Answers: Robert Steele to Kevjn Lim on Big Data

Kevjn Lim is an independent writer and Middle East foreign policy analyst at Open Briefing: The Civil Society Intelligence Agency. In the latter half of 2013, he was Turkey representative for the Syria Needs Analysis Project (SNAP), covering the Syrian crisis in the northern governorates and Turkey. From 2007-2011, he served as delegate with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in …

Reflections: Appraisal of Analytic Foundations – Email Provided, Feedback Solicited – UPDATED

SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Analysis I was thinking this morning about how little has changed since I was a founding member of the Advanced Information Processing and Analysis Steering Group (AIPASG) and also a member of the Information Handling Committee (IHC) for the US secret world (late 1980’s early 1990’s). I note in passing my continued dismay …

Richard Stallman: Free Software Newsletter Issue 73 March 2014

Free Software Supporter Issue 72, March 2014 View this issue online here: https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2014/march Encourage your friends to subscribe and help us build an audience by adding our subscriber widget to your web site. Subscribe: https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/subscribe Widget: https://www.fsf.org/associate/widget Miss an issue? You can catch up on back issues at https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter. TABLE OF CONTENTS New highs for …

Review: Beyond Conflict – 20 Years of Putting Experience to Work for Peace

5.0 out of 5 stars Valuable, Substantive, Inspiring and a Bargain, February 24, 2014 I love this book. I received it as a gift and it is NOT “just a coffee table book.” This is a serious book, of very high quality in terms of both content and quality of construction. The photographs are superb, …

JZ: Polyface Farming – Worth a Look

Polyface, Inc. is a family owned, multi-generational, pasture-based, beyond organic, local-market farm and informational outreach in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. We produce: Salad Bar Beef Pigaerator Pork Pastured Poultry (Eggs, Broilers, Turkeys) Forage-Based Rabbits Forestry Products We are in the redemption business: healing the land, healing the food, healing the economy, and healing the culture. Writing, …

Bruce Schneier: It’s Time to Break Up NSA — Outline of Necessary Intelligence Reforms by Robert Steele

It’s Time to Break Up NSA Bruce Schneier CNN, 20 February 2014 Editor’s note: Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author of Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Thrive. (CNN) — The NSA has become too big and too powerful. What was supposed to be a single agency with a dual …