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… discussion about Syria with a former US State Department colleague gave rise to a point I will not soon forget. "Fred, there's no time for policy deliberations about Syria or anyplace else. We live in the era of Blackberry diplomacy. We react and we improvise as best we can." An...

380 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? Word Puzzle Creative Inoculation Jackson Pollock Jeopardy Programming Cartoon Specification Cartoon Chapter 12 Two Digital Brains Communicating Perpetual Motion from the 1600s Black Hole Malament-Holgarth Space Synapses and Tubulin Chapt...

POLYAMORY: [theory] My Top Questions About Dealing With Multiple Lovers I wrote this in early 2011. The comments on the online version are especially good -- lots of viewpoints and resources shared. Sometimes my commenters just blow me away. TK OK ok My Top Questions About Dea...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians Chapter 3 The Enemy Within: Civil Society at Bay Among the more surprising developments in 21st-century politics are the reversals experienced by civil society, once regarded as an irresistible fo...

248 CHAPTER ELEVEN The Escape Artist 1. “I’m not self-destructive...”—Bamford. Wired. op.cit. 2. “At this point, Snowden...”—Author’s interview with former DIA officer who requested anonymity. 3. “He had visited Hong Kong. ...”—Lindsay Mills’ blog, op.cit. 4. “According to...

…qs=0f91f67b3ff3eb403fb9e30a8210cc4cc9c04f6ba402c078235f9137198dd63fb2d926914c2b6588> Some people do yoga on vacation; others go for the occasional run. This week we're thinking a little more... adventurously, from active escapes at Travaasa Hana in Maui to racecar driving in Baj...

250 CHAPTER TWELVE Whistle-blower 1. “They elected me. The overseers...”-- Barton Gellman, “Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished,” Washington Post, December 23, 2013. 2. “Received a jarring surprise...” Lindsay Mills’s blog, op.cit....

example, invading another country is not aggressive, but designed as a pre-emptive strike to protect group interests. Moral disengagement enables behaviors that are either immoral, illegal, or counter to deeply rooted intuitive prohibitions against harming others. It is a proces...

…pment.”25 Control of water in those ancient ages and control of information in our own are not so different. We are in the midst, after all, of a change in our own “technical equipment.” We should read Wittfogel with one eye on our own age, particularly his warnings. “Like the t...

…stein <[email protected] >; I think this is a great article I think= was clearly very nice.. .1 remember when I got the call when she was thinking about her writing the article 8 years ago...she was spot on here this is the article that citrick should work off of... Home all...

…ational Cannabis Market Estimates = International Legal Cannabis Market Forecast As previously discussed, cannabis is the most widely consumed drug worldwide: an estimated 183 mil- lion people between the ages of 15 and 64 consumed cannabis in 2017. Cannabis legalization is gai...

…[a charity that fashions wigs for young cancer patients]. It had taken me years to grow it out, and my friends were all there to help celebrate. We went to my favorite hair place in Brooklyn and then went to lunch at our favorite restaurant." I asked another participant to imagi...

but — in the millions of years that encompass their evolutionary history, bonobos have remained virtually unchanged. They are still hairy, quadrupedal, bitsy-brained and barking. They still live in the jungles of Africa. Not a single bonobo, or its close relative the chimpanzee,...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 Justice O’Connor was not, of course, the first (or the last) public office to use Christianity in the of partisan politics. The issue got so bad during the 1984 presidential race that Walter Mondale found it necessary to remind Ronald Reagan that in the United...

…g girls for her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein which she vehemently denies Bill Clinton had ties to Epstein, who flew the ex-president to Africa on his private jet before the allegations were made Epstein was arrested in 2006 and was sentenced to 18 months in jail in 2008, serv...