The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
NEW: Kindle Book Open Power ($2.99) OLD: Core Documents for Both Initiatives (Free) OLD: the foundation book The Open Source Everything Manifesto ROBERT STEELE: There are two schools of thought on effecting political (and hence economic and social) reform. One school is the school of love — this school emphasizes trust building and doing no …
Concentration camp survivor, Resistance fighter and the man who inspired the Occupy movement: Stephane Hessel dies at age of 95 A German by birth, he was imprisoned in Nazi camps during World War II At the camps he was waterboarded during torture sessions Time for Outrage became an inspiration for Occupy Wall Street movement Jill …
Haiti: Lies, Damned Lies and Crisis Mapping You’d think there was some kind of misinformation campaign going on about the Ushahidi-Haiti Crisis Map given the number of new lies that are still being manu-factured even thought it has been over three years since the earthquake. Please, if you really want a professional, independent and rigorous account of the project, …
Using CrowdFlower to Microtask Disaster Response Cross-posted from CrowdFlower blog A devastating earthquake struck Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010. Two weeks later, on January 27th, a CrowdFlower was used to translate text messages from Haitian Creole to English. Tens of thousands of messages were sent by affected Haitians over the course of several months. All of these were …
After a year’s additional work, their fabrication process just got simpler and more efficient – to the point where industrial scale manufacturing of a very efficient battery replacement comes within reach. Graphene, a very simple carbon polymer, can be used as the basic component of a “supercapacitor” — an electrical power storage device that charges …
Deja vu, n’est pas? IC Virtual Career Fair: Priority Languages by Agency Phi Beta Iota. Below the line is the actual priority chart. The FBI is fishing for everything but probably not serious. CIA and NSA are still focused on Priority 1 and ignoring everything else.
Worth a look. AP PDF providing English translation and original Arab documents. Forensics on the handwriting, paper, and ink has not been done.
