The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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.
EU migration: Crisis in graphics The Best Map Ever Made of America’s Racial Segregation
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 …
In Killing the Host, economist Michael Hudson exposes how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have seized control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and governments. The FIRE sector is responsible for today’s extreme economic polarization (the 1% vs. the 99%) via favored tax status that inflates real estate prices while deflating the “real” economy …
Russia’s Troll Army Is Making Life Harder for US Spies US Spies Find Open Source Investigations Worthless, Blame ‘Russian Trolls’
Data-Driven, Networked Urbanism by Rob Kitchin offers a a useful overview of the various critiques of smart cities. Abstract: For as long as data have been generated about cities various kinds of data-informed urbanism have been occurring. In this paper, I argue that a new era is presently unfolding wherein data-informed urbanism is increasingly being …
Online Social Media & Open Source Investigator’s Summit Summit with Social Media Investigative Trainers October 12th · 14th 2015 • Las Vegas, Nevada Conference Page
