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Current Topic: Society

YouTube - RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation
Topic: Society 12:34 pm EDT, Sep  6, 2010

Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.

YouTube - RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation


Meet Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Topic: Society 5:30 am EDT, Sep  3, 2010

This video is extremely creepy.

Meet Google CEO Eric Schmidt


Screw Philadelphia
Topic: Society 3:18 am EDT, Aug 27, 2010

Well, this is simply the biggest pile of crap I've seen from any gov't in a few days at least.

Philadelphia has decided that bloggers must pay for a $300 licence.

WTF. Since when did free speech so decidedly turn into "fee speech"?

If Nashville tries this, I'll send them a picture of my "special" finger.

Screw Philadelphia


Google, CIA Invest in 'Future' of Web Monitoring
Topic: Society 6:59 pm EDT, Aug  6, 2010

Noah Shachtman:

The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents -- both present and still-to-come.

CEO Christopher Ahlberg:

We can assemble actual real-time dossiers on people.

Decius:

Money for me, databases for you.

Decius:

What you tell Google you've told the government.

Eric Schmidt:

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

Google, CIA Invest in 'Future' of Web Monitoring


WikiLeaks and the Afghan War | STRATFOR
Topic: Society 4:36 am EDT, Jul 29, 2010

The WikiLeaks, from what we have seen so far, detail power, interest and reality as we have known it. They do not reveal a new reality. Much will be made about the shocking truth that has been shown, which, as mentioned above, shocks only those who wish to be shocked. The Afghan war is about an insufficient American and allied force fighting a capable enemy on its home ground and a Pakistan positioning itself for the inevitable outcome. The WikiLeaks contain all the details.

WikiLeaks and the Afghan War | STRATFOR


Feds Ignore Due Process, First Amendment, Shut Down Thousands of Blogs
Topic: Society 4:51 pm EDT, Jul 17, 2010

Once again, the Obama administration has violated the Bill of Rights. Earlier this month, the feds took down a free Wordpress blogging platform and disabled more than 73,000 blogs. The action was completely ignored by the corporate media. The site, Blogetery.com, was told by its hosting service that the government had issued orders to shut down the site due to a “a history of abuse” related to copyrighted material.

Feds Ignore Due Process, First Amendment, Shut Down Thousands of Blogs


Surveillance Video Shows iPad Thieves Who Ripped Off Man's Finger - Crimesider - CBS News
Topic: Society 5:44 pm EDT, Apr 22, 2010

DENVER (CBS/KCNC) Denver police have released surveillance video of a brazen thief that ripped off the victim's finger while ripping off his brand new iPad.
"I saw just a bone, all the skin and tendons and everything were off," Bill Jordan told CBS affiliate KCNC.

...
Ironically, Jordan told KCNC that he moved his family to Colorado from New Jersey 15 years ago to get away from crime there. Now after the iPad theft, he said his life and the life of his family will never be the same.

Come to New Jersey... We won't steal your fingers!

Surveillance Video Shows iPad Thieves Who Ripped Off Man's Finger - Crimesider - CBS News


They walk among us: 1 in 5 believe in aliens? - Yahoo! News
Topic: Society 6:40 pm EDT, Apr 14, 2010

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Aliens exist and they live in our midst disguised as humans -- at least, that's what 20 percent of people polled in a global survey believe.

The Reuters Ipsos poll of 23,000 adults in 22 countries showed that more than 40 percent of people from India and China believe that aliens walk among us disguised as humans, while those least likely to believe in this are from Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands (8 percent each).

However, the majority of people polled, or 80 percent, don't believe aliens in our midst.

They walk among us: 1 in 5 believe in aliens? - Yahoo! News


Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium | Robert McCrum | Books | guardian.co.uk
Topic: Society 9:23 pm EDT, Mar 31, 2010

Nerriere's idea caught on quickly within the international community. I wasn't the only one following its trajectory. The Times journalist Ben Macintyre described how, waiting for a flight from Delhi, he had overheard a conversation between a Spanish UN peacekeeper and an Indian soldier. "The Indian spoke no Spanish; the Spaniard spoke no Punjabi. Yet they understood one another easily. The language they spoke was a highly simplified form of English, without grammar or structure, but perfectly comprehensible, to them and to me. Only now," he concluded, "do I realise that they were speaking 'Globish', the newest and most widely spoken language in the world."

That, surely, is just a description of what used to be known as a lingua franca? Not according to Nerriere. For him, "Globish" was a specific linguistic tool, which he formulated in two (French language) handbooks: Decouvrez le Globish and Don't Speak English, Parlez Globish. In these self-published volumes, Nerriere began to develop a "Globish" vocabulary: the 1500 essential words for international communication, and the idiom-free turns of phrase in which they might be expressed by the world's two billion non-native English speakers.

Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium | Robert McCrum | Books | guardian.co.uk


Think Progress » Rep. Barney Frank distributes ‘Little Punk Staffer’ buttons to Capitol Hill aides.
Topic: Society 12:10 am EDT, Mar 21, 2010

I have a standing offer of $10 for the first person to bring me one of these pins.

Think Progress » Rep. Barney Frank distributes ‘Little Punk Staffer’ buttons to Capitol Hill aides.


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