Chris Hodges: What Obama Really Meant — a Literal Interpretation of His NSA Speech

Published on Monday, January 20, 2014 by TruthDig.com What Obama Really Meant Was … by Chris Hedges Remarks by the President on Review of Signals Intelligence(if he had told the truth)Department of Injustice Washington, D.C. 11:15 a.m. EST THE PRESIDENT: A small, secret surveillance committee of goons and thugs hiding behind the mask of patriotism …

Stephen E. Arnold: Search Application Perspectives For 2014

Search Application Perspectives For 2014   With 2014 well under way, search experts are trying to predict what will happen for enterprise search. Search Appliance World has an article that takes a look on enterprise search in the past and future called, “The New Search Appliance Landscape: Reflections And Predictions With MaxxCAT.” Basic search commands …

Stephen E. Arnold: Yales Censors Superior Course Catalog Made By Its Own Students

Yale on Free Expression: A Quote to Note Years ago I gave a lecture at Yale. My subject was Google. I ran through the basic points in The Google Legacy and Google Version 2.0. The audience reacted as if I had dissected a dead frog. I received a smattering of polite applause and headed out …

Berto Jongman: Atrocities, Cyber, War 1.3

AFGHANISTAN: Another Red Line Crossed: The Taverna attack and the killing of foreigners just because they were foreigners AFGHANISTAN: Complex Attack on Central Kabul Restaurant AL QAEDA: Alex Schmid on Al-Qaeda’s “Single Narrative” and Attempts to Develop Counter-Narratives: The State of Knowledge AL QAEDA: Key anti-Assad rebel leader acknowledges al Qaida past, potentially complicating U.S. …

Chuck Spinney: Corrupt Congress Spends on Contractor Waste Instead of Human Core

WEEKEND EDITION JANUARY 17-19, 2014 The Cockburn Report Defense Spending: Putting Toys Before Boys by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch Being pro-defense in the Hall of Mirrors of Versailles on the Potomac means, in the salty words of my late friend Col. David Hackworth, one of the U.S. Army’s most decorated combat soldiers, putting “the toys …