The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Congressional Research Service has never been more frequently cited or more influential in informing public discourse than it is today, as its publications are increasingly shared with the public in violation of official policy. But budget cuts and congressional dysfunction seem to have bred discontent among some staff members, judging from an article by former CRS analyst Kevin R. Kosar.
Hypocrisy:
These ‘staunch defenders' of the free press are attending today's solidarity rally in Paris
Double Standards:
In Solidarity With a Free Press: Some More Blasphemous Cartoons
Commentary Below the Line
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Improving Intelligence Studies as an Academic Discipline
Intelligence and National Security, 22 October 2014
In recent years there has been significant growth in the numbers and kinds of intelligence-related educational and training opportunities, with the knowledge taught in these courses and programs derived from the body of intelligence studies scholarship. The question posed here is: to what extent is this body of knowledge sufficient as a basis for the development of intelligence studies as an academic discipline?
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Live video broadcast of the very first Decentralized Autonomous Society Meetup in Palo Alto, California. Presenting: “The Philosophy of Autonomy” by Joel Dietz, co-founder DAS, SWARM – Texture, co-founder DAS, Ethereum – Vitalik, founder Ethereum – Eric Smalls, founder MANNA – Paige Peterson, Maidsafe. In Palo Alto in the early 1990s were born the first stirrings of cryptogovernment, something that eventually evolved into Bitcoin. Today, we enter the second stage of that revolution, human freedom empowered by blockchain technology.
Phi Beta Iota: A great deal of deep philosophy — ethics — embedded.
The research project Forensic Architecture ā funded by the European Research Council andĀ hosted by the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London āĀ set out to expand the meaning of this term.
Through our activities, we have redefined āforensic architectureā as the assessment of spatial evidence and for its presentation in legal and political setting.
FORENSIS: The Architecture of Public Truth
Taxpayers spend $140 billion funding science each year ā but can't access many of the results
Despite a decades-old “open access” movement ā to have all research findings in the public domain and not languishing behind paywalls ā the traditional approach to publishing remains firmly in place.Taxpayers fund a lot of the science that gets done, academics (many of whom are also funded by public money) peer review it for free, and then journals charge users (again, many of whom paid for the science in the first place!) ludicrous sums of money to view the finished product.
