War
A Fibonacci Cèilidh
by Nick Glossop on April 5, 2013
The mathusiasts at Numberphile go all Braveheart with a Fibonacci sequence tartan and accompanying skirl.
Dance (wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous) critters!
Fun fact: At the Battle of Stirling Bridge, William Wallace arranged his defensive shiltrons in Fibonacci sequence. The numerous but innumerate English invaders were baffled as well as defeated there. …
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The Bush Georges And The American Horror Closet
by Nick Glossop on March 23, 2013
The following clip may be for you if you were at all surprised that the end of the Bush W. administration did not bring about an end to the Bush wars, or the Bush war shenanigans, or Gitmo, or that the Obama presidency has shown less than zero appetite for pursuing and prosecuting Bush officials who lied, deceived, profiteered, and engaged in such war crimes as unprovoked war, attacks on …
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Top 10 Most Powerful Nuclear Bombs In History
by Nick Glossop on March 23, 2013
Via Democratic Underground…
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A Short Film Featuring Bradley Manning’s Voice
by Nick Glossop on March 18, 2013
Providence
It burdens me emotionally.
Leaked audio recording of Bradley Manning describing his response to the July 12, 2007 Baghdad Apache airstrike video that documented the killing of two Reuters journalists.
By Laura Poitras and Jenny Perlin
Information about the release of the leaked audio of Bradley Manning’s statement: https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/bl…
Downloads, embed code, and transcript for full audio, as well as excerpts: https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/bl…
This video is licensed under Creative Commons
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Documentary Exposes US Role in Iraq Sectarian Conflict
by Nick Glossop on March 16, 2013
This is one of the great untold stories of the Iraq War, how just over a year after the invasion, the United States funded a sectarian police commando force that set up a network of torture centers to fight the insurgency. It was a decision that helped fuel a sectarian civil war between Shia and Sunni that ripped the country apart. At its height, it was claiming 3,000 victims a
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Manning Statement: Full Audio
by Nick Glossop on March 12, 2013
Today, Freedom of the Press Foundation is publishing the full, previously unreleased audio recording of Private First Class Bradley Manning’s speech to the military court in Ft. Meade about his motivations for leaking over 700,000 government documents to WikiLeaks. In addition, we have published highlights from Manning’s statement to the court.
While unofficial transcripts of this statement are available, this marks the first time the American public has heard the
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Nomination Of Bradley Manning For Nobel Peace Prize 2013
by Nick Glossop on March 7, 2013
A chance for the Nobel Committee to redeem itself after a series of rash (Barack Obama, 2009) and absurd (European Union, 2012) choices:
Dear Norwegian Nobel Committee,
We have the great honour of nominating Private First Class Bradley Manning for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.
Manning is a soldier in the United States army who stands accused of releasing hundreds of thousands of documents to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The
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Of Drug Cartels, Bankers, Defence Contract Scams & Cleaning Products
by Nick Glossop on January 7, 2013
Guy Lawson dropped in on the Majority Report to talk about his new book, Octopus, an apparent exposé of the comegedy of corruption plaguing our modern times.
From Baja to Wall Street, to Kabul, to a seat on the couch next to Floyd from True Romance, trust me, this clip will pay massive dividends on the investment of half an hour of your time. I’m buying this Guy’s …
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Blitz Interactive
by Nick Glossop on December 17, 2012
The Bomb Sight project is mapping the London WW2 bomb census between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941. Previously available only by viewing in the Reading Room at The National Archives, Bomb Sight is making the maps available to citizen researchers, academics and students. They will be able to explore where the bombs fell and to discover memories and photographs from the period.
The project has scanned original 1940s bomb census maps ,
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Bradley Manning Finally Gets to Speak
by Matthew Payne on December 1, 2012
Kevin Gosztola has been doing Pulitzer-quality work on the Bradley Manning pre-trial hearing on whether Manning was subject to “unlawful pretrial punishment.” The answer seems to be, “hells to the yeah!”:
2:05 PM Fifteen minute break. Fein opened up an incredible line of questions with Manning that do not obviously appear to benefit the government’s case that he wasn’t unlawfully punished. He asked about “voluntary statements” he signed except they
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1000 Words, 1000 Days: Day 322 – The Angel Of Warsaw
by Marty Schwartz on November 18, 2012
This site’s reputation has been built on a reputation of hard-cutting satire, edgy intellectual comedy, and a complete lack of awareness about what this site’s reputation has been built upon. But sometimes we have to check our laughs at the door and have the cajones to stand up and start a slow-clap, fully aware that it will crescendo into tumultuous applause because the object of our smacky praise is someone …
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