The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A Fresh Look at Big Data May 8, 2013 Next week I am doing an invited talk in London. My subject is search and Big Data. I will be digging into this notion in this month’s Honk newsletter and adding some business intelligence related comments at an Information Today conference in New York later this …
Volume 1 of Monograph Series, “A Social Systems Approach to Global Problems” A principal failing of research on large-scale, complex social/technological problems is the excessive reliance upon easily measured technical observations and the accompanying minimal regard for hard-to-measure humanist aspirations, intentions, and hopes (Flanagan and Bausch, 2011). By focusing on the easily harvested quantitative data …
2013-04-03 Applause for China-Africa cooperation (Zambia) 2012-09-18 In Africa’s warm heart, a cold welcome for Chinese (Malawi) 2012-09-03 China in Africa, a Sierra Leonean viewpoint 2012-07-04 Why has China built a ghost town in Africa? Eerie footage shows brand new Angolan city designed for 500,000 lying empty 2011-07-19 Cameron warns Africans over the ‘Chinese invasion’ as …
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Huh? Phi Beta Iota: Only Iceland has demonstrated the combination of intelligence and integrity to actually serve the public interest. See Also: Matt Taibbi: GRIFTOPIA – RECAP THE LATEST Report: DOJ Criminal Chief Lanny Breuer Stepping Down January 23, 2013, 6:04 pm ET · by Sarah Childress. Lanny Breuer is leaving his position as head of the …
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Being read in Europe and Asia. The Secret History of US Drone Strikes in 2012 (Woods et al.) Chris Woods, Jack Serle and Alice K. Ross write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: EXTRACTS PAKISTAN Drone strikes in Pakistan are now at their lowest level in five years, as Islamabad protests almost every attack. The …
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Haiti To Become Full Associate Member Of African Union Osun Defender (Nigeria), 8 December 2012 The black race is gradually coming together. Where other world groupings are primarily motivated by strategic, security, political and economic interests, Africans wherever they are can count also on their common history of being black. Haiti currently has the status …
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The most important education technology in 200 years Kurzweil, November 3, 2012 Education is about to change dramatically, says Anant Agarwal, who heads edX, a $60 million MIT-Harvard effort to stream a college education over the Web, free, with plans to teach a billion students, Technology Review reports. “Massive open online courses,” or MOOCs, offered by new …
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