The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Re the elective war over Ukraine, there is an incredible book out: The War Against Putin: What the Government-Media Complex Isn't Telling You About Russia, which I nominate as the book of the century (yes!) in so far as it has the power to wake up the masses and thus prevent any attempt by the Internationalist Cabal to facilitate world war III.
Retired Foreign Service Officer and past Manager of Political and Military Affairs at the US Department of State. For a brief time an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Denver and the University of Washington at Seattle. A graduate of the National War College and a Phd from the University of Southern California.
ROBERT STEELE: I have had the honor of meeting Dr. Calhoun, and consider him one of the most eclectic brilliant people it has ever been my pleasure and privilege to know. He is vastly more diverse in his interests, and also very critical — I tend not to publish reviews of items I consider less than 4 or 5 stars. Any amount of time with Dr. Calhoun's reviews will be time well spent. Below I have selected a representative handful of reviews that I particularly admire but I cannot do him justice here. Please spend time at his Amazon directory page.
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Aerial Imagery Analysis: Combining Crowdsourcing and Artificial Intelligence
MicroMappers combines crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence to make sense of “Big Data” for Social Good. Why artificial intelligence (AI)? Because regular crowdsourcing alone is no match for Big Data. The MicroMappers platform can already be used to crowdsource the search for relevant tweets as well as pictures, videos, text messages, aerial imagery and soon satellite imagery. The next step is therefore to add artificial intelligence to this crowdsourced filtering platform. We have already done this with tweets and SMS. So we’re now turning our attention to aerial and satellite imagery. Read full post with video and links.
The Williams record in covering up the sickening horrors wreaked by the US military in its never-ending campaign to re-order the world to Washington’s liking goes way back. When NATO jet fighters bombed a passenger train in Serbia – by “mistake” – killing a dozen and wounding dozens more, Williams intoned that visuals of the train attack “are so graphic that we cannot show them on television for fear of upsetting viewers.” Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil – that’s how the trained monkeys of our “mainstream” media treat the depredations of US imperialism: there’s no need to “upset” the delicate sensibilities of Americans, who might be disabused of their rulers’ beneficence. Better to view these crimes through the Vaseline-covered lens of a committed shill. Williams isn’t a reporter: he’s a cosmetician, whose job it is to prettify the ugly truth.” At what point does this become treason? At what point — taking into account Congressional abdication of its own Article 1 responsibilities — might we hold the “fourth estate” accountable for telling us the truth?
The Sins of Brian Williams: They are many – and he’s far from alone
The Cowardly and Despicable American Presstitutes
Why U.S. Reporters Are Always Pro-War
This is very positive news. The evolution of non-carbon energy into not one but several alternatives that are both non-polluting and cheaper coupled with the divestiture movement is proceeding change faster than anyone foresaw. Both trends represent the success that is possible by taking the most compassionate and life-affirming option of those available. This is also a story illustrating how a small group of individuals without official position, power, or personal wealth can create life-affirming social change. Norway holds particular interest in all this for me because it is an entire country pursuing a wellness-oriented social order. It has made Norweigan culture one of the most impressive in the world, and it is reasonable to ask: why aren't other nations following suit?
First Country in the World Dumps Fossil Fuels As Divestment Movement Heats Up
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Samsung's warning: Our Smart TVs record your living room chatter
Technically Incorrect: Samsung's small print says that its Smart TV's voice recognition system will not only capture your private conversations, but also pass them onto third parties.
The wording, first spotted by the Daily Beast, first informs you that the company may “capture voice commands and associated texts so that we can provide you with Voice Recognition features and evaluate and improve the features.” The following words border are numbing: “Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.” We are NOT having your mother here this weekend, next weekend or ANY weekend! I'm pregnant and it's not yours.
Al-Qaeda, Saudi Arabia and Israel
By Robert Parry, Common Dreams
Saudi Arabia is under a new cloud after a jailed al-Qaeda operative implicated senior Saudi officials as collaborators with the terror group – and the shadow could even darken the political future of Israeli Prime Netanyahu because of his odd-couple alliance with Riyadh. Read full article.
