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On the surface, this may seem like an appropriate place to insert the old Monty Python line, "Now for something totally different," however I have posted this 16 minute video presentation by Clay Shirky because it is about the massive power of many-to-many communications and the force it's becoming in shaping our global society—on the threat that poses to those who would like to control information. Grab your favorite bevy, open your mind, and listen as Clay explains....

In the debate over global warming, we hear all sorts of scenarios foretelling of coming floods, a new dust bowl, wildfires, higher sea levels, more mosquitos, less wine, acid oceans and a shortage of

But this time, it was not Britney who stomped off stage, it was Morrissey. The singer abruptly left the stage during his set at the Coachella festival in California last Friday after screaming to the crowd that he could "smell burning flesh". Well, yeah.

  The Telegraph reports that, "The world is a step closer to a global currency, backed by a global central bank, running monetary policy for all humanity. A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order."

Ever since a video of the POTUS bowing before Saudi King Abdullah made it's way to multiple YouTube locations, it's been a popular topic for discussion on talk radio shows and on blogs, comment boards and twitter. Last night, in an informal, unscientific review, the vast majority of the comments ran from mild disdain to total disgust at the site of an American President caught in such a subservient act.

"I figured he'd win because he seemed to get even more popular after he died," said Lincoln County Clerk Elaine Luck. Harry Stonebraker, has been granted a fourth term by the voters the small Missouri town of Winfield, however winning the election is one thing, being around to serve is another.