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2012/06/212016/03/25

Chuck Spinney: Progressives Argue Over Defeating Obama – a Conversation on Email

Most of my liberal friends reluctantly support President Obama’s re-election, because the alternative is so much worse. Invariably, they invoke the effects of a Romney presidency on judicial appointments, especially those to the Supreme Court (ironically, Obama’s two appointees just voted with the majority to decline to hear the Guantanamo case, if effect, putting another …

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2012/06/142012/07/12

2012 Robert Steele at Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE)

Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) 9 Home Page Friday Plenary Presentation: Testing the Two-Party Tyranny and Open Source Everything: The Battle for the Soul of the Republic Day/Time: Friday, July 13, 2012 – 1200 Location: Sassaman (18th floor) Steele 1.3 Two-Party Tyranny & Battle for the Soul of the Republic Robert David Steele, opening speaker …

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2012/06/11

Venessa Miemis: Awareness Design – The Most Powerful Field for Our Future?

Awareness Design: The Most Powerful Field for Our Future? OK, OK, I don’t really subscribe to anything being “the most” of something… the headline was just a bit of sensationalism to capture your attention. 😉 *gently slaps self on wrist* However, now that you’re here, I want to make a case for a new field of …

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2012/06/11

DefDog: War Study – Troops Had Bad Intel, Worse Spin

This has been true since Vietnam (from my personal experience) and for all the money and technology that has been thrown at the IC, the return is dismal at best, criminal at worst….see my previous identifying your tribal summary as better than 99% of the intel I saw in Afghanistan. War Study: Troops Had Bad …

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2012/06/092012/06/15

Review: The Art of Intelligence – Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service

Henry Crumpton 4.0 out of 5 stars As Good as It Gets From an Approved Insider,June 9, 2012 I write this as a former clandestine case officer who spent 30 years across all of the functions of intelligence less MASINT, and went on to write, edit, and publish nine non-fiction books on the craft of …

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2012/06/06

Patrick Meier: UN Report on Big Data for Development – Highlights

Big Data for Development: Challenges and Opportunities The UN Global Pulse report on Big Data for Development ought to be required reading for anyone interested in humanitarian applications of Big Data. The purpose of this post is not to summarize this excellent 50-page document but to relay the most important insights contained therein. In addition, I …

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2012/06/052012/06/05

Patrick Meier: Big Data Philathropy aka Big Data Commons

Big Data Philanthropy for Humanitarian Response My colleague Robert Kirkpatrick from Global Pulse has been actively promoting the concept of “data philanthropy” within the context of development. Data philanthropy involves companies sharing proprietary datasets for social good. I believe we urgently need big (social) data philanthropy for humanitarian response as well. Disaster-affected communities are increasingly the source …

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