Berto Jongman: How geospatial analytics is helping hunt the LRA and al-Shabaab

How geospatial analytics is helping hunt the LRA and al-Shabaab Liat Clark Wired UK, 24 June 2013 In May 2012 Caesar Acellam, a commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and military strategist for the extremist group’s leader Joseph Kony, was captured by the Ugandan army. The act appeared to be a coup for local …

Mini-Me: NSA Routinely Monitored Barack Obama, John McCain, and Other Members

Huh? ORIGINAL NSA WHISTLEBLOWER: I Saw The Order To Wiretap Barack Obama In 2004 Michael Kelley Business Insider, 22 June 2013 Russ Tice worked as an offensive National Security Agency (NSA) agent from 2002 to 2005, before becoming a source for this Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times article exposing NSA domestic spying. This week he …

Michael Hastings: In Memory — His Last Article — Why Democrats Love to Spy on Americans While Betraying the Public Trust in Every Possible Sense of the Term

Why Democrats Love To Spy On Americans Besides Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, most Democrats abandoned their civil liberty positions during the age of Obama. With a new leak investigation looming, the Democrat leadership are now being forced to confront all the secrets they’ve tried to hide.For most bigwig Democrats in Washington, D.C., the …

Stephen E. Arnold: As Different Types of Thinkers Emerge Collaboration Is Key

As Different Types of Thinkers Emerge Collaboration Is Key June 21, 2013 The article titled How an Entirely New, Autistic Way of Thinking Powers Silicon Valley on Wired discusses the possibility of a new way of thinking. “Pattern thinkers”, those who think in patterns, whether consciously or unconsciously, are separated from “picture thinkers”, who are …

John Robb: Canada Makes It Illegal to Wear Masks — Reflections on the Loss of Government Legitimacy (and Sanity) — Beards May Be Next…

Canada Makes the Automation of Tyranny Easier Here’s a sign of the times.  Canada has made wearing a mask at a protest a crime. Why did they do this?   It makes it easier for police to ID people using CCTV and social media photos after a protest occurs. It also makes it easier to …

Gordon Duff: Modern Cars As Murder Weapons — Just Attach A Transceiver to the On Board Computer, and Assume Control — Works on Aircraft as Well

“We Got The Message…” Hastings “Boston Brakes” Killing a Warning? Imagine a new “E Class” Mercedes exploding in flames, burning to a cinder.  220 km/hr crashes on the Autobahn are often survived, certainly without a fire. There is a reason to own a Mercedes, in normal circumstances the chances of dying in one are quite …