The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Jacques Ellul, technology doomsdayer before his time “People see him as just a bringer of bad news, but the two most important things in his writing aren’t taken into account. One is the comprehensiveness of his explanation of the technological phenomenon. The second is his powerful moral concern. Those two aspects of Ellul’s thought are …
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Assassination Nation Fifty Years of US Targeted ‘Kill Lists’: From the Phoenix Program to Predator Drones by DOUG NOBLE “A broad-gauged program of targeted assassination has now displaced counterinsurgency as the prevailing expression of the American way of war.” –Andrew Bacevich [1] Counterpunch, 19 July 2012 EXTRACT: In fact, US assassination and targeted killing, with …
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Alan Weiss 5.0 out of 5 stars Opened My Eyes – One of Three Books of Huge Value, July 21, 2012 A colleague pointed me toward the books of Alan Weiss, and I bought three. This is the first one I have read. The other two, that I will review over the next ten days …
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What the U.S. Government Knew About Najlaa Huffington Post, 11 July 2012 A bit over a year ago a report I co-wrote, documenting human trafficking and abuse of workers by Najlaa International Catering Services, a KBR subcontractor, was published by the Project on Government Oversight. The internal company documents I uncovered revealed, among other things, …
Open Source Everything #openall (Twitter Hashtag) 20120708 Open Source Everything Highlights Open Source Red Hat’s journey through the “land of the giants” CULTURE | Robert Steele Joins Hackers on Planet Earth Event Free/Libre/Open Source (FLOSS, FOSS F/OSS) Free CAD Software to Create CAD Designs: NanoCAD FSF Restricted Boot Campaign GNU y Software Libre: La filosofia …
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Twitter Hashtag: #openall DAILY HEADLINES Posted at 2200 Eastern Time 2012 BOOK The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth & Trust 2012 CHAPTER PREPRINT FOR COMMENT: The Craft of Intelligence Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Robert David STEELE Vivas
Richly deserving of careful attention. The Emerging Fourth Sector The Three Traditional Sectors Businesses create and distribute goods and services that enhance our quality of life, promote growth, and generate prosperity. They spur innovation, reward entrepreneurial effort, provide a return on investment and constantly improve their performance responding to market feedbacks. They draw on the …
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