The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Once again, as has been true of so many other situations, we see in this report the profit for the few trumping the wellbeing of the many. It is literally killing American society, destroying the middle class, and corrupting our democracy. What continues to amaze me is how loyal Red state voters are to those who are degrading their lives.
Fracking Is Using up Billions of Gallons of Water in the Places That Need it Most
LINDSAY ABRAMS, Assistant Editor – Salon
The debate team at my school began using Evernote last year for collaborative research. As students find sources, they dump them into a shared Evernote folder that everyone on the team has access to. Our effort is multiplied, as students collaborate on finding and writing up evidence.
This year I’ve discovered a tool that makes Evernote even more powerful. If This, Then That (or IFTTT) is a service that allows users to link any number of websites and web-based services: from widely-used services like email, SMS, Dropbox, Facebook, and Google drive, to lesser known services like Svpply, Pocket, or ffffound! Using a clean and easy-to-use interface, IFTTT guides users step by step in creating “recipes” to link services. If you’re looking for inspiration, you can browse through the hundreds of public recipes created by IFTTT users. The recipes include everything from “download emailed Paypal receipts into Evernote” to “automatically change my Twitter profile picture when I change by Facebook profile picture.” You can even have IFTTT text you when it’s going to rain.
IFTTT can be combined with Evernote to make a powerful collaborative research tool, because it allows you to combine the collaboration and cloud-access of Evernote with the easy access to information offered by RSS feeds.
Here’s an example:
Continue reading “Howard Rheingold: If Then Online RSS Tool”
The world’s largest concentrations of slums exist in the “global south:” Africa, Asia, and Latin America; places where urbanization has not led to economic development, and are characterized by poor sanitation, crowded living conditions, low quality structures, and populations vulnerable to disease and natural disasters.
Robot Printing House in 24 Hours
This looks like a great free tool for creating interactive presentations and recording and publishing them. Just downloading it myself.
With SlideIdea, presentations are no longer a one-man show. SlideIdea gives presenters the tools to engage their audience through their audience’s smart phones, laptops, and tablets. Each SlideIdea presentation is provided a unique URL (i.e, www.sld.im/12345 ). Regardless of the location, an audience can simply input the URL into their internet browser and then immediately follow along with slides, participate in polls, ask questions, or even network.
Art as Evidence. A panel with Trevor Paglen, Jacob Appelbaum and Laura Poitras. Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. Friday January 30, 2014, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
Documentary film director Laura Poitras, independent security analyst Jacob Appelbaum and artist and geographer Trevor Paglen reflect on upcoming frontiers of action and awareness for hackers, activists and artists in the present context of geopolitical surveillance and control. This conversation aims to trace a possible path towards investigating the deconstruction of power structures through experiencing them from within, critically reflecting on the role of art and activism today in the context of the post-9/11 politics and society. Crossing various practices and disciplines, from film documentary, computer security, hacking, experimental geography, photography, this talk reveals the role of art as evidence, as a practice of making people regain and reclaim their autonomy, have agency and live consciously in a networked world. Reconnecting with the courageous practice of whistleblowing and ethical resistance, Appelbaum, Paglen and Poitras highlight contradictions between public visibility and individual privacy, information disclosure and data protection in the digital and physical info-sphere.
Erik Prince and Bubblin Crude: “Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea”
If you have been following the news recently you would have seen a spate of articles regarding Erik Prince’s latest business venture, Frontier Resources Group.
At this point those who follow PMSC issues should all know who Erik Prince is. But for those who have dropped in from Mars suffice it to say that he is cofounder and former CEO of the well-known private security firm formerly known as Blackwater, then Xe Services, and now Academi.
Prince recently became chairman of FRG, a Hong Kong-listed company of which China’s state-backed investment fund Citic owns 15 per cent. According to the Oman Observer, Prince himself has share options in the firm that would convert to a 9 per cent stake.
Consider this Phase 2 in Mr. Prince’s evolution and public image rebranding in his post-Blackwater era.
Continue reading “David Isenberg: Africa, China, Oil, & Blackwater”
Kissinger told the Chinese Jeb Bush was supposed to be declared the candidate out of a dead-locked Republican convention in 2012. We can only wonder as what financial machinations set that plan aside. If Jeb Bush — with his major narcotics and other criminal interests based in Flordia — is actually a viable candidate for the Republican Party, then at one level this confirms the death of the GOP, and at another level it opens the way for a third party coalition that is neither Democratic nor Republican, merely honest.
Chris Christie's Loss Could Be Jeb Bush's Gain
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