The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
CHINA RISING: DVN (Holdings) Limited Announces Appointment of Erik Prince as Chairman CULTURE: American morality shifting substantially CULTURE: Avoid false choices in the Middle East — Western apathy toward suffering immoral and politically short-sighted CULTURE: Cities as Foundation for Organized Crime
2014: The Year of Encryption “The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.” Eric Schmidt, Patron of NSA Back Door Into Google Phi Beta Iota: Apart from the obvious, that only open source encryption can be scrutinized by millions of minds, this also kills Microsoft, whose software is always 1.3 times what the hardware …
God bless Secretary Gates! He is a man of honor, integrity and competence as well as a good judge of character. During one of the critical periods, Iraq surge if memory serves, he had heard about what my offices does and came down to meet us personally and take pictures with us. For the duration …
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Is this the year in which populism defeats the two-party system, when the US stops borrowing to finance waste, and when the NSA debacle outrages the American people to the point that they call for a radical overhaul of the government? – DOC (12 Pages): Rethinking Intelligence 2.3 This post is available for complete re-posting …
9/11 Lee Bracken on US Leader Complicity BABES: The Women of Al Qaeda BOOK: Cybersecurity and Cyberwar (Brookings Video) CIA Lawyer: Could Have Stopped Waterboarding CYBER: 2014 Threat Prison Locker Ransomware
Half a Billion Clicks Can’t Be Wrong What big data tells us about next year’s crisis zones. EXTRACTS: ….my 2011 “Culturomics 2.0” study demonstrated the unique insights gleaned from looking at how the media covers an event, rather than just what it covers. The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) project is the …
Case of the Missing Recovery Have you seen the economic recovery? I haven’t either. But it is bound to be around here somewhere, because the National Bureau of Economic Research spotted it in June 2009, four and one-half years ago. It is a shy and reclusive recovery, like the “New Economy” and all those promised …
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