The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
IFTTT to Evernote can be a powerful team infotention tool (Diigo groups is good for circumstances in which you want to attach comment threads to bookmarked material, add sticky notes, etc. IF THEN ONLINE RSS ALERT TOOL The debate team at my school began using Evernote last year for collaborative research. As students find sources, they dump …
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Major Bitcoin Exchange Not Executing Withdrawals; Now Owes Clients $38M In Disappeared Money Cryptocurrency: MtGox, the oldest and once-largest bitcoin exchange, appears to have a serious problem. Since about a week ago, clients’ bitcoin withdrawals have been deducted from their account, but the clients never received the money – the money withdrawn was effectively disappeared …
SHORTCUT: http://tinyurl.com/2014-Open-Letter This started out as an a letter to the collective leadership of a very promising open source software company, took a side step toward Microsoft, and finally made the leap here as a general open reference. Earth Intelligence Network, A Virginia Non-Profit (501c3) Corporation, is seeking endowed alliances that might wish to advance …
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Pirate Party MPs, MEPs Jointly Nominate Snowden And Manning For Peace Prize Civil Liberties: Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 in a joint nomination by the Pirate MPs of Iceland and the Pirate MEPs of the European Parliament. “Manning gave us an insight into the brutal reality …
Flipping the corruption myth Corruption is by far not the main factor behind persisting poverty in the Global South John Hickel Al Jazeera, 1 February 2014 Transparency International recently published their latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), laid out in an eye-catching map of the world with the least corrupt nations coded in happy yellow …
WEEKEND EDITION JAN 31-FEB 02, 2014 Fanning the Fires of Chaos in the Ukraine What is the Real Price of Starting Another Cold War? by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch In the late 1980s, the leaders of the West promised Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev that they would not expand eastward if the Soviet Union pulled …
How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username A story of how PayPal and GoDaddy allowed the attack and caused me to lose my $50,000 Twitter username. Naoki Hiroshima in Cyber Security My $50,000 Twitter Username Was Stolen Thanks to PayPal and GoDaddy I had a rare Twitter username, @N. Yep, just one letter. I’ve been …
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