The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
CLIMATE: Amid budget scrutiny, CIA shutters climate center Annie Snider, E&E reporter Greenwire: Monday, November 19, 2012 With the U.S. intelligence budget shrinking, the CIA has quietly shut down its Center on Climate Change and National Security — a project that was launched with the support of Leon Panetta when he led the agency, but …
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EXTRACT from today’s HONG (email only, not online or indexed by intent): The big news is the emergence of open source search options. Until recently, open source search was not main stream. Today, open source search solutions are main stream. IBM relies on Lucene/Solr for some of its search functions. IBM also owns Web Fountain, …
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Nate Silver: it’s the numbers, stupid The poker player and baseball nerd turned political forecaster won fame after predicting the result of the US election with uncanny accuracy. And as his star rises so too does that of a whole new generation of ‘quants’ leading the digital revolution Carole Cadwalladr The Observer, Saturday 17 November …
Huh? Jane Harman and Israeli Spying Possible New CIA Director Already Politically Compromised by ALISON WEIR CounterPunch, November 14, 2012 It is astounding to find that one of the handful of prospects being floated to become CIA director following the fall of General David Petraeus is a person reportedly implicated in a 2005 Israeli spy …
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The Most Impressive Live Global Twitter Map, Ever? My colleague Kalev Leetaru has just launched The Global Twitter Heartbeat Project in partnership with the Cyber Infrastructure and Geospatial Information Laboratory (CIGI) and GNIP. He shared more information on this impressive initiative with the CrisisMappers Network this morning. According to Kalev, the project “uses an SGI super-computer to visualize …
What Percentage of Tweets Generated During a Crisis Are Relevant for Humanitarian Response? More than half-a-million tweets were generated during the first three days of Hurricane Sandy and well over 400,000 pictures were shared via Instagram. Last year, over one million tweets were generated every five minutes on the day that Japan was struck by …
Harry Truman is rolling over in his grave. Post-Petraeus CIA Should Kill Less and Spy More, Former Chief [Mike Hayden] Says By Noah Shachtman WIRED, November 12, 2012 When David Petraeus got the job of CIA chief, he knew what job #1 was: find out everything he could about al-Qaida and its allies — and …
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