Sitemap - 2013 - chycho

Some Not-so-random Information, News, and Videos: Seymour Hersh on Obama and Syria, Canada’s Corporate Power and Inequality, Our Invisible Revolution, and David Simon on the Two Americas

1997 Address by Nelson Mandela at the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, plus 5 videos

America: Afraid of Shadows in the Dark While Ignoring the Elephants in the Room

Chris Hedges' Introduction to Inverted Totalitarianism from “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt”

The Bitcoin Bubble, or Is It? Two Charts, Historical Price Movement, and the Conspiracy

Canadians Can Grow Tobacco for Personal Use; We Should Be Able to Do the Same with Cannabis

The British Military, Operating Death Squads from Belfast to Basra: Terrorizing Civilians is What Occupying Forces Do

Some Random and Not-So-Random Sound Bites

Regarding the Crucifixion of Jeremy Hammond

Bill Nye, Brian Greene, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Lawrence Krauss have a brilliant little discussion on the limitations of mathematics, and its importance and relevance to humanity

Math in Art and Design: Building a Bucky-Ball and a Rhombicosidodecahedron with Bamboo & Zap-Straps (Math in Real Life)

Math in Art and Design: Building Three Objects: Freeform, Symmetry, Golden Rectangle (Math in Real Life)

Math in Art and Design: Chaos, Order, and Op Art - Five Paintings by Dirk Marwig (Math in Real Life)

The Six Primary Reasons for Why They Hate Us

Four Articles, a Lecture, and Three Interviews: The ‘Economy’, Snowden and the Future, Columbus and the Indians, Syria, Barrett Brown, US Foreign Policy, Poverty and Health, and the Coming Depression

A Few Choice Words from Immortal Technique to Mainstream Media’s War Profiteering Pundits: “Shut the Fuck Up You Mindless Drone!”

How to Protect Ourselves on Social Networks and from Data Collection Systems of Governments and Corporations

United States Eases Regulations on Exporting Weapons: “Quit Arming the Fucking World, Man”, Bill Hicks

An Excellent Lecture by Michelle Alexander on the Causes and Consequences of America’s War on Drugs

Some Not-So-Random Sound Bites

Government Shutdown and Appointment of Janet Yellen Guarantees Flow of Funds to Wall Street: They are reducing “two-thirds of this country to subsistence level”, Chris Hedges

An example of how the surveillance state is hurting the U.S. economy: Ladar Levison confirms that he will be forced to move his business overseas

“Pretending that one can dissociate torture from war or abjection from massacre is the lie of the powerful”, ‘Ordinary Victories’ by Manu Larcenet

The Beauty and Brilliance of Grant Morrison’s 'Doom Patrol', Introducing Mr. Nobody: a Savior, a Monster, an Act of Sacrilege, Dada

Schooling Superman on Totalitarianism: Superman and The Flash have a discussion about gun control while playing chess

In Recognition of Endless Wars and Those Who Profit From Them: The Savage Sword of Conan

Powerhouse Panel Discussion on the Surveillance State and the War on Whistleblowers: Alexa O'Brien, Robert Manne, Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald, and David Coombs

U.S. government knew that revelations about NSA’s PRISM program would hurt American Technology companies, but they didn’t “really really care”, Bart Gellman

The Surveillance State Killed BlackBerry, and the Same Fate Awaits Other Tech Giants (Update 5)

Coming Out of the Dark Ages, Psychedelic Science, and Freedom Over Consciousness: Introduction to the Benefits of Cannabis, Psilocybin, Ayahuasca, LSD, DMT, and Ibogaine

Four Articles and Four Videos: Computerization of Jobs, Determination, NSA, Jacob Appelbaum and Edward Snowden, United States Torturing Iran, Chomsky, Israel’s Propaganda Machine, and Max Blumenthal’s Breaking Point

What will make or break the United States of America is the truth about 9/11: Investigate the theories behind the conspiracies

Target is Still Iran: Clear Cutting the Middle East and the Coming Blood Bath (Mapping World War III)

One, Two, Three, Four, When Are We Going to Go to War? Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Are You Out of Your F__king Mind! (What We Should Know Before Waging War on Syria)

The 2005 Bankruptcy Bill: Knowing a Financial Crisis Was Imminent, Banks Lobbied Government to Pass Laws to Preserve Their Wealth

Math in Art and Design: Using the Fibonacci Numbers to Create the Golden Rectangle (Math in Real Life)

Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison: Short Video Interview and Some Comments from Legal and Human Rights Organizations (UPDATES)

Math in Art and Design: The Golden Ratio, Rectangle, and Spiral - Dirk Marwig (Math in Real Life)

Two Lectures and One Interview: Eric R. Kandel on learning, memory, and individuality; Elon Musk on the Future of Energy and Transport; and Ladar Levison on Lavabit

Heads-up to the festival community, thieves are working the circuit; here is one of their scams

Raccoon Fight in a Tree

Update from La Belle Besogne Farm for May, June, and July 2013: Math in Real Life, Food and Farming, CSA

Math in Art and Design: The Art of Dirk Marwig: Perspective, Depth, Elements, and Ratios (Math in Real Life)

A debate, a lecture, an interview, and some ethnic cleansing: Chris Hedges vs. Black Bloc, Victor Sebestyen on the Collapse of Soviet Empire, Joshua Oppenheimer on ‘The Act of Killing’, and some Israeli Ethnic Cleansing

Recap of Series I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, and a little Math in Real Life (The Language of Mathematics #153)

Torrent now available for Series IVa, and an Update: Language of Mathematics and Math in Real Life (#152)

Why the U.S. Government has such a hard-on for Edward Snowden

Here is What’s Going On in Canada, Part 1: Two Telltale Speeches by Stephen Harper

So let me get this straight, we fast track renditions but hunt down whistleblowers on presidential planes!

The Five Stages of Destruction as it Relates to America’s War on Drugs: “The House I Live In”

Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow: "In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me,... No, the Obama administration is afraid of you."

Excerpts from 21 Not-So-Random Articles, and a Video

Food and Farming, Part 8: An Update and Some Random Thoughts on Community Supported Agriculture, CSA (Math in Real Life)

Some Primary Lessons from Some Amazing Teachers

Three lectures for our time: Philip Zimbardo, Jacob Appelbaum, Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake, and William Binney

Food and Farming, Part 7: Example #2: Calculating Total Row-Feet of Crop Needed for Our Menu (Math in Real Life)

Breaking the Master Cleanse with Brazilian Cubensis and Salvia Divinorum

World War III began in May 2006: Building the New Map of the Middle East in Real Time

Statement from Jeremy Hammond Regarding His Plea

The Seduction of Dice, The Philosophy of Craps

Why Stocks Have Risen: Stimulus, Stimulus, and Indefinite-Stimulus, i.e., Transfer of Wealth from Main Street to Wall Street

Noam Chomsky, a Conspiracy Theorist of the Highest Magnitude: Defining Conspiracy Theory, What are the Theories Behind the Conspiracies?

Paradigm Shift in Education: Krishnamurti on the Educator, RAW on Ignorance, Gatto on the System, and Hamming on Learning

The shit show that is Afghanistan: “We will survive. But they will be taking the war back to America!”

Amazing Events Unfolding in Guatemala: “All of the crimes that Rigoberta Menchú just described were crimes not just of General Ríos Montt, but also of the U.S. government"

Update to the About Page

Not-so-Random Information: Introduction and Table of Contents

Some Not-so-Random Information, Set #6: Nixon and Thompson, Drugs, Manning, Chavez, Hedges, Transparency, Privacy, Schools, Education, Syria

Some Not-so-Random Information, Set #5: Environment, McKibben's Sermon, Food, Whistleblowers, Freedom, Surveillance, Totalitarianism, Tyranny, Chomsky, Education, and Torture at Guantánamo

Some Not-so-Random Information, Set #4: War Crimes, Obama, Kissinger, Guantánamo, Internet, Prohibition, Elizabeth Warren, Harvey Kurtzman, TIE ONE, Terrorism, and Education

Some Not-so-Random Information, Set #3: Education, Peak Oil, Prohibition, Cannabis Experiment, War on Nature, Privacy, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Resistance, Thatcherism, Sustainability Experiment, Dandelions

Some Not-So-Random Information, Set #2: Bitcoin and Decentralization, Inverted Totalitarianism, Growth, Energy, Israel, Iraq, Privacy, Environment, Revolution, James Steele, and Secrets and Lies

Some Not-So-Random Information, Set #1: Economy, Yemen, Environment, Government, Syria, Education, Intellectual Property, CIA and Drugs, Stats on Muslim’s, NATO vs. SCO, and Zionism

Celebrating the Day of Fertility, the 1886 Haymarket Massacre, and a speech from 1961 by Fidel Castro commemorating May Day

Democracy Now’s interview of Jeremy Scahill: Assassinations, Drones, Dirty Wars, Asymmetric Warfare, and Africa’s Bleak Future

Sharing a Story from My Father: In Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide

Today, dedicate an hour of your life to watching Democracy Now’s coverage of Guatemala's Genocide Trial

Food and Farming, Part 6: Example #1: Calculating Crop Yield (Math in Real Life)

Food and Farming, Part 5: The Spreadsheet, a Flowchart, The Big Picture (Math in Real Life)

Food and Farming, Part 4: The Spreadsheet, a To Do List, a Simple Calculation, Yield for Broccoli (Math in Real Life)

Excerpts from three articles on a possible farmland bubble

Three Game Changers: Standard Chartered admits fraud, Cyprus, and BRICS Nations discuss proposal to challenge World Bank and IMF

Creating torture centers and death squads in Iraq: Allowing psychopaths to abuse and rape children in the United States

On this tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a reminder, according to the UN charter, the invasion was illegal

Food and Farming, Part 3: Logistics of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Collecting Some Data - Cost and Revenue (Math in Real Life)

Food and Farming, Part 2: Crop and Farm Layout, plus the Greenhouse - CSA (Math in Real Life)

Food and Farming, Part 1: Introduction - Community Supported Agriculture, CSA (Math in Real Life)

Three lectures for our time: David Graeber, Chris Hedges, Jonathan Nitzan

"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"

Excerpts from Carl Sagan's Cosmos

Two documentaries: “The War on Kids” and “Marley”

The future of Africa looks bleak, here is why

May I Recommend a Documentary: “The Wobblies”

Recolonization of Africa, a Symptom of Our Addiction to Growth: Differential Accumulation, Why GDP Growth Rates Influence Foreign Policy

France Has Forgotten the Battle of Algiers, Africa Never Will: “Ordinary Victories” by Manu Larcenet

For The Love Of It: Beard Massage

For the ASMR Community: Extended Cuts of Picking My Beard

How Fast is a Human Punch? - Physics: Kinematics: Calculating Speed (Math in Real Life -- Ratios)

Western Powers Go Full Retard on Africa: China vs. AFRICOM, a Resource War

Some Advice to Those Who Have Lost Loved Ones: Dealing with Death

Aaron Swartz, America’s Mohamed Bouazizi: We’re in the midst of a revolution, which side are you on?

Free two hour math class on January 19 in Vancouver - theme of the day will be to find out why we factor (UPDATE - Class cancelled)

Lest we forget, an attack on Syria is an attack on Iran and a threat to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Video highlights from the last two weeks: Strain Hunters, J. T. Gatto, Alexander Bard, Democracy Now, Devin Fidler, and Richard Hamming