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2013/12/082013/12/09

Patrick Cockburn: Saudi Arabia Funds Terrorism & Mass Murder — USG Silent & Therefore Complicit [While Also Approving $4B to “Train & Equip” Saudi National Guard]

Mass murder in the Middle East is funded by our friends the Saudis World View: Everyone knows where al-Qa’ida gets its money, but while the violence is sectarian, the West does nothing Patrick Cockburn The Independent, Sunday 8 December 2013 Donors in Saudi Arabia have notoriously played a pivotal role in creating and maintaining Sunni …

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2013/12/082013/12/08

Let’s Begin Ending War Again

Let’s Begin Ending War Again Recently I noticed a post on a social media site honoring Rosa Parks for her refusal to move out of her seat on a segregated bus. Someone commented underneath, that in fact another individual deserved credit for having done the same thing first. What happened next was entirely predictable. Post …

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2013/11/302013/11/30

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

CYBER: Botnets Elicit Mercenary Government Approach CYBER: Dutch Hack Internet Forums CYBER: Dutch Rules for Mass Interceptions CYBER: Encryption Arms Race (Techies vs. NSA) CYBER: Trojan-Banker.Win32/64.Neverquest CYBER: True Cost of Cybercrime EDUCATION: Virtual Reality to Reduce Racism? ETHICS: UK Destroyed Files on Its Colonial Atrocities THREAT: CAR Crisis – “Human Catastrophe of Epic Proportions” THREAT: …

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2013/11/262013/11/26

Review: The Price of Inequality:How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future

Joseph Stiglitz 5.0 out of 5 stars Ethical Economist Confronts Two-Party Tyranny — Defines 70% of the Way Forward, November 26, 2013 I have admired this economist, one of a tiny handful who are not bought and paid for by the banks, for quite a long time. I’d like to see him at Director of …

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2013/11/252013/11/25

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

BIG IDEA: 13 Year Old Radically Improves Solar Panel Efficiency with Design BIG IDEA: We have to learn Chinese – many core Chinese concepts do not translate CRIME: Corporate Orgy of Thieves CRIME: Mainstreaming Sexual Perversion CYBER: Coming tech lash CYBER: NSA Goal to Master Cyber Intelligence CYBER: NSA SIGINT Strategy 2012-2016 CYBER: Surveillance threatens …

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2013/11/232013/11/24

Review: The Family Jewels – The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power

John Prados 4.0 out of 5 stars 5 fpr content, 3 for editing, 4 on balance — a unique book that could have been better, November 23, 2013 My review itemizes the highlights. This is a valuable book that is unique in its summary of both the historical misdeeds of the CIA and the fast …

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2013/11/12

Steve Aftergood: Pentagon Drone Program Cut in Half, New Military Doctrine

PENTAGON DRONE PROGRAMS TAPER OFF, AND NEW MIL DOCTRINE The Department of Defense budget for research and procurement of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones, is on a distinctly downward slope. The FY 2014 budget request included $2.3 billion for research, development, and procurement of unmanned aerial systems, a decrease of $1.1 billion from the …

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