Workers Leaving the Googleplex from Andrew Norman Wilson on Vimeo.
Well - I have a purpose for this little corner of the internet now. I have decided this is my dumping grounds. I have a toolbar link to dump as I go. It will come as I find it - no particular rhyme or reason - as I bounce around this wonderland of information we call the internet. Hope you find something of interest - you may just get an idea of just who I am by what I find valuable. Enjoy.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
4/27/11 - Tuscaloosa Tornado
FYI ... if a tornado doesn't seem to be moving but is getting bigger - you need to move
Accountability awaits Ryan budget supporters at home
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Even children threatened by state Republican agenda
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
With President Obama's Birth Certificate, Klansman Trump Reminds Blacks ...
Fuck you Donald Trump ...
Charles Kernaghan addresses the 2010 IAFF Convention
Why the rich get richer and we are paid less ... shouldn't we demand that they get brought up to our standard instead of allowing corporations demanding we be brought down to theirs?
Monday, April 25, 2011
C-Realm Podcast 181: Raising Rock Bottom
KMO welcomes Charles Eisenstein back to the program to explore the metaphor of industrial civilization as an addict headed for rock bottom. In the service of a culture addicted to control, technology consumes the world, but after hitting rock bottom, might the destructive nature of technology be transformed along with human consciousness? In the second half of the conversation, Charles talks about the life and work of Weston A. Price and explores ways to reconcile the idea of doing sacred work with the demands of a money economy.
Diet Soap Podcast #7: Transcending the Ego
Neil Kramer is back for the second half of a conversation about the control system and the self. This episode also features a reading of Gary Snyder's "Buddhist Anarchism," and the voices of Krishnamurti, Alan Watts, Jill Bolte Taylor, and Slavoj Zizek. If you've been listening and have a comment write to info@dietsoap.org and your comment will be read in the next podcast.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
The Visionary Activist Show w/Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
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In order to avert the dangerous distraction of the "Shopocalypse" O No! What Would Jesus Buy Caroline welcomes Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping and his now launched movie, "What Would Jesus Buy?"
Friday, April 22, 2011
Expanding Mind - 05/06/10
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April 20th '11 - The ZM Global Radio - Host: Peter Joseph - Apr 20,2011
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
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The Visionary Activist Show - November 22, 2007 at 2:00pm | KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley: Listener Sponsored Free Speech Radio
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The Visionary Activist Show - November 22, 2007
As a holiday treat, Caroline plays a 2006 interview with listener favorite Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma."
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
The Visionary Activist Show, for November 8, 2007
In order to continue sucking the "g" out of "Kingdom," (May the Kindom of Heaven be at hand!) Caroline is joined by John Nichols, fellow presenter at this weekend's Green Festival.
Gore Vidal said, "Of all the giant slayers now afoot in the great American desert, John Nichols' sword is the sharpest." Washington correspondent for the Nation Magazine, Nichols' latest book,
The Genius of Impeachment reminds us that the power of impeachment is in the hands of of the people rather than congress.
Friday, April 15, 2011
The Visionary Activist Show, for November 1, 2007
The Visionary Activist Show - November 1, 2007
Caroline plays more fantabulous excerpts of her October 20th "In Trickster We Trust" delivered at Bioneers, and the recording slowly wrestled from them in bits and pieces, like Osiris' body, being re-stitched together by the Isis-KPFA part of ourselves.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Expanding Mind - Progressive Radio Network
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Visionary pranks, the San Francisco Suicide Club, and the mixed bag of Burning Man: a talk with Burning Man co-founder and agent provocateur John Law."
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
The Visionary Activist Show - October 18, 2007 at 2:00pm | KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley: Listener Sponsored Free Speech Radio
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The Visionary Activist Show - October 18, 2007
Caroline is joined by Kenny Ausubel, founder and co-president of Bioneers, a nonprofit educational organization that promotes practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring the Earth and communities. Caroline is also joined by Nicole Sowaya, recently rehired as Executive Director of Pacifica. Sawaya's firing as KPFA General Manager in 1999 shocked KPFA staff and listeners and led to a crisis which rocked Pacifica.
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Gamification 101: Design the Player Journey
Thursday, April 7, 2011
The C-Realm Podcast
KMO talks with Lierre Keith and Tara Holste about agriculture and the civilizations to which it gives rise. Lierre argues that vegetarianism, no matter the motivation, destroys the Earth as readily as does a diet heavy with meat so long as it depends on annual mono-cropping. Her expression of this opinion has drawn scorn and physical assaults from vegan ideologues. Lierre wants humans to return to a pre-agricultural existence, and she does not admit of any possibility of moving beyond civilization into something sustainable yet distinct from the paleolithic mode of human existence.
Music by Fernando Tarango
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
12/12/10 - Matt Elrod | Drug Truth Network
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Title: Century of Lies
Date: 12/12/10
Guest: Matt Elrod
Organization: DrugSense
Year: 2010
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Matt Elrod of DrugSense re escalation of drug war in Canada Vermont state Rep Jason Lorber re effort to decrim marijuana"
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
Here we go again ...
How many times are these large data miners gonna be compromised before people understand how vulnerable their data is when these companies only see it as a commodity and not someone's life?
Epsilon data breach results in a huge loss of customer data
April 2, 2011 | Dean Takahashi
Epsilon, the world’s largest provider of permission-based email marketing, has suffered a huge data breach. That means hackers may have swiped customer data belonging to the world’s biggest brands.
Epsilon sends more than 40 billion emails a year on behalf of 2,500 brands. Security Week said the breach has affected a number of those brands, including grocery retailer Kroger, TiVo, Marriott Rewards, Ritz-Carlton Rewards, US Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, Citi, McKinsey & Company, New York & Company, Brookstone, and Walgreens.
At first, the breach was believed to have affected only Kroger. But more and more companies have been confirming that they have had their data stolen as well. Epsilon builds and hosts customer databases for brands, making it a prime target for hackers. In many cases, the data lost is simply someone’s email address. But Security Week says that’s all that a hacker needs to try a targeted phishing attack against the customer, who will expect to have communication from these brands. You might, for instance, receive a message from Brookstone about a special offer addressed to your name. But it may be carrying a virus that exposes you to data theft if you simply open the email. These kinds of phishing attacks are likely to have a higher success rate.
Read more at venturebeat.comMarriott Rewards and Ritz Carlton Rewards told SecurityWeek that their customer names, email addresses, and member point balances were exposed. Citi warned customers via Twitter about the incident. Epsilon disclosed the breach late Friday.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Government owned bank saves Japan
But there are those who want to imperil them by privatizing ...
Why the Japanese Government Can Afford to Rebuild: It Owns the Largest Depository Bank in the World
The Japanese government can afford its enormous debt because it owns the bank that is its principal creditor. But competitors are attempting to force the bank's privatization. If they succeed, they could propel the country into debt servitude along with other credit-strapped nations.
When an IMF spokeswoman said at a news conference on March 17 that Japan has the financial means to recover from its devastating tsunami, skeptical bloggers wondered what she meant. Was it a polite way of saying, "You're on your own?"
Spokeswoman Caroline Atkinson said, "The most important policy priority is to address the humanitarian needs, the infrastructure needs and reconstruction and addressing the nuclear situation. We believe that the Japanese economy is a strong and wealthy society and the government has the full financial resources to address those needs." Asked whether Japan had asked for IMF assistance, she said, "Japan has not requested any financial assistance from the IMF."
Skeptics asked how a country with a national debt that was over 200% of GDP could be "strong and wealthy." In a CIA Factbook list of debt to GDP ratios of 132 countries in 2010, Japan was at the top of the list at 226%, passing up even Zimbabwe, ringing in at 149%. Greece and Iceland were fifth and sixth, at 144% and 124%. Yet Japan's credit rating was still AA, while Greece and Iceland were in the BBB category. How has Japan managed to retain not only its credit rating but its status as the second or third largest economy in the world, while carrying that whopping debt load?
The answer may be that the Japanese government has a captive funding source: it owns the world's largest depository bank. As U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said, "Deficits don't matter." They don't matter, at least, when you own the bank that is your principal creditor. Japan has remained impervious to the speculative attacks that have crippled countries such as Greece and Iceland because it has not fallen into the trap of dependency on foreign financing.
Because Japan's enormous public debt is largely held by its own citizens, the country doesn't have to worry about foreign investors losing confidence.If there's going to be a run on government debt, it will have to be the result of its own citizens not wanting to fund it anymore. And since many Japanese fund the government via accounts held at the Japan Post Bank -- which in turn buys government debt -- that institution would be the conduit for a shift to occur.
Read more at www.huffingtonpost.comBy privatizing Japan Post, [Koizumi] aims to break the stranglehold that politicians and bureaucrats have long exercised over the allocation of financial resources in Japan and to inject fresh competition into the country's financial services industry. His plan also will create a potentially mouthwatering target for domestic and international investors: Japan Post's savings bank and insurance arms boast combined assets of more than ¥380 trillion ($3.2 trillion) . . .