The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Futurist.COM Founder Glen Hiemstra on 40 Years of Futurism: The Future is Something We Do Glen Hiemstra has been a futurist for close to 40 years. But if you think his specialty is forecasting the future then you’d be wrong. No. Hiemstra’s focus has not been on the most probable, or even the possible future. …
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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL RELEASES GLOBAL TRENDS REPORT WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Intelligence Council (NIC) today released the seventh edition of its quadrennial Global Trends report. Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World is an unclassified assessment of the forces and dynamics that the NIC anticipates are likely to shape the national security environment …
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The world will face more widespread and intensified surveillance, but this time it could be framed as something for our own good, for the good of humanity. Just as contemporary activist movements rely on platforms, so too does authoritarian populism. Platforms have played such a significant role in the success of this current wave of …
This conversation was facilitated by Noema deputy editor Nils Gilman. Gilman: Governor Brown, how did you first formulate the idea of planetary realism? Brown: It happened in a mundane way. I was running for president in 1976, and I was formulating some ideas on foreign policy. As I discussed these issues with knowledgeable people, I thought of …
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Many of the stories that pundits, journalists, and scholars tell about disinformation begin with the 2016 US presidential election and focus on the role of social media platforms in spreading and generating false content. At their worst, these narratives imply that in the past, everyone shared the same sense of what was true and what …
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QAnon on Twitter: An Overview Conspiracy theories pose numerous social and political problems. For example, contrary evidence cannot change followers’ minds easily, and they are resistant to anything that invalidates their beliefs. Conspiracy theorists tend to interpret new evidence in favor of confirming their beliefs (Sunstein & Vermeule, 2009). Additionally, conspiracy theories can have detrimental …
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There is an old joke, still funny to some of us, that the National Security Agency (NSA) is the only part of the federal government that really listens. The NSA is the nation’s main collector of signals intelligence, or SIGINT, which “involves collecting foreign intelligence from communications and information systems and providing it to customers …
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