The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Huh? Bin Laden death-detecting analytics service signs partnership with Twitter A Twitter analytics company that said it detected Osama bin Laden’s death before it was reported by the news media has signed a partnership with Twitter, and is expanding the availability of its service for notifying financial firms and government clients of highly unusual events. …
Cost growth in the last year in DOD’s acquisition system was $74 billion, 34 percent more than the $55 billion presumed to occur in the sequester in January; while the time frames are different (see discussion below), so much for Secretary of Defense Panetta’s asinine rhetoric that sequester would be a “Doomsday.” Analysis of two recent acquisition reports …
Continue reading “Winston Wheeler: Lies, Damn Lies, & Panetta-Pentagon Criminal Insanity”
Our Intelligent Future Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies, 9 April 2012 In just three decades between 1990 and 2020, the internet will have grown from linking just a few experts in labs to connecting the entire human species through computers and mobile phones as well as billions of objects into an “Internet of Things,” …
Conflict Analysis Research Centre & BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group Conference 2012 “Terrorism, Peace and Conflict Studies: Investigating the Crossroad” University of Kent, Canterbury 10-11 September 2012 Call for papers
Peak Intel: How So-Called Strategic Intelligence Actually Makes Us Dumber An industry that once told hard truths to corporate and government clients now mostly just tells them what they want to hear, making it harder for us all to adapt to a changing world — and that’s why I’m leaving it. Eric Garland The Atlantic, …
Continue reading “Yoda: When Intelligence Loses It’s Integrity, It Is Not Intelligence”
Scientists and citizens Sam Geall February 24, 2012 Could a new wave of networked, amateur scientific endeavour speed the discovery of solutions to pressing environmental problems? Sam Geall reports. What connects a group of Bayaka pygmy hunters in the Congo Basin, opposed to illegal loggers encroaching on their land; residents of Deptford, in south London, …
Continue reading “Sepp Hasslberger: Scientists, Citizens, & Real-Time Pervasive Science”
Peter Ressler, Monika Mitchell 5 Stars Co-authors Peter Ressler and Monika Mitchell have been 20-year Wall Street insiders as partners in an executive search firm. Their book is a page-turning account of the 2007-8 meltdown and continuing unsolved issues that will inevitably lead to the next crises. Woven throughout their analysis are conversations with dozens …
