The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
What kind of power, for whom, and for what? Tom Atlee May 9, 2013 In this article I explore current trends in the evolution of power that have profound implications for our future. This is an appreciative critical review of Moises Naim’s new book THE END OF POWER: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to …
Russia’s New Tip of the Spear What’s got the Kremlin so worried that it created a Special Operations Command? Dmitri Trenin Foreign Policy, 8 May 2013 Addressing the Russian National Security Council meeting on May 8, President Vladimir Putin said that the forthcoming departure of U.S. and coalition forces from Afghanistan confronts Russia with a …
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The University of Maryland’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab’s 30th Annual Symposium: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 Thursday, May 23, 2013 www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/soh HCIL’s 30th Annual Symposium will consider the future of social media, networks, medical informatics, information visualization, interaction design, children, games, education, HCI design methods, tangible computing, accessibility, and MORE! Learn more about the HCIL’s research at …
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Because Tweets Are Not Always the Truth Posted: 03 May 2013 04:41 PM PDT Can emerging technologies aid in filtering out the untrusted and unverified chattering of the masses? Using the recent Boston Marathon bombings as an example where this kind of technology would be useful, the MIT Technology Review article “Preventing Misinformation from Spreading …
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The connected generation ‘Millennials’ are leveraging their tech savvy for social change and economic opportunity. How social network policies are changing speech and privacy norms Is the proprietary nature of online speech poised to change cultural norms? Big Banks are Victims of Their Own Success The biggest banks have done an excellent job of delaying …
While there is little that is new in the attached article by Philip Giraldi; it is nevertheless very important and well worth reading. Giraldi has produced an excellent summary of the truly poisonous influences on US foreign and defense policies, a group more accurately described by the collective modifier neo-conmen. He describes how the influence of this movement’s …
Susan Landau 5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive text on the topic July 8, 2011 Ben Rothke Surveillance or Security?: The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies is a hard book to categorize. It is not about security, but it deals extensively with it. It is not a law book, but legal topics are pervasive …
