The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Birth of a Meme: The Rise of Culture Tech I’ve been tracking emerging trends for a while now, exploring the co-evolution of humanity and our technologies, and building visions of the kinds of futures I’d like to see. Lately, I’ve found myself a bit restless, wondering “what’s next?” The conferences and gatherings I’m attending are beginning …
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Phi Beta Iota: This is one of the most elegant trenchant discussions we have seen on the imperatives for arriving at collective intelligence through open methods. The entire contribution is below the line. Debating the Iron Law of Bureaucracy and the Power Law: Knowing Networks as an alternative to scale-free networks Franco Iacomella, 2nd May …
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Anthony Olcott 5.0 out of 5 stars 6 Star Insider-Outsider Unique Offering, March 24, 2012 This is my final review. If you are interested in what the US Intelligence Community does NOT know about open source intelligence and the global network of sources in 183 languages, this is without question the only book available in …
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Foreign Affairs, May 1, 2012 also Army.mil The U.S. Army In A Time Of Transition Building a flexible force By Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, Army Chief of Staff After six months as chief of staff, I can see clearly that the coming decade will be a vital period of transition for the U.S. Army. The …
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Google’s Destruction Is Already Under Way Nicholas Carlson Business Insider, Apr. 27, 2012 The Federal Trade Commission has hired the prosecutor who got Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh the death penalty to lead its investigation into potential anti-trust violations by Google, report David Streitfeld and Edward Wyatt of the New York Times. Her name is Beth Wilkinson. Experts …
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No institution on planet Earth – no matter how allegedly “respectable” – seems exempt from lies, fraud, graft, corruption, and so on, and all of them are highly intent on exterminating the “whistleblowers” within them, even the Catholic Church: Pope calls in Opus Dei troubleshooter to uncover source of Vatican leaks Cardinal given ‘pontifical mandate’ …
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Al Qaeda Struggles with Training, Diminishing World Influence, says TRAC Black-Scholes: The maths formula linked to the financial crash Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation Has the internet run out of ideas already? Internet censorship listed: how does each country compare? Internet Hall of Fame (Pioneers, Innovators, …
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