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Dawes - North Hills/Daytrotter Session
1 hour ago
Wednesday 3 July 2013
Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex
Dwight D. Eisenhower exit speech on Jan.17, 1961
James Clapper is still lying to America
Clapper, you may recall, unequivocally said “no, sir” in response to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asking him: “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” Clapper’s response was shown to be a lie by Snowden’s disclosures, as well as by reports from the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Associated Press and Bloomberg News (among others). This is particularly significant, considering lying before Congress prevents the legislative branch from performing oversight and is therefore a felony.
Upon Snowden’s disclosures, Clapper initially explained his lie by insisting that his answer was carefully and deliberately calculated to be the “least untruthful” response to a question about classified information. Left unmentioned was the fact that he could have simply given the same truthful answer that Alberto Gonzales gave the committee in 2006...
♪♫ Strange Parcels & Jesse Rae - Victory Horns
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One of my funeral songs
Tuesday 2 July 2013
Science Genius B.A.T.T.L.E.S Winner: Jabari Johnson
B.A.T.T.L.E.S. (Bringing Attention to Transforming, Teaching and
Learning Science) was conceived as a way to keep students engaged in
school and in science. The contest is the brainchild of GZA, Christopher
Emdin, Assistant Professor of Science Education at Teachers College;
and Rap Genius, which runs rapgenius.com, a website where rap is posted,
critiqued as poetry and annotated. GZA and Jeremy Dean of Rap Genius
were among the six judges who watched as teens ages 14 to 20 strode the
stage at TC's Joyce B. Cowin Conference Center and "spat" lyrics that
ran a gamut of topics from rock science, natural selection and genetics
to how materials freeze or melt. The raps were judged on the quality of
their scientific content as well as their lyricism and beat
How Rap Battles Are Helping High Schoolers Learn to Love Science
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