The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Evidently the US military did not feel it could or should be responsible for the direct recovery of Bergdahn, whether he is a returning deserter or a freed prisoner. A more professional exchange would have dropped off the receiving team, which would have a) taken the time to engage and b) called in for lift-off …
And the surveillance state just keeps oozing out across our lives like a toxic smog. It will soon be possible to track any person, almost anywhere. There is already no problem turning on your phone’s camera, or microphone. Moving through any public space will result in multiple images, which are keyed to every electronic interaction …
The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach to Solving our Most Complex Challenges The following is an excerpt from the introduction of the book, “What Are Social Laboratories?” Zaid Hassan Stanford Social Innovation Review, 19 May 2014 The Social Labs Revolution reports and builds on a decade of practical experiments in addressing social challenges that …
What is it about Random Selection?? In recent months I’ve discovered that random selection offers unexpected gifts to our efforts to create more fair, functional, and intelligent politics and governance. I share a key dynamic that defines random selection and show how it has been applied historically and might be used more in specific institutions …
New Snowden Document Implies NSA May Be Putting Israel’s Security Ahead of America’s Why Is the NSA Putting Israel First? The following leaked slide from Edward Snowden was released today by Glenn Greenwald in his new book, No Place to Hide: If you can’t read the slide, it says: Balancing the SIGINT exchange equally between …
Investing Attention Essential to Viable Growth Radical self-reflexive reappropriation of financial skills and insights Introduction Beyond investing attention in attention economics Psychology of investing attention as a missing dimension Investing attention in interesting opportunities Varieties of investment and their implication for investment of attention Alternative “alternative investments” — of attention? Reconciling varieties of investment of …
Nuke May Have Been Unleashed in Iran “Iranian Fars News Service reported a massive explosion in Qazvin, Iran today. The origins may have been nuclear. Arutz Sheva reported: An immense explosion has been heard throughout the northern Iranian city of Qazvin, semi-official Fars news agency reported, and many casualties are expected from the blast. Around …
