The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
How corporations are crippling U.S. prosperity By David Worthington | October 15, 2012 A dearth of competition in major U.S. industries and a government that’s policy making has been severely corrupted by moneyed interests has led to depressed wages and stifled innovation, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist says in a new book. In essence, you’re …
Source: Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong (The Atlantic, 12 October 2012) Tip of the Hat to Tim O’Reilly at Google+.
Obama terror drones: CIA tactics in Pakistan include targeting rescuers and funerals Total US strikes: 349 Obama strikes: 297 Total reported killed: 2,593-3,365 Read full article and see data sidebars. Whither Suicide Bombings? Exponential growth in suicide attacks since 2001 shows that they have increasingly become a practical tool in a large variety of intra-national …
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The YouTube Jihadists: A Social Network Analysis of Al-Muhajiroun’s Propaganda Campaign by Jytte Klausen, Eliane Tschaen Barbieri, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, and Aaron Y. Zelin Abstract Producers of Al-Qaeda inspired propaganda have shifted their operations in recent years from closed membership online forums to mainstream social networking platforms. Using social network analysis, we show that behind the …
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Huh? This Story Of A CIA-Backed Somalia Anti-Piracy Squad Is Unbelievable Michael Kelley Business Insider, Oct. 5, 2012 An attempt by CIA-connected trainers to create a sophisticated counter-piracy force in Somalia turned into hundreds of half-trained and well-armed Somali mercenaries being left to their own devices in the desert, Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt of The …
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A NEW KIND OF SOCIAL SCIENCE FOR THE 21st CENTURY A Conversation with Nicholas A. Christakis EDGE, [8.21.12] These three things—a biological hurricane, computational social science, and the rediscovery of experimentation—are going to change the social sciences in the 21st century. With that change will come, in my judgment, a variety of discoveries and opportunities …
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Greece: The General Confederation of Employees of Greece and the civil servants’ union federation declared a 24-hour nationwide strike on Wednesday in protest against the finalization of the new package of austerity measures demanded by Greece’s creditors. Tens of thousands of protesters demonstrated outside Greece’s parliament on 26 September against austerity measures. The strike included …
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