Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Battery breakthrough could bring electric cars to all
http://gigaom.com/cleantech/a-battery-breakthrough-that-could-bring-electric-cars-to-the-masses/
The Pirate Bay, Now Without Torrents
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-dumps-torrents-120228/
Anonymous Hits Interpol Site After 25 Arrested
http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2012/02/28/anonymous-hits-interpol-site-after-25-arrested/
Trade unions strike: Banking, transport hit across India
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/strike-across-india-banking-transport-hit/234385-3.html
Wikileaks emails allege 'Stratfor spied on activists'
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-grid/stratfor-hired-corporations-monitor-activists
Central America regional drug legalization
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/02/should-central-america-legalize-drugs/253707/
Interpol arrests 25 suspected members of ‘Anonymous’ hackers group
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/28/197604.html

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

No sex, but crushed heads are OK. Leaked Facebook document reveals website's secretive and bizarre 'graphic content' policy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2104424/Facebooks-bizarre-secretive-graphic-content-policy-revealed-leaked-document.html
How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect
Intelligence officials seem to be polishing up their case to take on Anonymous like a 'stateless' terrorist group.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/who-do-you-trust-less-the-nsa-or-anonymous/253399/
How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the "One Percent"
http://www.truth-out.org/how-swedes-and-norwegians-broke-power-one-percent/1327942221
The Indiana state lawmaker who declared the Girl Scouts a “radicalized organization” that encourages homosexuality and abortions is sticking by his comments amid an uproar,
http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2Fstories%2F0212%2F73167.html
Cybersecurity Act of 2012 Introduced
http://www.natlawreview.com/article/cybersecurity-act-2012-introduced
Government Pressures Twitter to Hand Over Keys to Occupy Wall Street Protester's Location Data Without a Warrant
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/malcolm-harris-occupy-wall-street-twitter-government-pressure
Greek unions promise popular revolt over bailout
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/22/greek-unions-popular-revolt-bailout
Syrian live streamer killed after being watched by millions
http://gigaom.com/video/syrian-citizen-journalist-killed/
"It's being called the 'negative salary.'" Some Greeks might have to pay for their jobs.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/02/some-greeks-might-have-pay-their-jobs/49023/
Chevron Nigeria gas well fire 'may burn for months'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17126335
Suicide bombers poised to strike U.S., Iran warns
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/21/suicide-bombers-poised-to-strike-u-s-iran-warns/#ixzz1n2Jz16C6
Iceland's Viking Victory
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100015053/icelands-viking-victory/
New Research: GMO Food Far Worse Than We Think
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/new-research-gmo-food-far-worse-we-think

Monday, February 20, 2012

Sunday, February 19, 2012

SPIN: Democracy at work - a documentary by Brian Springer (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvkwnthwd7Q
Anonymous Promises Regularly Scheduled Friday Attacks
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/anonymous-friday-attacks/
Human Resources (social engineering)
http://www.openfilm.com/videos/human-resources
BBC Now Admits AL Qaeda Never Existed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzun4ehFjeA
UBS at the center of the financial world’s latest scandal: an alleged conspiracy by traders and brokers to rig the price of derivatives around the world by manipulating a key interest rate.
http://www.businessweek.com/finance/libor-manipulation-another-black-eye-for-ubs-02172012.html
Anonymous launches 'Operation Global Blackout', aims to DDoS the Root Internet servers
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/anonymous-launches-operation-global-blackout-aims-to-ddos-the-root-internet-servers/10387
Online surveillance bill (C-30) opens door for Big Brother
http://www.politicsplus.org/blog/2012/02/18/online-surveillance-bill-c-30-opens-door-for-big-brother/
How a Filthy Rich 196 People Will Buy Our Election
http://www.alternet.org/story/154172/how_a_filthy_rich_196_people_will_buy_our_election/?page=entire
Reality Check: What Did Iran's President Really Say About "Wiping Israel Off The Map"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5m661fcNZI
World War Web Advisory #5: CyberWar: First SOPA/PIPA/PCIPA/S2105, Now HR2096/HR3523/HR3674/S1152/S2111
http://www.information-online.com/node/459579
Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court to Dismiss ACLU Challenge to Warrantless Wiretapping Law
http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/obama-administration-asks-supreme-court-dismiss-aclu-challenge-warrantless

Thursday, February 16, 2012

The Windowfarms Project.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkCuPrsPn_I
Dalit millionaires defy caste system
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/NB16Df02.html
Social apps 'harvest smartphone contacts'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17051910
Russia launches new missile defense to cover Atlantic
http://rt.com/politics/opens-kaliningrad-radar-station-459/
Would-be China Defector, Once Bo Xilai’s Right Hand, Oversaw Organ Harvesting
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/would-be-china-defector-once-bo-xilai-s-right-hand-oversaw-organ-harvesting-191338.html
From those living in the storm drains under Las Vegas to the tent cities now springing up around the United States, P a n o r a m a finds out how the poor are surviving in America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=suJCvkazrTc
The Death Delusion
http://bardcan.wordpress.com/

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Cohan: Did Psychopaths Take Over Wall Street Asylum?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-03/did-psychopaths-take-over-wall-street-asylum-commentary-by-william-cohan.html?uXFe&cmpid=spn.evrgrnuv.leaders.wallstreet.autotarg&uQZe
Cybersecurity Bill Advances in House – But Does it Advance Privacy?
http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/cybersecurity-bill-advances-house-does-it-advance/
Beijing’s ‘New Frontier’ is ground zero for the organ harvesting of political prisoners.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/xinjiang-procedure_610145.html?nopager=1
Local currencies: 'In the U.S. we don't trust'
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/17/pf/local_currency/index.htm?iid=EL
States seek currencies made of silver and goldhttp://money.cnn.com/2012/02/03/pf/states_currencies/?article
Science behind the big freeze: is climate change bringing the Arctic to Europe?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/science-behind-the-big-freeze-is-climate-change-bringing-the-arctic-to-europe-6358928.html
More than 200 Syrians killed in one day
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/03/video-activist-more-than-200-syrians-killed-in-one-day/?_ft_=qid.5705106253375750071%3Amf_story_key.10150582940783158%3Afilter.h_nor%3Asubstories.5%3Afbid.340133019343187%2C248385111905873%2C287440057987336%2C281650685235100%2C341875399167859%3Ac.m
Cairo street battles enter fourth day
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/02/201224131423624977.html
China cut off internet in area of Tibetan unrest
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/03/china-internet-links-tibetan-unrest
Moscow: Thousands join pro- and anti-Putin protests
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16885446
N. Korea Opens Door to Talks with S. Korea
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2106086,00.html
Floating cities proposed as havens of future happiness
http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/02/03/floating-cities-proposed-as-havens-of-fu?videoId=229624090&videoChannel=6

Saturday, February 4, 2012

The ancestor of all life on Earth might have been a gigantic planetary super-organism
http://io9.com/5862894/the-ancestor-of-all-life-on-earth-might-have-been-a-gigantic-planetary-super+organism?popular=true
NDAA Another Broken Promise by President Barack Obama and an Attack on Civil Liberties
http://www.policymic.com/articles/3234/ndaa-another-broken-promise-by-president-barack-obama-and-an-attack-on-civil-liberties
Can The Simple Flywheel Replace The High-Tech Electric Battery?
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678338/can-the-simple-flywheel-replace-the-high-tech-electric-battery
Hackers deface website of lawyers for US Marinehttp://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-hackers-deface-website-lawyers-marine.html
Anonymous says it will leak giant cache of Iraq war e-mails
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/anonymous-hacks-fbi-scotland-yard-conference-call-about-anonymous/2012/02/03/gIQAjzr0mQ_blog.html
Leaked: US to Start ‘Trade Wars’ with Nations Opposed to Monsanto, GMO Crops
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/leaked-us-to-start-trade-wars-with.html
Hydrogen is all around us. But how do we get at it?

http://www.rps.psu.edu/hydrogen/unbound.html
Quantum Coherence and Conscious Experience
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/brainde.php
Who to blame for the Great Recession? So many big names are in the frame
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/feb/03/who-caused-financial-crisis-great-recession
Why Iceland Should Be in the News But Is Not
http://www.zcommunications.org/why-iceland-should-be-in-the-news-but-is-not-by-deena-stryker

Friday, February 3, 2012

INTERNET RISING: "Investigating the evolving relationships between the Internet and the collective consciousness of humanity"
http://www.internetrising.net/
Study of the Day: Soon, You May Download New Skills to Your Brain
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/study-of-the-day-soon-you-may-download-new-skills-to-your-brain/250775/
Start-up Makes 'Wireless Router for the Brain'
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/39512/
Creepily realistic robot can hold conversations and answer questions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IhVu2hxm07E
The Senate has passed the STOCK (Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge) Act, which forbids members of Congress from participating in insider trading.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/120202/senate-passes-stock-act
With NFL Players Behind Them, Groups Plan ‘Occupy Super Bowl’ Protests Of Indiana’s Assault On Workers
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/02/02/416270/nfl-union-super-bowl-protests/
5.6 Million Americans Have Switched Their Banks In The Last 90 Days
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/02/02/417054/americans-moving-banks-90-days/?mobile=nc
The ACLU yesterday filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration — the Justice and Defense Departments and the CIA — over the assassination of American citizens.
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/aclu_sues_obama_administration_over_assassination_secrecy/singleton/
The Cameras in the Courtroom Act calls for broadcasting all oral arguments in the Supreme Court.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/opinion/live-from-the-supreme-court.html?_r=2