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Best of 2014: Google's Secretive DeepMind Startup Unveils a "Neural Turing Machine"
In October, DeepMind unveiled a neural network that can access an external memory like a conventional Turing machine. The result is a computer that mimics the short-term memory of the human brain.
Russia to build 'Noah's Ark' DNA databank
Moscow State University will be storing the DNA of every living creature on the planet. In a modern day equivalent to the biblical story of Noah's Ark...
John Oliver's brilliant excuses for skipping your New Year's Eve plans
You may already believe that New Year's Eve is the worst. But if your friends don't, John Oliver can help get you out of those pesky plans. Though Last Week Tonight is on hiatus until 2015, Oliver surprised fans with a web exclusive, featuring foolproof reasons to cancel your plans for Dec. 31. The excuses are tailored, ranging from boring parties to a dreaded night full of "guy stuff"
Hotel guest finds creepy note in a drawer
Amy Jones discovered a message warning her that there was something sinister behind a locked door. The journalism student had been staying at a hotel ...
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The Net Is Mightier Than The Sword – James Corbett at TEDxGroningen
Since the rise of the internet people have changed from mere audiences into authors and editors. With pieces of technology small enough to fit the whole world into your pocket, a revolution might be on its way. The net is now mightier than the sword. This presentation was delivered at the TEDxGroningen conference in the Netherlands on November 20, 2014.
Interview 986 – Ellen Brown Explains the New G20 Bank Bail-in Rules
Today attorney, author and researcher Ellen Brown of EllenBrown.com joins us to discuss her article on “The Global Bankers’ Coup: Bail-In and the Shadowy Financial Stability Board.” We talk about the G20 and their rubber-stamping of the FSB’s proposed bail-in rules, what this shadowy body is and how it interlocks with the Bank for International Settlements, and what this means for depositors in th
Interview 980 – Tim Ball Lets the Hot Air Out of the Lima Climate Deal
Dr. Tim Ball of drtimball.com joins us once again to discuss the latest climate talks in Lima, Peru. We examine the foundations of the IPCC and UNFCCC, their tie-in to Agenda 21 and the Club of Rome, the issue of science vs. politics, and the agenda that is driving the climate change debate. SHOW NOTES: DrTimBall.com The Global Warming War People Starting To Ask About Motive For Massive IPCC Decep
China and the US: Frenemies with Benefits
by James Corbett corbettreport.com December 14, 2014 This article originally appeared in The Corbett Report Subscriber newsletter on December 13, 2014. To subscribe to the newsletter and become a member of The Corbett Report website, please sign up for a monthly or annual membership here. Depending on which columnist you follow or which headline writer you trust, this month is either the month tha
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Life on the American Prairie Reserve
Ranchers and researchers collide in an ambitious effort to convert Montana ranchland to 3 million-acre wildlife refuge
As Environmentalists, We Need to Make “Ananda” Central to Our Lives
This holiday season let’s embrace the joy without which the universe would cease to exist
Greed and Resistance in Sarawak’s Rainforest
In Review: Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia
In Celebration of John Muir
The American legend’s legacy is especially relevant to today’s environmental movement
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Views my own
“This isn’t our Homeland say envoys angered by TV thriller” says a headline in the Times. (£) So Pakistani diplomats don’t like the portrayal of Islamabad in channel 4’s drama Homeland.  “A grimy hell-hole and war zone where shoot-outs and bombs go off with dead bodies scattered around.”Okay. That is pretty much how I think of Islamabad, (though I’ve never been there) I thought. Always willing to
Celebrating women bishops
This morning's edition of Sunday was a celebration of the Church of England's historic decision to appoint woman bishops. It was guest-hosted by the BBC's religious affairs correspondent Caroline Wyatt. Her studio guests  - two Anglican vicars, a Jewish Orthodox feminist and the vice-president of the Islamic Society of Britain - were all women too. There was also an interview with Justin Welby. Ev
And finally...
...before I go to bed......yet more examples of BBC reporters tweeting from the Left, courtesy of the ever-diligent DB at Biased BBC.First, here's BBC Senior Broadcast Journalist Megha Mohan:My aunt got me @NaomiAKlein 's book on link between capitalism & climate change for Xmas. Read it in 2 days. Buy it. pic.twitter.com/LKk7ADiKx5— Megha Mohan (@meghamohan) December 27, 2014And, second, here
'Dateline London' - the end of year edition
As I've spent many a year writing about Dateline London - proving its past bias (if I say so myself) whilst conceding that it has got somewhat less biased over time - I felt duty bound to tune in to today's end-of-year edition and found, thankfully, that it was one of those (increasingly common) episodes where people actually disagree with each other. In the past, the programme's largely left-lean
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Cornel West on BBC HARDtalk
When I grow up, I want to be like Cornel West!
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A DC Response on My Pearson-Saudi Arabia Post
On December 28, 2014, I wrote a post about the Pearson ingratiation and subsequent takeover of the Saudi Arabian education system. I also cross-posted my piece on December 29, 2014, on my Huffington Post blog. On December 29, 2014, I heard by email from The Gulf Institute Media, Institute of Gulf Affairs, in Washington, DC. Someone […]
Pearson Overtakes Saudi Arabian Education System
This June 24, 2014, article is from Innovation Africa Kigali, Rwanda. It seems that Pearson– which already “has a significant presence in Saudi Arabia”– has “pledged its support for a new education initiative” in Saudi Arabia. Saudi King Abdullah is adding an extra $21 billion to the Saudi Arabian education budget. Pearson is there– already– to dip into those […]
To blend, or not to blend: that is the question
Originally posted on Blended Teaching DC:To blend, or not to blend: that is the question: Whether it’s nobler in the mind to labor The time and commitment to differentiate instruction, Or to take arms against the antiquated system, And by opposing end them? To question: to innovate; No more; and by a test score…
Celebrating Ten Years of Post-Katrina, New Orleans Charters– And You Are Not Invited
In modern America, when it comes to selling a product, the question of whether the product actually works as promised becomes irrelevant. The narrow concern for the profit-driven ends with effectively marketing the product. Sales result from effective marketing– not the least of which is repeatedly telling the consumer that the product works. Tell consumers […]
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Commas are simpler
I use commas to set off phrases, like this one, that add a little something to a sentence. But then (sometimes) I'll use parentheses instead, to place less emphasis on the interrupting phrase. And sometimes -- more noticeably -- I'll set a phrase off with dashes because I want more emphasis on it.But if I have a sentence that I want to be very, very clear, I only use the commas. The other forms ad
Sometimes you need them; sometimes you don't
Oddly, I try to avoid colons and semicolons. They make sentences depend on other sentences in a burdensome way. I think they create difficulty for the reader. They create difficulty for me when I proofread.
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The good thing about traditions is that you can always remake them
Christmas Eve 2012, Utila, Honduras    Today is my birthday, my third one in a row celebrated outside Canada. I wouldn't dream of whining about the lack of good birthday cake in Central America when I'm sitting here on a balmy 32-degree day with a fan blowing on me to keep me cool, but I do want to note that living away does require the reinvention of how you celebrate.    Christmas, for instance.
There's a million stories in the big city
  Horse cart man  and cotton candy vendorat the end of their day, Managua    Oh, for a good newspaper that had an appetite for day-in-the-life stories from Nicaragua. I can't walk a block without being intrigued by yet another person scratching out what passes for a living in some unusual way, and would love an excuse to be talking to each of them about what their work days are like.    There are
Bad sex work law takes effect on the day of a massacre - "How horribly, enragingly appropriate"
 On this day of mourning marking the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, another reason to mourn: Bill C36, Canada's flawed and tragic anti-sex work law, takes effect on this very day.    It will be struck down eventually. It's so clearly unconstitutional, not to mention poorly informed and misguided, and in direct contravention of the research around what actually makes life better and safer fo
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The United States Air Force vs. the UFO Witnesses
As I was completing my final UFO book, I ran into a number of things that were somewhat disturbing. Some of those were the ongoing Air Force attitude that these things weren’t alien in nature, those who saw them were somehow deluded, and it was the Air Force mission to convince people that UFOs were an illusion. It didn’t matter to them how honest the witnesses might be, how carefully they had mad
America Unearthed: Son of the Custer Treasure
I couldn’t help myself and I got sucked into another episode of America Unearthed. This one about the lost treasure of George Custer, yeah, that guy who managed to get about half of the Seventh Cavalry killed in June, 1876. Contrary to what the program said, he wasn’t that smart of a guy and his problem at the Little Big Horn was that he didn’t have another Union unit out there to come to his resc
The Roswell Slides and the Aztec UFO Crash
For a couple of decades I have been chasing stories of pictures of the Roswell crash. I have been given the names of some of those who supposedly had pictures, talked to others who thought they might have seen pictures, and tried to find those who might have taken pictures as part of the official investigation. In this I have failed, other than finding lots of pictures of alien bodies, all of whic
A Litter Help
As you all know, I have been working on a new book and in the course of that, I was looking at the November 3, 1957, sightings at White Sands Proving Grounds, now White Sands Missile Range. According to the information I have, one of the soldiers who saw the UFO (identified as the Moon by Project Blue Book investigators) was unavailable for the Air Force to interview a couple of days later. They w
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UKIP and the Perils of Professionalism
UKIP have the opposite problem to the Conservatives. The Tories are a tuned machine being tested to destruction by the clods in the control room. UKIP on the other hand have a leadership who, in the main, know what they're doing but are cursed with a jerry-rig thrown together from whatever rusty parts they find lying around. And so we've had a kipper in a winnable seat resign after "chinky/po
The Tory Drive to Suicide
The Tory party is a peculiar beast. On the one hand, it's adept at getting the wealthy to part with their cash by open and less transparent methods. And all this money bankrolls a machine that has been and will continue to flood the key marginals with glossy, high production value literature. The troops are lacking so the Conservatives are trying to buy the next election, and in this respect they'
Jim Murphy and Saving Scottish Labour
The victories of Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale in the Scottish Labour leadership elections have invited much comment. Some of it warm and friendly, but a great deal not. Indeed, soon after Saturday's results were announced obituaries (like this) have been pouring in from the left. True, many who are so minded wish Scottish Labour little other than ill and can't wait for the party north of the borde
Man Haron Monis: It's Not About Islam
What a sad end to the Sydney cafe siege. The gunman, one Man Haron Monis lies dead, but not before he murdered two others. Thankfully, incidents like this are quite rare in Western societies and when hostage taking does happen, it tends to either be a spur of the moment thing in the commission of a crime or an awful episode in a pattern of dysfunctional family relationships. When people are held t
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Yard tea
The chickens and ducks have, as they do each year, leveled the piles of grass clippings, leaves and barn waste we have dumped on the garden, and return every day to sift through the sheet mulch for slugs, pill bugs and the like.They're also nipping off quite a lot of kale and collards, but I think we've had all of two frost nights so far, so the stuff is not as appealing to us as it might have bee
Nine days with Amtrak
I was away for awhile. It was sad -- selling my mom and dad's little single-wide in the little retirement park by the river.The journeying itself was good for me, though. I've been across the country on trains, but these were epic coach-class marathons. This time, I could afford to go sleepers all the way, so I did. Much time for reflection.
Turning inward
This is that time of year when, just to keep from falling in the mud and breaking something, one goes all domestic.
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Twelve Years Ago
It's worth memorialising some of the trials and tribulations the FedSat team underwent when it came to building that bird.Originally, the task was contracted to SIL - Space Innovations Limited SIL is a space engineering company that specializes in the design and manufacture of satellite products, subsystems and complete small satellites, which generally weigh between 50 and 500 kilograms. This ty
Why I haven't Blogged about Politics recently
First Dog On the Moon captures it exactly. Every Night Something Atrocious.
Satellite Separation
12 years ago... Australia had a Space Programme. The video shows booster separation of the Japanese H2A at 12:15:40, the Japanese ADEOS-2 at 12:16:20, the Australian FedSat at 12:16:40, the Japanese MicroLabSat at 12:17:00 and WEOS at 12:17:20That was 35 years since the previous Australian Space Programme, and the previous Australian Spacecraft, WRESAT in 1967. We were world leaders then, just as
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Frederick Douglass explained the truth about social change
Frederick Douglass's "West India Emancipation" speech of 1857 is possibly the most incisive description of the true mechanism of social change ever written. The speech is brilliant like only works resulting from liberation praxis can be. LINK TO SPEECH
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Shocking Police Harassment...
in Chula Vista, California styleMany thanks to Asylum Watch for re-posting this from Geeez Blog.  Recently, the Chula Vista, California Police Department ran an e-mail forum with the local community (a question and answer exchange) with the topic being, Community Policing.”  One of  the civilian e-mail participants posed the following question:”I would like to know how it is possible for police of
Noted Tin-Foil Crazy Alex Jones and Infowars steps in it by going after Spokane Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich...
a good man and a good sheriff.As I keep saying, do not believe everything you readInfoWars is bashing the sheriff's department of Spokane County for taking a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) to a charity event where the deputies take children shopping for Christmas.Some unidentified woman films herself badgering some of the deputies about the MRAP until she catches a deputy saying that there
Bitter whining flaming racist, Michelle Obama, recounts the horror of being asked for help at a Target store...
except it's a lie and she thinks we're so stupid we'll believe it.Sort of like, "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."via Politico:Barack and Michelle Obama are sharing their own personal experiences with racial prejudice, saying they’ve been mistaken for valet drivers and Target employees — the latter even occurring during their time at the White House.“The only person who cam
Bill Whittle: The New Barbarism...
dare to disagree and you will be destroyed.Rioting. Slander. The wanton personal destruction of people known by their accusers to be innocent. In his latest Firewall, Bill Whittle shows how events like the rioting in Ferguson do not occur in a vacuum, and how Progressives not only tolerate this lawlessness, this New Barbarism -- they teach it.
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Christmas in Herradura 2014
So, this was the first Christmas that Kurt and I were actually home!  Normally, we travelled on Christmas, as it was a down time at work and the one time of the year we could get away for more than a few days at a time.  Now, I live in paradise and truthfully have no desire to leave.  I would like to see family for the holidays, but there is no way I am going back to Michigan in the cold.  Thus, I
Happy Holidays!
So, I loved sending out holiday cards in the States.  However, it is not very cost effective here in Costa Rica, and mail takes weeks to the States, so I have decided to do a holiday blog post instead!So, Kurt and I had a pretty crazy year!  One filled with the most changes I have ever had in a year in our lives, I would say.Our nephew Kory passed the bar exam and I did his swearing in with the he
TOPE Jaco, Solar Power and End of Rainy Season
I can slowly feel it getting busier in my little town, which corresponds totally with the end of rainy season.  From my reading, when they said rainy season was from mid-May until mid-November, I think I kinda thought on November 15, all rain would just STOP.  Nope, still rains SOME, but for very short periods.  Anyway, going into town now, especially on weekends, I can tell busy holiday season is
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Shia pilgrims die in Iraq suicide bombing
At least 21 people killed and 35 others injured in blast at tent in the Taji area north of Baghdad.
Evacuation of burning Italian ferry completed
Hundreds of passengers brought to safety after fire on vessel left seven people dead.
Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces
A Palestinian man has been killed and another injured at the Zaatara checkpoint in the occupied West Bank.
Greece parliament fails to elect president
Parliament fails for third time to elect a president forcing early elections in the coming weeks.
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Year End Thoughts On 2014 / Allen L Roland
                     Here I am perched on this pale blue dot in space, Earth. Our Sun, which is 4.7 billion years old, is located 26,000 light-years away from the galactic center on one of the spiral arms of our galaxy ~ the Milky Way. The Sun makes one complete orbit around the galaxy about once every 225 million years. In contrast, stars near the galactic center complete a lap in a few million y
Merry Christmas / John Lennon / Donation Letter
 Jesus was not a Christian and Buddha was not a Buddhist but their religion was love. Can it really be this simple? That the ultimate religion is love ! Perhaps we all need to see what we have settled for in order to fully realize that there is another choice versus war and injustice as well as the full meaning of Lennon's Merry Christmas ( War is Over ) which was recorded in 1971~ nine years befo
Darth Vader Unmasked / Dick Cheney
In the fictional Star Wars trilogy, Darth Vader was depicted as a ruthless cyborg who served the dark Galactic Empire whereas in real life Dick Cheney is a ruthless human cyborg, fueled by a transplanted heart, whose self-professed travels to the dark side served and greatly influenced a darkening and morally corrupt American Empire. It is Cheney who enthusiastically introduced torture as a means
Hawking'S Fear Of Human Extinction Is All About Programming
          Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking fears that the rapid development of artificial intelligence could lead to human extinction but I feel that it all comes down to programming and the eternal question ~ are we innately programed to love and cooperate with one another or are we programed to hate and separate from one another? Artificial intelligence without a soul is a garden without sunli
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GAIA PORTAL: Movements of Light become the movements of Gaia collective
Movements of Light become the movements of Gaia collectiveby ÉirePortTraditionals are abandoned for all time.New moments continue the line under Higher Guidance.Gaia initiatives begin as support energetics are in place.Movements of Light become the movements of Gaia collective.ÉirePort | December 29, 2014 at 10:43 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-tI
Irish: The Forgotten White Slaves
IRISH: THE FORGOTTEN WHITE SLAVESSource: http://goo.gl/LQ9JTWThey came as slaves: human cargo transported on British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their h
UFO: Mothership Leaves Sun Causing Solar Explosion
http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2014/12/mothership-leaves-sun-causing-solar.htmlMothership Leaves Sun Causing Solar ExplosionDec 24, 2014UFO Sighting News.Date of sighting: Dec 24, 2014Location of sighting: Earths SunSource: http://helioviewer.org/Was looking at the Helioviewer online and noticed this giant triangle UFO leaving our sun. It exit caused a massive solar explosion. I say in the video
Higher Self Message - The Solstice Fires of Ascension: A Message for the Masters
http://aprilsairings.blogspot.com/2014/12/hs-message-solstice-fires-of-ascension.htmlTuesday, December 23, 2014 HS Message - The Solstice Fires of Ascension: A Message for the Masters by April Bender The flood gates are open, an explosion of light dances it's way in, the unified heartbeat of Prime Creator pulses forth. Anchored pillars of light ignite and blaze forth colossal fires of shimm
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A3 Newsletter: Give Albert Woodfox a Hug for the Holidays; Please Take Action!
(PHOTO: Albert Woodfox embraces Herman Wallace)In Homer Louisiana, Albert Woodfox remains in his cell - 42 years in solitary and held under increasingly severe restrictions. From the unnecessary and extensive use of the black-box during transport, to the 'catch-22' system making it impossible for Albert to have contact visits, it appears that the response to his most recent court victory is to con
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Diplomacy at Warped Speed
The space debris problem continues to grow as diplomats move at a snail’s pace to take remedial steps. Every piece of space debris about the size of a marble is a lethal weapon, traveling with the approximate energy of a one-ton safe dropped from a five-story building. Anything struck by a debris fragment this size will create a new mutating, lethal debris field. NASA’s Donald J. Kessler co-autho
The Monarchy’s Missiles
Today, Jeffrey and Aaron discuss the history of Saudi Arabia’s missile program and the reasons for the Kingdom’s new openness vis-a-vis its ballistic missiles. Saudi Rattles Its Saber | NTI Analysis – by Jeffrey and Ala Alrababah Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Download this episode (25MB mp3)
The Little Green Men and a New Cruise Missile
The INF debate continues. The controversy about Russia’s new cruise missile raises a number of key questions about American strategy in Europe: How should the United States respond to Russia’s INF violation? What are the security implications of a new Russian ground launched cruise missiles? Has Russia’s “circumvention” of state sovereignty changed the game? And – in a change from the status quo –
Amano’s Move on Marivan
After the powers and Iran in late 2013 concluded the Joint Plan of Action (JPA), I cautioned that, a year later, when everything else is supposed to be settled, the toughest nut to crack might be what to do about Iran’s nuclear past. Happy talkers who didn’t like that message marginalized it for months. But right now, questions raised by IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano about what he calls “poss
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For 40+ Years I have been a Democratic sheeple, No More
For over 40 years I have pretty much voted a straight Democratic ticket - even when the candidates did not reflect my values.I am a liberal progressive. I am a liberal progressive.Being a liberal progressive - no longer makes me a Democrat. Many of the values I hold are similar to those of the Democratic party.In today's political arena the values of the Democratic party are becoming more and more
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"Exodus" Story Reveals Bible's Dishonesty
By MARC McDONALDAlthough some might be loath to admit it, many educated adults (even non-fundamentalist Christians) are aware that the Bible is perhaps not the best source of history. I mean, how many people still take the story of Adam and Eve seriously any more? But I suspect that most people are still unaware of just how totally wrong the Bible is as far as anything remotely approaching real hi
Great Progressive Moments: Right-Wing Liar Dinesh D'Souza Gets Demolished By Thom Hartmann
..By MARC McDONALDDinesh D'Souza is a professional right-wing liar. Like Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the right-wing noise machine, D'Souza loves to spew lies during debates. He also constantly sets up absurd straw-man arguments to try to undercut his opponents. Because of his relentless approach and because of the nature of live on-air debates, D'Souza often sounds a lot more authoritative and i
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Why Do You Think Dick Cheney Is In The "news" So Much Speaking FOR Torture? Because He Directed 911 From A Bunker Under The White House And Needed FALSE CONFESSIONS By Muslims Via Torture
Dick Cheney, neo-cons, and the Mossad did 911, and then the CIA tortured Muslims into false confessions (that's all that torture is for: false confessions) knowing they didn't do 911. False Flags like 911 blaming the Muslims persist to this day. See: ISIS.When you talk about torture, you must keep in mind the CIA tortured Muslims and fully knew Muslims didn't do 911.Timeline Of Dick Cheney's Actio
FOX "news" and the "SEATBELT HOLD"
SEATBELT HOLD:FOX "news" is really news for scared white folks. They have been experts at walking a fine line of being blatantly racist since their inception. Lately, they have walked over the line and out of the closet.If there is a white guy being harassed by law enforcement, especially a millionaire white guy like Clive Bundy of the Bundy Ranch debacle, FOX "news" came down
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may all your operations be special
Here's a Christmas card dropped to the Danish resistance by SOE in 1944, courtesy of the psywar twitterfeed. Have a good one folks, and see you on the other side.
white, blue and plastic
And now for something completely different. If you're a fan of industrial subcultures, and, moreover, industrial subcultures based around logistics, you'll love this long deep dive into the world of palletts. As a bonus, it contains this immortal line: “You’re too old, Bob. You’re finished,” one of them allegedly told Moore, according to a court filing. “You will never work in this supply chain a
the end of occupy and a case of 'pre-crime' in Beijing
The occupation of Hong Kong seems pretty much over. Meanwhile, in Beijing : But that was all before late September, when a young woman, whom the two sources separately identified as Ling Lisha, made copies in a commercial photocopy shop of materials that touched on the Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong. Her purpose was to inform and educate others, the sources said. ...But what Ms. Ling appare
a White House winterval
With themes like, "Joy to All", "Shine, Give, Share" and "Simple Gifts", the holiday customs celebrated by the Obama family in the White House have centered around reflecting on our many blessings as Americans, rejoicing in the pleasure of spending time with family and friends, and renewing commitments to one another and to the causes that we believe in. One of the F
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Are We Responding To The New Demands Of The Supply Chain?
A Supply Chain is only as strong as its weakest link.The delays in internet deliveries has highlighted how the existing supply chain is not capable of responding to spikes in volume and demand. So what will be the future? Will we be any better at forecasting next year than we were this year? Will the lack of responsiveness actually choke back consumer demand to shop online? Will the cost of carria
FIDO May Offer Smarter People Identification
Imagine an ATM system and internet services with no passwords that you have to remember and sweat over when you get wrong. Imagine a simple biometric device that authenticates who you are and lets you get straight to the service you require. This reality took another step forward last week with a group of some 150 companies releasing version 1.0 of its open specifications for authentication on the
Yodel Ripples Will Continue
In the UK we have just seen the impact of an air traffic technology blimp of less than 60 minutes on the control of international traffic airspace, flight schedules and travel over a great area. Distribution logistics is no different and can often appear very simple and straightforward when it flows correctly, but can become complex and spiral out of control when things go wrong. This week’s news
Nook: The Bride Stuck on the Shelf?
It must be the season when dreamers and some journalists cast their thoughts to opening their presents, sitting around open fires, drinking egg nog, watching sentimental films and potentially losing sight of reality. Last week the long overdue divorce between Barnes & Noble and Microsoft was made absolute and the ill matched pair were finally put out of their misery. As we looked back over the
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New York Times Editorial Board Calls For Prosecution Of Bush, Cheney And Torturers !
"Since the day President Obama took office, he has failed to bring to justice anyone responsible for the torture of terrorism suspects — an official government program conceived and carried out in the years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.He did allow his Justice Department to investigate the C.I.A.'s destruction of videotapes of torture sessions and those who may have gone beyond the tor
Like A Rat Fleeing A Sinking Ship. Dick Cheney Throws George Bush Jr. Under The Bus On Torture Responsiblity
This is freaking hilarious! Dick Cheney, the former Vice President of the United States, has dismissed a key point in the report on CIA torture and has, as a result, thrown his former boss under the bus!"Dick Cheney discussed the newly released Senate torture report Wednesday on Fox News, and in particular challenged a finding that former President George W. Bush hadn't been briefed on the CI

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