The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
India-Russia: India will buy 250 to 300 advanced stealth fighter aircraft from Russian, according to Defence Minister A.K. Antony, as he announced the deal worth nearly $30 billion. Antony and Russian Defense Minister Serdyukov said Russia would supply the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) as well as 45 transport aircraft. India also will jointly manufacture …
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Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes is Trevor Paglen’s long-awaited first photographic monograph. Social scientist, artist, writer and provocateur, Paglen has been exploring the secret activities of the U.S. military and intelligence agencies–the “black world”–for the last eight years, publishing, speaking and making astonishing photographs. As an artist, Paglen is interested in the idea of photography …
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3 Ways the Underwear Bomber Changed Counterterrorism December 25, 2009 was a pivotal day for U.S. counterterrorism. Although the airline bombing failed, the reverberations from the attempt are still being felt. Here’s how this incident changed U.S. counterterrorism policy, as told by Mike Leiter, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Popular Mechanics By Joe …
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Knowledge Management Specialties By Stan Garfield (Twitter: @stangarfield) – Revised September 1, 2010 The field of knowledge management includes a wide variety of components and disciplines. Here is a list of 25 specialties practiced by those in the field, followed by Tara Pangakis list of 50 KM components across people, processes, and technologies. Sharing, culture, …
America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution By Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 – August 2010 issue of American Spectator EXTRACT 1: They [the bi-opoly two parties] think, look, and act as a class. EXTRACT 2: The two classes have less in common culturally, dislike each other more, and embody ways …
Three links have been placed into Antecedents. World Brain 101 is a brief review of the history of the concept across many eras. World Brain 102 is the concept that was presented to the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), but lacks a single Member nation willing to present it to the General Assembly …
Multilingual Web should be a priority for India: W3C chief Six months into his new job, Jeffrey Jaffe, Chief Executive Officer of the World Wide Web Consortium has his work cut out The World Wide Web Consortium or W3C, as it is better known, is where the industry meets to set standards for the Web. …
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