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Oklahoma City Bombing: Startling Evidence Proves Government Cover-up
"We have affidavits in our report from paramedics and other rescuers at the scene who say they heard law enforcement people stating there were other bombs found in the building. And then you had bomb experts who had time to drive to a TV station, and sit there, and talk about the un-detonated bombs they had, bombs that were found in the building. You know, it's just too much competent information that can't be reasoned away as mistakes."
Is Futures Studies a Science or an Art?
"American technocratic mind-sets were soon challenged by blowback from geopolitical crises, including the Vietnam conflict and the 1973 OPEC oil crisis. Management by Objectives gave way to scenario-driven planning and computer simulations. 'Big science' was simultaneously facing a post-positivist revolt, which began trickling with Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), (Bell, 1997: 198), grew with Paul Feyrabend's Against Method (1975) and became a flood of postmodernist critiques. This philosophical battle would be repeated, during the following decades, in the controversies regarding the epistemological status of sociobiology, memetics and evolutionary psychology."
Disinformation: The Interviews: Annihilating Reality (Genesis P-Orridge)
"An excerpt from Richard Metzger's new book Disinformation: The Interviews: "cultural engineer" Genesis P-Orridge talks about COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, Aleister Crowley, performance art and 21st century metaphysics."
Almost Famous Inc: Musicians on Industry Standard Practices
"File-swapping software and peer-to-peer networks have empowered more musicians to defy major labels, payola distribution and the need for an MTV video to gain airplay. Other "standard practices" remains the status quo. Contracts for indie and major labels still have a legal emphasis that favors the company's short-term profit cycle over the long-term career development of the artist. A&R (Artists & Repertoire) scouts still 'surf' the subcultures and the underground, signing a few artists, stalling others, and sometimes leaving fragmentation in their wake. Music management emulates the business practices developed by the Big 5 accountancy firms and the major consultancy firms. The technological promise of file-swapping software must be counter-balanced by a similar revolution of business culture within the music industry."
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