The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Darpa Wants to Master the Science of Propaganda Dawn Lim WIRED, 18 October 2011 Mark Twain once tried to distinguish between the storyteller’s art and tales that a machine could generate. He observed that stringing “incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities,” was …
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George: Re the article below: This is terrible. It is bad enough on its face, but to realize that MIT’s Malone is at the heart of this breaks my heart, devastates my soul and outrages my professional sensibilities. Now I am sorry that we didn’t do a paper on pubic wisdom for his conference next …
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This is a selective directory of items from the Rolling Update. Day to day stories are not included. Use the Rolling Update for current snap-shot, use this Directory to think about OWS in deeper terms. Updated 9 Nov 2011 0900 EST Hottest New Items Revised Statement of Demand (3.4) and Revised Electoral Reform Act of …
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Yesterday, the Nieman Watchdog journalism group at Harvard asked me to evaluate how well the press is scrutinizing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. Basically, it’s not; instead, Panetta seems to be free of informed, skeptical questioning; he must be absolutely delighted with the treatment he is receiving. Why is the press ignoring Panetta’s frenzied rhetoric …
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Nicholas Shaxson Selected Editorial Comments: “Shaxson’s story of offshore banking is nothing short of Shakespearean, a drama full of secrecy, treachery and corruption in which wealthy countries, companies and individuals collude to horde wealth in a complex global network of largely unregulated tax havens. To realize this end, they install corrupt leaders, exploit indigenous populations …
US Attorney General Eric Holder held a press conference on 11 Oct where he claimed Federal authorities had foiled a plot by men linked to the Iranian government to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States and to bomb the embassies of Saudi Arabia and Israel in Washington (NYT). The vagueness and innuendo in …
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Army of unemployed is now entrenched in U.S. Commentary: Structural woes in economy creating ‘permanent underclass’ Howard Gold Wall Street Journal, 14 October 2011 The public knew this much earlier than economists or pundits did, and as for politicians — don’t ask! . . . . . Listen to Charles Plosser, president of the Federal …
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