Keith “Maggie” Brown
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The “Deep State” – How Much Does It Explain?
…[T]here is another government concealed behind the one that is visible at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue, a hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country according to consistent patterns in season and out, connected to, but only… Continue reading
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The internet is a utility
…[C]orporations that control internet access insist that they’re providing specialized services that are somehow different than water, power, and telephones. They point to crazy bullshit you don’t want or need like free email addresses and web hosting solutions and goofy… Continue reading
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How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations – The Intercept
…[T]hese agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, arecompromising the integrity of the internet itself. Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false… Continue reading
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Bastille // No Scrubs (live at RTL2) – YouTube
Bastille playing No Scrubs live at RTL2 Continue reading
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Gotta Serve Somebody
Via Star Wars Rebels Propaganda Posters Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading
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The Question Concerning Technoscience
A good show from the BBC. I begin the episode a bit of the way in. Worth watching the whole thing, but this gives you a taste of things to come in Humanity 2.0… Maybe. Continue reading
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Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair | Moyers and Company
Susan Crawford, former special assistant to President Obama for science, technology and innovation, and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, joins Bill to discuss how our government has allowed a few… Continue reading
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Night Vigil 20140212
Passing wondrous strange that any seek the holy or sacred anywhere than within themselves. Why can we not see that to seek elsewhere for the divine is already to deny yourself as being a part of the Encompassing Good? Do… Continue reading
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Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State
The revelations of whistle-blowers such as Chelsea Manning, Jeremy Hammond and Edward Snowden about government lawlessness and corporate spying provide a new meaning if not a revitalized urgency and relevance to George Orwell’s dystopian fable 1984. Orwell offered his readers an… Continue reading
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Cambodia: Beauty of Angkor Wat
Originally posted on Global Sojourns: Photography & Philosophy: Angkor Wat is famous for a very good reason: it is stunning in its beauty as well as its mystery. The largest religious temple (Hindu) ever built, almost a millennium ago, and… Continue reading
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A Vortex of Inspiration in the Depths of Winter
Originally posted on Global Sojourns: Photography & Philosophy: There are those who wake up each morning bathed in a glorious sunrise…steam rising off the hot springs outside their door as they gaze across the sky, admiring a rising sun and… Continue reading
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Santa Maria dei Miracoli
[Santa Maria dei Miracoli] …known as the “marble church”… is one of the best examples of the early Venetian Renaissance including colored marble, a false colonnade on the exterior walls (pilasters), and a semicircular pediment… Built between 1481 and 1489 by… Continue reading
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Food Friends Family Faith–A Lost Dream
Wonderful little article that reminds us that the American Dream once centered on working less and having the leisure to enjoy the things that actually matter: among them, food, friends, family, and faith. Now that lost dream shows the foresight… Continue reading
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My Man Godfrey
An awesome little film with one of my favorite actors of the 1930’s, William Powell, and the beautiful Carole Lombard. Directed by Gregory LaCava. This is definitely a great way to spend part of your Sunday after you get back… Continue reading
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Playfulness: the Point of Existence
“A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil “To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that… Continue reading
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Tears of Joy in my Life
When tears begin to flow in the moment of an ecstatic joy, I find an awareness of just how much the body–with all its pains and perturbations–is the necessary crossroads of possible Transcendenz. The feel of my gut contacting, my… Continue reading
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It’s a hard world for little things
Robert Mitchum terrorizes an orphanage defended by the faith and the gun of Ms. Lillian Gish in Charles Laughton’s brilliant, if often misunderstood, film Night of the Hunter. Continue reading
CALL ME MAGGIE 