There's a lawsuit against 92 oil-related companies to pay to restore the land they have helped erode in Louisiana which will get worse if something is not done.
Berto Jongman: Sandy Hook Cover-Up
07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement, MediaBeing noticed in Europe.
Video: We need to talk about Sandy Hook
Documentary blows the lid off suspected Sandy Hook cover-up
A loose coalition of concerned citizen journalists known as the Independent Media Solidarity have produced an in-depth, well-researched documentary regarding the countless anomalies, inconsistencies and discrepancies evident in the Sandy Hook school shooting investigation.
Larry Sanger: Wikifying the News
Advanced Cyber/IOLawrence Mark “Larry” Sanger (born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer, co-founder of Wikipedia, and the founder of Citizendium. He grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. From an early age he has been interested in philosophy. Sanger received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Reed College in 1991 and a Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from Ohio State University in 2000. Most of his philosophical work has focused on epistemology, the theory of knowledge.
Sanger left Wikipedia in 2002, and has since been critical of the project. He states that, despite its merits, Wikipedia lacks credibility due to, among other things, a lack of respect for expertise.
How we can organize the news (short version)
Dr. Dr. Dave Warner Departing Afghanistan
Cultural IntelligenceOur hero. Dr. Dr. as we call him (PhD and MD) has for decades been the lone voice in the wilderness trying to bring DoD into the 21st Century with open source tools that could be shared with non-military elements that control 80% of the relevant foreign language and ground truth information not available via closed sources and closed communications.
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Dev Balkind: Nathan Schneider on Owning
Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Culture, Economics/True CostNathan Schneider is one of the best chroniclers of the emergence of the new solutions.Ā This piece places places a lot of innovations into context, connecting various movements and ideologies together to give the reader a picture of what's next.
Nathan Schneider
āWeāre moving into a new economic age,ā says Marjorie Kelly, who spent two decades at the helm of Business Ethics magazine and now advisesĀ social entrepreneurs. āIt needs to be sustainable. It needs to be inclusive. And the foundation of what defines an economic age is its form of ownership.āĀ Ā …Ā Ā There are many ways to own. Simply giving up on ownership, however, will mean that those who actually do own the tools that we rely on to share will control them. People who want an economy of genuine sharing are coming to recognize that they must embrace ownership ā and, as they do, they're changing what owning means altogether.
Stephen E. Arnold: Open Source Business Intelligence Tools — Not There
IO ImpotencyOpen Source Business Intelligence Tools: A Narrow View
Last week, a person with considerable experience in business intelligence told me that interest in open source software applicable to intelligence purposes was evident in South America. I poked around and came across ā5 Open Source business intelligence Tools.ā I was hoping to learn about open source real-time translation tools, geo-coding components, and old-school search software that hooked into some next-generation analytics and visualization components.
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SchwartzReport: Death of the American Dream & Other Pathologies
03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law EnforcementFive readers sent me this article this morning and told me they felt it perfectly described their lives, and their sense of entrapment. I just hate this trend, but facts are facts.
Economist: Iāve crunched the numbers, and the American Dream is dead
āAmerica has no higher rate of social mobility than medieval England or pre-industrial Sweden,ā Clark said. āThatās the most difficult part of talking about social mobility, is because it is shattering peopleās dreams.ā
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