The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
How Mike Flynn Became America’s Angriest General
He was one of the most respected intelligence officers of his generation. Now he's Donald Trump’s national security alter ego, goading a crowd to lock Hillary Clinton up. What happened?
James Kitfield, Politico,
The following JPEG is circulating on the Internet as a summary of some of the disclosures in the newly-released Podesta emails. [PBI Comment and sources below the fold.]
From Orwell to Gladwell and Back
The technology of power is moving from the past’s emphasis on privacy and concealment toward more contemporary techniques of diversion, bias, misconception, and willful stupidity. The crude methods that George Orwell summed up in his image of the incinerator-chute “memory hole” are growing into more sophisticated devices for providing the public with misleading frameworks for mentally organizing (or rationalizations for simply ignoring) the overload of available facts, thus making it harder to remember or understand politically inconvenient knowledge.
We see some of the old-fashioned memory-hole techniques at work currently with Wikipedia. Read full article.
Hacking Federal Agencies Now a Childs Play
A potentially dangerous malware called GovRat that is effective in cyber-espionage is available on Dark Web for as low as $1,000.
IBTimes recently published an article Malware used to target US Government and military being sold on Dark Web in which the author states – Read full post.
Need a Low Cost College Degree? Dark Web U Is for You
The certificates for these academic credentials are near perfect. But what makes this cybercrime more dangerous is the fact that hackers also manipulate the institution records to make the fake credential genuine.
Free Isn't Freedom: How Silicon Valley Tricks Us
So what’s in Google's mysterious contract? What have we unknowingly all agreed to whenever we are using Google services, knowingly or not?
What Google Gets: In return, we get to record everything you do 24 hours a day—the questions you ask, the purchases you make, the websites you visit, the videos you watch, the places you go, the people you communicate with, the emails you write—everything.
The fine print: We get to keep these records and to use the information we’re collecting about you to connect you with businesses we think might want to sell you things, so you should expect to get advertisements from these businesses. We might also share this information with the, uh, intelligence community, because they helped us figure out how to set up this whole scam in the first place.
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies That the Government Tells Us
Clean House: Exposing Our Government’s Secrets and Lies
In Lies We Trust: How Politicians and the Media Are Deceiving the American Public
Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History
