Wednesday, May 28

Edward Snowden and the House of the Internet's toxic mold problem

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"Mold needs a couple of things to grow. It needs water, it needs cellulose. Everything we build our homes out of, almost, is cellulose-...

CNN, Fox Cable marketing random mass killings as reality TV entertainment. Major TV advertisers such as Walmart, Target, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald's, Taco Bell, Comcast, Verizon, Microsoft, Ford, Chrysler, are allowing their brands to be associated with the practice

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"Rampage killers cast themselves as stars of a public spectacle" -- Ari N. Schulman, What Mass Killers Want -- And How To Stop The...
Tuesday, May 27

Self-Government: A closer look at Adolf Gasser's points and a brief return to Arvind Kejriwal's "Swaraj"

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"An increasingly sophisticated and highly specialised society and economy can only function if decisions are taken locally and the proc...

I don't know which is scarier: global warming or the mad scramble to halt warming

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"Subsiding land is a bigger immediate problem for the world's coastal cities than sea level rise." I see that some of the fo...
Saturday, May 24

The Gondolas of Wall Street

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"We don't know how much sea levels will rise or fall," says Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at ...
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Are we ready to dispense with brick and mortar government?

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"[T]he ‘distributed network’ format, expressed in the specific manner of peer to peer relations, is a new form of political organising ...
Thursday, May 22

With apologies to Dorothy Parker: Tonstant NSA Soap Opera Watcher Pundita Frowed Up

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In the last Pundita post I mentioned a former U.S. Attorney General's use of metaphor in the attempt to talk me into abandoning reason a...

NSA Soap Opera: Someone call the Metaphor Police

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After 9/11, the excuse for missing clues was too much data: "Trying to sip from a fire hose."  But with the priority now to excuse...

House passes a joke called a bill to reform NSA surveillance

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Mother Jones reported today The NSA Bill That Just Passed Is So Weak, Original Backers Voted Against It . The report is accompanied by a gre...
Tuesday, May 20

Megadrought: Ari LeVaux had me at "Hello"

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Ari LeVaux is a food columnist based in Placitas, New Mexico and a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News. One ...
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The other drought monitor and what it portends

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First, a note on my use of the term "megadrought" in the previous post: While a megadrought can be considered a drought of longer ...
Monday, May 19

Stop illegal immigration to USA until we learn whether the drought is a megadrought

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This isn't the next post I mentioned earlier; I'll be publishing that one later tonight.  But I want to write up this warning while ...