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2012/06/052012/06/05

Patrick Meier: Big Data Philathropy aka Big Data Commons

Big Data Philanthropy for Humanitarian Response My colleague Robert Kirkpatrick from Global Pulse has been actively promoting the concept of “data philanthropy” within the context of development. Data philanthropy involves companies sharing proprietary datasets for social good. I believe we urgently need big (social) data philanthropy for humanitarian response as well. Disaster-affected communities are increasingly the source …

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2012/06/02

Mini-Me: Obama-Biden – Velvet Killer & Velvet Crook

Huh? A Killer In the White House [ 88523 ] – John Grant This Can’t Be Happening, 1 June 2012 “No, Charlotte, I’m the jury now. I sentence you to death.” The roar of the .45 shook the room. Charlotte staggered back a step. “How c-could you?” she gasped. “It was easy.” – Mickey Spillane, …

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2012/06/012012/06/02

Owl: Radioactive Panic on West Coast Likely – Government Continues to Lie to Public About Actual Facts and Probable Trends

Connecting Some Dots: Fukishima, the World Economy and NDAA The on-going catastrophic, massive release of nuclear radiation from Fukishima offers a high probability of being cataclysmic in its effects and implications for the world economy, the health of millions of people and the continued freedom, such as it is, of US citizens, and may trump …

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2012/05/302012/05/30

Chuck Spinney: Global Moral Downside of Privatizing US Military Support

In the late 1980s, under the leadership of Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, the Pentagon began to privatise many of the military’s support services that had traditionally be done soldiers, sailors, and airmen — laundries, dining halls, security guards, cleaning latrines, some supply functions, etc. It was argued at the time that this would save …

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2012/05/292012/05/29

Berto Jongman: Interesting Global Security Links

Al Qaeda in Yemen Documentary Animation of Paradigm Shift Crusade 2.0 : The West’s Resurgent War on Islam GigaNet (Organization and Conference) Iran Strategy of US Working Johan Galtung: Say War Think Peace Long Now Foundation: If Mayors Ruled the World Red Team Analysis of State Failure Science of Torture Science Special Issue on Human …

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2012/05/272012/05/28

Marcus Aurelius: Jennifer Sims Party Line on Military Clandestine Service with Robert Steele Comment + RECAP

Here we go again…. Why the CIA Is Applauding the Pentagon’s Intelligence Grab Jennifer Sims Foreign Affairs, May 18, 2012 Last month, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced the creation of a new U.S. espionage agency: the Defense Clandestine Service, or DCS. DCS is expected to expand the …

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2012/05/272012/05/27

Michel Bauwens: The commons law project: A vision of green governance

The commons law project: A vision of green governance Republished from David Bollier: (the original has links to the source material) “For the past two years or more, I’ve been working on a major research and writing project to try to recover from the mists of history the bits and pieces of what might be …

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