The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
.. or why a little weiner is as necessary to the functioning of Versailles on the Potomac as the circus was to a Roman Empire in its decline. Nation of Weiners Jun 17, 2011 By Peter Z. Scheer I pretty much lost it while watching David Gergen, a veteran of the Nixon White House, trying to make …
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Dear friends, This last six months most of the Co-Intelligence Institute’s best work has been in behind-the-scenes exploratory conversations, research and development. We expect the results of all that to become increasingly evident soon. Here’s a sky-view of what we’ve been up to. I invite you to consider what impact this kind of work has …
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Headline Revelations Glenn Greenwald Salon, 13 June 2011 Dan Gillmor observes that the two top New York Times headlines this morning “sum up the Obama administration”: EXTRACT: As Yale Professor Jack Balkin recently put it to Jane Mayer about the Obama presidency: “We are witnessing the bipartisan normalization and legitimization of a national-surveillance state.” This state, …
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My top pick today: Maria Popova: In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a new kind of authorship NiemanJournalismLab,10 June 2011 EXTRACT: The point is that new tools in general, and Twitter in particular, greatly challenge the binary dichotomy of attention as something that is either given or taken away, distracted. Instead, …
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Participatory Budgeting in Kenya: Finance Minister invites Suggestions through Social Media Marvin Tumbo, Contributor: The Kenyan Government has been getting quite tech savvy in the recent past, becoming more pronounced as Kenyans join the civil service. This has resulted in subtle, but solid, movements towards a better connected Government as was showcased during the Connected Kenya Summit …
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Source: David Daw of PC World (pieces of the article) The initial Geiger counters used in the project were from the Reuseum, an Idaho business that recycles old technology to new homes. Tokyo Hackerspace worked to expand the sensor network with Safecast (formerly RDTN) and Geiger Maps JP, two sites that aggregate and visualize radiation …
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Paul Revere’s Ride, Reimagined by Sarah Palin By Tim Murphy Fri Jun. 3, Mother Jones Here‘s how she described Paul Revere’s famous ride: “…he who warned the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringin’ those bells and, um, makin’ sure as he’s ridin’ his horse through town to send those …
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