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2013/12/162013/12/16

Stephen E. Arnold: Goldman Sachs Web Conference Leaves Out Search Vendors

Goldman Sachs Web Conference Leaves Out Search Vendors What tech companies does the financial sector think are on top right now? TechCrunch discussed invitees ahead of the recent Goldman Sachs Private Internet Company Conference in Las Vegas in, “Here Are the Hottest Companies in Tech Right Now, According to Goldman Sachs.” Reporter Colleen Taylor reproduces …

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2013/12/152013/12/15

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 1.1

100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013 + Erica Chenoweth on Non-Violence + Jia Zhangke on Inequality = Violence Bushmaster Rifles Flying Off the Shelves CIA Bay of Pigs Documents – the last volume would “confuse” the public Deadly conformity is killing our creativity. Let’s mess about more People’s lives would be more fulfilling if they …

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2013/12/112013/12/11

Mini-Me: Cognitive Dissonance at NSA + NSA High Crimes RECAP + Integrity Remediation

Huh? Do You Trust the Washington Post‘s Sources on Morale at the NSA? Former officials insist that employees are upset because President Obama hasn’t visited to show his support. Conor Friedersdorf Reuters via The Atlantic, Dec 10 2013, 8:20 AM ET A strange Washington Post story gives readers the impression that morale is low at …

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2013/12/112013/12/11

Chuck Spinney: Russia & The Kurdish Card

The Kurds are the world’s largest ethnic group (25-35 million) without a nation. As the graphic below shows, Kurds are widely distributed throughout the turbulent regions of Middle East and Central Asia. The green areas are the major areas of heavy Kurdish concentration — but small enclaves exist in areas not marked. (For example, I …

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2013/12/082013/12/09

Marcus Aurelius: Tom Ricks on Shrinking the US Military

In article below, Ricks is oversimplistic. Quality may be more important than quantity, but a certain amount of quantity is essential. We may not have months available for a buildup as in ODS/S and OIF. Capability and capacity are both required.) To improve the U.S. military, shrink it By Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post, December 6, …

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2013/12/082013/12/08

Berto Jongman: David Ignatius Pimps “Fresh Approach” by Second String Prefects

A fresh approach to looking at foreign threats By David Ignatius, Washington Post, December 6, 2013 The chairs of the House and Senate intelligence committees stated last weekend that the world was getting more unsafe. A few days later, the Pew Research Center reported that 52 percent of Americans think the U.S. should “mind its own …

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2013/12/06

Jon Rappoport; Technocracy as Failed Mind Control

Technocracy is failed mind control Whether we know it or not, like it or not, want it or not, we are engaged in a struggle, and that struggle concerns the human spirit—understanding it, experiencing it, defending it against attacks. The spirit isn’t some vague ghost or apparition. It’s front and center, even in this blind …

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