#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode233 - War Manual, Star Cold Wars, Dancing In Japan

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode233 -
War Manual, Star Cold Wars, Dancing In Japan

#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode220 - Exposing TPP, Suing BoC, Crashing Monsanto

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode220 -
Exposing TPP, Suing BoC, Crashing Monsanto

New World Next Week: Episode149 - Korean War, Conspiracy Poll, Phone Tattoo

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode149 -
Korean War, Conspiracy Poll, Phone Tattoo
Welcome to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Story #1: North Korean Army Says It Has Final 'Approval' For Nuclear Attack On US
U.S. To Deploy Anti-Missile System To Guam
North Korea's Threats Show That Canada Needs To Be Part Of U.S. Missile Defence Pact
North Korea Vows to Restart Shuttered Plutonium Reactor
Ignore the Headlines: Korean Peninsula Has Been In A "State of War" For More Than 60 Years

Story #2: A Ridiculous Number Of Americans Believe In Crazy Conspiracy Theories
Public Policy Polling Poll Results
PDF: PPP Press Release On Poll

Story #3: Nokia Patent Covers Tattoo That Vibrates When Your Phone Rings
Stanford Creates Biological Transistors, Final Step Towards Computers Inside Living Cells
President Obama Launches Initiative To Get Inside Your BRAIN
Ground Zero: Short Circuit - Burn Out Your Dead

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Previous: Episode148 - Monsanto Protection, Kerry+Karzai, BRICS Bank

Pop Music Became More Moody in Past 50 Years

Pop Music Study Shows Shift Toward Minor Key Melodies Since 1960*

from scientificamerican.com: We blast the upbeat tunes for parties and workouts at the gym, and we save the low-key ballads for romantic or pensive moments. It’s hardly a new idea that music is intertwined with our emotions. But how have our favorites changed over the decades, and what do these changes say about America’s shifting emotional landscape?

Music is a form of naturalistic data that, much like popular television, literature, and sales of consumer goods, scientists can sample for insight into our minds and values. Researchers E. Glenn Schellenberg and Christian von Scheve set out to examine songs popular in America during the last five decades, using a selection culled from Billboard Magazine’s Hot 100 charts. Schellenberg and von Scheve wanted to learn how emotional cues in music, such as tempo (slow to fast) and mode (major or minor key), have changed since 1960.

Peace Revolution: Episode062 - Philosophic Corruption of Reality

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Reference Map to Episode062:
(0m-3m) The Solipsist – From the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Radio Series) by Douglas Adams (on YouTube)
(3m-8m) Sample from David Harriman’s Philosophic Corruption of Physics Lecture
(Reference) The Philosophic Corruption of Physics supplement pdf
(Interview) David Harriman’s interviews with Jan Irvin @ Gnostic Media
(Book) David Harriman’s “Falling Apple” Institute (www.FallingApple.org)
(Book) “The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics” by David Harriman
(Interview) David Harriman interview on “The Logical Leap” (on YouTube)
(8m-20m) Richard’s opening monologue
(20m-1h20m) Richard Grove interviewed by Jack Blood 08-09-12 discussing LIBOR, PSYWAR, the origins of MK Ultra, and the Philosophic Corruption of Reality which rules the world; as well as how to make that model obsolete.
(Book) Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins pdf, see: pages 206-208 (on Archive dot org)
(1h20-7h33m) The Philosophic Corruption of Physics (Lectures 1-5) by David Harriman
See Also: Peace Revolution episodes: 040, 043, 046, 049, 051

Previous: Episode061 - Cybernetics, Technocracy and Agenda 21

New World Next Week: Episode123 - Kony Droney, Utility Searches, CopBlock'd

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode123 -
Kony Droney, Utility Searches, CopBlock'd
Welcome to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Story #1: Clinton Wants New Drones To Hunt Kony
Chinese State Media Slam Hillary Clinton's Speech In Africa
Drone Race Will Ultimately Lead To Sanitized Factory Of Slaughter
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton Swarmed By Bees In Malawi
NWNW Flashback: Joseph Kony Viral Video Campaign Clouded In Controversy

Story #2: Court Grants Feds Warrantless Access to Utility Records
PDF: 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' Decision
Related: New Zealand Police Try to Justify Para-Military Raid on Kim Dotcom

Story #3: CopBlock.org Founder Faces 21 Years On "Wiretapping" Charges
Manchester Police Officer Uses Excessive Force On High School Student
Copblock.org's "Free Ademo" Resource Page
Electronic Surveillance Laws In New Hampshire

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Previous: Episode122 -
Bandar Dead?, Flash Crash Knight, Harvest Solution

Study Shows Pop Music Too Loud And All Sounds The Same

from reuters.com: Comforting news for anyone over the age of 35, scientists have worked out that modern pop music really is louder and does all sound the same. Researchers in Spain used a huge archive known as the Million Song Dataset, which breaks down audio and lyrical content into data that can be crunched, to study pop songs from 1955 to 2010.

A team led by artificial intelligence specialist Joan Serra at the Spanish National Research Council ran music from the last 50 years through some complex algorithms and found that pop songs have become intrinsically louder and more bland in terms of the chords, melodies and types of sound used. "We found evidence of a progressive homogenization of the musical discourse," Serra told Reuters. "In particular, we obtained numerical indicators that the diversity of transitions between note combinations - roughly speaking chords plus melodies - has consistently diminished in the last 50 years."

They also found the so-called timbre palette has become poorer. The same note played at the same volume on, say, a piano and a guitar is said to have a different timbre, so the researchers found modern pop has a more limited variety of sounds. Intrinsic loudness is the volume baked into a song when it is recorded, which can make it sound louder than others even at the same volume setting on an amplifier. The music industry has long been accused of ramping up the volume at which songs are recorded in a 'loudness war' but Serra says this is the first time it has been properly measured using a large database.

The study, which appears in the journal Scientific Reports, offers a handy recipe for musicians in a creative drought. Old tunes re-recorded with increased loudness, simpler chord progressions and different instruments could sound new and fashionable. The Rolling Stones in their 50th anniversary year should take note.

Peace Revolution: Episode059 - The Cult of Scientific Management

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Reference Map to Episode059:
(0-6m) TED Talk: Income Inequality by Nick Hanauer
(6m-8m) Samples from The New World Order and The World Order by Eustace Mullins
(8m-19m) Sample from “The Underground History of American Education” by John Taylor Gatto (2001); Chapter 9 “The Cult of Scientific Management”
(19m-27m ) Cody Hall on FTL
(27m-32m ) Cody Hall on School Sucks Live! Episode 149e (Porcfest Micro-Series)
(32m-1h4m) Richard’s introductory monologue
(Book) The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z edited by Harry Binswanger
(Definition) Self-Defense (See also: Draft; Foreign Policy; Government; Individual Rights; Life, Right to; Pacifism; Retaliatory Force; War.)
(Definition) Kleptoparasitism (on Wikipedia)
(Reference) Intraspecific Kleptoparasites / Search: Rothschild (in the document)
(Document) U.S. Congressional Record 76^th Congress August 19^th – September 5^th, 1940 by Hon. Jacob Thorkelson
(Person ) Jacob Thorkelson (on Wikipedia)
(Book) The Scientific Outlook (1931) by Bertrand Russell (pdf available on Archive.org, 1954 edition)
(1h4m-2h) Corbett Report episode 234: How to Carve Up the World
(Event) The Sykes-Picot Agreement (on Wikipedia)
(2h-2h45m) The World Order by Eustace Mullins
(Reference) American International Corporation (Modern History Project)
(Related Articles)
• George Pratt Shultz: Profile of a Hit Man *
• Final Warning: A History of the New World Order *
• America's Secret Establishment **
• The World Order *******
• Wall Street and F.D.R. *******
• Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution **********
(2h45m-4h16m) The Cult of Scientific Management by John Taylor Gatto
(Person) Frederick Winslow Taylor (on Wikipedia)
(4h16m-5h21m) Corbett Report episode 232: AIG Exposed
(5h21m-5h54m ) The World Order by Eustace Mullins (different lecture, same topic)
See Also: Peace Revolution episodes: 002, 008, 018, 021, 032, 043

Previous: Episode058 - The Mystery of Civil Obedience

Obama Executive Order Seizes Control Of Communications Systems

Video: Controlling Communications Via Executive Order

from theintelhub.com: President Obama has usurped all available forms of communication for the use and discretion of the US government. Under executive order (EO), Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions, Obama has enabled the executive branch to control communications under all “possible under all circumstances to ensure national security, effectively manage emergencies, and improve national resilience.” Radio and wired communications systems “of all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and the public must inform the development of national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) communications policies, programs, and capabilities.” ... The Presidential Alert was announced in August of 2011, wherein the Commissioners for the FCC required that television, radio stations and cable systems (including satellites) will redirect broadcasting if the President wants to “alert Americans of impending danger”... This latest EO is but one in a long string of presidential shows of authority that lays the foundation for the establishment of a dictatorship in America.

Updates: President seizes control of all U.S. communications*
Video: Govt. re-prioritizing U.S. communications*

You Can Change the Channel, But Local News Is the Same

Local TV Stations Cut Costs by Sharing News Operations

from nytimes.com: Call a reporter at the CBS television station here (in Texas), and it might be an anchor for the NBC station who calls back. Or it might be the news director who runs both stations’ news operations.

The stations here compete for viewers, but they cooperate in gathering the news — maintaining technically separate ownership, but sharing office space, news video and even the scripts written for their nightly news anchors. That is why viewers see the same segments on car accidents, the same interviews with local politicians, the same high school sports highlights.

The same kind of sharing takes place in dozens of other cities, from Burlington, Vt., where the Fox and ABC stations sometimes share anchors, to Honolulu, where the NBC and CBS stations broadcast the same morning show. The changes have drawn the ire of critics, who charge that there are fewer and fewer journalists actually covering local news. The agreements behind this sharing are also attracting the attention of another group of viewers — federal regulators.

Amid stiff competition for advertising revenue, these agreements are a “survival strategy” for weak stations, said Perry Sook, the chairman and chief executive of Nexstar, which owns the CBS station here, KLST.

The rise of the agreements resembles the retrenchment of the American newspaper industry, but it has been far less publicized.

Peace Revolution: Episode057 - How the Past Affects Our Future

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Episode057 Notes, Links, References:

Tragedy and Hope dot com

Invitation to the Tragedy and Hope online community (link expires monthly)

Log in page for the Tragedy and Hope online community

Peace Revolution primary site (2009-2012)*

Peace Revolution backup stream (2006-2012)*

1. Includes the 9/11 Synchronicity Podcast (predecessor to Peace Revolution)
2. *These 2 podcasts amount to 250+ hours of commercial-free educational content, which formulate a comprehensive and conscious curriculum.
3. The Ultimate History Lesson dot com (the film, notes, references, transcript, etc.)

Research Bonus Pack (fundraiser for media partners and JTG)

#Newspurge: Blink and You'll Miss a Revolution

Econocrash:
U.S. Has Spent $642 Billion on Afghan War,
Including Almost $200 Billion for This Year and Next*
PDF: 'The U.S. Cost of the Afghan War: FY2002-FY2013'*
Last Year Saw Most Large Strikes, Lockouts in 4 Years*
PDF: 'Major Work Stoppages in 2011'*
For First Time, Unemployed Who Attended College Outnumber Those Who Didn't*
PDF: 'Still Young, Restless, and Jobless - The Growing Employment Malaise Among U.S. Teens and Young Adults'*
Senate Brings Federal Reserve Board to Full Size for First Time in 6 Years*
Obama Allows China to Become First Country to Buy Debt Directly from Treasury Dept.*
TXT: 'Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities'*
Fmr JPMorgan Lobbyist Expected to Direct Senate Investigation of…JPMorgan*
Video: How Wells Fargo Cooks Its Books*

Geopolitiks:
Kucinich: "NATO Talks a Sham, Afghan War Not Ending"*
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng grateful 2 be safe in US. GC: He'll be "safe" in US if he doesn't dissent in Chicago or Occupy anywhere*
China Warns Australia to Choose "Godfather" - China or US*
Libyan Lockerbie Bombing Patsy Megrahi Dies*
New 'School of the Americas' For Dictators*
AFRICOM’s First Regional Brigade Will Deploy And Begin Operations*
Video: Korean Surveillance School Trains Citizen Snoops*
Forgotten Tragedy: NATO Killing of 72 Innocent Civilians in Libya*
Immediately Following Brennan's Visit, Suicide Bomber in Yemen Capital Kills Scores of Soldiers*
Yemen Army Kills #ThirtyThree Militants in South*
Video: Pakistan hands #ThirtyThree year sentence to doctor who helped CIA track Osama via phony vaccination, DNA tracking*
Leaked Memo Supports Claim that Veterans Imperiled by Burn Pits in Afghanistan*
Senate Committee Fights To Keep Contractor Campaign Contributions Secret*
Another $250 Million Spent on a Missile Defense System (Almost) No One Wants*
Video: Money for war, no money for you*
Video: "Drowning people in fear is the key to power"*

Media/Memes:
Chinese Firm Buys AMC Movie Theater Chain in Largest Sale Ever of U.S. Company to China*

After Buying a US Bank Last Week, China Buys AMC, Second Largest Movie Theater Chain in Amerika*
Video: China's Wanda To Buy Biggest US Theater Operator AMC For 2.6 Billion Dollars*
Video: Chinese Company Wanda Group Acquires AMC Theater Chain*
Video: AMC Theatre Sold for $2.6 Billion*
Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees dies at 62*
Video: Bee Gees "I Started a Joke"*
Missing actor Nick Stahl resurfaces via email; tells friends he's OK, pledges to go to rehab*
Donna Summer Blamed 9/11 Toxic Dust for Her Cancer*
Video: "Kumare" the alter ego of American filmmaker Vikram Gandhi*
George Lucas’s Plans in Marin County Upset Wealthy Neighbors*
Inside Google's Moog Doodle*
Nellie McKay on 'Mad Men' End Credits*
Pete Rock Slams Lupe Fiasco for Crappy "T.R.O.Y." Bite*
Video: Lupe Fiasco "Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free)"*

Obamessiah:
Bilderberg Power Masters to Meet In US*
The Marco Rubio Bilderberg Conspiracy*
House Ethics Committee Holds First Public Meeting in more than a Year…but without the Public*
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Resigns: Who Is Gregory Jaczko?*
Video: Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan defends the agency in Senate hearing*
Video: Obama would not be President if he'd been busted for drugs*
Video: Obama's multiple public personas are unraveling*

Police State Updates:
NATO Signs $1.7B Contract to Buy US-Made Drones*
Iraq Purchases US Drones To Keep Watch Over Oil Fields*
Groups Concerned Over Arming Of Domestic Drones*
NDAA 2013: Now Featuring Propaganda and War With Iran*
Israeli army establishes neighborhood first response teams*
Military Detention Law Blocked by New York Judge*
California Considers Bill to Require Permission to Collect, Analyze DNA*
Milwaukee Police Lowered Crime Rate…by Misreporting Violent Assaults*
High Court to Hear Warrantless Eavesdropping Challenge*
Video: Police brutality cases on rise since 9/11*

Portlandia/Oregon Oddities:
Richard Gage of 'Architect and Engineers for 9/11 Truth' In Portland*
4 Victims Of "Homicidal Violence" Found In Burning Home: SALEM, OR*
Oregon police: 5 dead in apparent murder-suicide*
Dying Woman Reveals Attacker Was Estranged Husband: HILLSBORO, OR*

West Virginia Worry:
WV women plan strip mining protest on holiday*
Ex-WV doctor pleads guilty in pill mill probe*
WV legislators asked to reconsider shoot first law*
Father And Son Found Shot Dead: PRINCETON, WV*
'Hatfields and McCoys' Portrays Storied Feud*
Video: 'Hatfields and McCoys' Theatrical Trailer - on History Channel May 28*
Video: More West Virginia Grandparents Raising Children*

New World Next Week: Episode113 - Chicago Summit, Virginia Bilderberg, London Olympics

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode113 -
Chicago Summit, Virginia Bilderberg, London Olympics

Welcome back to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Story #1: Milwaukee Red Cross Told To Prep For Chicago Evacuation During NATO Summit
Video: Preparation and Plans to Evacuate Chicago
Background: 2012 Chicago Summit May 20-21
Flashback: Chicago's Willis Tower - On 'The Ledge' With Echoes of the World Trade Center
Related: May Day Demonstrations Disrupt Downtown Portland, Seattle

Story #2: Bilderberg 2012 in Chantilly, Virginia 31May-01Jun
Related Video: Jim Tucker Reports Bilderberg 2012 Location Confirmed
Flashback Video: Robert Gibbs Lies to Press on CNN, Avoids Disclosing Bilderberg Meeting

Story #3: UK Military Prepare for '9/11-Type Attack'
Video: London Being Militarized With SAM Missiles
Missiles On Your Roof During Olympic Games, MOD Warns
PDF: Rockefeller Foundation's "Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development"
Flashback: 'Children of Men' and the 2012 Olympics

Bonus: May Day Mayday! "Sunlight Glistens Off Soaring New Towers…"
Food World Order on Corbett Report Radio

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Previous:
Episode112 - CISPA Spies, Drone Zone, Space Mining

#Newspurge: R U Mine?

Econocrash:
The Sun, the Moon and Wal-mart*

6 Companies that Bribed Foreign Officials and Supported Lobbying against Anti-Bribery Laws*
Treasury Dept. Fails to Implement Two-Thirds of Post-Bailout Recommendations*
Video: De-mystifying Fed baloney*

Media/Memes:
Celebrities With Famous Parents, Nepotism In Hollywood*
Lewis Lapham: The internet as the toy with a tin ear*
My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields On Reissue Delays: 'Sony Hid Our Master Tapes'*
Judge dismisses lawsuit over cuts to Grammy categories; plaintiff says appeal possible*
'“Big Lebowski': From cult film to guru religion and the philosophy of 'Dudism'*
'The Hunger Games' goes viral in Australia*
'Battleship' Movie Likely To Boost Hasbro's Toy, Game Sales*
Rihanna 'Intimidated' By 'Battleship' Role*
'Dark Knight Rises' trailer: Focusing on Anne Hathaway's Catwoman*
Jonathan Frid's Death Mourned by New Dark Shadows Star Johnny Depp*
Video: 'Dark Shadows' Trailer*

Oregon Oddities:
Sexual Abuse at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility*
Abuse of women inmates at Oregon's Coffee Creek prison goes on for years
Feds to put up $1.9B for Oregon health overhaul*
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. coming to Portland to protest coal*
More Illnesses Linked to Raw Milk From Oregon Farm*
BagelGate: Former Kettleman Employees No Longer Allowed to Accept Tips*
Portland startup Chirpify secures $1.3 million to make sales on Twitter*
Video: Lioness tries to eat baby dressed as zebra at Oregon Zoo*
Dull Scotland and Boring Oregon Seek Partnership*
Video: Portland to pay man $250K after police mistake him as tagger*

Police State Updates:
Video: Military Internment/Resettlement Manual Exposed*
PDF: "Restricted U.S. Army Internment and Resettlement Operations Manual"*
Domestic sonic warfare against the homeless*
Video: Attack of the Drones w/ Jason Bermas*
Target offers 3D body scanner to measure customers*
Florida Judge Rules Gov. Scott’s Random Drug Testing of State Employees Unconstitutional*
Maryland Law Enforcement in Limbo as State High Court Rules DNA Sampling of Suspects is Prohibited*
TSA Agents Give 4-Year-Old Pat-Down Because She Hugged Her Grandmother*
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration: Who Is Michael Huerta?*
Video: War Industry Vs. Jobs*

West Virginia Worry:
Obama's West Virginia Woes*
WV Inmate Charged with Threatening the President*
Bodies Found In Rural West Virginia*
NY slaying suspect captured in Grafton, W.Va.*

Led By Oregon's Wyden, Opposition Grows Against Obama's Refusal to Reveal Secret Patriot Act Powers

from allgov.com: Congressional Democrats, the media and civil libertarians are continuing their fight with President Barack Obama over his administration’s secret interpretations of the Patriot Act. Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado, who sit on the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder last week claiming a classified intelligence operation based on the Patriot Act interpretation is not as critical to national security as the administration says.

Wyden and Udall also wrote that Americans would be “stunned” if they knew what the government was really doing based on the legal theory being employed through the Patriot Act. In October, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Illinois) said that the government’s use of “Section 215 is unfortunately cloaked in secrecy. Some day that cloak will be lifted, and future generations will ask whether our actions today meet the test of a democratic society: transparency, accountability, and fidelity to the rule of law and our Constitution.”

The Department of Justice has insisted that revealing anything about the secret spy program could “cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States.” Federal lawyers are trying to dismiss two lawsuits, one by The New York Times and the other by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, that seek to force the administration into disclosing how the Patriot Act has been interpreted.

1.8 Million Dead People Currently Registered To Vote

from ibtimes.com: According to statistics released by the Pew Center of the States, at least 1.8 million dead people are currently registered to vote. Additionally, 24 million voter registrations have some serious errors. While there is little suspicion of voter fraud, many people have pointed out the serious consequences of using such a flawed system.

One of the biggest problems with voter registration is that Americans are constantly moving across state lines. When they move, they are supposed to alert local election offices so that their previous states can be notified. But very few actually do and as a result, almost 3 million people in the U.S. are registered to vote in more than one state.

Pew has made several suggestions that could mend the current system. One way to improve voter registration would be to implement the system electronically. The voter databases could then be cross-checked against other government databases, such as motor vehicle registries or death records from the Social Security Administration.

Some states are also joining an experimental program that will allow them to share voter information between databases to reduce duplicates. The digital program could ultimately allow for easier voter registration and a much more streamlined registry - an imperative step considering that 52 million eligible voters are not registered to vote in the upcoming presidential elections at the end of this year.

media/memes: artificial creations, demands & awards

Born to Die: Lana Del Rey, an Artificial Creation?*
Video: Lana Del Rey 'Born to Die'*
Etta James, 'At Last' Legend, Dies at 73*
Video: Etta James 'The Wallflower'*
Merle Haggard Hospitalized With Pneumonia, Cancels Shows*
After terrific year, music biz demands that world adopt 'SOPA plus'*
PDF: Digital Music Report 2012 - Expanding Choice. Going Global*
Twilight Language: Touch+23+5*
Video: TV covering high-profile Ohio trial with puppets*
Sun shines again for Woody Allen after 'Midnight'*
A Good Day for Woody Allen and Sony Pictures Classics*
Video: Scorsese's 'Hugo' and 'The Artist' favourites for Oscars*

scotus says congress may 're-copyright' public domain works

from threat level: Congress may take books, musical compositions and other works out of the public domain, where they can be freely used and adapted, and grant them copyright status again, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

In a 6-2 ruling, the court said that, just because material enters the public domain, it is not “territory that works may never exit.” (.pdf)

The top court was ruling on a petition by a group of orchestra conductors, educators, performers, publishers and film archivists who urged the justices to reverse an appellate court that ruled against the group, which has relied on artistic works in the public domain for their livelihoods.

west virginia mine owner to pay record fine

video: feds unveil $210m settlement in US mine blast*
from wvrecord: The Justice Department on Tuesday announced an agreement with Alpha Natural Resources totaling nearly $210 million in payments connected to the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine disaster. An explosion on April 5, 2010, claimed the lives of 29 miners at the site, which was then owned by Massey Energy. Alpha took over Massey in a merger earlier this year. The agreement announced Tuesday -- which coincidentally was West Virginia Miner's Day -- is the largest ever for the resolution of a criminal investigation of a mine disaster. A press release from U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin says the agreement "addresses only the corporate criminal liability of the former Massey, not potential criminal charges for any individual."

related west virginia worry:
families demand prosecutions in west virginia mine blast*
rockefeller, manchin expenses published*

homeland security testing 'pre-crime' detection technology

from allgov: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been secretly working on technology that can tip off law enforcement about those planning to commit a crime. Part profiling, part advanced mathematics, the Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) is described as a “pre-crime” system by DHS. The program uses ethnicity, gender, breathing, eye tracking and heart rate to formulate a system for spotting criminals before they strike. According to the official description, the prototype contains “a suite of real-time, non-invasive sensor technologies to detect cues indicative of mal-intent (the intent or desire to cause harm).” A classified DHS document reportedly indicated that the controversial idea is already being tested on some members of the public voluntarily. If the technology proves reliable, the government might try using it at airport checkpoints, border crossings, sea ports or major sporting events.