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Barack Obama takes over The Word on The Colbert Report
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A US Department of Defense (DoD) research programme is funding universities to model the dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale civil unrest across the world, under the supervision of various US military agencies. The multi-million dollar programme is designed to develop immediate and long-term “warfighter-relevant insights” for senior officials and decision makers in “the defense policy community,” and to inform policy implemented by “combatant commands.”
Launched in 2008 – the year of the global banking crisis – the DoD 'Minerva Research Initiative' partners with universities “to improve DoD’s basic understanding of the social, cultural, behavioral, and political forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the US.”
Among the projects awarded for the period 2014-2017 is a Cornell University-led study managed by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research which aims to develop an empirical model “of the dynamics of social movement mobilisation and contagions.” The project will determine “the critical mass (tipping point)” of social contagians by studying their “digital traces” in the cases of “the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the 2011 Russian Duma elections, the 2012 Nigerian fuel subsidy crisis and the 2013 Gazi park protests in Turkey.”
Twitter posts and conversations will be examined “to identify individuals mobilised in a social contagion and when they become mobilised.”
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/12/pentagon-mass-civil-breakdown?CMP=share_btn_fb
Fox News Throws A Hissy Fit In Response To Damning Senate Report On Torture (VIDEO)
Fox News Throws A Hissy Fit In Response To Damning Senate Report On Torture (VIDEO)
In typical Fox fashion, the conservative network immediately began defending torture and trashing Democrats upon the release of a long-awaited Senate report on the use of torture during the Bush Administration.
On Tuesday, Senate Democrats released a damning report on the torture methods used by the CIA during the Bush Administration in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Of course, the public…
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Big Bang May Have Created a Mirror Universe Where Time Runs Backwards
Why does time seem to move forward? It’s a riddle that’s puzzled physicists for well over a century, and they’ve come up with numerous theories to explain time’s arrow. The latest, though, suggests that while time moves forward in our universe, it may run backwards in another, mirror universe that was created on the “other side” of the Big Bang.
Two leading theories propose to explain the direction of time by way of the relatively uniform conditions of the Big Bang. At the very start, what is now the universe was homogeneously hot, so much so that matter didn’t really exist. It was all just a superheated soup. But as the universe expanded and cooled, stars, galaxies, planets, and other celestial bodies formed, birthing the universe’s irregular structure and raising its entropy.
One theory, proposed in 2004 by Sean Carroll, now a professor at Cal Tech, and Jennifer Chen, then his graduate student, says that time moves forward because of the contrast in entropy between then and now, with an emphasis on the fact that the future universe will so much more disordered than the past. That movement toward high entropy gives time its direction.
The new theory says a low entropy early universe is inevitable because of gravity, and ultimately that’s what gives time its arrow. To test the idea, the theory’s proponents assembled a simple model with nothing more than 1,000 particles and the physics of Newtonian gravity. Here’s Lee Billings, reporting for Scientific American:
"The system’s complexity is at its lowest when all the particles come together in a densely packed cloud, a state of minimum size and maximum uniformity roughly analogous to the big bang. The team’s analysis showed that essentially every configuration of particles, regardless of their number and scale, would evolve into this low-complexity state. Thus, the sheer force of gravity sets the stage for the system’s expansion and the origin of time’s arrow, all without any delicate fine-tuning to first establish a low-entropy initial condition."
But here’s the twist: The expansion after the simulated Big Bang didn’t just happen in one direction, but two. The simple Big Bang they modeled produced two universes, one a mirror of the other. In one universe, time appears to run forwards. In the other, time runs backwards, at least from our perspective.
Here’s Billings again, interviewing lead author Julian Barbour from the University of Oxford:
“If they were complicated enough, both sides could sustain observers who would perceive time going in opposite directions. Any intelligent beings there would define their arrow of time as moving away from this central state. They would think we now live in their deepest past.”
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The Illinois General Assembly just passed a bill that would prevent citizens from recording the police.
Earlier this year, the Illinois Supreme Court struck down a state eavesdropping law that made it a crime for citizens to record conversations with police or anyone else without the other person’s permission. The court held that the old law “criminalize[d] a wide range of innocent conduct” and violated free-speech rights. In particular, the court noted the state could not criminalize recording activities where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy, including citizens’ “public” encounters with police.
Now the old law is back, with just a few changes, in a new bill sent to the governor’s desk by the Illinois Senate on Dec. 4. The bill not only passed, but did so overwhelmingly with votes of 106-7 in the House on and 46-4-1 in the Senate.
The new version is nearly as bad as the old one.
Under the new bill, a citizen could rarely be sure whether recording any given conversation without permission is legal. The bill would make it a felony to surreptitiously record any “private conversation,” which it defines as any “oral communication between 2 or more persons,” where at least one person involved had a “reasonable expectation” of privacy.
http://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-general-assembly-revives-recording-ban/
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GENDER IS CONFUSING
SEXUALITY IS CONFUSING
FEELINGS ARE CONFUSING
EVERYTHING IS CONFUSING
Including geometry
especially geometry
Geometry isn't as confusing as the previous things, tbh.
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CBS News has confirmed that the Obama administration is bracing itself for a Tuesday release of the long-awaited CIA torture report, though the timing ultimately remains at the discretion of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Sources familiar with the matter confirm to CBS News State Department Correspondent Margaret Brennan that Secretary of State John Kerry called and requested, but did not pressure, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, the chairwoman of the Intelligence Committee, to hold off on releasing the report. The administration has some concerns about the safety of diplomats abroad. Bloomberg View first reported the conversation between Kerry and Feinstein.
The Intelligence Committee has been negotiating for months with the White House over redactions to the report, after it voted earlier this year to declassify it. The report, which examines the CIA’s now-defunct detention and interrogation program, took five years to produce and is about 6,000 pages. Though the committee voted to declassify the entire report, the committee is expected to release next week just an executive report, which is hundreds of pages long instead of thousands.
The report has led to profoundly tense relations between the CIA, and the Senate Intelligence Committee, the congressional body tasked with oversight of the agency. In March, Feinstein went to the Senate floor to charge that the CIA was spying on committee staff members who were working on the report.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/kerry-asks-feinstein-to-delay-release-of-cia-torture-report/
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CITY OF NAGA, Bicol Region – Six thousand (6000) US troops were discovered over the week secretly stationed in Mindanao on top of the 55 AFP combat battalions encamped in various areas in the island.
The number of US troops in Mindanao surpasses current US military deployment in Iraq.
The discovery of the heavy presence of US troops in Mindanao came up when the Supreme Court is set to deliberate if the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) is an executive order or a treaty.
Kabataan Partylist Rep.Terry Ridon blew the whistle Monday, exposing the presence of 6,000 US troops in Mindanao.
“While the Aquino administration harps about largely-imagined development in the human rights situation in the country, it is enraging to find out that this government has allowed heavy foreign military deployment in Mindanao,” the youth solon said, informing online news Bicol Today.com on Tuesday.
“The presence of thousands of US troops in Mindanao adds to the fact that majority of the Philippine Army’s forces are deployed in the area. This large-scale deployment bodes ill for the people of Mindanao, many of whom have already been internally displaced and lost jobs and loved ones due to the heavy militarization of the area,” Ridon said.
Manilakbayan, a protest caravan composed of people of Mindanao that journeyed to Manila, has earlier reported that as much as 6,000 US troops are stationed in Camp Navarro in Zamboanga City.
Hundreds of people have joined the long journey from Mindanao to Manila to expose the worsening human rights situation in several provinces in Mindanao.
Manilakbayan has documented multiple cases of human rights violations, and even the entry of military forces in schools.
A protest program was held at Mendiola in Manila to denounce the intensified militarization of regions in Mindanao.
“Heavy deployment of combined US and Philippine forces in Mindanao has severely affected the lives of people living there, especially the indigenous peoples and their children. There are several reports of schools being turned into barracks, hamletting of entire communities, and hundreds of indigenous people driven away from their ancestral homes due to militarization,” Ridon said.
The youth solon pointed out that the “heavy military presence” in Mindanao does not contribute to fostering peace in the region, but is rather motivated by big business, especially foreign and domestic mining firms that have a large interest in the mineral deposits in several regions in Mindanao.
“Look at the case of B’laan tribe which has been greatly affected by the Tampakan copper-gold mining project. Tens of thousands have already been displaced by large-scale mining activity in South Cotabato, and tribal leaders have one by one fallen in the hands of the AFP in recent years.
The Tampakan copper-gold mining project is ranked as the fifth largest undeveloped copper-gold deposit in the world, with an estimated 2.4 billion metric ton deposit, with 13.5 million metric tons of copper and 15.8 million ounces of gold.
“It is clear that heavy military presence in Mindanao is not aimed at fostering peace in the region, but rather to protect the interests of foreign and domestic mining investors,” Ridon said.
The youth solon joined Manilakbayan’s call for “food and justice” for the people of Mindanao, and also called for the immediate pull-out of both US and Philippine troops deployed in the area.
“Today, we join our brothers and sisters from Mindanao in condemning the Aquino government’s heavy-handed policy of militarization, which even allowed the entry of thousands of US troops in the region. The people of Mindanao have long suffered the brunt of heavy militarization. It is thus our urgent demand to the Aquino administration to pull out all troops stationed there,” the legislator said
- See more at: http://bicoltoday.com/2014/11/27/6000-us-troops-discovered-in-mindanao-more-us-troops-deployed-than-in-iraq/#sthash.OUJLlqbj.dpuf
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