The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
30 Questions that Facebook has yet to Answer
Gaps in the testimony of Mark Zuckerberg at a US Senate hearing?
The new services agreement includes two big changes:
01 Microsoft reserves the right to censor your language and can cut off services if they judge you to have violated their speech guidelines.
02 Microsoft reserves the right to cut off your use of their software and deny you access to all your documents if you use a home version of Microsoft to produce a non-profit or commerical document.
Fuck Microsoft. Time to bury them.
Full text of Microsoft Services Agreement below the fold.
The London police now have a firm definition of thought-crime
And they’re going to use it
From the UK Met Police website, here is the latest official attempt to censor speech. It’s actually more than that. Read carefully while pointing a fan at the screen to disperse the noxious fumes:
Crime Prediction: Not a New Intelligence Analysis Function
We noted “New Orleans Ends Its Palantir Predictive Policing Program.” The interest in this Palantir Technologies’ project surprised us from our log cabin with a view of the mine drainage run off pond. The predictive angle is neither new nor particularly stealthy. Many years ago when I worked for one of the outfits developing intelligence analysis systems, the “predictive” function was a routine function.
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Palantir Fired by New Orleans — Is US Army Being Stupid?”
Expansibility and Army Intelligence
Rose P. Keravuori
Parameters
Winter 2017 (18/11)
The US Army has arguably not fought a capable state adversary since World War II. Now, after decades of conducting limited interventions, the expansibility and adaptability of military intelligence capabilities are in question. . . . During interviews for this study, intelligence leaders repeatedly mentioned three areas that require special attention in order to expand the Army intelligence corps: (1) shortages of airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets; (2) limited processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED) capacities; and (3) insufficient human intelligence and counterintelligence capacities.
Continue reading “Rose P. Keravuori: Army Intel Weak — Can It Expand? No.”
Illiteracy leads to censorship
In terms of substance, and even popularity, the ministers of truth are losing; so they abandon reasoned discourse altogether. They desert this fertile, competitive, and NECESSARY territory. They no longer debate. They ban.
Among their supporters are crowds of illiterates.
THE POST-9/11 COST OF WAR, UPDATED
As of August 2017, the Department of Defense (DoD) had obligated $1.474 trillion for war-related costs since September 11, 2001. DoD updated its official cost report last month. See Cost of War Update as of August 31, 2017.
Continue reading “Steven Aftergood: CRS on The Post 9/11 Cost of War”
