Berto Jongman: Brennan Gores CIA
The CIA Director Can’t See the Ground from the Ivory Tower (Arkin in Gawker) The CIA gets a makeover (Ignatius in WashPost) The truth about that CIA makeover (Schmitt in Fox News)
Stephen E. Arnold: FTC Finds Google Harms Rivals by Manipulating Search Results, Recommends Lawsuit — Not Under Obama-Biden!
Google Altered Search Results?! If you know anything about search results, search engine optimization, and search algorithms, you probably wondered if Google ever changed its search results so they would be favor one search result over another. Google already alters results with Google AdWords, the Right to Forgotten, and removing results if they break rules. …
Review: The Story – A Reporter’s Journey
Judith Miller 3.0 out of 5 stars From the Person Who Helped Cheney Lie Us Into a $4 Trillion War, April 7, 2015 The author of this book almost single-handedly helped Dick Cheney lie the US public into a $4 trillion dollar war, the New York Times managers then lacking in integrity — these are …
Mongoose: Security flaw gave researcher the power to erase every video on YouTube
Security flaw gave researcher the power to erase every video on YouTube Today’s tale of apocalyptic internet near-misses comes from software developer Kamil Hismatullin, who discovered a security flaw in YouTube that allowed him to delete any video he wanted—or all of them, if he so desired. Fortunately, he did not so desire (although he apparently …
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Antechinus: TPP Legal Attrocity — Parallel Legal System Joins Existing 1% versus 99% “Divide” to Further Screw the Public
TPP Leak Reveals Extraordinary New Powers for Thousands of Foreign Firms to Challenge U.S. Policies and Demand Taxpayer Compensation Unveiling of Parallel Legal System for Foreign Corporations Will Fuel TPP Controversy, Further Complicate Obama’s Push for Fast Track The Trans-Pacific Partnership’s (TPP) Investment Chapter, leaked today, reveals how the pact would make it easier for …
SchwartzReport: Peter Thiel on the Death of American Democracy – Where He Is Right — And Wrong
This is about as clear a statement of the noncarbon generation high tech mogul perspective as I have read. The article also gives an accurate, I believe, critique as to where he is in error. Most fundamentally I think Thiel has confused process and specific circumstances. I think democratic government can work very well. It …
Event: 10 April Washington DC Israel Lobby Examined
April 10 in Washington DC National Press Club Free to faculty and students
