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 Michael Moore's opting to spoof romantic conventions in titling his upcoming documentary "Capitalism: A Love Story," which addresses the causes of the global economic meltdown.
"It will be the perfect date movie," Moore said in an announcement Wednesday. "It's got it all -- lust, passion, romance and 14,000 jobs being eliminated every day. It's a forbidden love, one that dare not speak its name. Heck, let's just say it: It's capitalism."
Moore and Overture Films had announced previously that the film would be released domestically on Oct. 2 -- a year and a day after the U.S. Senate voted to approve a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. Paramount Vantage will handle international distribution.
The film is described as focusing on "the disastrous impact that corporate dominance and out-of-control profit motives have on the lives of Americans and citizens of the world." read more
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"It will be the perfect date movie," Moore said in an announcement Wednesday. "It's got it all -- lust, passion, romance and 14,000 jobs being eliminated every day. It's a forbidden love, one that dare not speak its name. Heck, let's just say it: It's capitalism."
Moore and Overture Films had announced previously that the film would be released domestically on Oct. 2 -- a year and a day after the U.S. Senate voted to approve a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. Paramount Vantage will handle international distribution.
The film is described as focusing on "the disastrous impact that corporate dominance and out-of-control profit motives have on the lives of Americans and citizens of the world."">
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 Luke McKinney, Daily Galaxy: Did dark matter destroy the universe? You might be looking around at the way things "exist" and thinking "No", but we're talking about ancient history. Three hundred million years after the start of the universe, things had finally cooled down enough to form hydrogen atoms out of all the protons and electrons that were zipping around — only to have them all ripped up again around the one billion year mark. Why?
Most believe that the first quasars, active galaxies whose central black holes are the cosmic-ray equivalent of a firehose, provided the breakup energy, but some Fermilab scientists have another idea. Dan Hooper and Alexander Belikov posit that invisible, self-destructing dark matter may have blown up every atom in the universe. At least it's plausible in that if we wanted to ionize an entire universe, we'd want something that sounded that awesome.
Dark matter is a candidate for providing ionizing radiation because, if it exists at all, it's its own antiparticle: if two dark matter particles hit each other they can blow up. Insane as it sounds, the theory predicts that despite making up most of everything... read more
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Most believe that the first quasars, active galaxies whose central black holes are the cosmic-ray equivalent of a firehose, provided the breakup energy, but some Fermilab scientists have another idea. Dan Hooper and Alexander Belikov posit that invisible, self-destructing dark matter may have blown up every atom in the universe. At least it's plausible in that if we wanted to ionize an entire universe, we'd want something that sounded that awesome.
Dark matter is a candidate for providing ionizing radiation because, if it exists at all, it's its own antiparticle: if two dark matter particles hit each other they can blow up. Insane as it sounds, the theory predicts that despite making up most of everything...">
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Hmmm... As the anticipated July release date for Baxter's A/H1N1 flu pandemic vaccine approaches, an Austrian investigative journalist is warning the world that the greatest crime in the history of humanity is underway.
Jane Burgermeister has recently filed criminal charges with the FBI against the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), and several of the highest ranking government and corporate officials concerning bioterrorism and attempts to commit mass murder.
She has also prepared an injunction against forced vaccination which is being filed in America. These actions follow her charges filed in April against Baxter AG and Avir Green Hills Biotechnology of Austria for producing contaminated bird flu vaccine, alleging this was a deliberate act to cause and profit from a pandemic. read more
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The now-iconic photograph of the late 19-year-old Isis Obed Murillo, being carried by his friends to seek medical help moments after his shooting by gunmen during Sunday’s demonstrations in Tegucigalpa, was also published by the Honduran daily… Except that La Prensa chose to airbrush the young man’s blood out of the photo.
Media that literally whitewashes the story to this extreme, of course, is not shut down, destroyed or attacked by the coup regime. That treatment is reserved only for real journalists.
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 JOHN ROGERS, AP: He was once a child music prodigy and in the decades since, Paul Krassner has been everything from political satirist to author, editor, anarchist and an advocate for both peace and pornography.
But the title he may favor is one he found buried in his FBI file. "To classify Krassner as a social rebel is far too cute," a letter in the file said in response to a favorable magazine interview with the co-founder of the Yippie Party, the group that notoriously disrupted the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. "He's a nut, a raving, unconfined nut."
So Krassner titled his autobiography Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut.
"I figured I might as well make use of it," says the author, smiling broadly as he sits in the living room of his modest tract home in this sandy, sagebrush-dotted corner of the Mojave Desert on a scorchingly hot morning. On a nearby table is a copy of A People's History of the United States of America by historian and social activist Howard Zinn.
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So Krassner titled his autobiography Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut.
"I figured I might as well make use of it," says the author, smiling broadly as he sits in the living room of his modest tract home in this sandy, sagebrush-dotted corner of the Mojave Desert on a scorchingly hot morning. On a nearby table is a copy of A People's History of the United States of America by historian and social activist Howard Zinn.
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 From the New York Times:
Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday called for a radical rethinking of the global economy, criticizing a growing divide between rich and poor and urging the establishment of a “true world political authority” to oversee the economy and work for the “common good.”
Reportedly delayed to take into consideration the financial crisis, “Caritas in Veritate,” or “Charity in Truth,” was released by the Vatican on the eve of the Group of 8 industrialized nations summit meeting, which opens in Italy on Wednesday, and before Benedict is expected to receive President Obama at the Vatican on Friday.
In many ways, the document is a puzzling cross between an anti-globalization tract and a government white paper. Benedict also called for a reform of the United Nations so there could be a unified “global political body” that allowed the less powerful of the earth to have a voice, and he called on rich nations to help less fortunate ones. read more
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From the New York Times:
Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday called for a radical rethinking of the global economy, criticizing a growing divide between rich and poor and urging the establishment of a “true world political authority” to oversee the economy and work for the “common good.”
Reportedly delayed to take into consideration the financial crisis, “Caritas in Veritate,” or “Charity in Truth,” was released by the Vatican on the eve of the Group of 8 industrialized nations summit meeting, which opens in Italy on Wednesday, and before Benedict is expected to receive President Obama at the Vatican on Friday.
In many ways, the document is a puzzling cross between an anti-globalization tract and a government white paper. Benedict also called for a reform of the United Nations so there could be a unified “global political body” that allowed the less powerful of the earth to have a voice, and he called on rich nations to help less fortunate ones.">
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"It's not enough for governments to watch people; people have to watch governments."
The EFF's Brad Templeton warns that "Cheap, ubiquitous sensing has the potential to turn the worlds of privacy and civil rights upside-down. His solution? "Learning from the bottom-up approaches of the open source community.
Christine Peterson coined the term "open source," and she's now proposing the same collaborative sharing approach to sensing technology "to improve both security and the environment, while preserving even strengthening privacy, freedom, and civil liberties..." (And this article also includes video of her full presentation at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention.)
The Open Source Sensing initiative welcomes individuals and organizations, and warns that "We have a short window of opportunity for guiding this technology to protect both our security and our privacy."
Peterson says that in the long term, "open source defensive technologies will likely be the only ones capable of keeping up with rapidly-advancing offensive technologies, just as open source software is faster at addressing computer viruses today. read more
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The EFF's Brad Templeton warns that "Cheap, ubiquitous sensing has the potential to turn the worlds of privacy and civil rights upside-down. His solution? "Learning from the bottom-up approaches of the open source community.
Christine Peterson coined the term "open source," and she's now proposing the same collaborative sharing approach to sensing technology "to improve both security and the environment, while preserving even strengthening privacy, freedom, and civil liberties..." (And this article also includes video of her full presentation at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention.)
The Open Source Sensing initiative welcomes individuals and organizations, and warns that "We have a short window of opportunity for guiding this technology to protect both our security and our privacy."
Peterson says that in the long term, "open source defensive technologies will likely be the only ones capable of keeping up with rapidly-advancing offensive technologies, just as open source software is faster at addressing computer viruses today.">
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Almost a third of sharks and rays found in the open ocean are threatened with extinction – largely as a result of overfishing, conservationists have warned.
The first assessment of the global fortunes of 64 species of pelagic, or open ocean, sharks and rays found 32 per cent were under threat including the great white shark and basking shark.
The study by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) blamed tuna and swordfish fisheries that often catch sharks as accidental "by-catch". Sharks are also being increasingly targeted themselves to supply growing demand for shark meat and fins. read more
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Caroline Grant, Daily Mail: The concept sounds almost medieval in its crude simplicity. A war strategy to shower enemy troops with tens of thousands of poisoned darts made from sewing machine needles that could bring death in minutes. Incredibly, it was a plan considered by Britain at the height of the Second World War.
Details, revealed today in secret documents released by the National Archives, outline the gruesome physical effects of such an attack on Nazi troops. The papers also show how the Government tried to rope the Singer Sewing Machine Company into supplying the needles.
Scientists at Porton Down military science park in Wiltshire used a few prototypes from a local Singer branch, in Salisbury. Realising they were short of the necessary supplies, Britain's wartime chemical weapons lead, Dr Paul Fildes, wrote to the company himself. The concept, developed between 1941 and 1945, involved darts carrying a sufficient amount of poison to cause 'death or disablement'.
More the 30,000 of the darts could be stored in cluster bombs, which could be dropped onto enemy troops from an aircraft at 3,000ft, according to the file... read more
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 Salon.com: Every week lately seems to bring a new round of unrest in some corner of the world. Iran, Honduras and now Xinjiang, where 140 people died in rioting yesterday. Any such outbreak of civil conflict, of course, has its own complex history, with rival factions and long-held grievances that aren’t immediately obvious to far-off observers.
Follow the link to Salons coverage, or get more analysis below from Democracy Now!:
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Salon.com: Every week lately seems to bring a new round of unrest in some corner of the world. Iran, Honduras and now Xinjiang, where 140 people died in rioting yesterday. Any such outbreak of civil conflict, of course, has its own complex history, with rival factions and long-held grievances that aren’t immediately obvious to far-off observers.
Follow the link to Salons coverage, or get more analysis below from Democracy Now!:
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Faye Fiore, LA Times: Al Franken, the funnyman who wrote the best-seller Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, was sworn in as the junior senator from Minnesota on Tuesday, without doing one single funny thing.
Once he was known on the Saturday Night Live stage as the lisping, sweater-wearing bundle of insecurities Stuart Smalley ("I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me"). But Franken stepped into the ornate Senate chamber to take his oath of office in a charcoal gray suit from Men's Wearhouse, Bible in hand, surrounded by political allies eager to cast him as a serious addition to Congress.
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