The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013
+ Erica Chenoweth on Non-Violence
+ Jia Zhangke on Inequality = Violence
Bushmaster Rifles Flying Off the Shelves
CIA Bay of Pigs Documents – the last volume would “confuse” the public
Deadly conformity is killing our creativity. Let's mess about more
People's lives would be more fulfilling if they were given greater freedom in the workplace
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OSINT Analysis of Sudan and South Sudan
In this session, we will demonstrate how Palantir can draw from a plethora of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) data sources (including academic research, blogs, news media, NGO reports and United Nations studies) to rapidly construct an understanding of the conflict underlying this somewhat anomalous 21st Century event. Using a suite of Palantir Helpers developed for OSINT analysis, the video performs relational, temporal, statistical, geospatial, and social network analysis of over a dozen open sources of data.
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Business Intelligence: Free Pressures For Fee Solutions
I read “KB Crawl sort la tête de l’eau,” published by 01Business. The hook for the article is that KB Crawl, a company harvesting Internet content for business intelligence analyses, has emerged from bankruptcy. Good news for KB Crawl, whose parent company is reported to be KB Intelligence.
The write up contained related interesting information.
First, the article points out that business intelligence services like KB Crawl are perceived as costs, not revenue producers. If this is accurate, the same problem may be holding back once promising US vendors like Digital Reasoning and Ikanow, among others.
Second, the article seems to suggest that for fee business intelligence services are in direct competition with free services like Google. Although Google’s focus on ads continues to have an impact on the relevance of the Google results, users may be comfortable with information provided by free services. Will the same preference for free impact the US business intelligence sector?
Third, the article identifies a vendor (Ixxo) as facing some financial headwinds, writing:
D’autres éditeurs du secteur connaissent des difficultés, comme Ixxo, éditeur de la solution Squido.
But the most useful information in the story is the list of companies that compete with KB Crawl. Some of the firms are:
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Free Pressures Fee Business Intelligence Bottom Feeders”
Divide and ConquerI have not posted for a while because, honestly, it has gotten so difficult to differentiate between truth and disinformation (for me at least). One noted blog author that I trust, claims that only 6% of the information found on mainstream media is true, and only about 30% found on the internet. Now I don’t know what he includes, or does not include, regarding internet information, but in any case, those numbers are pretty pitiful, and demonstrate how much control the cabal has over the information that is released to the public.
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Here in an excellent essay is a fact based assessment of American society. It is a very unhappy story and, if we don't reverse it by flushing the present Congress out of office in 2014 and 2016, within another decade the country will be unrecognizable. Only the citizens of America can stop the conversion of the country from a democratic republic to an fascist oligarchy. It is entirely up to us. Personally I think the Red value, Blue value split is g! oing to become wider and wider.
Bill Moyers: “That Sound You Hear Is the Shredding of the Social Contract”
BILL MOYERS – Mother Jones
Uruguay is a socially progressive country that gets almost no attention from corporate media, but that is doing some interesting things with social policy, the latest being the creation of a legal Marijuana industry, like wine making. Heading the government is a former “terrorist” who, to my mind, is the most interesting head of state in this hemisphere.
Uruguay's President José Mujica: No Palace, No Motorcade, no Frills
JONATHAN WATTS – The Guardian (U.K.)
Here is where the extraordinary move by Uruguay to create a proper Marijuana business and regulation model now stands. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out. I think it is going to be very successful, which is to say, it will just disappear into the background of life like gay marriage. Essentially, a non-issue if addressed sensibly and fairly.
Uruguay to Legalize Marijuana, Senate Says
DARIO KLEIN, CATHERINE E. SHOICHET and RAFAEL ROMO – CNN
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By Mark Mazower
Financial Times, 25 October 2013
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present, by David Runciman, Princeton, RRP£19.95/$29.95, 408 pages
Nation of Devils: Democratic Leadership and the Problem of Obedience, by Stein Ringen, Yale, RRP£20/$35, 264 pages
Publications
Improving United Nations Intelligence: Lessons from the Field
GCSP Policy Paper N°19
August 2011 View this publication
Key Points:
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