Update to the About Page

The following items have been added to the About Page.

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Teachers Worth Learning From

• John Taylor Gatto


• Jiddu Krishnamurti

Books Worth Reading

• “Education and the Significance of Life” by Krishnamurti

Courses and Playlists worth Investing In

• The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto


• Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything; Or Old Bob Exposes His Ignorance (links to torrent on The Pirate Bay).

Documentaries and Investigations Worth Watching

• Marley


• James Steele: America's mystery man in Iraq - video


• Canada's War on Weed


• Resistance in the West Bank


• Piece By Piece : San Francisco Graffiti Documentary


• Five Steps To Tyranny


• The War on Kids: The Definitive Documentary on the Failure of the Public Education System


• HUMAN RESOURCES Social Engineering In The 20th Century HQ FULL


• The Trials of Henry Kissinger


• The Retirement Gamble

Lectures, debates, and Interviews of Interest

• Hamming, "Mathematics" (May 18, 1995) (from the playlist Richard Hamming: "Learning to Learn")


• Bradley Manning's Full Statement via Freedom of Press Foundation


• "Dirty Wars" discussion Scahill & Chomsky with Goodman (Part 2)


• NSA Whistleblower on Intelligence


• Mike Ruppert - CIA and Drug Running (1997)


• GRITtv: Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald on the Media's Wars


• Alfie Kohn - The (Alternative) Schools Our Kids Deserve - 2011 MAAP Conference (Part 2)


• Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air with David MacKay


• Forgotten Women of the War on Terror: Author Victoria Brittain on the Wives and Families Left Behind


• Yemeni Activist Farea al-Muslimi Urges U.S. to Stop the Drone War on His Country


• Dahr Jamail Returns to Iraq to Find Rampant Torture and a Failed State Living in "Utter Devastation"


• Right to Heal: Iraqi Civilians Join U.S. Veterans in New Effort to Recover from War’s Devastation


• Allan Savory - Reversing Global Warming while Meeting Human Needs


• Dying Iraq War Veteran Tomas Young Explains Decision to End His Life (Further info: Part 2; Phil Donahue; The Last Letter)


• Cyprus Should Let the Banks Go Bankrupt


• BBC-Guardian Exposé Uses WikiLeaks to Link Iraq Torture Centers to U.S. Col. Steele & Gen. Petraeus


• College Algebra - Lecture 2 - Language of mathematics


• From London to New York to Cyprus, Fraud and Financial "Insanity"


• Gar Alperovitz’s Green Party Keynote: We Are Laying Groundwork for the "Next Great Revolution"


• Abby Martin interviews Richard Grove on Russia Today’s “Breaking the Set” (RT)


• Icelandic Lawmaker Birgitta Jónsdóttir on Challenging Gov’t Secrecy from Twitter to Bradley Manning (Part 2: Birgitta Jónsdóttir on Criminalization of Cyber-Activists, Bradley Manning & Iceland’s Pirate Party)


• Israel's New Generation of Racists


• Youth Will Pay the Price of Austerity


• Testimony, Recordings at Trial Reveal the Racial Biases and Arrest Quotas Behind NYPD’s Stop & Frisk


• The Inevitability of Physical Laws: Why the Higgs Has to Exist | Nima Arkani-Hamed


• Culture in Decline | Episode #4 "War On Nature" by Peter Joseph


• Deb Roy: The birth of a word


• Iraq War Veteran Who Rescued Wounded Children in 2007 Apache Attack Describes Emotional Toll of Witnessing Infamous Killings


• Israeli Journalist Amira Hass Sparks Furor at Home for Defending Palestinian Right to Resist (Part 2)


• Wikileaks Releases Kissinger Cables and Two Decisions in Manning Trial


• Digital Disconnect: Robert McChesney on "How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy"


• US Syria Policy Promotes Endless Civil War


• U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. The full session can be viewed at: Outsourcing Accountability? Examining the Role of Independent Consultants (Note that the coverage begins at approximately 25:25). Fifteen minute segment from the hearing at: Senator Elizabeth Warren: Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection, panel 1 .


• US Syria Policy Promotes Endless Civil War


• "Mother Teresa of Somalia" Hawa Abdi and Daughter Deqo Mohamed on Healing Decades of War, Tragedy


• Arms Manufacturers Influence GCC and US Foreign Policy


• Why did Rwandan War Lord Accused of Crimes in Congo, Give Himself Up to the ICC?


• Venezuela Accuses U.S. of Plotting Coup After Deadly Post-Election Protests


• After Obama Shuns Probe, Bipartisan Panel Finds "Indisputable" Evidence U.S. Tortured Under Bush


• Massive Cheating Scandals Rock School Districts Nationwide


• Genocide Trial of Former Dictator Ríos Montt Suspended After Intervention by Guatemalan President


• Exclusive: Allan Nairn Exposes Role of U.S. and New Guatemalan President in Indigenous Massacres


• Big Commodity Traders Pocketed $250 Billion Profit


• Jeremy Scahill: The Secret Story Behind Obama’s Assassination of Two Americans in Yemen , and The World Is a Battlefield: Jeremy Scahill on "Dirty Wars" and Obama’s Expanding Drone Attacks


• As Obama Shuns Hearing, Yemeni Says U.S. Drone War Terrifying Civilians, Empowering Militants


• VICE on HBO: Congressman Jim McDermott Interview (Episode 3 - Toxic Iraq)


• Palestinian Authority Budget 28% for Security Forces - Funded by US


• Professor Chomsky Interview: Reflections on Education and Creativity


• Bill McKibben's Sermon at The Riverside Church - "God's Taunt"


• Professor Chomsky Interview: Reflections on Education and Creativity


• How Stanley Fischer Advanced Neo-Liberalism in Israel


• "The Terror Courts": An Inside Look at Rough Justice, Torture at Guantánamo Bay


• Torture at Guantánamo: Lt. Col. Stuart Couch on His Refusal to Prosecute Abused Prisoner


• Julian Assange speech that was censored by the Oxford Union


• Immortal Technique On Fire with Alex Jones


• The Problem With Our food and Why it's Killing Us


• Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud


• Banker Admits "We Engineered the Global Financial Crisis", Part 1, Part 2, Part 3


• WikiLeaks Whistleblower Bradley Manning Says He Wanted to Show the Public the "True Costs of War"


• Salt Sugar Fat: NY Times Reporter Michael Moss on How the Food Giants Hooked America on Junk Food


• 5 Years in Jail for Unlocking a Phone? Petition Led by Former GOP Staffer Prompts Probe of New Ban


• Glenn Greenwald on Bradley Manning: Prosecutor Overreach Could Turn All Whistleblowing into Treason


• Bradley Manning Tells Court Public Have the Right to Know About US War Crimes


• White House Denounces Cellphone Unlocking Ban Hours After Petition Backer Appears on Democracy Now!


• Venezuela's Real Division Over Who Benefits from Oil Wealth


• New Funding Group Calls for 100 More WikiLeaks to Offset Unprecedented Gov’t Secrecy


• Hugo Chávez Dead: Transformed Venezuela & Survived U.S.-Backed Coup, Now Leaves Uncertainty Behind


• Operation Condor Trial Tackles Coordinated Campaign by Latin American Dictatorships to Kill Leftists


• EPL Presents Chris Hedges


• The Life and Legacy of Hugo Chavez


• Daniel Ellsberg: In Hearing Bradley Manning Act Out of Conscience, Secret Tape Refutes Media Slander


• Bradley Manning Speaks: In Leaked Court Recording, Army Whistleblower Tells His Story for First Time


• Income Inequality: Evidence and Implications


• As Gitmo Prisoners Revolt, Obama Admin Challenged on Indefinite Detention at OAS Hearing


• What to do about Baltimore Schools


• John Stossel's Illegal Everything (prohibition)


• 2 Years After Invasion to Crush Uprising in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia Helps Fuel Conflict in Syria


• Documentary Exposes US Role in Iraq Sectarian Conflict


• Citizenville with Gavin Newsom -- Revelle Forum


• Arundhati Roy on Iraq War’s 10th: Bush May Be Gone, But "Psychosis" of U.S. Foreign Policy Prevails


• Tariq Ali on the Uses and the Abuses of History on Vimeo


• The New York Times and "Liberal Media" Helped Sell the Iraq War


• "We’ve Lost Our Country": An Iraqi American Looks Back on a Decade of War That’s Devastated a Nation


• Israel's Syria Strategy to Weaken Hezbollah and Profit from Chaos


• Robert Fisk on Syria’s Civil War, Chemical Weapons "Theater" & Obama’s Backing of Israeli Strikes


• Arab League's Peace Initiative Puts Israel in an Embarrassing Position


• Chicago Workers Open New Cooperatively Owned Factory Five Years After Republic Windows Occupation


• The Rehabilitation of Bush/Cheney


• European Governments Take Steps to Label Products of Israeli Colonies and Stephen Hawking Confirms Support of Israel Boycott


• Pollin Responds to Reinhart and Rogoff; Cuts Deepen and Stock Market Soars

Articles, Documents, and Reports Worth Noting

• Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever


• Bush’s Useful Idiots: Tony Judt on the Strange Death of Liberal America


• Toward a Sustainable Agriculture, a curriculum for high school students


• Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel


• The World's Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society (Infograph) (produced by a US ‘Think-Tank’ “chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright”, taken with a serious grain of salt, )


• Intellectual Property and the Great “Debate”


• Israeli bombing of Syria and moral relativism


• 83-year-old nun gets 20 year sentence for peaceful nuclear protest


• 6 Brave Govt. Whistleblowers Charged Under the Espionage Act by Obama's Administration


• Jewish defense group settles S.F. spying suit


• Last rhinos in Mozambique killed by poachers and Western black rhino declared extinct


• New Zealand isn’t exactly outlawing software patents—it’s doing something more interesting


• The FBI Is Winning the Fight to Invade Your Online Privacy


• Over the Line - Why are U.S. Border Patrol agents shooting into Mexico and killing innocent civilians?


• Adolf Hitler’s "Mein Kampf" reviewed by George Orwell, 1940 (pdf)


• Revising The Revisionaries: The Texas Board of Ed Loses Power over Textbooks


• The New Great Game (NATO vs. SCO)


• They may be fighting for Syria, not Assad. They may also be winning: Robert Fisk reports from inside Syria


• BBC Attacks the Open Web, GNU/Linux in Danger


• International coalition of Internet freedom organizations urges W3C to reject Encrypted Media Extensions, a proposal to build Digital Restrictions Management into the Web (DRM)


• “MY LAST POST: Final thoughts on Zionism’s success and Arab failure” by Alan Hart


• U.S. gives big, secret push to Internet surveillance


• Iraq: War's legacy of cancer


• Tony Judt's Final Word on Israel


• Credit scores: Stat oil: Lenders are turning to social media to assess borrowers


• Mondragon Corporation (Worker cooperative federation)


• Bedroom tax: why you should march against this heartless, pointless 'reform' (more info: Line of Battle)


• Wikileaks Was Just a Preview: We're Headed for an Even Bigger Showdown Over Secrets


• “The Lost Tools of Learning” by Dorothy Sayers


• The First Church of Pirate Bay


• “THE STUDENT AS NIGGER” Essays and Stories by Jerry Farber


• How Bush won the war in Iraq - really!


• The Next Real Estate Bubble: Farmland


• Less Is More: Rogue Economists Champion Prosperity without Growth


• New Zealand Parliament: The Next Oil Shock?


• Local woman took part in weird 1972 experiment in marijuana use


• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 2013 Privacy Report: Who Has Your Back?


• The Fossil Fuel Resistance: As the world burns, a new movement to reverse climate change is emerging - fiercely, loudly and right next door


• Elizabeth Warren’s Foreclosure Settlement Bombshell: Banks Determined the Number of Victims of Their Own Foreclosure Frauds


• Pres Obama Signs Bill Killing Anti-Corruption, Pro-Transparency STOCK Act Provisions


• Gitmo Is Killing Me (Guantánamo)


• The untimely death of a graffiti writer


• The President’s Budget Request, FY 2013


• National Disgrace (Prohibition)


• A Lesson in Karma by Robert Anton Wilson


• Walmart’s Contested Expansion in the Retail Business: Differential Accumulation, Institutional Restructuring and Social Resistance


• Terrorism and the other Religions


• The Keeling Curve


• Teenagers, social media, and terrorism: a threat level hard to assess


• The Program: The National Security Agency's Domestic Spying Program (surveillance)


• U.S. filmmaker repeatedly detained at border


• The Latin American Exception


• Jeremy Hammond on Aaron Swartz & the Criminalization of Digital Dissent


• Time to Face the Truth About Iran


• India's rice revolution


• The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food


• The Empire Lobbies Back: How Big Cable Killed Competition in North Carolina


• Joel Klein of New York to become an Executive for News Corp: Full spectrum dominance of education the goal


• What the Statistics Tell Us about Venezuela in the Chavez Era


• Is Environmental Justice Good for White Folks? (pdf)


• K-12 student database jazzes tech startups, spooks parents


• 15 Benefits of the War on Drugs


• The Math of FOSS Freeloaders: Why Freeloaders are Essential to FOSS Project Success


• Federal Government Reports Marijuana Effective in Combatting Certain Cancers Reports ADSI


• Graham Hancock Refutes TED’s Allegations, Defends Reputation and Open for discussion: Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake from TEDxWhitechapel


• The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'


• Wave of "Ag Gag" Bills Threaten Food Safety and Freedom of the Press


• The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'


• “He Was a Crook” by Hunter Thompson (1994)


• The Internet is a surveillance state


• Steubenville: this is rape culture's Abu Ghraib moment


• In China, Breathing Becomes a Childhood Risk


• The Mystery of John Titor: Hoax or Time Traveler?


• 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis


• Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain?


• The Rich Have Gained $5.6 Trillion in the 'Recovery,' While the Rest of Us Have Lost $669 Billion


• Why America's 'hacker generation' can thrive as teachers

Art and Design Worth Viewing

• Michele Tanner


• Daniel Krall


• but does it float


• Sketches-natched


• MSTRFNG

News and Blogs Worth Scanning

• Tragedy and Hope


• Washington Report on Middle East Affairs


• Tarpley.net


• Calculated Risk

Movies Worth The Time

• Hard Eight


• My Awkward Sexual Adventure


• Silent Running


• The Master

Resources and Tools

• Toward a Sustainable Agriculture, a curriculum for high school students


• Wikileaks


• The WIKILEAKS Public Library of US Diplomacy (PlusD)


• archive.org


• The Best Browser Extensions that Protect Your Privacy (More: Don't ask your government for your Privacy, take it back)


• Farming: Companion Planting


• Online Clock


• The Keeling Curve (CO2 concentrations)


• The World Top Incomes Database


• Quandl dataset (testing)


• Online Link Scan (testing)

Sound Bites

• INVERTED TOTALITARIANISM


• High School Student Goes Off On Teacher About Education!


• Star Trek: TNG USS-Enterprise D Bridge Background Ambience (LONG)


• Pirates and Emperors - Schoolhouse Rock


• What is the Pirate Organization?


• Is the CIA Involved in Drug Trafficking? "I think George Bush is deep into it" - Ron Paul


• Bill Maher Gets Owned by Glenn Greenwald Over Benghazi and Interventionism - May 10, 2013


• dandelions in permaculture


• Moving Atoms: Making The World's Smallest Movie (The Movie)


• Glenda Jackson launches tirade against Thatcher in tribute debate


• Dramatic footage: Cargo Boeing 747 crashes at Bagram Airfield


• Rep. Brandon Dillon (D-Grand Rapids) Speaks Out Against "Right-to-Work" Legislation


• The Language of Math


• This Is What Happens When A Journalist Forces A Banker To Actually Answer A Question


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• Over 100 Arrested Protesting Mass School Closings In Chicago


• Growing Up: Indoor Farm Goes 'Mega' Near Chicago, FlexPlanter, hydroponic lettuce automation


• Public Banking Needed to Stop "Cannibalization" of the Economy


• Krishnamurti - Who am I?


• Motorville by Patrick Jean


• MONTREAL POLICE PEPPER-SPRAY BAY PATRONS AMID PROTEST


• Separate Bus Lines for Palestinians and for Colonists in the West Bank


• Ralph Nader asks if Barack Obama will be an Uncle Tom


• TIE R.I.P


• US use of torture ‘indisputable,’ report says


• The Art of Harvey Kurtzman


• FRONTLINE | Sneak Peek: Inside "Top Secret America" | PBS


• Decimal, Binary, Octal & Hexadecimal


• Fantastic Fungi: The Forbidden Fruit


• Terry Gilliam's Do It Yourself Animation Show


• Elizabeth Warren Grills Ben Bernanke on 'Too Big to Fail'


• Bradley Manning admits to leaking 'the most significant documents of our time'


• RI Teacher Says"I Quit!"


• John Taylor Gatto - The Purpose Of Schooling


• An Illustrated Talk With Maurice Sendak (Drawings by Christoph Niemann)


• $9,000,000,000,000 MISSING From The Federal Reserve SHOCKING FOOTAGE


• Wealth Inequality in America


• How Hemp Threatens the Corporatocracy | Brainwash Update


• Dennis McKenna - We're on Drugs All The Time


• Providence — a short film featuring Bradley Manning's voice


• Tim Minchin - Pope Song


• Copying Is Not Theft - Official Version


• Glenn Greenwald: The Power of Ideas


• JRE: Eddie Huang TED Conference Exposed


• Mutual Interest Hidden Beneath Apple and Samsung Legal Struggle


• U.N. Says Likely Rebels Used Chemical Weapons NOT Syrian Government!