Obama's Silver Platter

    

Last week, President Barack Obama announced his reforms of national surveillance while simultaneously defending NSA phone snooping as necessary for national security.  [ READ ]

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Informationally Modified Awareness

The headline read: PURPLE TOMATOES HEADING FOR SHOPS.  According to the report,  "the new tomatoes could improve the nutritional value of everyday foods"   ....  [ READ ]

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Speaking for the People of the World

A new grass-roots organisation in Mexico is seeking to convoke a Popular Assembly.   The manifesto on its home page states, ...  [ READ ]

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Wizmography

WIZMOGRAPHY is the science of cluttering simplicity with useless functionalities poorly explained.     [READ more]

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Dripping Honey

  

A mere month after Pope Francis exhorted the Church to fuss less over homosexuality  [ MORE ]

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The Pope's Hour Glass

Suddenly Pope Francis has become the darling of the liberal press for having condemned the moral, social, economic and environmental bankruptcy of liberalism.    [ MORE ]

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Aftermath - The Vulgarity of Empire

   

The morning after Kennedy was buried, the country awoke to find a stranger in its bed.   [ READ ]

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St. Jack

   

Anyone over the age of seven, the world over,  can tell you where he was on that day.... [ READ ]
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Chiaroscuro in the City of God

Chipster ponders joy and sorrow in the music of Juan Gutierrez Padilla and the Voice of Man as a social phenomenon.   [ READ ]

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Gleaming Death

Chipster ponders the mass urbanization of what was once hinterland  [ READ ]

More from the Hologram Department

          

Chipster ponders the Arrivals and Departures of the Dead. [ READ ]

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Suffering Beauty

   

Chipsters had some thoughts about violins in odd places  [ READ ]

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