The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Tough to only have a hammer when you really need a fly swatter. Washington Post March 25, 2012 Pg. 1 The CIA’s Enigmatic Al-Qaeda Hunter Convert to Islam has led spy agency’s renewed assault on terror group By Greg Miller For every cloud of smoke that follows a CIA drone strike in Pakistan, dozens of …
Independent Voter Network (IVN) Steele on Electoral Reform: Introduction of a New Series I have been invited to post a series of short commentaries on the Electoral Reform Act of 2012, a crowd-sourced outline that started in 2000 and was first developed over time by myself with Jim Turner (former #2 to Ralph Nader), Michael …
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Huh? Marcus Aurelius: The CIA wants to spy on you through your TV: Agency director says it will ‘transform’ surveillance Devices connected to internet leak information CIA director says these gadgets will ‘transform clandestine tradecraft’ Spies could watch thousands via supercomputers People ‘bug’ their own homes with web-connected devices DefDog: CIA loves Internet of things… …
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Inside the Kurzweil SXSW Keynote: On Infinite Mind Power, Robotic Overlords and Immortality He is one of the world’s most renowned futurists, and onstage at South By Southwest, Ray Kurzweil stirred debate with a speech that outlined the incredible role artificial intelligence will play in the future, as it reshapes humanity South By Southwest Interactive …
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Truthiness as Probability: Moving Beyond the True or False Dichotomy when Verifying Social Media I asked the following question at the Berkman Center’s recent Symposium on Truthiness in Digital Media: “Should we think of truthiness in terms of probabili-ties rather than use a True or False dichotomy?” The wording here is important. The word “truthiness” …
Robert Steele is a former intelligence officer for the CIA and the US Marine Corps who promotes the concept of “Open Source Intelligence,” a transparent system based on public access to all information, in his new book, The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust (Evolver Editions, 2012). Q. Why is intelligence gathered in …
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A Final Word on Drones and Reaper (doc 20 pages) A Final Word on Drones and Reaper Last week I distributed a five part series on drones, specifically the MQ-9 Reaper. It was published at Time Magazine’s Battleland blog. This last message on the series distributes each of the five parts and the entire paper as …
