One day after the Yes Men made a joke announcement that ExxonMobil plans to turn billions of climate-change victims into a brand-new fuel called Vivoleum, the Yes Men’s upstream internet service provider shut down Vivoleum.com, the Yes Men’s spoof website, and cut off the Yes Men’s email service, in reaction to a complaint whose source they will not identify. The provider, Broadview Networks, also made the Yes Men remove all mention of Exxon from TheYesMen.org before they’d restore the Yes Men’s email service.
The Yes Men assume the complainant was Exxon. “Since parody is protected under US law, Exxon must think that people seeing the site will think Vivoleum’s a real Exxon product, not just a parody,” said Yes Man Mike Bonanno. “Exxon’s policies do already contribute to 150,000 climate-change related deaths each year,” added Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum. “So maybe it really is credible. What a resource!”
There was a bit of red bunting tacked to the door. There was a bird's-eye view of New York on the cardboard, with a pack of Gold Yava swooping over it like a missile warhead. There was a bird flying about the chimney of the house and his glance followed it. Most had not been touched, and the danger was gone.
Mademoiselle Montreil, let me introduce a friend. There was a bed, a small water basin on a dresser, and an indoor toilet down the hall. There was a naked man with blood coming from his head. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning. There was a passive, lovely look on her face. Dort haben es die Liebespaare besser.
A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows, Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows, Am pregnant to good pity. There was a blue line connecting the warrior to his former body.
Vladimir visited the tombstone. There was a peculiar softness, as of rainwater, in both the colour and the texture of the glass.
A British government Ministry of Defence report outlines a nightmare future society in which the population are forced to accept brain chips, immigration and urbanization ravages communities, class warfare ensues, and biological and neutron weapons are used to combat overpopulation.
The MoD's Development, Concepts & Doctrine Center drew up the document to crystallize the "future strategic context" likely to face Britain's armed forces, according to a report in the London Guardian today.
Since every deliberate action of government and industry is working to realize this future, we should look at this as a strategy plan rather than a warning of things to come.
The report hypothesizes what the world will be like in under 30 years and is an "analysis of the key risks and shocks" the planet is likely to face. Its predictions include:
The development of neutron weapons that destroy living organs but not buildings and "make a weapon of choice for extreme ethnic cleansing in an increasingly populated world." Such weapons would be dispersed by means of unmanned vehicles, leading to "application of lethal force without human intervention, raising consequential legal and ethical issues."
Within 30 years implanted brain chips as standard for all citizens in developed nations.
A mass revolt on behalf of the middle classes of the developed world in opposition to rampant immigration, an urban under-class and the deterioration of social order.
The revival of Marxism as a replacement for religion in an increasingly morally relativist age.
Unchecked globalization that effectively ends the nation state and leads to wars based on territorial belief systems rather than country against country.
A sharp decline in the population of white Europeans but an 81% increase in the population of sub-Saharan Africa and that of Middle Eastern countries by 132%.
Endemic unemployment, instability and threat to the social order as a result of population increase.
The emergence of a "terrorist coalition," an alliance of belief systems that oppose the state, from environmentalists to "ultra-nationalists" and remnants of religious groups.
The clear implication from this report is that any political or religious group that expresses opposition to the atheistic and dictatorial agenda of the state will be collectively demonized as terrorists and targeted for elimination and ethnic cleansing.
by Jan M. Olsen, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
Copenhagen, Denmark—Anarchists from across northern Europe flocked to join protesters in the Danish capital on Saturday after two nights of riots sparked by the eviction of squatters from an abandoned building that had been a center for young leftists and punk rockers.
More than 500 people, including scores of foreigners, have been arrested since the riots started Thursday. Authorities said more than 200 were arrested early Saturday following overnight clashes in which demonstrators pelted police with cobblestones and set fire to cars.
A school was also vandalized and several buildings damaged by fire overnight Saturday. One protester was reportedly wounded in the violence, while 25 were injured the night before in what police have called Denmark's worst riots in a decade.
Police said activists from Sweden, Norway and Germany had joined hundreds of Danish youth in the protests. Sympathy protests were held in Germany, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Open City: Tools for Public Action is an exhibition and series of public programs that focus on the ingenuity of graffiti writers, artists, protesters, pranksters and hackers reclaiming the public realm. Together with the Graffiti Research Lab, a collaboration formed in Eyebeam's R&D OpenLab in 2006, Eyebeam has invited a NYC and international roster of artists and collaborative groups to exhibit documentation of their work together with the tools they used—and often invented—to make their voices heard.
The artists featured in Open City create their work outside the confines of the gallery. Respecting the original context for this work, Open City considers the culture of its creation through the artifacts of its makers. Among the means and materials presented will be: digital projection, spray paint, urban pranks, robotics and custom machinery, site-specific sculpture, homemade markers and ink recipes, the internet, hacking and re-appropriation of existing urban systems.
Open City hopes to inspire its audience to make their own tools for public action. A series of screenings, presentations and workshops exploring tool building, tactics and approaches to communication by any means necessary within the urban context, will turn Eyebeam into an active and participatory environment for the duration of the show.
A panel discussion on the new laws restricting NYPD surveillance of public events, with lawyers: Martin Stolar, Gideon O. Oliver, and Dave Rankin.
Domestic spying takes a major setback in court. Judge Haight just released his long awaited decision in the motion to enjoin police photosurveillance of demonstrations.
The videotaping or photographing by the NYPD of any individual or individuals engaging in political activity must be conducted in accordance with the Modified Handschu Guidelines, and in a manner consistent with this Opinion.
There are many questions to be answered, but it seems like the police have to be in uniform while spying, and should pre-register before the spying takes place. Come to the panel discussion featuring lawyers, Martin Stolar, Gideon Oliver, and Dave Rankin to learn more.
As [Bernie] Krause tells these tales of peril, his voice resonates with a certain fearlessness developed during his worldwide, nearly 40-year quest to record the earth's rapidly disappearing "biophony"—a term he coined to describe that portion of the soundscape contributed by nonhuman creatures. Biophony, Krause has theorized, is unique to each place; nowhere in nature sounds exactly like anywhere else. This idea has led him toward a controversial way of thinking that would broaden the scope of today's evolutionary biology. Many animals, he argues, have evolved to squeeze their vocalizations into available niches of the soundscape in order to be heard by others of their kind. Evolution isn't just about the competition for space or food but also for bandwidth. If a species cannot find a sonic niche of its own, it will not survive.
she's looking for additional ideas on resources, such as social bookmarking services, feeds, specialized search engines, etc.. she'd also like to include a sampling of information profiles—like, "Kate is a producer for a show on a community radio station. She uses _X_ to keep up with _X_ topic in the news, and she uses _X_ technology to be more effective doing _X_."
The 2007 My Brooklyn Photo + Essay Contest is about what makes this borough unique to you. From the faces and places to the events, food, and attitude, show and tell us about your Brooklyn and you could win a $500, $ 300 or $ 100 U.S. Savings Bond and have your work exhibited at Brooklyn Public Library. From DeGraw Street to DiFara's, from Carroll Gardens to the Cyclone, from Greenpoint to Greenwood, Brooklyn is everywhere—show us where it takes you.
My Brooklyn, a photo and essay contest sponsored by Brooklyn Public Library [BPL] and Con Edison, encourages everyone everywhere to share what Brooklyn means to you through pictures and words. You don't have to live here to have a thought, feeling, memory or favorite person, place, or thing in the borough to enter. In fact, anyone may enter, except BPL and Con Edison employees and their families.
The Rockefeller Foundation yesterday announced the creation of a Jane Jacobs Medal to honor that author and urbanist, who died in 2006 at 89. The medals, to be awarded annually, "will recognize two living individuals whose creative vision for the urban environment has significantly contributed to the vibrancy and variety of New York City," the foundation said. One award will recognize lifetime contributions; the other, new ideas and activism. The selection of the 2007 medal winners and how the $200,000 in prize money will be allocated is to be decided by the members of a jury whose chairman is George Campbell Jr., president of the Cooper Union, and Agnes Gund, president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art. The award will be administered by the Municipal Arts Society. Nominations can be submitted to: http://rockfound.org/efforts/jacobs/janejacobs.shtml until 5 p.m. Eastern time on March 2. The 2007 recipients will be announced in June.
07 Jan 1894 . French police arrest 2,000 anarchists in their homes in sweep of country 07 Jan 1891 . Zora Neale Hurston born [African American writer and storyteller] 07 Jan 1800 . Revolution in Switzerland
A British government Ministry of Defence report outlines a nightmare future society in which the population are forced to accept brain chips, immigration and urbanization ravages communities, class warfare ensues, and biological and neutron weapons are used to combat overpopulation.
