Monthly Archives: October 2014

The Notebook | Unnecessary Censorship – Video

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The Notebook | Unnecessary Censorship
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Ebola, Censorship, Jesse Ventura w/Guest John B. Wells – Video

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NUJ bitterly disappointed by Irish Times costs decision

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Seamus Dooley of the NUJ said the union had grave concerns about the implications for the possible costs for any media organisation faced with this type of bill.

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has said it is bitterly disappointed at the rejection by the European Court of Human Rights of a case taken by The Irish Times over the costs of its successful legal battle with the Mahon tribunal.

The Strasbourg court ruled against two Irish Times journalists this week in their claim that the Supreme Court had interfered with their right to protect their sources by making the newspaper pay the costs of its dispute with the planning tribunal.

The case followed the publication of a story in 2006 which revealed that the tribunal was investigating a number of payments to then taoiseach Bertie Ahern. The Supreme Court ruled that Irish Times journalist Colm Keena and the papers then editor, Geraldine Kennedy, should not be ordered to reveal their sources, but directed the paper to pay all costs of the court proceedings.

In a majority decision, the European court rejected the papers application and found the claims of interference with freedom of expression to be manifestly ill-founded.

Reacting to the decision, the NUJ said it was disappointed by the decision of the court and the tone of its judgment.

The case is recognised internationally as having significance for the protection of sources, and having the freedom to protect sources but having to incur punitive costs to protect that freedom seems to me to be contradictory, said Samus Dooley, the NUJs Irish secretary.

We would have grave concerns about the implications of the possible costs for The Irish Times and for any media organisation faced with this type of bill.

The tribunal served a bill of costs on The Irish Times in October 2010, claiming the sum of 393,055.42.

In its case to the European court, the newspaper claimed there was a strong chilling effect to the Supreme Courts decision, since it was clear to the press, to potential sources and to the public that journalists could be compelled, under the threat of an order of costs, to disclose the source of information given in confidence. The court rejected this, a conclusion Mr Dooley said showed a worrying naivete on the courts part. The difficulty will be now, for any editor, to take a decision which has potential financial implications. Thats where the chill effect comes in, he said.

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Book review: Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll

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By Chris Klimek October 24 at 11:17 AM

Season of the WitchAt the beginning of Season of the Witch, Peter Bebergal sketches an autobiographical scene right out of the movie Almost Famous: Hes 11 years old and his brother has left for the Air Force, leaving behind a superb, previously off-limits collection of rock LPs for him to discover. He sits on the floor of his brothers bedroom, transfixed by the adult mysteries nested within the vinyl grooves and gatefold sleeves of albums such as Led Zeppelins Houses of the Holy and David Bowies Diamond Dogs.

But this isnt a memoir, its a dissertation a weirdly dry one, given its lurid topic on how the occult has informed a half-century or so of popular music. Surveying artists timeless (the Beatles) and now-obscure (the Crazy World of Arthur Brown), with stops at usual Satanic suspects like Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne, Bebergal argues that the artists openness to the supernatural made their music more adventurous and imaginative, and that the coalition of parents and politicians who have periodically sounded the alarm about this are hysterical and silly.

Despite the rich material, Bebergal repeatedly drains any sense of urgency from his work. Barely a third of the way through, he says that Jimmy Pages insistence that the maxim Do What Thou Wilt be inscribed in the lacquer of the master recording of Led Zeppelin III serves as a microcosm of the entirety of the influence the occult would have on rock and roll. If the invocation of dark forces is just libertarianism with the occasional bit of blood-drinking, why should we keep reading?

Occasionally, Bebergal rewards the dutiful reader with a zinger, as when he describes the Age of Aquarius as having ended not with a whimper but with a stabbing at the Rolling Stones 1969 concert at the Altamont Speedway. But he doesnt drop nearly enough of those gems to make up for his annoying habits his abuse of groove as a verb, for starters. His halfhearted discussion of Jay Z (At one time his clothing line offered a number of shirts with unambiguous Freemasonry symbols ) feels like a desperate explanation of why his book wasnt published in 1984. Likewise, his evaluation of Madonna via her Super Bowl halftime show in 2012 easily 20 years after her peak.

The musicians whose work Bebergal dissects with the greatest vigor the Beatles, the Stones, Pink Floyd, Bowie, Black Sabbath are dinosaurs, not dragons, no disrespect intended. Meanwhile, the 21st-century popularity of Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Game of Thrones has done more to drag the occult into the light than the 30-plus years of heavy-metal albums that preceded them ever did. Bebergal grew up lighting black candles and playing Dungeons & Dragons, he says, but somewhere in the writing of this book, his adolescent enthusiasm got replaced by a deadening academic scrupulousness. Dr. Strange, heal thyself.

Klimek is a freelance writer based in Washington.

Season of the Witch

How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll

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[Crysis3] Chapter 1 (Post-Human Warrior Difficulty) – Video

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[Crysis3] Chapter 1 (Post-Human Warrior Difficulty)
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Google Executive Breaks Record With Near-Space Skydive

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Google Executive Alan Eustace descends from his record-breaking jump. (Credit: Paragon)

Two years ago this month, Felix Baumgartner broke a record with his near-space skydive in which he broke the sound barrier.

Alan Eustace, a Vice-President of Knowledge at Google Google, just broke it.

The funny thing is, though, is that in a project nearly three years in the making, it wasnt until the last minute that anyone knew he was going to.

As we were watching him go up today, somebody asked us what the record was, Paragon Space Development CEO Grant Anderson told me. We had to look it up! It was cool to break the record, but frankly it was not in the forefront of our minds at all.

Eustace first approached Paragon, which specializes in developing life support equipment for extreme environments, including space, in December of 2011. The goal apart from the fun of the stunt itself was to develop technologies that could be useful for more human exploration of the stratosphere and beyond.

The day of the flight began with a four-hour stint in an oxygen chamber, where Eustace had the nitrogen in his lung and tissues slowly washed out. Next Next up, he was prepared in the space suit, which is similar in design and material to the spacesuits used by astronauts on the International Space Station. (If it looks funny in the photos, thats because the life support system is on the front instead of the back in order to accommodate the parachute.

The spacesuit itself was absolutely necessary at the altitude Eustace flew to, the atmosphere is so thin that a human cant breathe. Also, the pressure is so low that even at the cool temperatures, the fluids in the body will begin to boil

The balloon that took Eustace to the stratosphere was then inflated with helium, and Eustace was hooked up in place to it. Unlike Felix Baumgartner, Eustace wasnt in a capsule. He was directly attached to a module held by the balloon.

Alan Eustace ascending to the stratosphere. (Credit: Paragon Space Development)

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Revelation: A Futurist Interpretation. chapters 4,5. Four beasts, Angels, throne in Heaven – Video

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Wow! This Hubble Telescope Photo of Mars with a Comet Is Amazing

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The famed Hubble Space Telscope has captured a jaw-dropping view of a comet making an incredibly close flyby of Mars.

The space telescope snapped the amazing image when Comet Siding Spring (also called C/2013 A1) was hurtling through space near the Red Planet on Oct. 18 and Oct. 19. During its closest approach on Oct. 19, the comet passed about 86,000 miles (138,000 kilometers) from Mars just one-third of the distance between Earth and the moon.

Mars and the comet shine in Hubble's new image. The planet glows red, and Comet Siding Spring's bright nucleus and diffuse tail stand out against a host of background stars glimmering behind the two cosmic bodies. The photo was created by combining separate images of the comet and Mars taken over the weekend. [See more amazing Comet Siding Spring images]

"The Mars and comet images have been added together to create a single picture to illustrate the angular separation, or distance, between the comet and Mars at closest approach," NASA officials said in a statement.

"The background starfield in this composite image is synthesized from ground-based telescope data provided by the Palomar Digital Sky Survey, which has been reprocessed to approximate Hubbles resolution," space agency officials added. "The solid icy comet nucleus is too small to be resolved in the Hubble picture. The comets bright coma, a diffuse cloud of dust enshrouding the nucleus, and a dusty tail, are clearly visible."

Hubble officials couldn't capture both the comet and Mars in the same frame properly because the planet is about 10,000 times brighter than Siding Spring, according to NASA. The two cosmic bodies are also moving, and Hubble could only properly track one at a time.

If the space telescope took an image of both at the same time, at least one of the celestial targets would have been blurry, NASA officials added.

Other NASA spacecraft also caught sight of the historic flyby. The space agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Opportunity rover both captured images of the comet passing by Mars. NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) and Odyssey probes were also expected to observe the comet's close pass. The space agency's Curiosity rover was also in position to study the comet.

India's Mangalyaan orbiter circling Mars and Europe's Mars Express spacecraft were also expected to observe Siding Spring's flyby.

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Obama calls for anti-ISIS NATO coalition – LoneWolf Sager – Video

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The Accidental Admiral: A Sailor Takes Command at NATO – Video

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The Accidental Admiral: A Sailor Takes Command at NATO
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