Written in the frenzied, emotional days after 9/11, the «Authorization for the Use of Military Force» was intended to give President Bush the ability to retaliate against whoever orchestrated the attacks. But more than 12 years later, this one broadly-phrased sentence remains the primary legal justification for nearly every covert operation around the world. Buzzfeed has a brilliant longread on how that sentence came to be, the one woman who voted against it and what it’s since come to mean.
From Weekly Filet #146, in January 2014.
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You fall into the wide Ocean, in the middle of the night, and nobody notices it. What next? Read this man’s story.
From Weekly Filet #145, in January 2014.
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«The horizontal axis is not about space, it’s not about left and right, it’s about earlier and later,» he says. «If two people are crossing the pixel at the same moment, they will look like they are walking together.» Let that sink in for a moment. Then head over to read the profile of the extraordinary photographer who makes those images (and of course to have a look at his work).
From Weekly Filet #145, in January 2014.
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