February 7, 2010

Get the facts straight: Iran is next

Categorie: politics — Tags: , , , , — Fraehnk, 11:20 pm

The warmongerers are pushing forward again. Last week the WELT called for war and demanded Obama to strike on Iran. The article had to be taken down since it is incitement. However, the net never forgets and here it is.
In connection with the latest developments in Yemen and the security conference in Munich it [...]

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January 17, 2010

Capitalism hits the fan: A Marxist view

Categorie: politics — Tags: , , , , , — Fraehnk, 11:59 pm

With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today’s economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself. Wolff traces the source of the economic crisis to the 1970s, when wages began [...]

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Get your facts straight: Yemen

Categorie: politics — Tags: , , , , , , — Fraehnk, 11:12 pm

As you all probably noticed there is a lot of fuzz but suspected terror activists in Yemen. The story told by the government and parroted by the media is again pretty much bogus. The “terror attack” (the guy tried to put his underpants on fire!) will again serve as a pretext to get militarily involved [...]

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January 4, 2010

Bruce Sterling – Gothic Chic in the Future Favela

Categorie: art, politics — Tags: , , — Bise, 1:48 pm

Morgan Currie was that kind to transcribe the opening talk from Bruce Sterling at the confernce “You Me and Everyone We Know is a Curator” in Amsterdam last december.
read it here: http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2009/12/21/bruce-sterling-gothic-chic-in-the-future-favela/
He’llĀ  be also talking at the opening of the transmediale this february in Berlin. So don’t miss it!
theres also a video of the [...]

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December 20, 2009

Scaling the universe

Categorie: Tech, art — Tags: , , , — Fraehnk, 6:42 pm

Meet Uniview, the most feature-rich astronomical visualization and universal data exploration platform on the market, yet simple enough to get you started with doing live presentations in museums, science centers, large scale theaters and fulldome planetariums in no time.
So, lets have a look at the know universe:

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December 6, 2009

ReThink Afghanistan

Categorie: politics — Tags: , , , , — Fraehnk, 7:28 pm

The Bundestag has prolonged the mission of german soldiers participating in bombing innocent people (for 20 killed so-called “terrorist leaders” 700 civilians casualties are counted) to help keeping up a corrupt government, which, of course, was not elected in a democratic fashion at all. Here you can read the full list of how everybody voted.
This [...]

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December 3, 2009

brain controlled hand… prosthesis

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , , , , , — Bise, 8:02 pm

could not embed this one so head over to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/video_and_audio/8392111.stm
and here a more detailed report from physorg.com: http://www.physorg.com/news178976346.html
“A group of European scientists said Wednesday they have successfully connected a robotic hand to an amputee, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts.”

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November 29, 2009

How to deal with the police

Categorie: misc — Tags: , , , , , — Fraehnk, 8:56 pm

First, we have an interesting talk of Udo Vetter, the guy writing “the law blog”. Here he gives advise on how to deal with a house seach by the police.
The ground rule: Do NOT talk. At all!!!

Second, here is a talk of a Virgina law school professor and former criminal defense attorney, proving to [...]

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anti wifi paint

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , , , , , , — Bise, 1:35 pm

Researcher from the University of Tokyo invented a paint that resonates at the same frequency as wi-fi.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8279549.stm

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November 15, 2009

we. Featuring the words of Arundhati Roy

Categorie: music, politics — Tags: , , , , , , , — Fraehnk, 8:32 pm

We is a fast-paced 64 minute documentary that covers the world politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation.
It visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous Come September speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror, corporate globalization, justice and the growing civil unrest.
It’s witty, moving, alarming and quite [...]

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