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The intellectual cowardice of Bradley Manning’s critics

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Those wanting the Army Private imprisoned are afraid to condemn the virtually identical acts of Daniel Ellsberg…   Here is what Ellen Knickmeyer, the Baghdad Bureau Chief for The Washington Post during the Iraq War, documented about the Iraq War logs Manning is accused of releasing:   Thanks to WikiLeaks, though, I now know the…

Complex Systems Institute claims “bear raid” market manipulation crashed the global economy – Boing Boing

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationA paper from the New England Complex Systems Institute claims that they have found evidence that traders executed a “bear raid” on Citigroup in 2007, precipitating the financial collapse.   “Bear raids” have been considered a risk to markets since the Great Depression, and a financial regulation called the “uptick rule” was instituted in 1938 to…

We can’t know who’s behind “Americans Elect,” because we might make fun of them

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation The mysteriously funded centrist group is winning ballot access…   The dingbats behind “Americans Elect,” a shadowy centrist third-party effort to get an Internet petition onto actual presidential ballots, refuse to reveal who’s funding their efforts, because their donors are very worried that someone might call them dingbats.Via www.salon.com

Boehner’s office cuts off C-SPAN cameras as GOP takes verbal beating | The Raw Story

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationRepublicans censor Democracy.   Moments later, someone at C-SPAN took to Twitter and explained: “C-SPAN has no control over the U.S. House TV cameras – the Speaker of the House does.”   It’s for reasons just like this, one might infer, that Boehner told C-SPAN back in February it would not be allowed control its own…

China tops U.S, Japan to become top patent filer

Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureHONG KONG (Reuters) – China became the world’s top patent filer in 2011, surpassing the United States and Japan as it steps up innovation to improve its intellectual property rights track record.   China is recapitulating the under-developed to developed country evolution but an order of magnitude faster than the last couple of generations of…

NREL Scientists Report First Solar Cell Producing More Electrons In Photocurrent Than Solar Photons Entering Cell

Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureResearchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have reported the first solar cell that produces a photocurrent that has an external quantum efficiency greater than 100 percent when photoexcited with photons from the high energy region of the solar spectrum.Via www.nrel.gov