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2013/04/20

Eagle: Harvard Berkman (Schneier & Zittrain) on IT, Security, Power

IT, Security, and Power Bruce Schneier & Jonathan Zittrain in conversation April 4, 6:00pm ET Langdell Hall South, 272 Kirkland and Ellis Classroom From Bruce Schneier: What I’ve Been Thinking About I have been thinking about the Internet and power: how the Internet affects power, and how power affects the Internet. Increasingly, those in power …

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2013/04/192013/04/20

Paul Craig Roberts: Boston Bombing as Dry Run for Martial Law and Major Metropolis Lock-Down 1.1

Boston Marathon Bombing EXTRACT: What strikes me about the event is the ease with which authorities were able to lockdown entire metropolitan areas, preventing US citizens from leaving their homes in order to go to their jobs, to doctor’s appointments, to the grocery store, or to walk their dogs. This is a precedent. It sets …

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2013/04/172013/04/18

Theophillis Goodyear: Complex Systems Dynamics, Hueristics, & Poetry

Powerful and effective heuristics are the only way to quickly communicate the complex understandings required to save humanity, because they facilitate quick feedback. They break through information logjams. They reduce information overload. The various elite powers on the planet use heuristics in the form of propaganda to mislead the people and drive them like cattle …

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2013/04/152013/04/17

Daniel Ellsberg: On Secrecy & Whistleblowing with Comment by Robert Steele

Secrecy and National Security Whistleblowing Daniel Ellsberg on January 8, 2013 [Originally published in Social Research] I) Reflections on Secret-keeping and Identity In the “national security” area of the government–the White House, the departments of state and defense, the armed services and the “intelligence community,” along with their contractors–there is less whistleblowing than in other …

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2013/04/14

Berto Jongman: cyber pearl harbor panel discussion – 22 Years Late

Panel Talks About Detecting, Thwarting Cyber Attack Space Foundation, 04/08/2013 Can the U.S. detect, thwart and respond to a cyber offensive that would leave our nation vulnerable to other, possibly more conventional, offensive efforts? Visions of a “Cyber Pearl Harbor” are forcing decision makers to take steps to avoid such a calamity. Read more.

2013/04/142013/04/14

Berto Jongman: World Food Crisis + Food RECAP

Millions face starvation as world warms, say scientists World is unprepared for changes that will see parts of Africa turned into disaster areas, say food experts John Vidal, The Observer, 13 April 2013 Millions of people could become destitute in Africa and Asia as staple foods more than double in price by 2050 as a …

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2013/04/132013/04/13

Marcus Aurelius: Politically-Correct Pentagon Gets It Half Right — On Religious Counterintelligence

New York Post, April 11, 2013, Pg. 27 Perils Of A Politically Correct Pentagon By Michael A. Walsh One of the core functions of government is to defend the nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic — that’s part of the oath of enlistment that all service personnel take. But only a flinty, clear-eyed — …

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