The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Huh? Development data: how accurate are the figures? The numbers we use in development, and most of what we think of as facts, are actually estimates. It’s time for a data revolution Claire Melarned The Guardian, 31 January 2014 You know a lot less than you think you do. Around 1.22 billion people live on …
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Huh? Google’s Grand Plan to Make Your Brain Irrelevant By Marcus Wohlsen WIRED 01.27.14 Google is on a shopping spree, buying startup after startup to push its business into the future. But these companies don’t run web services or sell ads or build smartphone software or dabble in other things that Google is best known …
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Huh? Guardian: Intelligence chair: NSA leaker Edward Snowden may have had Russian help Last year, in an interview with the New York Times, Snowden said he did not take any of the documents he obtained to Russia, “because it wouldn’t serve the public interest”. Snowden said there was “zero-percent chance” that Russia had received any …
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Huh? Target data breach total rises to up to 110 million The massive data breach at Target over the holiday season is potentially much worse than the retailer first reported — as many as 110 million people may have had their identity and financial information compromised, the retailer says. Idiot Video and More Text
Huh? US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013 – poll Russia Today, 2 January 2014 The US has been voted as the most significant threat to world peace in a survey across 68 different countries. Anti-American sentiment was not only recorded in antagonistic countries, but also in many allied NATO partners like Turkey …
Huh? Islamic Banks, Stuffed With Cash, Explore Partnerships in West A noted Muslim law scholar, Yusuf DeLorenzo, recently pored through the books of Continental Rail, a business that runs freight trains up and down the East Coast. Along with examining the company’s financial health, Mr. DeLorenzo sought to make sure that the rail cars didn’t …
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Huh? The US Is Hosting A Giant Military Yard Sale In Afghanistan It is a January sale with a difference. The American military is auctioning off millions of pounds of tankers, accommodation blocks, tents, generators and other “white goods” in Afghanistan ahead of next year’s deadline for the end of combat operations. In a tender …
