The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Disastrous Floods as Indicators of Systemic Risk Neglect
implications for authoritative response to future surprises
Handbook of Independent Journalism
Chapter 1: What Is News?
Chapter 2: Getting the Story
Chapter 3: Telling the Story
Chapter 4: Editing the Story
Chapter 5: Broadline and Online
Chapter 6: Specialized Journalism
Chapter 7: Ethics and Law
Chapter 8: Journalism Resources
Tip of the Hat to Nik Peachey.
Regarding Those Kremlin Trolls
The Netwar Forward Controller is a central system that accumulates timestamped text data from Twitter, Jabber, IRC, and there is a Telegram integration happening this summer. Advanced search, social/topical/general network analysis, and the ability to integrate things like computational linguistic processing are present.
What high-leverage initiatives can we imagine that could embed wisdom-producing dialogue and deliberation – among citizens, stakeholders, and/or public officials – deeply into the political life of the United States (and other countries, as well)?
Using a few million dollars to transform American political culture
Is the CIA getting ready to dump the Clintons?
How many times are the dynamic duo allowed to wander off the reservation?
Mainstream press outlets are mounting a new brand of coverage on Hillary Clinton’s campaign. They’re questioning her ability to win the nomination and/or the general election. All of a sudden, the done deal is not done.
What’s behind this switch? Aside from fear of The Donald, there is the boiling Hillary email scandal. There is also the specter of further revelations about the syndicate known as the Clinton Foundation. That’s a big one. A very big one.
World computer concept explained in here.
Vitalik Buterin, Coin Center,
Bitcoin is widely understood as a system for generating a shared world ledger that securely records bitcoin balances. Ethereum uses many of the same systems (such as blockchains and peer-to-peer networking) in order to generate a shared world computing platform that can flexibly but securely run any application users want to code (shared ledgers like Bitcoin included).
Iceland proves the nation state is alive and well
A Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) analysis of Iceland's capital control response to neo-liberalism in the context of the Eurozone crisis. The new law brought in this month by the Icelandic government demonstrates categorically who is in charge.
