Public Intelligence Blog – Page 2047 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Here is some more good solar news.

Massive Solar Plan for Minnesota Wins Bid Over Gas
DAVID SHAFFER – Star Tribune

This would be an important well-researched essay no matter who wrote it. But it is doubly so because the author is a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. The point it makes challenges the integrity of Obama Administration Justice Department in a very fundamental way. The last five year's performa! nce under Attorney General Holder have, in my view, put the American judicial system in crisis. In case after case it is clear that there are two kinds of justice: justice for the rich and lack of justice for everyone else.

The Financial Crisis: Why Have No High-Level Executives Been Prosecuted?
JUDGE JED RAKOFF, United States District Judge – The New York Review of Books

Yesterday it was laptop searches, today it is the destruction of the instruments of an internationally renowned musician. This is all part of the rise of the American police state. And please note my comment of yesterday that this is problem that particularly afflicts darker complected individuals, particularly with Muslim sounding names.

Boujemaa Razgui, Musician, Says JFK Customs Officials Destroyed 13 Instruments
ZACHARY STIEBER – Epoch Times

The TED talks which at first I thought a wonderful idea have over time become, well, something considerably less. This report tells part of the story. But there is another issue which is not mentioned here: TED will not permit any presentations that deal with a non-reductionist materiali! st view of consciousness. It is straight-out prejudice and censorship.

It's a Recipe for Civilizational Disaster — TED Has Turned into an ‘American Idol' for Science, Philosophy
BENJAMIN H BRATTON – AlterNet (U.S.)/The Guardian (U.K.)

Yet another example of the Schism Trend that is separating us into two countries. (See my essay: At the Cost of Your Life: Social Value, Social Wellness. http://www.explorejournal.com/article/S1550-8307%2813%2900249-8/fulltext) One aspect of this is that as time goes on the Red value states are literally becoming unhealthy compared to the Blue value states.

Doctors Are Now Referring to the Southeast As the ‘Stroke Belt'
AMANDA STEWART – The Atlanta Blackstar

2014/01/02

Eagle: 750,000 Young People in UK Feel They Have Nothing to Live For…

Cultural Intelligence

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300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

Young people ‘feel they have nothing to live for'

Katherine Sellgren

BBC, 1 January 2014

As many as three quarters of a million young people in the UK may feel that they have nothing to live for, a study for the Prince's Trust charity claims.

The trust says almost a third of long-term unemployed young people have contemplated taking their own lives.

Urgent action must be taken to prevent the young jobless becoming the young hopeless, it says.

The government commented that it was doing “everything possible” to help young people find work.

Last month, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed the UK unemployment rate had fallen to its lowest level since 2009, with the number of people out of work falling by 99,000 to 2.39 million in the three months to October.

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2014/01/022014/01/02

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 1.3

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

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America After 9/11 – Systemic Abuse

Army Laser Could Change Future of War

Blame Everything on the Muslim Brotherhood

Border Rights: None – USG Can Take Phone and Laptop

Drone Future According to US DoD

Ex-Rwandan Intelligence Chief Found Murdered

Fukushima 2 Explosions & New Plume

Israel Goes for Military Grade Secure Smartphones

Pentagon Budget Mismanagement – 7 Ways

Snowden Displaces Assange, Persists

Syria Foreign Fighters

Zionist Terrorism as Threat #1

2014/01/022014/01/02

Jean Lievens: Jack Wallen’s 10 Predictions for Open Source in 2014

#OSE Open Source Everything, Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Software

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10 predictions for open source in 2014

Jack Wallen lists 10 reasons why he believes 2014 will be a banner year for Linux and open source.

The year 2013 was a solid year for open source. There were plenty of highs and certainly a few lows. However, I believe that Linux — continuing to build on its solid groundwork — will have the best year yet in 2014.

Some of you may be shaking your heads at yet another prediction of world domination by a Linux zealot. But there are plenty of reasons for such a bold prediction. In fact, here are 10 reasons why I firmly believe 2014 will be a banner year for Linux and open source:

LIST ONLY

1. Open source will dominate corporate data
2. Valve will prompt OEM hardware developers to open up
3. The Linux tablet will finally see the light of day
4. GNOME 3 will become relevant again
5. KDE will release a major game-changing feature
6. MariaDB will begin to make inroads to usurping MySQL
7. Open source will lead the way for smart machines
8. Open source will re-define cloud management
9. Linux desktop will break double-digits in the market share
10. Linux pre-install sales will steadily increase

Read full article.

See Also:

Open Source Everything List & Book

Open Source Everything @ Phi Beta Iota

NATO OSE/M4IS2 2.0

Open Source Agency (OSA)

Open Source Manifesto

2014/01/022014/01/02

Neal Rauhauser: Political Populism Emergent – First Occupy Solidarity Network Now Assange and Hacktivists

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics

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First Occupy Solidarity Network, Now Assange

First we saw Micah White split from Adbusters and announce the creation of the Occupy Solidarity Network, an explicitly political creature with its root in Occupy Wall Street. Now two weeks later Democracy brings us WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Calls on Computer Hackers to Unite Against NSA Surveillance (starting at 31:00 mark).

This is much more serious than one guy with a history of disruptive journalism calling out the man. Two weeks ago in NSA Spies, Brazil Shuns Boeing, Selects Saab we saw a U.S. defense contractor lose a $4.5B fighter fleet upgrade due to the NSA’s clumsy spy games. This comes after a steady flow of negative news about U.S. communications and cloud vendors, and the world has not yet begun to digest the shocking revelation that the NSA can intercept new computers and other devices in transit in order to ‘root’ them.

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2014/01/022014/01/02

Robin Good: Content Discovery Tools

IO Tools

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Where do you find new valuable content for your area of interest? If you are looking for new content, whether in the form of news, articles, video or educational content, I have put together a small directory of tools (170+) and services I have collected over time for my own use, and that can help you greatly in finding the content you need. Organized in over 25 different categories, you can find direct links to what I consider the most useful tools and resources from news and video discovery to RSS tools and alerts.

Content Discovery Tools Directory

1. News Discovery Apps (5)
2. Social News Discovery (5)
3. Video Content Discovery (16)
4. Business Content Discovery (6)
5. Startup & New Tools Discovery (6)
6. Curated General News Sites (5)
7. Educational Learning News Discovery (5)
8. Video Document Discovery (5)
9. Tech News Hubs (9)
10. RSS News Readers (9)
11. Video Search (9)
12. Similar Site Search (13)
13. Quotes Finding Tools (13)
14. Music Discovery (14)
15. Curated Expert Lists (3)
16. Alerts – Persistent Searches (5)
17. Tools & App Discovery Tools (5)
18. Media and Publishing News Hubs (8)
19. Non Mainstream News Media (6)
20. Open Journals (10)
21. Smart Pages (1)
22. Q&A Sites (4)
23. Open Public Data (2)
24. News Monitoring Dashboards (3)
25. Search by Image (2)
26. RSS Search Engines (2)
27. Internet Archive (1)

PRICELESS STARTING POINT. EACH LIST HAS A BUTTON WHERE YOU CAN SUGGEST ADDITIONAL LINKS WITHIN THAT CATEGORY.

Review, Exploit, Contribute Now

See Also:

IO Tools (List & Links)

2014/01/022014/01/02

Marcus Aurelius: Rosy Assumptions for Shallow Strategy in Afghanistan Post-2014

Ineptitude, Military

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Worth a close read.

Rosy Assumptions: U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan Post-2014

EXTRACT:

A handy rule of strategy-making is to first list the assumptions that undergird the strategy’s logic and to identify any risks that might interfere with those assumptions. And this document attempts to do just that. With violence in Afghanistan just as high as it was before the “surge” (if not higher – the Department of Defense decided to stop releasing information on enemy-initiated attacks), the American taxpayer could reasonably expect a candid re-assessment of the assumptions that have guided American strategy in the Hindu Kush in recent years. The analyst could hope for at least a partial departure from the narrative, now resembling Swiss cheese, that we are leaving Afghanistan a more stable and secure place. Both the taxpayer and the analyst in me are disappointed.

Some of the ten assumptions listed are highly problematic – dangerous even – which undermines the entire strategy.

. . . . . . .

The assumptions are followed by a “risks” section, which numbers fewer than 200 words in an 8000 word strategy document.

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