Red Raven: Occupy the Library – Pass It On

Occupy The Library By Red Raven America’s majority who supported the Occupy Wall Street movement (OWS), within the 99% of all Americans, are being smeared by agent propagandists within the punditry of mainstream media (MSM). For example, Michael Gerson’s black demagoguery, of the closet-right-wing Washington Post, is a good example. In one of his recent …

Steven Aftergood: Defense Science Board Slams CIA…

A NEW INTELLIGENCE ORG ON CLIMATE CHANGE IS NEEDED, DSB SAYS The U.S. intelligence community needs an organization that can assess the impacts of climate change on U.S. national security interests in an open and collaborative manner, according to a new report from the Defense Science Board (DSB). The Director of National Intelligence should establish …

Marcus Aurelius: CIA Flogs on Campus + RECAP

CIA runs all-source analytic competition for universities — neither the Open Source Center nor Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) are anywhere to be found. Deja vu? Covert Operation WC Wins High Honors at CIA Tri-State Intelligence Simulation Phi Beta Iota:  This was probably a variation of the superb Mid-Career Course (CIA’s mini-war college) analytic exercise but …

John Steiner: Public Intelligence App Hypothes.is

$200K raised, thanks to all who contributed. VISIT THEM to a) reserve your user name and/or b) make a contribution to their Kickstarter campaign. Hypothes.is <http://hypothes.is>  will be a distributed, open-source platform for the collaborative evaluation of information. It will enable sentence-level critique of written words combined with a sophisticated yet easy-to-use model of community …

Ralph Nader: Overcoming Corporatism

From: Ralph Nader Date: Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:38 AM Subject: Overcoming Corporatism/Selling My Book The organizers of the spreading Occupy initiative are taking their awareness and moral indignation right to corporate territory—Wall Street, the corporate lobbies in Washington, D.C. and their likes around the nation. The denizens of corporate territory have taken notice, …

Ronnie Reprise: On Democracy & Technology

Horse and Buggy Representation in the Space Age The representation aspect of our democracy is structured the way it is, primarily due to practical considerations: the unwieldiness of pure democracy. But since computer technology is changing that, the same philosophical arguments that were made for representative democracy can now legitimately be used for emergent democracy. …