The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Here is what the American Surveillance State looks like (publicly) to Europe. This is a German assessment published in one of Europe's leading publications. I confess I don't like my country being thought of in this way.
Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security
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Continue reading “SchwartzReport: Surveillance State — Good, Bad, Ugly”
Searchblox Announces New Visualization Method for Search Results
The brief article on Searchblox titled A Visualization Is Worth a Thousand Search Results relates the addition of visualization to the Elasticsearch-based system, Searchblox. Searchblox is an open source enterprise content search engine founded in 2003. Its customers range over 25 countries and include Harley Davidson, Capital One Investments, Kellog, and the US Department of Justice, to name just a few. The article discusses the latest advancement of visualization with a note on how to use the new plugin and how it works. The article states,
The USA: Australia's Dangerous Ally
Australia should not embrace America, writes its former prime minister, but preserve itself from Washington’s reckless overreach.
By Malcolm Fraser,December 17, 2014
IT IS time for Australia to end its strategic dependence on the United States.
New Russian Military Doctrine Labels NATO as Main Threat
Moscow, Russia: The Kremlin on Friday branded the expansion of NATO as a fundamental threat to Russia in a revised military doctrine that dramatically reflects deteriorating relations with the West.
Continue reading “Yoda: Russia Declares NATO The Main Enemy”
Gates' ‘Grand Challenges' result in few payoffs
Bill Gates used the word “naive” — four times — to describe himself and his charitable foundation. It was a surprising admission coming from the world’s richest man. But the Microsoft co-founder seemed humbled that, despite an investment of $1 billion, none of the projects funded under the Gates Foundation’s “Grand Challenges” banner has yet made a significant contribution to saving lives and improving health in the developing world. “I was pretty naive about how long that process would take,” Gates told a gathering of nearly 1,000 people in Seattle. Read more.
Phi Beta Iota: Using kids to distribute money without doing your homework, to include holistic analytics and design, true cost economics, and — heavens — open source everything engineering — is not how you make impact investments.
Multi-part problem.
Does the peer review process stifle scientific innovation?
A new study suggests the current model may succeed in keeping out the scientific riff-raff, but its maintenance of the status quo comes with a drawback, the study's authors argue — the regular rejection of cutting-edge work.
End of the Facebook Revolution
At Russian authorities' request, Facebook blocked an opposition rally announcement. Its willingness to do so shows that activists worldwide can no longer count on it as a platform. Read more.
Phi Beta Iota: Facebook still yields 2X to 3X the twitter referrals for any given post. The announcement of its demise is premature. It is, however, immature, and not listening to those who might help it — and/or twitter and/or Sharknet — become the World Brain.
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Robert Steele: Reflections on the Next Data Revolution
