The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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Lousy Backlog? Sell with Interesting Assertions.
If you are struggling to fill the sales pipeline, you will feel some pressure. If you really need to make sales, marketing collateral may be an easy weapon to seize. I read “Examples of False Claims about Self-Service Analytics.” The write up singles out interesting sales assertions and offers them up in a listicle. I loved the write up. I lack the energy to sift through the slices of baloney in my enterprise search files. Therefore, let’s highlight the work the brave person who singled out eight vendors’ marketing statements as containing what the author called “false claims.” Personally I think each of these claims is probably rock solid when viewed from the point of view of the vendors’ legal advisers.
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Obama: Would be ‘personal insult' to legacy if black voters don't back Clinton
(NYT) With Democratic leaders increasingly worried about a lack of passion for Hillary Clinton among young black voters, President Obama is rolling out a new and more personal campaign message: “It’s about me.”
Obama: Low Turnout By Black Voters Would Be ‘A Personal Insult’
Brain cancer replaces leukemia as deadliest cancer for kids, study shows
The new numbers are a result of major advances in leukemia treatment and lack of progress when it comes to brain cancer, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Further to the Phi Beta Iota comments on the mistaken limitation of OSINT to passive monitoring of web sites and such….
Prevalent approaches to countering ‘radicalisation’ ineffective, conceptually flawed
“A lack of research based on primary sources has been one of the major impediments to progress in the field of (counter-) terrorism studies… As numerous leading experts have warned, the consequences of an overreliance on secondary sources of information, such as newspapers, has led to a great amount of theorising based on a perilously small empirical foundation.”
More extracts, 2 cartoons, comment by Robert Steele below.
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Just Wait Until Data Thieves Start Releasing Altered and Fake Emails
It's one thing for someone to air your dirty laundry. It's another thing entirely to throw in a few choice items that aren't real.
Tip of the Hat to Contributing Editor Berto Jongman.
