Wednesday, 4 July 2012

For all Mitt Romney’s touting of his business record, when it comes to his own money the Republican nominee is remarkably shy about disclosing numbers and investments. Nicholas Shaxson delves into the murky world of offshore finance, revealing loopholes that allow the very wealthy to skirt tax laws, and investigating just how much of Romney’s fortune (with $30 million in Bain Capital funds in the Cayman Islands alone?) looks pretty strange for a presidential candidate...
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Stanley Chow: Jimi Hendrix

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US increases harassment of WikiLeaks, Assange associates

The Persecution of Julian Assange

I Love the Julian Assange Show!

Tonybee Tiles

For three decades, someone has been laying cryptic tile messages about resurrecting the dead in the cities roads throughout the U.S. and around the world. These tiles have been named Toynbee Tiles after the British historian, Arnold Toynbee, who often discussed the rise and fall of civilizations. The people or person responsible for these tiles has remained a secret with many theories as to who is responsible. A movie titled Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles was released last year piecing together key events in an attempt to unravel the mystery and surreal story behind the tiles.
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Zooming Into The Center Of The Milky Way

This zoom sequence stars with a view of the Milky Way. We zoom in towards the crowded central region, in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer). By shifting to an infrared view we see through the dusty clouds in this direction and get a close up view of the objects orbiting the supermassive black hole that lies at the center of the Milky Way. The final views show the motion of a newly-discovered gas cloud that is falling rapidly towards the central black hole.
credit: ESO/MPE/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)/VISTA/J. Emerson/Digitized Sky Survey 2 Music: xxx
Source: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1151d/

Happy Birthday, Hubble: Celebrating 22 Years of Stunning Space Images

♪♫ Miles Davis - So What

Miles Davis was a man of few words. When he did speak, his words often had a similar effect to a hand grenade being lobbed into the room. In 1987, he was invited to a White House dinner by Ronald Reagan. Few of the guests appeared to know who he was. During dinner, Nancy Reagan turned to him and asked what he'd done with his life to merit an invitation. Straight-faced, Davis replied: "Well, I've changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done except fuck the president?"

The Big Bang Theory?

What Killed Arafat?

Calls to exhume Arafat's body after poison report

Yasser Arafat gets a glowing report

Happy Fourth Y'all

How Did the British Press Cover the American Revolution?

British r Coming. Pls RT!

Now here's Aaron with the weather...

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Julian Assange is way too white and way too good looking to get the death penalty. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/europe/view/20120629wikileaks_julian_assange_gets_extradition_letter_from_british_police/srvc=home&position=recent

How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down

No one but Hector Xavier Monsegur can know why or when he became Sabu, joining the strange and chaotic Internet collective known as Anonymous. But we know the moment he gave Sabu up. On June 7, 2011, federal agents came to his apartment on New York’s Lower East Side and threatened the 28-year-old with an array of charges that could add up to 124 years in prison. So Hector Monsegur, who as Sabu had become a mentor and icon to fellow members of Anonymous, surrendered his online identity to a new, equally faceless and secretive master: the FBI.
For the next eight months, Sabu continued to rage across the Internet as a core member of AntiSec, a blackhat hacking group within Anonymous. He helped to deface government and corporate websites and even helped bring down the private intelligence firm Stratfor—all, apparently, with the FBI’s blessing as it quietly gathered logs on Monsegur’s fellow “anons.” Law enforcement officials later told Fox News that Monsegur was working out of the FBI offices “almost daily” in the weeks after he pleaded guilty in August and then from his own home thereafter, with an agent watching his activity 24 hours a day. Sometimes agents were even posing as Sabu directly. On Christmas, just after the Stratfor hack, Sabu and I happened to be logged into the same channel on IRC, the chatting protocol that serves as the medium through which most Anonymous members planned large-scale operations. I asked the AntiSec members if they were worried about a law enforcement response to Stratfor. Sabu shot back:
we’re used to that heat
we survived the first rounds of the raids
He was referring to a series of arrests that past summer that had scooped up, worldwide, at least 80 alleged participants in the group. At the time, it was hard to fault his reasoning, since those arrests seemed to have done nothing to slow the group’s terrifying onslaught in 2011. It was a year in which Anonymous burst into the geopolitical consciousness of the world, assisting Arab Spring activists and attacking the security industry, bedeviling law enforcement and intelligence agencies, carrying out countless hacks against Sony and other large corporations. As protest movements spread to the West, Anonymous provided them with crucial logistics (not to mention a great deal of media attention), from the BART protests in San Francisco to the Occupy actions across the US and overseas. Anonymous had figured out how to infiltrate anything, how to mobilize not just machines but physical bodies, all around the globe...
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