The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Latin American Nations Debate Legalizing Pot —By Josh Harkinson Mon Jun. 10, 2013 At last week’s annual summit of the Organization of American States, Latin American leaders distanced themselves from the United States’ drug policies and agreed to consider the widespread legalization of marijuana. The OAS summit “was really a tipping point for this movement” …
Russian Made Surveillance Invades the US Posted: 09 Jun 2013 02:11 PM PDT Russia and the U.S. don’t often agree when it comes to politics and social issues but it seems that the two can agree on the need for top grade surveillance technology. According to the Wired article “5 Russian-Made Surveillance Technologies Used in …
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Russian Made Surveillance Invades the US”
U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program Washington Post, 6 June 2013 VIDEO Barton Gellman on Source and Consequences EXTRACT Government officials and the document itself made clear that the NSA regarded the identities of its private partners as PRISM’s most sensitive secret, fearing that the companies would …
Continue reading “Mongoose: Prism the Bulk of President’s Daily Brief?”
Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA’s history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras in Hong Kong guardian.co.uk, Sunday 9 June 2013 • Q&A with …
The Geography of Twitter: Mapping the Global Heartbeat My colleague Kalev Leetaru recently co-authored this comprehensive study on the various sources and accuracies of geographic information on Twitter. This is the first detailed study of its kind. The detailed analysis, which runs some 50-pages long, has important implications vis-a-vis the use of social media in emergency …
Continue reading “Patrick Meier: The Geography of Twitter: Mapping the Global Heartbeat”
This book examines and evaluates various private initiatives to enforce fair labor standards within global supply chains. Using unique data (internal audit reports, and access to more than 120 supply chain factories and 700 interviews in 14 countries) from several major global brands, including NIKE, HP, and the International Labor Organization’s Factory Improvement Programme in …
Could CrowdOptic Be Used For Disaster Response? Crowds—rather than sole individuals—are increasingly bearing witness to disasters large and small. Instagram users, for example, snapped 800,000 #Sandy pictures during the hurricane last year. One way to make sense of this vast volume and velocity of multimedia content—Big Data—during disasters is with PhotoSynth, as blogged here. Another perhaps more sophisticated approach …
Continue reading “Patrick Meier: Could CrowdOptic Be Used For Disaster Response?”
