The NDAA: Fear and Oathing in D.C.

Papa Mau

Robotic Ocean Explorer - The first autonomous ocean exploration robot has completed its journey from San Francisco to Australia. Traveling over 9000 nautical miles in just over a year, the solar powered wave-gliding robot braved sharks, survived storms, and navigated around treacherous coastal regions.

“During Papa Mau’s journey, [it] weathered gale-force storms, fended off sharks, spent more than 365 days at sea, skirted around the Great Barrier Reef, and finally battled and surfed the east Australian current to reach his final destination in Hervey Bay, near Bundaberg, Queensland.” […] “We are reaching a tipping point in that the technology is becoming so cheap that it’s now a much cheaper to use a robot to gather data than to pay for a manned ship to be at sea for months at a time.”

PBS–Black Coffee

Rory Stewart: Time to end the war in Afghanistan

Invisible Empire

Stellar Wind

Rick Steves on Iran, a MUST see video

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

Boatlift

Just an incredible September 11th story…  I had never heard about it before.

Adam Curtis: The power of Nightmares

Part 1” Baby it's Cold Outside”

 

Part 2 “The Phantom Victory”

 

Part 3 “The Shadows in the Cave”

War Made Easy

War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war line of one administration after another.

Here is an excerpt with Senator Wayne Morse:

Schools Kill Creativity