Journal: CIA WikiLeaks Task Force (aka WTF, One Down From REMF)

CIA launches task force to assess impact of U.S. cables’ exposure by WikiLeaks By Greg Miller Wednesday, December 22, 2010; 12:24 AM The CIA has launched a task force to assess the impact of the exposure of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and military files by WikiLeaks. Officially, the panel is called the WikiLeaks Task …

Reference: Microsoft, Facebook, & the Future

Bianca Bosker bianca@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting Microsoft’s Cracked Windows: How The World’s Technology Juggernaut Lost Its Buzz And Became The ‘Underdog’ EXTRACT:  Its stranglehold on the desktop, while hugely profitable, helped turn Microsoft into an out-of-shape competitor focused on defending turf rather than scoring new hits. In seeking to maintain its dominance on the desktop, …

Reference: The Fraud-Based US Economy

The attached blog,  “Failing to Prosecute Wall Street Fraud Is Extending Our Economic Problems,” is a cut-and-paste accumulation of a variety of outlooks. Most are  based on analyses or accumulated wisdom, but some appear based on hunches, ideologies, etc.  Taken together, however, they paint a horrifying picture of the American political economy and our prospects for …

Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Save Democracy

Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Save Democracy “The most durable and dangerous ‘special interest’ – the only one that can directly traduce the Constitution – is the political class.” George F. Will Robert David Steele (Vivas) has produced a significant, but short, political essay for the Huffington Post, titled, “Citizens Fiddle, Obama Dances.”   The central argument …

Reference: On WikiLeaks and Government Secrecy + RECAP on Secrecy as Fraud, Waste, & Abuse

People are more likely to lie, exaggerate and distort when they know they won’t be held accountable for what they said, and people like to say what their interlocutors want to hear, says Jordan Stancil. Jordan Stancil Jordan Stancil is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of …