The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
UPDATE of 16 October 2010: CrowdSourcing Conference Papers Online Is Microtask the Future of Work? GigaOm By Liz Gannes Oct. 8, 2010 Crowdsourcing is often used for fairly menial tasks: correcting databases, screening offensive images, transcribing audio. But what if you could make those little bits of human labor even more menial, discrete and interchangeable? That’s …
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BEHIND THE CENSORSHIP OF OPERATION DARK HEART By censoring Anthony Shaffer’s new book “Operation Dark Heart” even though uncensored review copies are already available in the public domain, the Department of Defense has produced a genuinely unique product: a revealing snapshot of the way that the Obama Administration classifies national security information in 2010. With …
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Army Times article, second below, reports what the beginning of what I expect will be a major decline in functionality of Army computer systems. While some sort of institutional response to the alleged Wikileaks traitor, Specialist Bradley Manning, is appropriate, I don’t think this is it. This is a simplistic approach, the sort of thing …
(accountable)… GAO ACCESS TO INTELLIGENCE IN DISPUTE The continuing controversy over whether the Government Accountability Office will be permitted to participate in intelligence oversight, as some in Congress wish, or whether cleared GAO auditors and investigators will be excluded from intelligence oversight tasks, as the Obama Administration prefers, was discussed in the Washington Post’s Top …
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Beyond belief, but here it is: the “official” explanation of why we are going to waste 12 billion dollars a year on contractors without a clue (vapor-ware). There is zero return on investment here for the taxpayer, only for the contractors and Congress, neither of which will be held accountable for fraud, waste, and …
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Phi Beta Iota: Previously recommended in Worth a Look: New Book Engaging Emergence, we reiterate our regard for Peggy Holman, arguably one of a handful of leaders shaping our collective intelligence capacity today–Tom Atlee, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Harrison Owen, Thom Hartman, Jim Rough, Robert Fuller, Mark Tovey, are others, all helping shape community Open Space …
Secrecy News Blog: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ ** WHO IS AN INTELLIGENCE EMPLOYEE? ** WIKILEAKS: GIVING LEAKS A BAD NAME ** HUGE COMMERCIAL SAT IMAGERY CONTRACTS AWARDED ** ODNI ADVISORS ON BIO SCIENCES KEEP LOW PROFILE ** REVIEWS OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN US REMAIN “OBSCURE” WHO IS AN INTELLIGENCE EMPLOYEE? Could someone be considered an intelligence community employee …
