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Patrick Meier: Comparing the Quality of Crisis Tweets Versus 911 Emergency Calls

Comparing the Quality of Crisis Tweets Versus 911 Emergency Calls In 2010, I published this blog post entitled “Calling 911: What Humanitarians Can Learn from 50 Years of Crowdsourcing.” Since then, humanitarian colleagues have become increasingly open to the use of crowdsourcing as a methodology to  both collect and process information during disasters.  I’ve been studying …

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Review: Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger

Harvey Molotch 4.0 out of 5 stars Theatrically Naive in Its Own Way But Recommended, December 15, 2012 I’m the former spy and honorary hacker who sounded the alarm on cyber-security in 1994 and who questioned every aspect of the Department of Homeland Security, pointing out that the joint fusion centers would be a waste …

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Mini-Me: Hit Job on Petraeus and CIA Neo-Cons? The Panetta Narrative?

Huh? Op-Ed: Benghazi attack — The October surprise that backfired Eric Morales Digital Journal, 17 November 2012 The Romney campaign was banking on the Benghazi attack making Obama the next Jimmy Carter, however it has instead blown up in the face of the American right – only problem is, they haven’t realized that yet. Conservatives …

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Mini-Me: Germans Suspect Federal Reserve Bank of NY Has Stolen 1536 MetricTonnes of Gold — On Tim Geithner’s Watch

Huh? Germans demand bullion back after Federal Reserve refuses to let them view their own gold Marc Howe Mining.com, 1 November 2012 A secret report by Germany’s Federal Audit Office leaked to the public last week states that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York refuses to allow Bundebank staff to even view the gold, …

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DefDog: Wired on NYPost Being Retarded – Homework in Class on Terrorism a Threat to National Security – Comment by Robert Steele

NY Post Pisses Its Pants Over Terrorism Homework; And You Should Too Ryan Singel WIRED, 29 October 2012 The New York Post is quivering in fear and outrage over a graduate level course for intelligence analysts that requires students to write a fake terrorism plot, complete with methods of execution, sources of funding, number of …

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Mini-Me: Marine Officer on 9/11 – The Anomalies Continue to Surface

Huh? Phi Beta Iota:  As President Barack Obama faces what David Gergen calls one of three “choice” or turning point elections in modern US history, one has to wonder where he stands on the subject of the truth.  Below the line is a methodical review with many links from retired Marine Corps officer Jim Fetzer, …

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