(Video) Psywar: The Real Battlefield is the Mind
Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Ethics, Government, Media, Military, Videos/Movies/Documentaries(Video) Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century
Academia, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Media, Military, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Technologies, Videos/Movies/Documentaries
This has been added to a new “mega-list” of documentaries worth seeing that is in development.
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“The Century of the Self”: Must-See Documentary on Psychology, Advertising, Consumerism and Control
Michael Ostrolenk: Green Scissors Identifies Hundreds of Billions in Wasteful Subsidies That Are Inherently Corrupt
Corruption
Green Scissors Coalition Identifies Hundreds of Billions in Wasteful Subsidies
By: David Dayen
FireDogLake, August 24, 2011
A transpartisan coalition called Green Scissors released a report today showing that $380 billion in savings over five years can be achieved by “curbing wasteful spending that harms the environment.”
Richard Wright: CIA Loses Integrity Over Book FBI Approves
07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, IO Impotency
C.I.A. Demands Cuts in Book About 9/11 and Terror Fight
By SCOTT SHANE
New York Times, August 25, 2011
WASHINGTON — In what amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath, the Central Intelligence Agency is demanding extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against Al Qaeda.
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Starting in May, F.B.I. officials reviewed Mr. Soufan’s 600-page manuscript, asking the author for evidence that dozens of names and facts were not classified. Mr. Soufan and Mr. Freedman agreed to change wording or substitute aliases for some names, and on July 12 the bureau told Mr. Soufan its review was complete.
In the meantime, however, the bureau had given the book to the C.I.A. Its reviewers responded this month with 78-page and 103-page faxes listing their cuts.
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Howard Rheingold: Discovery Engines Trying–and Failing
Advanced Cyber/IO, Blog Wisdom, IO Impotency
“Managing attention & information” 
Created and curated by Howard Rheingold
Discovery Engines: Policing The Riot Of Information Overload | Fast Company
Taming this torrent into something manageable and highly relevant is increasingly seen as the key for Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and any other chaotic content network looking to realize monster revenue.
That explains why discovery is the word du jour in tech. It also explains why there's a flurry of activity to build a “discovery engine,” the search engine's smart-ass cousin that tries to answer vague queries (like “funny video”–one of the top searches on YouTube).
Phi Beta Iota: Discovery today sucks, one reason Google is not worth much for serious intelligence (decision-support) endeavors. As Stephen E. Arnold has documented so ably, there are over 75 search engines, each with its own niche, and no one has put them together. Worse, they only tap into the 2% or so that is the surface web, and do not do deep web (for that, dee Deep Web Technologies). Worse, Google shows you what someone else has paid for you to see, not what you actually need or can get for free. The bleeding edge of the mature intelligence world is focused on multinational information-sharing and sense-making, and on human computation, including leveraging the diasporas for crowdsourcing everything from translation to imagery interpretation.
John Robb: Gold Bubble–Gold Not Welcome in New Era
03 Economy, 08 Wild Cards, Blog Wisdom, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence
Nouriel “Dr. Doom” Roubini is slamming the run up in the gold market: it's the new subprime bubble only worse. It's leveraged 25-40x not just 5-10x. It's just another example of the global market's central planning directorate in action. Another massive/bad investment by those with all the decision making power. It may also be a good indicator that gold is part and parcel of the old broken economy and not something that should be welcome in the new one we're building.
Phi Beta Iota: George Soros has this exactly right and has pulled out. What can be understood from open sources in addition to the above is that the gold market is chock full of fraud, including gold certificates issued without gold to back them up; and very likely gold diluted with titanium by the Bank of New York under Tim Geithner. There is also the residual matter of the Black Lily covert gold fund, of the gold to be confiscated from Libya before the rebels figure out they're dupes in a major theft, and finally–the wild card–there are rumors circulating in the gold community that a new methods has been found that will more rapidly discover all remaining gold deposits around the earth.
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Event: 15 Sep NYC Open Hardware Summit
Advanced Cyber/IOUnveiling the Open Hardware Summit 2011: Schedule, Breakouts and Tickets
We are incredibly excited to announce an extraordinary lineup of speakers this year, featuring some of the biggest game-changers in Open Hardware history.
