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2013/02/05

Steven Aftergood: Keeping Secrets from Congress — and Report on CIA’s Global (54 Country) Rendition and Torture Program

Keeping Secrets from Congress When government information is classified or otherwise withheld from release, the possibility of government accountability to the public is undermined. But when the executive branch withholds crucial information from Congress, that may pose an even more fundamental challenge to democratic governance. Read full article. A Report on CIA Detention and Rendition …

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2013/02/042013/02/04

Yoda: US Diplomatic-Commercial Internet Initiative — Affordable Good, Proprietary Bad

Half-full, glass is. Hillary Clinton Helps Silicon Valley on Her Way Out the Door Elizabeth Dwoskin BloombergBusinessWeek, 4 February 2013 Taking the podium in the State Department’s Ben Franklin Room one last time on Thursday before stepping down, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thanked lots of people, offered reminiscences, and announced a flurry of last-minute …

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2013/02/04

Stuart Umpleby: Social Sciences Differ from Physical Sciences

Here is a fragment from a listserve that is related to reflexivity. It explains how social science is different from physical science. Assuming that an approach developed for physical systems can also be used for social systems will miss a key feature of social systems. Very interesting paper on application of science to agriculture, in …

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2013/02/02

Patrick Meier: Social Media as Pulse of the Planet?

Social Media: Pulse of the Planet? In 2010, Hillary Clinton described social media as a new nervous system for our planet (1). So can the pulse of the planet be captured with social media? There are many who are skeptical not least because of the digital divide. “You mean the pulse of the Data Have’s? The …

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2013/02/01

Worth a Look: Revista AAInteligencia

REVISTA AAINTELIGENCIA Proyecto Aurora Australis: Inteligencia de Emergencia para la Era de la Informacion Use Google Translate to Read in English AAINTELIGENCIA es la primera revista latinoamericana orientada a brindar contenidos de alto nivel académico, acerca de los Sistemas de Inteligencia, implementados en las cúpulas de decisión estatal y empresarial. Desde octubre de 2003 hasta …

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2013/01/312013/01/31

Mini-Me: Carnal Knowledge of LBJ, CIA, Big Oil Et Al

Huh? UNDER CONSTRUCTION 2012-03-07 Lyndon Johnson was bisexual and he had sex with his grandmother – Ray Hill read LBJ’s sexual history interview at the Kinsey Institute in the mid 1960’s 2012-10-16 Madeleine Brown, LBJ & Driskill Hotel – 12/31/63 2012-01-28 Bibliography of 1000 Books to read on the JFK Assassination, aka 1963 Coup d’Etat …

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2013/01/262013/01/26

Marcus Aurelius: New Special Forces Command, Mexico as Rabbit Hole, Zetas on Steroids Coming Soon

Invite your attention to both article immediately below and four comments on it, second below. Some of the comments appear pretty sound to me. Integrity of any institution of Mexican (MX) government seems questionable — “plata o plumba” is a long tradition in Latin America and the MX government has been in the press many …

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