The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Rule by Algorithm? Big Data and the Threat of Algocracy An increasing number of people are worried about the way in which our data is being mined by governments and corporations. One of these people is Evgeny Morozov. In an article that appeared in the MIT Technology Review back in October 2013, he argued that …
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Huh? US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013 – poll Russia Today, 2 January 2014 The US has been voted as the most significant threat to world peace in a survey across 68 different countries. Anti-American sentiment was not only recorded in antagonistic countries, but also in many allied NATO partners like Turkey …
Pentagon’s top three threats in the ‘deep future’ What sorts of threats will the US military face in the “deep future”? That was the topic of a panel at the Association of the US Army (AUSA) conference this week, the heavily attended annual trade show that draws top Pentagon officials and defense contractors. It’s a …
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Today’s Technology Shift Has Parallels To When Universities Were Threatened By… Textbooks Infopolicy – Henrik Brändén: Today’s technology shift has many parallels with the arrivals of mass-printed books at universities. At the time, teachers at universities were horrified that the availability of books undermined their ability to charge students for reading aloud. There is something …
I explore here the diversity of responses – my own and others’ – to existential threats like extreme climate change … and I offer one way to map and make sense of those responses. This essay makes an interesting companion to my earlier essay Crisis Fatigue and the Co-Creation of Positive Possibilities Dear friends, In …
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Quitting Over Syria: Forcing Both Brennan And Clapper To Back Down From Attacking A number of [intelligence] analysts threatened to resign as a group if their strong dissent was not noted in any report released to the public, forcing both Brennan and Clapper to back down. The release of the White House “Government Assessment” on …
