Update to the About Page, and a little format change
The items listed below have been added to the About Page.
As well, now that I’m slowly getting back into blogging mode I will be sharing some of my finds in real time. Sometimes they will include an introduction, sometimes they will be based on a theme, and sometimes they will just be what appear to be random bits of information.
Hope you enjoy.
Peace,
chycho
Teachers Worth Learning From
Documentaries Worth Watching
Lectures and Interviews of Interest
Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything (links to The Pirate Bay)
Chris Hedges on the work of Sheldon Wolin, 17 May 2011 (inverted totalitarianism)
Joel Cohen: An Introduction to Demography (Malthus Miffed: Are People the Problem?)
Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips
Norman Finkelstein on the Role of BDS & Why Obama Doesn’t Believe His Own Words on Israel-Palestine
Jacob Appelbaum, Dmitry Kleiner: Resisting the Surveillance State and its network effects
Journey from the Psychology of Evil to the Psychology of Heroism
Sustainocene: Harvard Leads a New Epoch for Humankind - Harvard Thinks Green 2012
Bill Moyers: Matt Taibbi and Chrystia Freeland on the One Percent's Power and Privileges
Julian Assange's The World Tomorrow: Moncef Marzouki (Tunisia)
Michael Parenti - The Real Causes of World War II, Part 1 (Part 2 of 2)
Michael Hudson - What We're Becoming, Part 1 (Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
Guns and Butter - "The Way We Were and What We Are Becoming"
Breaking ’08 Pledge, Leaked Trade Doc Shows Obama Wants to Help Corporations Avoid Regulations
Shmoocon 2012: Lessons of the Kobayashi Maru: Cheating is Fundamental
Summit MMT - Michael Hudson: Finances vs Economy, Credit vs Money [3/18 ENG]
"Freeman Dyson 2012" "History of Reduction of Nuclear and Biological Weapons"
Bill McKibben of 350.org on Colorado Wildfires, Debby, Keystone XL and the Failure of Rio+20
Rendered, Tortured & Discarded: A Shocking Story of an Innocent Man’s Ordeal in U.S. Prisons Abroad
RSA Conference 2012 - New Threats to the Internet Infrastructure - Bruce Schneier
Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, on the Struggle to Win–and Now Protect–Voting Rights in U.S.
Paul Jay of The Real News: The crisis will deepen, we need real news
Are Israeli Settlements Legal? Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah vs. Commentary’s Jonathan Tobin
Eben Moglen - Free and Open Software: Paradigm for a New Intellectual Commons
EXCLUSIVE: "No Way Out"–Freed Hiker Shane Bauer on Solitary Confinement from Iran to United States
Mexican Poet, Activist Javier Sicilia Brings Peace Caravan into U.S. to Condemn Deadly Drug War
Lawyer: Raid on Embassy to Arrest Assange Would Be "Unprecedented" Breach of Diplomatic Immunity
Daniel Ellsberg: I Congratulate Ecuador for Standing Up to British Empire to Protect Julian Assange
Author Michael Lewis discusses The Big Short and the future of finance
Chris Hedges: Dems Owe Chicago Public Teachers Support for "Most Important Labor Action in Decades"
Chris Hedges on 9/11, Touring U.S. Economic Disaster Zones in "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt"
Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan on the Growing Mideast Protests and "Islam & the Arab Awakening"
Michigan a Key Battleground for Labor Rights with Votes on Emergency Managers, Collective Bargaining
As Italy Sentences 23 CIA Agents in Rendition Case, Obama Refuses to Prosecute Anyone for Torture and Alfred McCoy: "Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation" (Pt. 2)
As Anti-Immigrant "Papers" Law Takes Effect, Jeff Biggers on Arizona, the "State Out of the Union" and "Harvest of Empire": New Film Recounts How U.S. Intervention Caused Mass Latin American Migrations
Study Finds U.S. Drone Strikes in Pakistan Miss Militant Targets and "Terrorize" Civilians
Stephen Kinzer on the History of BP/British Petroleum and Its Role in the 1953 Iran Coup
Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe
Emeritus Walter Lewin: For the Love of Physics (May 16, 2011)
As Obama, Romney Hold First Debate, Behind the Secret GOP-Dem Effort to Shut Out Third Parties
"Earthship Biotecture": Renegade New Mexico Architect’s Radical Approach to Sustainable Living
White Privilege: Racism, White Denial & The Cost of Inequality
Articles and Documents Worth Noting
Powell Memorandum: Attack On American Free Enterprise System (originals)
Bigger, Better Google Ngrams: Brace Yourself for the Power of Grammar
Ground-breaking No Tankers motion passed by B.C. local governments
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, by John Perry Barlow
How a Grad Student Scooped the Government and Uncovered One of the Biggest Internet Privacy Scandals
Glenn Greenwald: How America's Surveillance State Breeds Conformity and Fear
The rotten heart of finance: A scandal over key interest rates is about to go global (more info: BREAKING: Barclays Revealed Libor Scandal Four Years Ago and Behind the Libor Scandal)
Matt Taibbi: From an Unlikely Source, a Serious Challenge to Wall Street
Traveling the Silk Road: A measurement analysis of a large anonymous online marketplace
A Record Decline in Government Jobs: Implications for the Economy and America’s Workforce
Forget Bernanke: A Paper At Jackson Hole May Have Changed The Future Of Economics
Dream turns to nightmare: Investment banking once delivered juicy profits. No longer
Smashing Apples: Shock Doctrine for Public Education – That’s What It’s All About
"Methods of Policy Accommodation at the Interest-Rate Lower Bound" by Michael Woodford (pdf)
Music Worth Listening To
Animation to Blow Your Mind
Art and Design Worth Viewing
News and Blogs Worth Scanning
Movies Worth The Time
Resources and Tools
Sound Bites
General Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned - Seven Countries In Five Years
Former Supreme Court Justice Souter on The Danger of America's 'Pervasive Civic Ignorance'
NASA | SDO's Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit
Rowan Atkinson's speech at Reform Section 5 Parliamentary reception
Douglas Rushoff: Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
The Man Who Knew (Madoff, 60 minutes), and SEC Watchdog Faults Agency On Madoff, and SEC watchdog tearfully defends herself
Jordan Maxwell: The Real Truth - Government owns YOUR clone-
Rumsfeld 2.3 Trillion Dollars missing Pentagon 1 DAY before 911
Cryptocat Adventure! (article: This Cute Chat Site Could Save Your Life and Help Overthrow Your Government)
'US created forces it spends money fighting against' - Taliban ex-captive