The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The People’s Congress United to exercise the self-evident sovereignty of the American people over our government Peoplescongress.org is calling for a week long event in which We the People pass specific amendments and legislation which, if enacted by Congress, would put an immediate end to the corporate take-over of our government, revitalize and re-democratize elections, …
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Gov’t surveillance ‘unreasonable’ & violated the 4th amendment ‘at least once’ Ms. Smith NetworkWorld, 23 July 2012 The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassified three of Sen. Wyden’s comments about FISA power. It also admitted the U.S. has violated the Fourth Amendment at least once when it comes to warrantless wiretaps done under …
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Top disease-spreading airports in the U.S. While the Honolulu airport gets only 30 percent as much air traffic as New York’s Kennedy International Airport, the new model predicts that it is nearly as influential in terms of contagion because of where it fits in the air transportation network: its location in the Pacific Ocean and …
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From Search to Prediction The economic vise is closing on some search and content processing vendors. There are some significant repositioning’s underway. We are working on three at this time, and, believe me, the vendors are doing more than changing the color of the logo. As we work on our projects, we have been aware …
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This is the graphic. Graphic: Tony Zinni on 4% “At Best” This is the only place in literature where we know the story has been told in writing. 2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) The source was Col GI Wilson, USMC (Ret), who heard it from Gen Zinni directly. We consider General Zinni, along with Generals …
Crisis Tweets: Natural Language Processing to the Rescue? My colleagues at the University of Colorado, Boulder, have been doing some very interesting applied research on automatically extracting “situational awareness” from tweets generated during crises. As is increasingly recognized by many in the humanitarian space, Twitter can at times be an important source of relevant information. The …
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In the Philippines, turning plastic waste into fuel Plastic waste is a problem all over the world. And it is especially troubling in the Philippines where plastic waste piles up in Manila’s Payal landfill, unable to decompose. But one inventor thinks he might have found the answer to this chronic problem. Jayme Navarro, founder of Poly-Green …
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