Public Intelligence Blog – Page 1999 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Hardware Management Congruence: Google and Barnes and Noble

I have been scanning the Google Motorola news. The write up fall into two camps.

On one hand, there are the Google is really smart. See, for example, “Google to Keep Motorola’s Advanced Technology Group” and “Google’s Tasty Lemonade.”

On the other hand, there are the Google goofed viewpoint; for example, “Analysis: Larry Page’s Smashed Handset Strategy – Google Ends Bid To Be Apple.”

My view is somewhat different.

First, I see some parallels between the Barnes & Noble Nook adventure and Google-Motorola.

Second, the management shifts at Motorola did not have a material impact on the revenue-generating power of Android phones. Keep in mind that these phones were treated just like other vendors’ phones in terms of access to software.

Third, the confusion between indexing the Web and building a business using Overture-type methods and sustaining a diversified business persists. Even the somewhat uneven ZDNet spotted this trend of revenue erosion in AdSense. Check out “Google’s Earnings: What Future for Plunging AdSense Business.”

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2014/01/31

SchwartzReport: Nearly Half of USA Lives Paycheck to Paycheck

03 Economy, 06 Family, 11 Society

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Further evidence of the collapse of the middle class. Theocratic Rightist social policies simply do not work. To the degree that President Obama accedes to them to that degree he sabotages our recovery.

Nearly Half of America Lives Paycheck-to-Paycheck
CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS – Time

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Event: 27 FEB 14 San Francisco TRUSTYCON – the Anti-NSA Anti-RSA Anti-Google Conference on Trustworthy Technology

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TrustyCon

Technology should not only be Secure, it should be Trustworthy.

Join us for the first Trustworthy Technology Conference, to be held on 27 February 2014 at the AMC Metreon Theatre in San Francisco, California. We welcome all security researchers, practitioners and citizens who are interested in discussing the technical, legal and ethical underpinnings of a stronger social contract between users and technology.

Learn more.

2014/01/30

Jon Rappoport: USG Loses (or Secretly Sells) 7,500 Tons of Gold

Corruption, Government

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Flashback: 9/11 and the gold in the NY Federal Reserve

With reports that Germany can’t get back much of its gold stored in the NY Federal Reserve, I remembered what I was writing just after 9/11.

Here are a few quotes. Most are from my posts on 9/11 and 9/12, 2001:

“Still no word on the condition of the NY Federal Reserve Bank, which is 2.5 blocks away from the destroyed WTC. This bank, underground, holds $75 billion in gold from [abut five] dozen countries.”

“CNN has a large map posted today, which shows the condition of a number of buildings by name in the area, but, curiously, the NY Fed Reserve is not one of them.”

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David Swanson: 31 Nations Declare Zone of Peace Across Caribbean, Central & South America

Peace Intelligence

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Heads of 31 Nations Declare a Zone of Peace, Commit to Uprooting Forever the Threat or Use of Force

Proclamation of Latin America and Caribbean as a zone of peace
(Original signed by the Heads of State and Governmenent of the Community of Latin American and Caribbeans States)

The Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) gathered in Havana, Cuba on January 28 and 29, 2014 at the Second Summit, on behalf of their peoples and faithfully interpreting their hopes and aspirations,

Reaffirming the commitment of member countries with the Purposes and Principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter and International Law, and aware of the fact that prosperity and stability in the region contribute to international peace and security,

Mindful that peace is a supreme asset and a legitimate aspiration of all peoples and that preserving peace is a substantial element of Latin America and Caribbean integration and a principle and common value of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC),

Reaffirming that integration consolidates the vision of a fair International order based on the right to peace and a culture of peace, which excludes the use of force and non-legitimate means of defense, such as weapons of mass destruction and nuclear weapons in particular,

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2014/01/302014/01/30

Berto Jongman: Catalog of Snowden Revelations About NSA (Brookings)

Corruption, Government, Military

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Catalog of the Snowden Revelations About NSA

This page catalogs various revelations by Edward Snowden, regarding the United States’ surveillance activities.

Each disclosure is assigned to one of the following categories: tools and methods, overseas USG locations from which operations are undertaken, foreign officials and systems that NSA has targeted, encryption that NSA has broken, ISPs or platforms that NSA has penetrated or attempted to penetrate, and identities of cooperating companies and governments.

The page will be updated from time to time and is intended as a resource regarding Snowden and the debate over U.S. surveillance. Comments and suggestions thus are welcomed, and should be sent to staff.lawfare@gmail.com.

Visit original page (safety copy below the line).

Berto Jongman: German TV Interview of Edward Snowden in Russia – 30-Minute Blockbuster BLACKED OUT by US Media

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