January 17, 2014
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Randy Weston and Billy Harper: “The Roots Of The Blues”
Randy Weston and Billy Harper perform “Blues To Senegal”, the second track from their 2013 album release “The Roots Of The Blues.” Continue reading
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Video: Boston Marathon Bomb Simulators Exposed
The exposé uses footage of controlled bomb simulations and on-the-scene eyewitness testimony from Boston to suggest that the explosions appear to have originated from pyrotechnic instruments or props resembling trash cans. The purported “bombs” in fact consisted of mortars and flammable powder that generate a more-or-less benign explosion devoid of any shrapnel, a hypothesis that… Continue reading
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Why you should be pissed off about Care.data By Alice
From the Spring, medical information about you which was previously only kept to help understand you as an individual – information from consultations, notes on prescriptions – will be uploaded to a central database to become one of the world’s most complete health databases. Our records are being connected to make them stronger. Continue reading
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Researchers find tipping point to sway public opinion By Paul Hyman
If just 10% of a social network is strongly committed to an opinion, that’s enough to rapidly convert the uncommitted 90% to adopt their point of view, say researchers who used computer models to discover the tipping point where a minority view becomes the majority opinion. Continue reading
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Capitalism's War on the Planet By Kirkpatrick Sale
I am reminded of a story told by Friederich Engels when he visited early industrial England and made some comment on the river of Manchester, “a coal-black, foul-smelling stream, full of debris and refuse,” and remarked to a leading manufacturer that he had never seen so ill-built and filthy a city: “The man listened quietly… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 16 January 2014: Israel to destroy another Haifa neighborhood, evict Palestinian residents
16 January 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSettlers Storm Al-Aqsa CourtyardsIMEMC – [Thursday January 16, 2014] 22 Israeli settlers, escorted by occupation soldiers, stormed al-Aqsa yards on Thursday morning. … Continue reading
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“One Fund Boston” and the Boston Mass Casualty Event By James F. Tracy
An integral and by now much-anticipated element of a spectacle such as the Boston Mass Casualty Event (BMCE) of April 15, 2013 involves establishment of charities through which the incident may gain legitimacy in the public mind. Such entities provide fiscal channels by which event participants may be compensated and are also vital for public… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 