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Paul Craig Roberts: Putin Chews Out G8, Merkel Supports Him — A Must Read!

Below is a translation from As-Safir, a Lebanese newspaper, July 6, 2013, by Arabic-English translator Eric Mueller. As the translator was not present at the Group of Eight meeting, he cannot vouch for the accuracy of the report, only for the accuracy of the translation. The report by Dawud Rimal does reflect Putin’s no-nonsense manner …

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Patrick Meier: Boston Marathon Explosions: Analyzing First 1,000 Seconds on Twitter

Boston Marathon Explosions: Analyzing First 1,000 Seconds on Twitter My colleagues Rumi Chunara and John Brownstein recently published a short co-authored study entitled “Twitter as a Sentinel in Emergency Situations: Lessons from the Boston Marathon Explosions.” At 2.49pm EDT on April 15, two improvised bombs exploded near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon. Ambulances …

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2013 Robert Steele Reflections on [Search:] non+traditional+threat 1.2

ROBERT STEELE:  I have elected to answer this personally.  It may well be the most fundamental question this web site has received in that any corruption in the answer to this question assures the failure of any strategy, policy, acquisition, or operation that is spawned from an inherently corrupt — a deliberately corrupt — refusal …

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Patrick Meier: Egypt Twitter Map of iPhone, Android and Blackberry Users

Egypt Twitter Map of iPhone, Android and Blackberry Users Colleagues at GNIP and MapBox recently published this high-resolution map of iPhone, Android and Blackberry users in the US (click to enlarge). “More than 280 million Tweets posted from mobile phones reveal geographic usage patterns in unprecedented detail.” These patterns are often insightful. Some argue that “cell phone …

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John Robb: Open Source Protests Everywhere — All Seeking Government Legitimacy Instead of Government Corruption

Protests Everywhere (here’s why) We’re seeing protests everywhere.  From Brazil to Turkey to Egypt. What’s going on?  Here are some. Once ignited, open source protest is hard to stamp out.   Open source protest is usually focused on a single overarching goal.  In most recent cases, it’s a call for a government that isn’t corrupt. …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Corruption in Academic Publishing, Microsoft Code Development, and Reuters Insider Trading

Academic Corruption Judge the Work By Its Quality This methodology causes false facts to be considered truth. Briggs brings up the “Trust In Science Would Be Improved By Study Pre-Registration” signed by more than eighty signatories and for the scientific community to require pre-registration for publishing before results are in. The idea is that journals …

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