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Neuroscience could mean soldiers controlling weapons with minds | Science | guar...

2 saves http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/07/neuroscience-soldiers-control...

Soldiers could have their minds plugged directly into weapons systems, undergo brain scans during recruitment and take courses of neural stimulation to boost their learning, if the armed forces embrace the latest developments in neuroscience to hone the performance of their troops.

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London Olympics could crash the internet, Cabinet Office warns

4 saves http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/feb/05/london-olympics-crash-internet

Fears of an internet meltdown during the London Games may lead to web access being rationed for British businesses

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Forbidden island: New York's forgotten leper colony

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Just 350 yards from the Bronx in New York lies North Brother Island - a 13-acre forbidden zone that was used as a quarantine centre for contagious diseases from 1885. It was the home of New York's only official leper colony and the last resting place of the notorious "Typhoid Mary".

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Waltz and all: Far right has ball in Vienna

2 saves http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/waltz-and-all-far-right-has-...

The Viennese ball might have escaped with UNESCO's rap on the knuckles, had it not been for an initially unreported anti-Semitic tirade delivered from Strache's ballroom box to some 3,000 of his right wing guests last Friday, describing Austria's far-right as the "New Jews".

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Press Freedom Index 2011-2012 - Reporters Without Borders

18 saves http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2011-2012,1043.html

Within the European Union, the index reflects a continuation of the very marked distinction between countries such as Finland and Netherlands that have always had a good evaluation and countries such as Bulgaria (80th), Greece (70th) and Italy (61st) that fail to address the issue of their media freedom violations, above all because of a lack of political will.

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Going Backwards: Self-Guided Bullets Unveiled

1 save http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/30-8

Sandia National Labs has announced today that their engineers have invented a dart-like, self-guided bullet for small-caliber, smooth-bore firearms that could hit laser-designated targets at distances of more than a mile.

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Israeli soldiers drive tractor over worker’s legs to stop Palestinians from buil...

1 save http://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/israeli-soldiers-drive-tractor-over-workers-l...

Today is the Sabbath, and I pray with all my heart that all American Zionists see the pictures below and tell me how an ideology of Jewish separatism that has deprived several million Palestinians of any rights can be justified in today's world.Two days ago a brave and noble Palestinian man, ...

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We are Nabi Saleh

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This little village in the West Bank will never be the same when in 1977, forty Jewish families move into an abandoned British fortress, only a few miles from Nabi Saleh. With the coming of this colony (Halamish) begins the infamous scenario.
A checkpoint is installed at the entrance of Nabih Saleh, olive trees are cut for security reasons and orders for the demolition of houses follow.  In 2009 the source of the village has been taken over by the colony. From that moment, every Friday the residents of Nabih Saleh organise a protest march towards the source. Every Friday the protest is beaten down with injuries and arrests as a result.

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Settlers who went too far - even for Netanyahu

5 saves http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/settlers-who-went-too-f...

there is absolutely nothing legal about it. Forget about international law, which most democratic governments believe is violated by all Jewish settlement in occupied territory. Like another 100 such unauthorised outposts, which started to spring up in the 1990s to get round Israel's promise to build no new actual settlements, it has no basis in Israeli law. Moreover, government departments have regularly confirmed, and the Supreme Court accepted, that Migron was built on land privately owned by individual Palestinians and their families in the nearby villages of Burqa and Deir Dibwan, which makes it doubly illegal.

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Doll 'protesters' present small problem for Russian police | World news | The Gu...

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Police in Siberian city ask prosecutors to investigate legality of protest involving display of toy figures holding miniature placards

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Firms squirm at shame of exposure over human rights and environmental contempt -...

2 saves http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/firms-squirm-at-shame-of-exposure-...

Some of the world's biggest companies are in the running for an award that none of them actually wants. This Friday, two will be singled out as the biggest offenders of the year for "contempt for the environment and human rights".

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The Arab-Israeli Book Review: Common ground in contested territory

2 saves http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/23/arab-israeli-book-review

Samir's new project helps to redress the narrative imbalance, away from policy and nationhood, towards people. As such, it is political in the most comprehensive of senses. Established in collaboration with the Jewish author and academic Ariel Kahn, the magazine evolved out of the pair's much-admired Arab-Israeli Book Club, which was set up in north London in 2009. The club, which meets bi-monthly, pairs books by Arab and Israeli authors "to create an ongoing dialogue between different voices". The Review seeks to go further, including reviews, essays, fiction, poetry, podcasts and – yes – commentary, providing a forum for cultural exchange.

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Isi Metzstein obituary-- Innovative architect who designed some remarkable post...

2 saves http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/22/isi-metzstein

Isi Metzstein, who has died aged 83, was jointly responsible for some of the most remarkable and distinguished modern architecture in postwar Britain. Under the umbrella of the Glasgow practice of Gillespie Kidd & Coia (GKC), for whom he worked throughout his career, he and his colleague Andrew ...

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Greece's ancient sites to play starring role in recovery

1 save http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/20/greek-ancient-sites-for-rent

Crisis-hit Athens has turned to the glory that was Greece to help its ruined economy. The debt-choked nation has taken the dramatic step of deciding to exploit some of its past majesty by utilising the Acropolis and other antiquities – cultural gems until now considered too sacred to besmirch with commerce.

Under a scheme revealed this week, foreign film crews, advertising agencies and other commercial enterprises will be allowed to photograph 5th century BC Periclean masterpieces such as the Parthenon, in the hope that it will help boost the country's coffers and image abroad.

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Could football supporters go veggie?

1 save http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/18/football-fans-food-goes-...

One club has replaced beef burgers with portobello mushrooms, and meat pies with pumpkin hummus wraps. The food may be great – but not everyone's a fan

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Huaxi: The socialist village where everyone is wealthy - Asia - World - The Inde...

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Huaxi is a "model socialist village", according to local officials, and was founded by local Communist Party secretary Wu Renbao in 1961. His foresight was to transform a poor farming community into a super wealthy community, built on its clever adaptations of modern agribusiness methods, then its diversification into steel mills, its logistics firms, and its textile businesses.

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Mafia is Italy's biggest business

1 save http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9006027/Mafia-is-Italys-...

The country's four mafia groups have broken out of their traditional strongholds in the dusty 'Mezzogiorno' south of Rome and spread their tentacles across the whole country, taking advantage of the economic crisis to snap up ailing businesses and ramp up their loan-shark operations.

They now boast estimated cash reserves of €65bn, collectively making them "Italy's biggest bank", according to a study released on Tuesday by Confesercenti, a prominent employers' association.

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Hackers Launching Satellite to Evade Internet Censorship

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During the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin back in August -- an annual hacker conference sponsored by the German Chaos Computer Club -- a team of German hackers revealed plans to launch their own communication satellites into space in order to create a separate, "uncensorable" network called the Hackerspace Global Grid (HGG).

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File-Sharing Recognized as Official Religion in Sweden

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Since 2010 a group of self-confessed pirates have tried to get their beliefs recognized as an official religion in Sweden. After their request was denied several times, the Church of Kopimism – which holds CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred symbols – is now approved by the authorities as an official religion. The Church hopes that its official status will remove the legal stigma that surrounds file-sharing.

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Lacoste's Act of Censorship Interview with Larissa Sansour

3 saves http://metropolism.com/news/lacoste-s-act-of-censorship/

On December 20th Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour issued a press release that her nomination for the prestigious Lacoste Elysée Prize awarded by the Swiss Musée de l’Elysée was revoked on grounds that her work was 'too pro-Palestinian'. Regretting Lacoste’s censorship, the Musée de l’Elysée had offered Sansour a solo of her work. Following a barrage of articles in the art and mainstream press, the Musée de l’Elysée caved in and cancelled the whole prize. Nat Muller caught up with Larissa Sansour now the dust has slightly settled.

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