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Data visualizations are cool. This map will likely interest you if you care about people or you are alive today trying to figure out what the world even is. Something is happening around the planet. It’s happening just about everywhere people live, and at an increasing pace. The map below was provided by The Refugee Project, a collaboration between Hyperakt and Ekene Ijeoma, using UNHCR data …
Although it was released over five years ago, this FAS.org production on encouraging the elimination and prohibition of nuclear weapons, is still one of the most relevant and salient arguments for a discussion that is not yet being had in open political or public forums. This is one of the most urgent issues of our time, and will only become increasingly so …
1. Communities are Destroyed 2. Weapons are Cheap and Available 3. Drones are Amazingly Terrifying 4. The Stakes Are Even Higher Today 5. Nuclear Weapons are Entirely Unnecessary for Defense Paths To Zero from fascientists on Vimeo.
China Says Military Will “Stand Up And Use Force” If US Sends Warships To Islands China mustn’t tolerate rampant US violations of China’s adjacent waters and the skies over those expanding islands. If the US encroaches on China’s core interests, the Chinese military will stand up and use force to stop it. -China Global Times CHINA MILITARY READY FOR …
Is the U.S. backed Japanese Self Defense Force massively changing their interpretation of pacifism? If so, why now? This strategic military realignment is coming on the heals of recent N. Korean provocations (as part of a continued cycle), in addition to unprecedented long range Chinese naval expeditions, which brought ships as close as 12nm off of the U.S. coast of Alaska while Pres. …
Soccer-bot Passes Logic Driven Self-Awareness Test AI Could Go Crazy, Start Seeing Things That Aren’t There The Next WMD AI in Ads Future Wars: Drones and Supersoldiers (and sooner than you think) | Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It | Wired@Youtube
Are you paying attention? After five years of can kicking, we are finally seeing a pivotal point of economic confrontation between the Greek people, their government, and their creditors. This is what a failure of central planning looks like. Watch it play out. Take notes. Here are a few: Greek Government-Debt Crisis – Wiki (for some catch up) –> Does this …
Secrets don’t last forever, especially when so much history is ensconced on ledgers meticulously recorded by dedicated court scribes. After being lost for some number of years, the unabridged version of the Oppenheimer hearing can now be viewed in all it’s uncensored glory. Although this story is over a half century long at this point, there is much to be learned from that one time the U.S. …
Mapping the Spread of the Military’s Surplus Gear – NYTimes.com No, You Can’t Give Back That MRAP, or the Grenade Launchers – MotherJones Just Put A Red Cross on It and Paint it White – NPR Elementary School MRAP Will Come Equipped with Medical Supplies… Teddy Bears – DailyBeast
In the last years of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was able to make a critical connection between poverty, racism, and militarism. It wasn’t very long after MLK depicted the U.S. Government the “Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today” that the massacre in My Lie Village was being covered up by those that gave the order. And one year into articulately conveying his realization …
An exhibit on propaganda and WWI at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin Texas.
How does your nation rank in the world map of life expectancy? | Mail Online
