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Arabian Jubilee
You’ll believe it if you’ve been there. Have you ever had the honor of meeting a true expert? I mean somebody with exceptional knowledge: a geologist who can spend an entire afternoon talking–...
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Overclassification
Edward Snowden reads a prepared script on how overclassification makes it impossible for a democracy to function. How could any reasonable person disagree? Hard to make the case he’s an unpatriotic...
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The Asymmetry of Heaven and Hell
A little thought experiment today. I watched a documentary called How Art Made the World: The Day Pictures Were Born (BBC 2005). It offers a theory of how 2-D pictures were invented: prehistoric...
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In a Galaxy near Russia…
Greetings, readers. anolen.com got another shout-out from the No Agenda podcast this week, which is a great excuse for me to show off Nick the Rat’s latest creation. (So simple, yet so true.) Well...
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Oligarchs
Because the Americans would never do that… I don’t think anyone is surprised to learn that the new ‘Maidan’ government in the Ukraine has appointed a handful of oligarchs to rule over industry-rich,...
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Grand Theft Autonomy
anolen:In light of recent events in the Ukraine, I’m re-blogging this post on how the US engineers ‘revolutions’; Gentlemen, this is getting really old. My apologies to regular readers. Originally...
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SXSW: That’s All Folks!
Snowden spoke at SXSW and all I got was this lousy… Edward Snowden: Live today from underneath Putin’s wing! Edward spoke at the prestigious South by Southwest Interactive conference at noon ET via a...
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Passing Noam on My Way Out – Part 1
anolen:Another excellent post from The Rancid Honeytrap, one of the more thoughtful bloggers online. Chomsky’s university is MIT for the uninitiated. Originally posted on The Rancid Honeytrap: I wasn’t...
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Defense Against the Dark Arts
More Encryption means Fewer Pixies. Attempting to add more encryption is just likely to have more broken encryption on the internet. – Poul-Henning Kamp, FOSDEM 2014 Edward Snowden spoke at SXSW on...
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Notes From A Country Doctor
Don’t use the Cyrillic alphabet for English words. Just don’t do it. Please. Mikhail Bukgalov is one of my favorite writers and I believe many people share my opinion, because his collection of short...
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Victorian Kitchen Garden
A happy post this morning; another gem from the bounty of Youtube. The Victorian Kitchen Garden is a 1987 program from the BBC and Sveriges Television 2. It’s a gardening program but it’s also a...
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The News That’s Fit
There was a time in my life when I wanted to be a journalist. Through a lucky family connection I got an internship (unpaid!) at a paper in Lawrence, MA. I was twenty-two and had only ever written for...
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Revealed: Visitor logs show full extent of Pierre and Pamela Omidyar’s cozy...
anolen:Just when you thought Pierre Omidyar couldn’t get any uglier…”eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pamela, had co-invested with the US government in opposition groups that played a key role...
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Pontius Pilate and Christ
St. Andrew’s Church on Kiev’s Andriyivskyy Descent, where the Bulgakov family lived for a time. The travesty that is A Young Doctor’s Notebook left me with a bad taste in my mouth, so this weekend I...
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Good Morning, America
Love blisters, otherwise known as ‘the NSA disease’. “Confirmed: US Conducts Warrantless Searches on Americans” As if the American Government’s cagy behavior wasn’t enough to convince you of the truth...
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ZunZuneo
Joe McSpedon, another washed-up intelligence agent. Caught with their hand in the technology cookie-jar again! Joe McSpedon, employee of USAID and probably some other American government agency, has...
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What do I do now, Chuck?
I worked for an ex-professor once; this prof used to teach at MIT. He told me an anecdote from his days at The Institute: “It was 1990 and I was serving on some committee with Chuck Vest, the...
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So She Cleared Customs This Time
What’s wrong with this picture? No government harassment! WTF? Thank God today was not one of the “over forty” times US customs officials detained Laura Poitras! Polk awards told @ggreenwald &...
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Heartbleed
What being ahead of the curve looks like. I never get tired of plugging smart people. Heard of “Heartbleed“– the OpenSSL ‘flaw’ that left two-thirds of the internet vulnerable to hackers? “The agency...
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@BennyJohnson is Good at his Job
Benny Johnson, democracy manager. There’s a philosophical idea called ‘the Hegelian dialectic’ which says that by combining a thesis with an antithesis you can find truth, or at least a higher...
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