The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Good read. Truly open source.
Today, Dyson frequently writes about science and technology's relationship to ethics and social issues. Business Insider sat down with him and talked about math, war, the human brain, the education system, and the Orion Project.
I spent the last three years of my career teaching at CGSC. I loved teaching, but the overall experience was like a bad nightmare. Fully a quarter of the students had no business being officers, much less field grades. Even most of my bright ones couldn't write or reason their way out of paper bags. Such skills had never been taught or required of them. They were shockingly ill-informed about history, philosophy, science, anything really. Aside from the basics of how to successfully perform whatever jobs they'd had in the Army, their knowledge base seemed to consist of an accumulation of Time Magazine articles or, for the top 20 percent, Fortune or The Atlantic.
Continue reading “Penguin: US Army Officer Corps Ignorance — Will Lead to Losing the Next War”
This interview Katie Couric did with Edward Snowden in Moscow on December 5, 2016, starts a bit slow but is very much worth watching.
Trump's Rollback of the Neoliberal Market State
What is Trump doing?
Trump is rolling back neoliberalism and everything connected to it.
Tip of the Hat to Owl.
Chinese Billionaire Abducted From Hong Kong Hotel, Taken to Mainland China
A Chinese billionaire with Canadian citizenship has been seized from his apartment at the Four Seasons hotel in Hong Kong and taken to mainland China, a source familiar with the situation told CNN Wednesday.
Bradley Metrock and the Alexa Conference: Alexa As a Game Changer for Search and Publishing
Bradley Metrock, Score Publishing, organized The Alexa Conference held in January 2017. More than 60 attendees shared technical and business insights about Amazon’s voice-search enabled device. The conference recognized the opportunity Amazon’s innovative product represents. Keyword search traditionally has been dependent on a keyboard. Alexa changes the nature of information access. An Alexa owner can talk to a device which is about the size of a can of vegetables. Alexa is poised to nudge the world of information access and applications in new directions.
BREAKING: 474 Arrested In California Child-Trafficking Sting
474 people have been arrested in California in a 3 day sting operation called “Operation Reclaim and Rebuild.” Over 30 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies and task forces participated in the operation, which saved 28 children and 27 adults.
