The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Kim Philby, British double agent, reveals all in secret video
By Gordon Corera
The tape is of Kim Philby giving a secret lecture to the Stasi, the East German Intelligence Service, in 1981. It is the first time the ex-MI6 officer can be seen talking about his life as a spy from his recruitment to his escape.
How Austerity Has Crippled the European Economy – In Numbers
Thomas Fazi, Social Europe, 31 March 2016
Europe’s post-crisis response – consisting of a combination of fiscal austerity, neoliberal structural reforms and expansionary monetary policies – has unambiguously failed. In early 2016 – eight years after the outbreak of the financial crisis – the eurozone’s overall real GDP was still below the pre-crisis peak (March 2008). The Greek economy was 27.6 per cent smaller. Spain’s was 4.5 per cent smaller. Portugal’s was 6.5 per cent smaller. Even those countries with above-average eurozone growth were not performing very well: Germany, for example, was only 5.5 per cent larger than it was in March 2008, while France was only 2.7 per cent larger. Meanwhile, most of the world has returned to, or surpasses, pre-crisis GDP levels.
The Panama Papers, ‘Corruption’ as a Propaganda Weapon
Mainstream Western journalism no longer even tries to apply common standards to questions about corruption. If you’re a favored government, there might be lamentations about the need for more “reform” – which often means slashing pensions for the elderly and cutting social programs for the poor – but if you’re a demonized leader, then the only permissible answer is criminal indictment and/or “regime change.”
Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE):
Creating the Academy, Economy, Government, and Society of the Future
Robert Steele
ABSTRACT
I have decided to focus on the possibilities of integrating True Cost Economics, Holistic Analytics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE). This concept is human-centric, rooted in advanced digital information management including new concepts for embedded intelligence and big data at a world brain scale, and is a commitment toward enabling and empowering social enterprises within a national and international collaborative economy meant to serve the 99%. I present here my preliminary findings my hope that a hub might be created in London or New York City, with mirrors in China, India, and elsewhere as interest is generated and funding acquired. Among the products of this new endeavor would be an OSEE analytic toolkit and OSEE big data cloud able to do exascale near-real-time processing, the full integration of OSEE into the varied scientific and engineering disciplines being taught at all universities and – eventually – a School of Future-Oriented Hybrid Governance and a World Brain Institute as well as a new PhD/DBA degree in integral business and economic decision-support to open source everything processing and production. As the City of London and E.J. Rothschilds advance the concept of “inclusive capitalism,” I venture to offer a solution that addresses their concerns while making possible the creation of a prosperous world at peace, a world that works for all, without waste.
Posted in full with permission of the author.
April 1-2, 2016 — Clinton's private email network part of private foreign policy/intelligence operation
A mere cursory glance at some of Hillary Clinton's emails yields what can only be described as a private foreign policy and intelligence operation. The operation involved Secretary of State Clinton, her personal State Department staff and outside consultants (including Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills), the Clinton Foundation (including Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton), former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Teneo, the global advisory firm established by Bill Clinton's former chief aide Doug Band and that employed Abedin as a consultant while she was also working for the State Department.
TO BE RELEASED 12 JULY 2016
PRE-ORDER NOW — Appears Discounted
Ten years ago we found evidence that al-Qaeda was far more organized and adept than we had previously given them credit for. It took us nearly that long to locate and execute their leader, Osama bin Laden, and we are far from finished. Al-Qaeda has morphed into a much more dangerous, menacing threat: ISIS. A war is being waged against us by radical Islamists, and, as current events demonstrate, they are only getting stronger. This book aims to inform the American people of the grave danger we face―and will continue to face―until our government takes decisive action against the terrorists that want nothing more than to destroy us and our way of life.
Open access repositories start to offer overlay peer review services
Converting open access repositories into functional evaluation platforms
Bringing back quality control to the scientific community
The use of journal hierarchy for assessing the reputation of research works and their authors, has contributed to a competitive environment that is having a detrimental effect on scientific reliability. Open access repositories administered by Universities or research organizations are a valuable infrastructure that could support the transition to a more collaborative and efficient scholarly evaluation and communication system. Open Scholar has coordinated a consortium of six partners to develop the first Open Peer Review Module (OPRM) for institutional repositories. The module integrates an overlay peer review service, coupled with a transparent reputation system, on top of institutional repositories. It is provided freely as open source software.
