it is dochs oars, sûnt 2001

Overwegingen | 36

Gisteravond, tijdens een discussie, vroegen we ons af of de kabinetten Balkenende inmiddels al eens een beslissing genomen hadden die een positief verschil heeft betekend; Gewoon. Een verschil. Iets waar je nu eens verheugd van opkijkt dat het eindelijk geregeld is; Het ...

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Overwegingen | 38

Jordanië wil breuk met Nederland. De ambassadeur moet het land uit worden gezet; Hoe triest dat nieuws ook lijkt, ik moet er wel om lachen. Nederland had namelijk nooit een ambassade in Jordanië, en heeft geen enkel nut voor een ambassade ...

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Overwegingen | 42

Wat leverde deze week voor conclusies op? Vooral dat ik niet zo goed begrijp op welk Nederland ik trots zou moeten zijn van mevrouw Verdonk;   Dinsdag liet een tamelijk beschamend Kamerdebat zien, van allerhande partijleiders die het ineens allemaal heel goed ...

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Overwegingen | 51

Wat is de extra waarde van een kritiekloos artikel in De Volkskrant vandaag, dat webloggen ongezond zou zijn? Als dat niet meer doet dan het nakauwen op een dom stuk uit The New York Times van 6 april? Goedkope journalistiek dat. Twee ...

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Overwegingen | 52

Het is triest om te moeten constateren dat vlak na mijn woorden gisteravond, over onze oorlog in Afghanistan, er vandaag alweer twee doden zijn te melden daar; Dat maakt het totaal zestien nu; Gaat het wel om de Nederlandse militairen, hè. Over ...

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Overwegingen | 53

Als een koe mond-en-klauwzeer heeft, wordt niet alleen dat beest afgemaakt, maar zelfs de hele kudde van zo'n boerderij. Ook al kunnen de beesten die kwaal goed overleven. Doorgaans geven ze daarna zelfs meer melk; Als een dode zwaan gevonden wordt ...

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Overwegingen | 61

Geen alarmsirenes gehoord, gisteren om twaalf uur. Wat een ongekend beleefde geste van onze overheden; Vraag ik me toch af hoe lang daar over vergaderd zal zijn; Er nestelt een grote vogel in mijn dakgoot --- vermoedelijk een kraai --- die ...

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Overwegingen | op de derde dinsdag van september

Het vreemdst aan Prinsjesdag? Toen ik voor het eerst de persconferentie bezocht de vrijdag daarvoor, om onder embargo stukken in ontvangst te nemen, bleken de persvoorlichters elke journalist die vragen stelde bij de voornaam te kennen; Dat die vragen niets voorstelden, ...

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Overwegingen | WikiLeaks i

Ideaal aan een weblog is de vrijheid om er ongecensureerd, en zonder last of ruggespraak, opinies op te publiceren over de actualiteit. Helaas komt het zelden voor dat ik vrijwel direct publicabele meningen heb. Ik ken doorgaans de feiten niet ...

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Overwegingen | WikiLeaks ii

Het is bijna niet mogelijk de invloed van de VS te overschatten bij wat er gebeurde in de wereld sinds de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Zelfs al veranderde deze wereld sinds 1989 nog eens ingrijpend, met het einde van het Communisme als ...

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Overwegingen | WikiLeaks iii

Mijn voornaamste problem met WikLeaks is dat de kleine groepering daarachter ineens een wat overspannen speler werd in een koude oorlog die al zeker vijftien jaar woedt. De strijd die gaat om de openheid en onafhankelijkheid van internet. Het internet is ...

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Overwegingen | WikiLeaks iv

Dat ik weinig informatie op het eerste gezicht geloof, maakt me soms wat cynisch. En waarschijnlijk te cynisch. Maar als overheden, of politici, bewezen hebben niet helemaal te vertrouwen te zijn. En de media aantoonbaar meehelpen een wereldbeeld in stand ...

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Overwegingen | WikiLeaks v

Hoe lang zal het nog duren voor de VS WikiLeaks tot een terroristische organisatie uitroept? Er bestond in democratieën altijd een zeker evenwicht tussen machthebbers en de media om het elkaar niet al te lastig te maken. Als ...

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Panopticlick

Interessant experiment van de Electronic Frontier Foundation [EFF]. Hoe uniek is uw, of mijn, visite aan willekeurig welke website? Ofwel, wat vertelt een bezoek allemaal aan het bezochte adres? Panopticlick maakt dat duidelijk.

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Paranoia
Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman

[...] toch leeft bij vrijwel iedereen de angst dat er elk moment van alles mis kan gaan. Dus mogen kleine kinderen niet meer alleen en zonder toezicht buitenspelen. En dus zitten die vooral thuis op hun gat, achter de computer ...

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Parasitaire fenomenen | 0429

Nu de WHO het aantal doden aan de Mexicaanse varkensgriep drastisch naar beneden heeft bijgesteld -- het zijn er 'slechts' zeven -- bij mij meteen de onbeantwoordbare vraag hoeveel extra doden het nu massaal genuttigde geneesmiddel Tamiflu veroorzaakt; Er zijn bijwerkingen; Omdat ...

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Paulos on Global Warming

the consequences of our decisions need not occur in the distant future for us to discount them. They can occur far away or after so many steps as to seem distant. John Allen Paulos: 'An Inconvenient Puzzle' A link to all Paulos' ...

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People do not know what is best for them

That so many people adopted such strong views against the EU Constitution is no bad thing. It is certainly preferable to the scourge of voter apathy and political disengagement. And it certainly provides an opportunity for dialogue and democratic renewal. ...

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Per ongeluk
Overwegingen | week 17

https://twitter.com/Datagraver/status/989159078999060483 Interessantste grafiek deze week kwam toch van Datagraver, die de ontwikkeling van het tal verkeersdoden afzette tegen de tijd. Waarbij de piek duidelijk lag in het begin van de jaren zeventig. Sindsdien is vooral het tal gedode mensen in auto's ...

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perhaps it was proposed to do it “surgically”?

Did Bush propose to bomb Al Jazeera, or didn't he? Christopher Hitchens ponders: A second reason for believing in the authenticity of the memo is that an unnamed spokesman for Blair was quoted in the original story as saying that Bush's ...

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Piskijker
week 9

Het mechanisme is inmiddels duidelijk. De politicus Geert Wilders laat weleens een boertje. Meer gebeurt er niet. Maar in plaats van die valse lucht te negeren, wordt de oprisping vervolgens door de media beschreven alsof er een orkaan aan land ...

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Plaatje / duizend woorden

* Len Munnik, vandaag in Trouw

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PRISM
week 23

Een week al is publiek bekend dat de Amerikaanse inlichtingendienst NSA clandestien alle internetgedrag van ons vastlegt -- en nog altijd heb ik daar niet op gereageerd in het openbaar. En dit komt dan vooral omdat het nieuws mij niet wezenlijk ...

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Privacy in het internettijdperk
Brenno de Winter

[...] Principiële uitspraken over privacy zijn ook nog altijd absolute uitspraken; die terugverwijzen naar zaken als wat mensenrechten zijn, en hoe zorgvuldig daar mee om zou moeten worden gegaan. Wie internet anoniem gebruiken wil, volgt nu bovendien niet alleen het spoor ...

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Propaganda

Deze posters doen me erg denken aan het materiaal dat tijdens de tweede wereldoorlog verspreid werd, als waarschuwing tegen de vijfde colonne. Gelukkig helpen overheidscampagnes meestal pas na decennia, bedenk ik me ineens. Zeker als ze angst proberen te zaaien. ...

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Quote of the Day

His films are testaments to central truths of the current media environment: that mere logic is powerless against a brilliant projection of personality, that self-conscious “objectivity” and truth-telling are very different things, and that compelling narrative is impervious to facts. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0105

Apocalyptic scenarios are a diversion from real problems — poverty, terrorism, broken financial systems — needing intelligent attention. Even something as down-to-earth as the swine-flu scare has seemed at moments to be less about testing our health care system and ...

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Quote of the Day | 0105

Q: How do NASA scientists feel about claims of pending doomsday? A: For any claims of disaster or dramatic changes in 2012, where is the science? Where is the evidence? There is none, and for all the fictional assertions, whether they ...

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Quote of the Day | 0108

“Believing that we just reached the peak of our personal evolution makes us feel good,” Dr. Quoidbach said. “The ‘I wish that I knew then what I know now’ experience might give us a sense of satisfaction and meaning, whereas ...

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Quote of the Day | 0108

When I interviewed social scientists all over the world – from São Paulo to Sydney, from Los Angeles to London – I started to see an unexpected picture emerge. We all know that every human being has basic physical needs: ...

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Quote of the Day | 0109

The sadder reality, Mr. President, is that NSA itself had enough information to prevent 9/11, but chose to sit on it rather than share it with the FBI or CIA. We know; we were there. We were witness to the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0110

“Assange is very able and willing to speak for himself and doesn’t need lawyers other than to stop him going on every program that offers itself,” Robertson said of Assange’s frequent media interviews. Geoffrey Robertson QC, quoted in 'Assange Lawyer Hid ...

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Quote of the Day | 0112

People who can't control their self-presentation—children, prisoners, celebrities who have lost their grip on their own stories—feel the pain of missing autonomy, missing adulthood. Someone else is deciding what they really meant; someone else decides which version is true and ...

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Quote of the Day | 0112

Here is where we need a better sense of justice, and shame. For the outrageousness in this story is not just Aaron. It is also the absurdity of the prosecutor's behavior. From the beginning, the government worked as hard as ...

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Quote of the Day | 0114

If the European Union were to become stronger and had a common fiscal as well as monetary policy (both of which together would turn it into a single country), in the long run, Greece and Portugal would benefit the most. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0114

The newsmedia's compulsion to swarm all over certain news events – shootings, bombs, personal scandals, leaks – poses a genuine risk to the media itself. Its clout weakened by fragmented niche audiences, the media only unites in covering such topics ...

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Quote of the Day | 0115

What is most striking about these "interviews" is not so much their arrogance and lack of intellectual and moral humility; it is their indifference to fundamental issues of justice and freedom and their imposition of narrow, prurient terms of reference. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0116

The copyright wars are just the beta version of a long coming war on computation. The entertainment industry is just the first belligerents to take up arms, and we tend to think of them as particularly successful. After all, here ...

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Quote of the Day | 0116

Our dire techno-political situation is a direct consequence of our dire intellectual situation. Internet-centrism is to blame for the abandonment, in much of the Western world, of an active industrial policy, especially with regards to critical information infrastructure, for too ...

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Quote of the Day | 0117

In most of what I've written and spoken about over the past several years, this is probably the overarching point: the abuse of state power, the systematic violation of civil liberties, is about creating a Climate of Fear, one that ...

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Quote of the Day | 0120

We are conditioned to fear persons in caves in Pakistan but not the destruction of our water supply by frackers, massive industrial accidents, climate change or the work-related deaths of 54,000 American workers every year. Fear of outside threats has ...

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Quote of the Day | 0121

Predicting the future is essential to modern life. When we buy a house, we’re essentially predicting that the surrounding neighborhood isn’t about to go to seed; when we start a business, we’re predicting that what we’re selling will find a ...

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Quote of the Day | 0123

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers ...

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Quote of the Day | 0125

When the U.S. Attorney told Aaron he had to plead guilty to 13 felonies for attempting to propagate knowledge before she'd even consider a deal, that was an abuse of power, a misuse of the criminal justice system, a crime ...

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Quote of the Day | 0126

Companies earn their profits by exploiting their environment. Mining and oil companies exploit the physical environment; social media companies exploit the social environment. This is particularly nefarious because social media companies influence how people think and behave without them even ...

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Quote of the Day | 0128

Over the Christmas-New Year's holiday in 2003, Khaled el-Masri, a greengrocer from a small town in South Germany, traveled by bus to Skopje, Macedonia. There, he was arrested by officials because his name was similar to that of Khalid al-Masri, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0202

The film records an experiment in a mental hospital in San Bernadino - California. The patients are given rewards in the form of plastic fake money if they do what the doctors consider the right social behaviour. They can then ...

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Quote of the Day | 0206

"What if the liberating potential of the Internet also contains the seeds of depoliticization and thus dedemocratization?" he asks. The Net delusion of his title is just that. Contrary to the "cyberutopians," as he calls them, who consider the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0206

we wanted to fix Afghanistan. We were willing to spend a lot of money as long as it produced results. What we've learned is that development aid doesn't work this way. You can't get more definite results, or speed up ...

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Quote of the Day | 0206

We are not skeptical enough about each other’s results. What’s the upside in that? You’re going to make enemies. People might start questioning your results. And that’s going to start slowing down our publication assembly line. Everyone’s invested in ...

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Quote of the Day | 0207

The rise of technology is decreasing modes of face-to-face communication making it easier for Americans to compromise less and argue more, [Jared] Diamond argues.

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Quote of the Day | 0207

extreme capitalism has blown apart the American mind—Americans cannot think anymore about what it means to act for anything but aggressive self interest, even when it destroys their very own lives, by making them less trusting, democratic, safe, sane, and ...

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Quote of the Day | 0208

I’m hardly the only one who has noted the discrepancy between official statements and the truth on the ground. A January 2011 report by the Afghan NGO Security Office noted that public statements made by U.S. and ISAF leaders ...

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Quote of the Day | 0211

So the future isn't a boot stamping on a human face, forever. It's a person in a beige business outfit advocating beige policies that nobody wants (but nobody can quite articulate a coherent alternative to) with a false mandate obtained ...

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Quote of the Day | 0212

The very idea of trying to threaten the careers of journalists and activists to punish and deter their advocacy is self-evidently pernicious; that it's being so freely and casually proposed to groups as powerful as the Bank of America, the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0213

The sleazy aristocrats and the crooked politicians, the spies and the trimmers, seemed to taint the whole society. Jeffrey Archer's books were stacked and sold everywhere, and they always seemed to me a visible sign of corruption. The horrible man ...

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Quote of the Day | 0215

the whole reason why it is imperative to me to remain independent and not work within a corporate structure and not have any editorial oversight or anything like that, which I don’t, and to be accountable only to my readers ...

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Quote of the Day | 0215

The plan seems feasible at first, but as complications mount, it starts to resemble an increasingly precarious assembly of stages and steps, lift-swaps and rendezvous, a Rube Goldberg fever-dream of an itinerary. If I’m lucky, someone finds the mental space ...

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Quote of the Day | 0217

“In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate,” Dan Hodges, a British journalist, wrote in a post on Twitter two years ago, referring to the 2012 attack that killed 20 young students at an elementary ...

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Quote of the Day | 0219

Worries about information overload are as old as information itself, with each generation reimagining the dangerous impacts of technology on mind and brain. From a historical perspective, what strikes home is not the evolution of these social concerns, but their ...

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Quote of the Day | 0220

a methodologically brilliant Facebook experiment on peer encouragement was conducted in 2016 on 48.9 million unsuspecting users. In the experiment, Facebook users were prompted to like or comment on their friends’ posts more often, encouraging those friends to post more ...

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Quote of the Day | 0222

“Everybody who lied about the war got rewarded,” Ritter said. “Because they played the game. Tell the truth about the war, you don’t get rewarded.” He paused. “And then, you know, let’s be frank — you compound it with me ...

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Quote of the Day | 0223

Once you grant the government some new power or authority, it becomes exponentially more difficult to roll it back. Regardless of how little value a program or power has been shown to have (such as the Section 215 dragnet interception ...

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Quote of the Day | 0224

[...] WikiLeaks disclosed one of such unofficial talks between the CIA/FBI and the Swedish government, which in fact resulted in an agreement between the two governments for the implementation of intelligence operations in the form of transference of information from ...

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Quote of the Day | 0226

should we be more trusting, or more sceptical? Onora O’Neill, whose 2002 Reith Lectures were on the subject of “trust”, sharpens the question — as we might hope a philosopher would. Rather than trying to measure or increase some vague ...

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Quote of the Day | 0301

George Bush's entire presidency was explicitly predicated on the theory that the president has the power to break the law at will whenever he deems that doing so promotes national security. That America's most celebrated journalist not only supports this, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0302

You say people with more cognitive horsepower may be more likely to fail. How so? We all have this idea that more intelligence is always better, but I have shown that it's the people with the most working memory who are ...

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Quote of the Day | 0304

The prosecution case seems designed, quite simply, to terrorize future national security whistleblowers. The charges against Manning are different from those that have been brought against other whistleblowers. “Aiding the enemy” is punishable by death. And although the prosecutors in ...

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Quote of the Day | 0306

Overall, including all military and diplomatic costs and other aid, the U.S. has spent at least $767 billion since the American-led invasion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. National Priorities Project, a U.S. research group that analyzes federal data, estimated ...

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Quote of the Day | 0307

The obstacle to understanding (and accepting) science is deep, subtle, insidious, purely psychological, and probably hardwired into our genes. The problem doesn’t even look like a problem. It has to do with the way we—educated or uneducated, atheist or theist, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0308

Op alle gebieden van het leven -- veiligheid, opvoeding, reizen, gezondheidszorg, wonen, commercie, internet -- word je op basis van je profiel beoordeeld, dus op basis van kansberekening. Iemand met een risico-arm profiel mag bij de grens door. Iemand met ...

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Quote of the Day | 0308

Iran emerged from the U.S. decade in Iraq economically more powerful, with sanctions-busting trade between the two neighbors now valued at some $5 billion a year and still growing. In that decade, the U.S. also managed to remove one of ...

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Quote of the Day | 0310

Believe it or not, the world of the past was much worse. Violence has been in decline for thousands of years, and today we may be living in the most peaceable era in the existence of our species. Steven Pinker, 'Violence ...

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Quote of the Day | 0310

perhaps it's true that everybody knew. This would be analogous to the manner in which we all know surveillance is pervasive in police work, and yet police methods are by law forbidden from being used in evidence, or indeed even ...

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Quote of the Day | 0316

Patrick Graham: What has the world learned about multilateralism? Did anything change after this? Bill Graham: Since the Iraq War, international law and the rules that govern state conduct have changed a lot. … If you enter into a war where ...

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Quote of the Day | 0316

This is the most alarming part of the Snowden revelations: not just that spies are spying on all of us – that they are actively sabotaging all of our technical infrastructure to ensure that they can continue to spy on ...

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Quote of the Day | 0317

to understand the nature of political forms is to think of them as different forms of sacralisation. In my view, I have this idea that the history of political forms — fascism, liberal democracy, Stalinism — is different ...

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Quote of the Day | 0317

Still, Chomsky thinks about how hard to hit his targets. He admits as much as our soups arrive. “Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry ...

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Quote of the Day | 0317

by giving Silicon Valley irresistible commercial incentives to develop military technologies, the government has, at the same time, surrendered unparalleled power to private corporations. Extensive control of information has been handed over to unaccountable global corporations that don’t profit from ...

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Quote of the Day | 0318

There are simply too many ways to be tracked. The Internet, e-mail, cell phones, web browsers, social networking sites, search engines: these have become necessities, and it's fanciful to expect people to simply refuse to use them just because they ...

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Quote of the Day | 0322

Lesson #1: The United States lost. The first and most important lesson of Iraq war is that we didn't win in any meaningful sense of that term. Stephen M. Walt, 'Top 10 Lessons of the Iraq War'

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Quote of the Day | 0323

The first empirical evidence we are dumbing down Homo sapiens were the Republican debates in the US 2016 presidential elections – and the resultant kakistocracy. On the other hand, toxification may solve the population problem, since sperm counts are plunging. Paul ...

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Quote of the Day | 0324

we form our workplaces around the extrovert ideal. I like her nightmare descriptions of open-plan offices where group brainstorming sessions descend on the startled introvert like flash-storms. Group-think favours the dominant extrovert. The loudest, most socially confident and quickest on ...

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Quote of the Day | 0324

What's particularly strange about this set of personality and style attacks is what little relationship they bear to reality. Far from being some sort of brutal, domineering, and angry "alpha-male" savage, Chomsky -- no matter your views of him - ...

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Quote of the Day | 0325

Some are let off, some are punished. But the clear message sent by all this heavy-handed state intervention into the arena of thought and speech is that there are certain things you cannot say; certain views you cannot hold; certain ...

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Quote of the Day | 0325

The political class has reacted to the stratospheric rise of the tech behemoths with the gawping stupefaction of a five-year-old strapped into the nose cone of a space rocket. Politicians have gnashed their teeth about the tech giants’ reluctance to ...

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Quote of the Day | 0326

Writing a best-selling book on scientific topics can make one very knowledgeable, an expert even — but it does not make them a scientist. Getting your hands dirty, actually or metaphorically, with data is what makes one a scientist.Brian Romans, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0330

I don't think even Trump thought he would get this far. And I don’t even know that he wanted to, which is perhaps the scariest prospect of all. He certainly was never prepared or equipped to go all the way to ...

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Quote of the Day | 0331

We’re living under what Mill called a “tyranny of prevailing opinion”, of stifling conformism and suffocating consensus, all kept in order by “means other than civil penalties”, as Mill said. But this tyranny is only as powerful as we allow ...

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Quote of the Day | 0404

I cannot return to England, my country, because of my journalistic work with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and at WikiLeaks. There are things I feel I cannot even write. For instance, if I were to say that I hoped my ...

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Quote of the Day | 0409

"During the course of my three tours, the rules of engagement changed a lot," Washburn's testimony continued, "The higher the threat the more viciously we were permitted and expected to respond. Something else we were encouraged to do, almost with ...

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Quote of the Day | 0409

what do we conclude from this cost-benefit analysis? It's very hard to put dollar figures on these things, but I didn't try, because what this exercise should clearly demonstrate is that very, very little apparent benefit resulted from the decision ...

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Quote of the Day | 0410

Thanks to the rise of networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Snapchat, the way we express ourselves, as individuals and as citizens, is in a state of upheaval. Radically biased toward space and against time, social media is inherently destabilizing. What ...

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Quote of the Day | 0410

This is a pivotal moment in the history of medicine. Trials transparency is finally on the agenda, and this may be our only opportunity to fix it in a decade. We cannot make informed decisions about which treatment is best ...

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Quote of the Day | 0412

When you hear about something terrible, calm yourself by asking: if there had been a positive improvement, would I have heard about that? Even if there had been hundreds of larger improvements, would I have heard? This is “factfulness”: understanding as ...

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Quote of the Day | 0416

Again and again, the most senior figures in government, proud of their research, wisdom and analytical ability, with power, resources, staff, and highly-developed theories, have launched initiatives which were unnecessary. They imagined they understood situations. They ignored what was healthy, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0418

Clocks offer at best a convenient fiction, he says. They imply that time ticks steadily, predictably forward, when our experience shows that it often does the opposite: it stretches and compresses, skips a beat and doubles back. Burkhard Bilger, 'The Possibilian'

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Quote of the Day | 0423

Seen in this light, it is clear that the US authorities massively overreacted to the suspects. In an unprecedented move, the city of Boston and nearby suburbs were placed in a ‘lockdown’ last Friday as police conducted their hunt for ...

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Quote of the Day | 0424

This means, in plain language, that we – and many others – are dependent on Google. At the moment Google has a 91.2 percent search-engine market share in Germany. In this case, the statement “if you don’t like Google, you ...

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Quote of the Day | 0425

the bacteria that inhabit our intestines, have a significant impact on brain development and subsequent adult behavior. Robert Martone, 'The Neuroscience of the Gut'

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