Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Sepp Hasslberger: “Plonkable” Concentrated Solar Into Electricity On the Spot?

05 Energy
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Concentrated solar uses the energy-rich infrared band of solar radiation and it has great promise, but it depends on simple and cheap tech being developed to capture and convert that heat to electricity.

South African team may have solved solar puzzle even Google couldn't crack

“We are developing plonkable heliostats. Plonkable means that from factory to installation you can just drop them down on to the ground and they work.” So no costly cement, no highly-trained workforce, no wires, just two workers to lay out the steel frames on the ground and a streetlight-style central tower.

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Robert Parry: It’s Official — NATO and US Lump Public Relations in with PSYOPS and Information War

IO Impotency
Robert Parry
Robert Parry

US/NATO Embrace Psy-ops and Info-War

The U.S. government and NATO have entered the Brave New World of “strategic communications,” merging psy-ops, propaganda and P.R. in order to manage the perceptions of Americans and the world’s public, reports veteran war correspondent Don North.

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Jean Lievens: OpenMinTeD Cross-Science Text and Data Mining

Advanced Cyber/IO
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

The next step in Open Science? Text and Data Mining!

The new H2020 European project “OpenMinTeD” will be the first to build an infrastructure that makes it much easier to mine, by making existing text mining tools discoverable, interoperable and usable. The infrastructure brings together text and data registries/databases and will develop a standard layer, that makes it possible to easily find text and data from all over the world, and mine it.  . . .   It brings together the different stakeholders, content providers and scientific communities, text mining and infrastructure builders, legal experts, data and computing centres, industrial players and SMEs.

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Sahil Kini: The India Internet – in 780 Languages, 86 Scripts, 29 Major Languages, 22 of Them Official

Advanced Cyber/IO
Sahil Kini
Sahil Kini

One LaaS Thing: Building the Indian Internet in local languages

India today speaks 780 languages represented in 86 different scripts. 29 of them are spoken by at least a million people, 22 are recognized by the Constitution as official languages. One of them, of course, is English. From being the language of colonial oppression, it has now risen to the status of the language of aspiration. Whenever I bring up the topic of the need for the promotion of India languages, I’m waved away by most who say that the rise of English speakers is inevitable. And perhaps it is.

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Gareth Porter: Framing Iran for Khobar Towers — Who Benefits? Saudi Arabia & Zionist Israel UPDATE 1

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Peace Intelligence
Gareth Porter
Gareth Porter

Who Bombed Khobar Towers? Anatomy of a Crooked Terrorism Investigation

  • The official Khobar Towers investigation led by FBI Director Louis Freeh was precooked to arrive at the outcome that had been politically determined by the White House.
  • The only evidence of Saudi Shi'a involvement in the bombing was from confessions obtained by torture by Saudi secret police.
  • The investigation ignored compelling evidence that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda – not Iran-supported Saudi Hezbollah” – planned and executed the bombing.

UPDATE 1: With Khobar Bomber's Arrest, Saudi Arabia Deals Blow to Iran

Phi Beta Iota: Asked about this, Gareth Porter responded: It doesn't change in the least any of the analysis in my article about the politicized investigation and conclusion by Louis Freeh and the FBI.  Will the Saudis now seek to revive their accusations against the Saudi Shi'a in the Khobar Towers bombing?  Perhaps so, but it is difficult to see how it would have any more credibility than it did in 1996-2001.

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