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Design Interesting People

HTML5 + CSS3 + Firefox 4 = very cool slide show example of new tech

Put magic in a bottle, digitize it and turn it into a webpage and you have these new capabilities. DZ Slides

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Interesting People Politics

Robert Fisk: The Terror of Power and the Power of Terror

National Radio Project

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Interesting People Politics

Max Keiser interview w/ Ellen Brown: what is money?

Are the elite financiers behind BIG capital pushing austerity measures to protect the dollar value of the huge bailouts they received? We’re good, now you bear the brunt of the pain? On the larger scheme of things, does money as it is now make any sense? or has it been hijacked by a Las Vegas style high stakes gambling elite?


And British novelist John le Carré interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! along the same lines.

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Aztec poem

Here is the great city
Of Mexico-Tenochtitlán,
In this place that is renowned,
In this place that is exemplary,
Where the wild cactus fruit grows,
In the middle of the waters,
Where the eagle screeches,
Where the eagle spreads its wings,
Where he tears apart the serpent,
Where the fish swim in the blue waters,
In the yellow waters,
Where the boiling waters are found,
Where feathers drown in tule fields,
Where we are found,
Where all the peoples of the four directions
Of the world will return.
– Aztec poem, translation by Miguel León Portilla

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Politics

BBC series ‘The Power of Nightmares’ introduces reasons behind the cult of fear

The what why and how to of propaganda. The Power of Nightmares, this is first episode in a three part BBC series that explores the logic behind promoting nightmare scenarios as a means of uniting a nation behind an agenda, as a means of power and control, and as a tactic that tends to engulf the shooters right along with the masses.

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