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UN-backed event ends with unusual call from civil society groups to end capitalism Green groups celebrate the Margarita Declaration A UN-backed conference in Venezuela has ended with a declaration to scrap carbon markets and reject the green economy. The Margarita Declaration was issued at the end of a four-day meeting of around 130 green activist […]
iOS forensic examiner Jonathan Zdziarski may know more about iPhones than any other non-Apple employee. Yet even he can’t find a reason for some of the mystery features buried within the iOS operating system, which look an awful lot like security backdoors that bypass user-designated data protections. The features could be there to let Apple […]
Ever since Jane Jacobs celebrated diverse, high-density neighborhoods in her 1961 classic “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” city planners, politicians, academics and even some developers have been jonesing to recreate New York’s homey West Village where she lived back then. Of course, to adopt Jacobs’ prescriptions for the perfect city — short, walkable […]
While the world is sizzling and percolating in conflicts and wars, and U.S. is roiling in manufactured crisis after crisis, real or imagined emergencies, overwhelmed by the constant invasion of illegal immigrants, The Washington Post writes on the front page, “Thinking inside the box on D.C. housing costs,” living in repurposed dinged freight shipping containers. […]
End global hunger and all forms of malnutrition and poverty by 2030, along with all urban slums around the world. Halve the number of deaths from road traffic accidents globally (an estimated 1.24 million in 2010, according to the World Health Organization) by the same date—and “reduce levels of violence and halve related death rates […]
Bruce Schneier There’s one piece of blowback that isn’t being discussed — aside from the fact that Snowden has killed the chances of any liberal arts major getting a DoD job for at least a decade — and that’s how the massive NSA surveillance of the Internet affects the US’s role in Internet governance. Ron […]
Two more state governors have hopped on the anti-Common Core bandwagon, urging either a second look at it or pushing for outright repeal. Utah Governor Gary Herbert Gov. Gary Herbert of Utah ordered his attorney general to conduct a review of the controversial multi-state education standards Thursday, while Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced that he […]
With final approval of the Senate on July 17, Australia officially became the first developed nation to repeal its deeply controversial tax on emissions of carbon dioxide, dealing a major setback to proponents of increasingly discredited man-made “global warming” theories. Climate realists worldwide celebrated the historic development, while enraged global-warming theorists furiously lashed out at […]
The days of skiving behind your boss’s back may be numbered, following the announcement of a new product that can track your every movement in the workplace. Electronics manufacturer Hitachi has unveiled a high-tech ID badge that not only tracks an employee’s exact location within the office, it also keeps a record of all the […]
Would you like to have a digital identity card that is automatically issued to you at birth? In one European nation, residents use such a card when they go to the hospital, when they do their banking, when they go shopping and even when they vote. This card has become so popular that this particular […]
“Countless people … will hate the new world order … and will die protesting against it.” —H.G. Wells, The New World Order (1940) Throughout our lives and throughout our culture, we are conditioned to rally around concepts of false division. We are led to believe that Democrats and Republicans are separate and opposing parties, yet […]
May 23, 2014 Over 150 parents, educators and other interested members of the community came to hear a panel of experts spell out the myriad of problems with the Common Core State Standards Initiative and student data mining. Kevin Snider of the Pacific Justice Institute moderated as Anthony Cody, Bill Evers, Orlean Koehle and Ze’ev Wurman […]
Most people have never heard of Jaime Caruana even though he is the head of an immensely powerful organization. He has been serving as the General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements since 2009, and he will continue in that role until 2017. The Bank for International Settlements is a rather boring name, and […]
William Binney testifies before a German inquiry into surveillance. Photograph: Getty Images William Binney is one of the highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge from the NSA. He was a leading code-breaker against the Soviet Union during the Cold War but resigned soon after September 11, disgusted by Washington’s move towards mass surveillance. On 5 July […]
SAN FRANCISCO — For years, a school principal’s job was to make sure students were not creating a ruckus in the hallways or smoking in the bathroom. Vigilance ended at the schoolhouse gates. Now, as students complain, taunt and sometimes cry out for help on social media, educators have more opportunities to monitor students around the […]
D.C. insiders drop hints of erasing borders, unifying with Mexico NEW YORK – In recent weeks, both General David Petraeus and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D‑Calif., have woven into public speeches the theme of combining the United States, Canada and Mexico into a single, North American Union. “After America, there is North America,” explained Petraeus, […]
Very recently I came across a scenario in the streets of Hollywood, California. The big scene seemed a bit striking to the average person walking by as it was the middle of the day in a crowded busy Hollywood street. A closer look caused me to be even more intrigued — there was a gentleman […]
The administrators at the Veterans Administration have apparently been busy while old soldiers waited to see a doctor, after all. Serving those who served is not necessarily a priority, but saving the planet is Job 1. Solar panels and windmills can be more important than the touch of a healing hand. The department early on set […]
A new Rasmussen poll finds that support for the Common Core standards among American parents with school-age children has dropped dramatically. The telephone survey of 1,000 adults conducted June 21–22 found that only 34 percent of American adults with children of elementary or secondary school age now favor requiring all schools across the nation to […]
The text of a 19-page, international trade agreement being drafted in secret was published by WikiLeaks on Thursday as the transparency group’s editor commemorated his two-year anniversary confined to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Fifty countries around the globe have already signed on to the Trade in Service Agreement, or TISA, including the United States, […]
July 5, 2014 When the Obama administration failed in its bid five years ago to have the Democrat-controlled Congress create an unconstitutional cap-and-trade regime targeting carbon dioxide to fight “global warming,” it waited a few years, then imposed the radical scheme by executive decree. Rather than foisting it directly on businesses and individuals, Obama’s new presidential […]
While more people and places are switching to energy-saving LED light bulbs, a California company has found a way to turn them into smart networks that can collect and feed data. However, the new technological opportunities are also raising privacy concerns. For example, should you find yourself in terminal “B” at Newark airport, look up. […]
Imagine a dishwasher that requires a username and password. Smart homes will require unprecedented effort to ensure not just security but also usability. June 30, 2014 The battle between Google and Apple is moving from smart phones to smart things, with both companies vying to provide the underlying architecture that networks your appliances, utilities, and entertainment […]
U.N.‘s urban planning program turns the population into mere serfs who are easily controlled by the government July 1, 2014 Signed in 1992 by multiple nations, including the United States, the United Nations Agenda 21 Sustainable Development program is an urban planning “action plan” which calls for government to eventually take control of all land use […]
Sustainable Development is the blueprint being used across America and around the world to implement the United Nations Agenda 21 Programme.
