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February 18th, 2011 :: Year 8, Issue 6

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* Music: Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA’s actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop.

* Terrorism: Remember the avalanche of Muslim-based terrorism that was about to descend upon the West? Well, according to the EU’s 2010 Terrorism Situation and Trend Report, …in 2009, there were fewer than 300 terrorist incidents in Europe, a 33 percent decline from the previous year. The vast majority of these incidents (237 out of 294) were conducted by indigenous European separatist groups, with another forty or so attributed to leftists and/or anarchists. According to the report, a grand total of one (1) attack was conducted by Islamists. Put differently, Islamist groups were responsible for a whopping 0.34 percent of all terrorist incidents in Europe in 2009.

December 3rd, 2010 :: Year 7, Issue 41

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* Illusions: The Hollow Mask illusion is both fascinating (a concave face mask appears convex) and does not work on schizophrenics. Watch the video yourself to find out if you’re schizoid. “Caveats: Seeing through the illusion isn’t a completely reliable indicator of schizophrenia. Some alcoholic test subjects may not be fooled by the hollow mask illusion. Being under the influence of cannabis (marijuana) may also yield a false positive.” Further research is left to our readers….

* Dangers of Air Terrorism in perspective (cartoon)

October 1st, 2010 :: Year 7, Issue 32

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* France Faces European Action after Roma Expulsions NYTimes After an acrimonious dispute over its expulsions of the Roma, France was told on Wednesday that it would face legal proceedings for failing to meet minimum European Union safeguards to protect the rights of the bloc’s citizens.

* Security: Update on German Terrorist Plot A clear and balanced report from Juan Cole on the plan’s goals and implications: The plot is alleged to have been hatched by young Muslim-German men who had been attending the same mosque in Hamburg where the 9/11 hijackers attended. … A Mumbai-style attack is inexpensive and logistically unchallenging. If the attackers are willing to die, they can shoot up hotels and malls and set off some bombs. Doing several cities at once would spread panic and is an al-Qaeda MO…. It can be said that such operations are hard to forestall and that also they are a comedown for al-Qaeda, since they don’t accomplish anything at all. You will note that Mumbai is doing just fine and PM Manmohan Singh declined to take the bait and go to war with Pakistan, as the Lashkar-i Tayyiba had hoped. The point of 9/11 for Bin Laden was to drag the US into Middle Eastern quagmires. Not everyone is as gullible as George W. Bush and fringe terrorist groups should be dealt with quietly and effectively, not with big multi-trillion dollar wars

* Tea Party Updates Poe’s Law says satire of the right wing is indistinguishable from the real thing. Which of these is satire? Christine O’Donnell asks why we don’t see monkeys becoming humans today if evolution is true; Christine O’Donnell puts out “Young Abstinence” comics for teenagers. Tough call….