The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Divided we stand Abstract: For Durkheim, the society integrates as dual, separately in a mechanical and in organic way. The first individuals in their interactions habituate new local rules which integrate society in its specific issues in a bottom-up direction. When new rules are institutionalisded and enforced for all, they feed back as mechanical restriction …
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Huh? ‘We should have talked to Taliban’ says top British officer in Afghanistan Exclusive: General Nick Carter says west could have struck a deal with Taliban leaders after they were toppled a decade ago Emma Graham-Harrison in Kabul The Guardian, Friday 28 June 2013 The west should have tried talking to the Taliban a decade …
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ARSTRAT_IO_Newsletter_v13_no_08 Articles in this issue: 1. Clearing the Air on Cyber, Electronic Warfare 2. American Gets Targeted by Digital Spy Tool Sold to Foreign Governments 3. US Army Maps Future of the Electronic Battlefield 4. Silent War 5. US Disrupts Al-Qaeda’s Online Magazine 6. …
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“In this chapter, we investigate the maker subculture and its manifestation in fabbing ecosystem. In other words, how the love of making things, hacking, tinkering, circuit bending and doing/making everything so-called DIY is a significant peculiarity of Fab Labs. We first look at the meaning and the emergence of the maker subculture and the development …
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A Cognitive Prosthetic I recently wrote Curation & Cognition after receiving a paper that defined the practice of curation: Attention Doesn’t Scale. Summary: good curation is a treasure when you find it, and now we know what that entails. Stemming A Torrent Of Garbage describes the poor condition of LinkedIn groups without naming names. The ones …
The Authoritarian Seduction “The sleep of reason breeds monsters.” -Francisco Goya The Gallup organization has released yet another dog-bites-man opinion poll which found that Americans’ confidence in Congress has fallen to a record low of 10 percent. This result is a continuation of a decades-long trend of declining approval ratings for Congress, and is justifiable …
Syria: Yesterday, the official news agency, al Manar, reported that government forces had captured Tal Kalakh near the northern border of Lebanon, after several days of “fierce clashes.” It was a key node for rebel arms smuggling. Comment: Actually the Syrian army took control of the town over the weekend. Patrick Cockburn visited Tal Kalakh …
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