The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Truth in the Age of Social Media: A Social Computing and Big Data Challenge I have been writing and blogging about “information forensics” for a while now and thus relished Nieman Report’s must-read study on “Truth in the Age of Social Media.” My applied research has specifically been on the use of social media to support …
2012 Robert Steele Answers PhD Student Questions Five page document above. Below is full text online for ease of automated translation.
Open Source Everything From Tech to Toilet Paper, Berliner Tries to Live Completely Open Source for One Year Radical Openness: 5 Things I Learned at TEDGlobal Open Source UK teachers are free to choose open source curriculum The Open Source Balance at Banks Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FOSS, FLOSS, F/OSS) FLOSS Manuals’ Fee-based Online Books Complement …
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Eric Walberg 5.0 out of 5 stars Capstone Work–Light in Places, Super-Deep in Others, June 1, 2012 I read a lot — across 98 categories (access my Amazon reviews via category at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog). WITHOUT HESITATION, this book is easily a solid five. Early in the book I have it …
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Lies and Consequences in Our Past 15 Wars By David Swanson “Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their peoples in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was their object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame …
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Interactive: Map: US bases encircle Iran Dozens of US and allied forces’ military installations dot the region, from Oman, UAE and Kuwait to Turkey and Israel. Doha, Qatar – US military bases continue to form a strategic envelope around Iran, although the American withdrawal from Iraq at the end of 2011 may have changed the …
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Saudi Arabia: For the record. European Christian websites have reported Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Shaikh, one of the most influential religious leaders in the Muslim world, issued a fatwa against non-Muslim places of worship last week. In response to a Kuwaiti lawmaker who asked whether Kuwait could ban church construction in Kuwait, the Sheikh …
