrated major players in the civil rights movement. Now Martin Luther King Jr.'s trusted adviser—the black, gay,"badass" pacifist who organized the March on Washington—is finally getting his due...
www.fastcompany.com An Italian artist claims to have hacked servers belonging to the Cayman Islands' government for a political art project. Paolo Cirio, who recently had a fellowship at the tech-art Eyebeam center in New York, released Loophole4All this...
with no GM or herbicides: "What happened in Darveshpura has divided scientists. Tests on the soil show it is particularly rich in silicon but the reason for the "super yields" is entirely down to a method of growing crops called System of Rice (or root)...
great documentary shot by citizens of sarajevo during the siege http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbR1Q254E3c Dokumentarni film snimljen ameterskim kamerama za vrijeme opsade Sarajeva.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/james-baldwin/film-james-baldwin-the-price-of-the-ticket/2632/ "James Baldwin tells his own story in this emotional portrait. Using rarely-seen archival footage from nine different countries, the film melds...
"What we are left with is a trial and error monetary system that depends on the best judgment of 19 men and women who meet every six weeks around a big table at the Federal Reserve in Washington. At the end of a day and a half of discussions, 11 of them...
"Using a “time-reversal” technique, the team has discovered how to transmit power, sound or images to a “nonlinear object” without knowing the object’s exact location or affecting objects around it. “That’s the magic of time reversal,” says Steven Anlage,...
"any monkey will do anything for you if you get a little drop of brazilian orange juice" Can we use our brains to directly control machines -- without requiring a body as the middleman? Miguel Nicolelis talks through an astonishing experiment, in which...
"mystery" "because if they said the truth they'd all go to jail"
"Even today, people joke that Twin Oaks is a home for Type-A hippies, the sort of nonconformists who chafe at too much idleness. These ideas about work and structure are codified in the Twin Oaks labor credit system, which has its origins in the ideas...
Orders To Kill Here is the myth-shattering expose which reveals the truth behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Dramatic new evidence confirming the innocence of James Earl Ray ... audio of closing statement: http://www.williampepp...
"A Labour peer has claimed that Baroness Park of Monmouth admitted to him a few months before she died in March 2010 that she arranged Patrice Lumumba's killing in 1961. He wrote: "I mentioned the uproar surrounding Lumumba's abduction and murder, and...
"Electricity from solar panels and wind turbines has revolutionized life in rural Palestinian herding communities: Machines, instead of hands, churn goat milk into butter, refrigerators store food that used to spoil and children no longer have to hurry...
"The 11-judge court was set up in the wake of the Watergate scandal in the President Richard M. Nixon era, and is best described as a rubber-stamp for giving the federal government carte blanche powers to spy on Americans at home or abroad. Walton, a...
in your dick-swinging metaphor, the cock that is out is the fifth fleet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW5qiuLb8jY The US has important strategic interests in Bahrain, including the US Navy's Fifth Fleet - patrolling oil shipping lanes, keeping an eye...
hard to say they gave one person cancer when they're giving everyone cancer, it's the perfect alibi really www.presstv.ir The bankers who own the US government try to kill Latin American leaders who refuse to be their puppet, writes Dr. Kevin Barrett. "we...
"Debt peonage is and always has been a form of political control. Native Americans, forced by the U.S. government onto tribal agencies, were required to buy their goods, usually on credit, at agency stores. Coal miners in southern West Virginia and Kentucky...
happy black history month, continued http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7IJ7npTYrU 1965 - After leaving the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X appears on CBC-TV's "Front Page Challenge" weeks before his assassination. He proclaims, "I'm against any form of segregation...
"Plants are usually charged negatively and emit weak electric fields. On their side, bees acquire a positive charge, up to 200 Volts, as they fly through the air. No spark is produced as a charged bee approaches a charged flower, but certainly a small...
"The findings instigated a broader federal investigation, which operated under the code name “Operation Flicker”. The project began in 2007 and identified more than 5,200 individuals who had subscribed to child pornography websites. Out of the thousands...
this whole clip he just lists active facilities http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEXmWFLJiRc Steven Greer, Citizen Hearing on Disclosure "we then wrote an Unless Otherwise Directed letter (UNOD) that says: "we have concluded that this subject is being...
Government Now Admits There's an 'Area 51' http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-now-admits-theres-area-51/68389/ Newly declassified documents, obtained by George Washington University's National Security Archive, appear to for the...
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests/ "The practice isn’t frequent — one official estimated a handful of cases in the last decade — but it’s common enough to garner its own spycraft label: LOVEINT.Spy agencies...
"In letters sent Tuesday to the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, and the State Department, the trio demanded all documents on Chávez: "This request in made in light of the U.S. government's acknowledged history of knowledge and...
"Chen Guangbiao a multimillionaire entrepreneur who bills himself as the country's No 1 philanthropist and environmentalist is giving away thousands of tins of air to raise awareness of China's worsening air pollution. Chen has made his fortune recycling...
