The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Google Is Testing A Program That Tracks You Everywhere You Go Richard Feloni Nov 7 2013, 3:29 AM 41 2096 Google wants to know your every move Google is beta-testing a program that tracks users’ purchasing habits by registering brick-and-mortar store visits via smartphones, according to a report from Digiday. Google can access user data …
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States of War How the Nation-State Made Modern Conflict Andreas Wimmer Foreign Affairs, 7 November 2014 To explain recent conflicts in countries such as Syria or Sudan, observers have been quick to point their fingers at proximate causes specific to our times: the power vacuum created by the end of the Cold War offered opportunities …
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Data Science Explained With an Infographic Data Science is a hot career. Even though data scientists have been around for decades, but it is only the proliferation of new devices and data streams that have brought the career to the Internet spotlight. Data Science is more than monitoring reports about data or even the big …
Social Media, Disaster Response and the Streetlight Effect Posted on November 7, 2013 | 2 Comments A police officer sees a man searching for his coin under a streetlight. After helping for several minutes, the exasperated officer asks if the man is sure that he lost his coin there. The man says “No, I lost them …
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Spiritual Progressives need to take time away from dealing with the craziness of politics and economics on our planet, and even from the huge amount of suffering caused by those systems and the way the values of selfishness and materialism get internalized into the consciousness of so many of us, and just celebrate the amazing …
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Five Profound Choices Special Ops Face Next Year (RAND) 1. Does size matter? 2. Tactical frittering or strategic enduring impact? 3. Fix the theater special operations commands. 4. Special operators’ rhetoric and intent must become consistent and convincing. 5. Finally, fix leadership succession and institutionalization See Also: Brain Cells Are Like Little Universes Cartels Pouting …
The sharing economy movement is taking a new stride in the Arab World, and many platforms have taken the initiative of implementing the methods of collaborative economy. We dig deep and scrutinize the factors and the potential which could see this industry grow bigger in the region at a quick rate. Here we offer some successful …
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