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Thanks to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, on May 13th the Senate voted to allow security services like the FBI and DOJ the ability to read Americans’ web browsing and search histories without a search warrant. Here is how to safeguard your own cybersecurity and privacy from the prying eyes of Big Brother.
Over the years I have occasionally happened upon the legendary Argentinian revolutionary, Ernesto “Che” Guevara—or more accurately, since Che died in 1967, I have happened upon his posthumous image and maybe even spirit. Che is everywhere, from the fronts of t-shirts, to movies and books, to storefronts in remote Mexican coastal towns, as I recently discovered. The following is a story about one of my encounters with Che years ago in Bolivia.
For a few weeks I’ve been relaxing in the Caribbean. While here I also decided to take a vacation from that online circus known as Facebook. It has been a liberating experience so far and has led me to consider getting off of the platform altogether or much more often at least. Here are a few insights into why I finally became fed up with Facebook:
What does humankind’s response to climate change and a hole in the middle of a street intersection have to do with each other? A lot apparently.
On June 12, 1944, a skinny 24-year-old sergeant named Walter Brotman drove a limousine off an amphibious landing craft onto Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. The scene he came upon shocked him. Six days earlier, on what became known as D-Day, the first assault waves of the Allied forces had landed at Omaha and were met with a wall of bullets, mortars, and artillery fire from defending German infantry. The beach was still strewn with burned-out tanks, jeeps, landing crafts, and other paraphernalia of war. The dead were stacked like cordwood in long rows on the sand, each corpse in a body bag or sometimes even hastily covered by a green Army-issued poncho. This is how Sergeant Brotman returned to Europe.
Earlier today I saw an article featured prominently on the New York Times website called "Who Won the Debate? Hillary Clinton Is Given the Edge." The Times is of course referring to the debate that Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders had in Flint, Michigan last night. I would have to say that this article is a prime example of what is sometimes called the "manufacturing of consent" by the American media.
In 2011 I interviewed a Lieutenant-Colonel in American Military Intelligence. What he told me confirmed what my research had already uncovered: that American intelligence knew a great deal more about Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, before November 22, 1963, than they have ever publicly admited. This is the story of how lost opportunities, and a massive intelligence failure, resulted in one of the greatest tragedies in American history--the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
It's the end of an era. After more than 10 years of landlord harassment to try and evict my roommate and I from our rent-controlled apartment on the Upper West Side, using every legal trick and lie you can think of, the scumbags have succeeded. We have till Dec 14th to move out.
Small, portable laptops--a.k.a netbooks--have been around for years now. The Acer line especially was popular in the beginning of this trend toward the "mobile office" lifestyle. Then along came Apple's iPad. It was the first true consumer tablet to really take off and catch on. The only problem is it lacked a physical keyboard on which to type.
Ray was not only a great writer; he was a great man with the greatest of hearts--and I want the world, and posterity, to know what he did for me.
Two blocks north of Union Square are the offices of an innovative tech startup. Founded by programmers Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski, Codecademy offers interactive online instruction in programming languages such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python, Ruby on the Rails, and APIs—all at no cost. Recently, they have teamed up with NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development to offer students the chance to learn coding in both a classroom and online environment.
Opening this week, at Tribeca Cinemas, is the Architecture and Design Film Festival. Running for its third consecutive year, the festival promises to showcase some amazing films from around the world, as well as engaging panel discussions involving leading architects, designers, and filmmakers. Travelers looking for something interesting to do for the next four days should hop down to Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street) and partake in the festivities.
If you are looking for something to do tonight, help kick off Hispanic Heritage Month by checking out
Vision & Emotion, the first Latin American group art show of its kind in Long Island City.
Hosted at the Diego Salazar Art Gallery (21-25 44th Avenue, Long Island City, New York 11101), the show will feature award-winning artists whose work is in permanent collection at MoMa and the Guggenheim. Dozens of emerging artists from the New York area will also showcase their work.
There's a lot of things to do in the city this summer, but if you are looking for something to do this evening come out to the Z Hotel in Queens for a rooftop party. Amazing view of the New York skyline. The Scott Bradlee Band will be playing till 9pm and then the resident DJ will heat up the dance floor.
New York is famous for its nightlife. The endless amount of bars, clubs, shows, restaurants, and parties can dazzle and overwhelm even seasoned residents. Many of these venues, though, charge cover fees for entrance—something unwelcome in this still dismal economy. But at Bar 13, one block south of Union Square at 35 East 13th Street, the party is on every Monday and it’s free!
Kyle Bergman, producer, introducing opening film. Photo by Jonathan Denby
As I write these words the partygoers mingle in the background, chatting and sipping on cocktails. Salsa music wafts through the Varick Room as people take advantage of the open bar
Deep in the recesses of Donald Trump’s mind sits the answer to the darkest and greatest mystery in American history: who really killed President John F. Kennedy.