"The Corporation" released on BitTorrent for Free

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Tuesday November 28, 2006 · 10:32 AM PST

2006/11/28 · 10:32

in case it has not been reported yet (couldn't find anything): the Makers of the award winning documentary "The Corporation" have released their film to the public, and thats a 1.7GB download you wont regret. In case you havent seen it, go and get it, if you already have, consider making a donation.

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Thursday November 09, 2006 · 2:43 AM PST

2006/11/09 · 02:43

So now the democrats have a clear majority in the house and (probably) in the senat. This is undoubtly a good thing, but to me as a remote observer and only indirectly affected person, this is not a victory. It has the potential to become one, but in itself a election win doesn't mean that much to me. Things have become better, but not good.

So let me as a european citicen articulate some questions ..

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Thursday September 21, 2006 · 7:21 AM PDT

2006/09/21 · 07:21

So the CIA tortures. Surprise, Surprise. We just have to get rid of big bad George Dabbelyu and his neocon gang, and everything will be nice and shiny and presentable, and the US will be again Gods own country, land of the free. At least thats how i read some of the posts here on DailyKos.

As long as i can read newspapers, the USA have (by means of the CIA and other orgs) tortured and killed people, brought down governments, misinformed and decepted people, dealt with drugs, commit virtually every crime I can think of. The only thing thats new here is that a US president has been forced (by the supreme court) to confess torture, and that is news indeed. From the outside, it's irrelevant if a US president is "republican" or "democratic", if the organisation in question is CIA, NSA, one of the military intelligence services .. in the end it's THE USA.

If you think these are exaggerations or blatant lies, follow me and get a crash course about US foreign politics, and why so many people hate the US. Read More

The missing experience

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Tuesday December 13, 2005 · 4:33 AM PST

2005/12/13 · 04:33

Sometimes I meet a young pal who is a bit to self-confident and self-centered. It's not really nice to have him around, because all the time he feels a bit like the center of the world, that nothing can happen to him, and he cant come along with others very good (in fact, he doesn't see the need). And i think to myself usually: Boy, you need some more experience. For instance, spending a year or two in the army could do you good. I bet it wouldn't take you long to figure out that it's sometimes best to not have the last word, that it doesn't pay off to be a complete asshole to your roommates, stuff like that. I don't want you to get harmed, boy. You just have to get some more experience.

And sometimes, when i switch on TV, and i see the latest U.S. news coverage, i think by myself, boy, these guys over there could use some experience...
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The Massachusetts way

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Friday December 09, 2005 · 1:47 AM PST

2005/12/09 · 01:47

This is not really brand new, but topics of that kind are rarely covered here on DailyKos, so i thought i'll give it a try on a Friday:

On September 23th, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts posted the final version of its Enterprise Technical Reference Model, which mandates office applications that support OpenDocument file formats. OpenDocument is a specification by a consortium called OASIS, that includes members like Hewlett-Packard, Novell, AMD and Intel, Oracle, Dell, even the US Department of Defense is a Member of OASIS. So, whats the story, one might ask? Microsoft is not supporting that standard, and according to MS spokesmen, they never will. Follow me, i'll tell you why, and why it might be important for you to know ...
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Are you a red-pill-type of guy ?

TheGerman

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Thursday October 06, 2005 · 12:18 AM PDT

2005/10/06 · 00:18

In the late 80's is was studying process engineering with specialization on environmental technology and process analysis. This was a somewhat unusual topic to study that time and place, because the official line these days was "environmental protection is to expensive right now, and these trees over there are dying of something, but it's got nothing to do with pollution", and the inofficial line was "lets fake another environmental report to pretend everything is fine". The place was Dresden, German Democratic Republic, from your point of view "behind" the steel curtain.
A professor recommended me a book that wasn't even officially available in the GDR but they had one in the faculty library. It was nearly twenty years old:
The Limits to Growth
A Report to The Club of Rome (1972),

by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis l. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, William W. Behrens III
Some of you might have heard of it, some of you not. Lets see ...
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The only long term strategy for energy

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Sunday September 25, 2005 · 1:33 AM PDT

2005/09/25 · 01:33

beside the suffering and the incompetence and all the other things Katrina and Rita revealed, two things have become clear:

providing energy for all the major industry nations based on fossil fuels will lead into disaster
all the industry nations depend way to much on oil, and every disturbance in that market creates substantial economical damage

The only way out of this is nuclear energy.
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The Jamaica option in German politics

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Thursday September 22, 2005 · 8:05 AM PDT

2005/09/22 · 08:05

Germany has voted, and after politicians successfully confused people for a while, people managed to confuse politicians with the election results. This is a short introduction into the political landscape of germany and a (very short) analysis of the recent election. For the interested, more after the break ... Read More

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