The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Next Generation Content Processing: Tail Fins and Big Data Posted: 18 Aug 2013 03:11 PM PDT Note: I wrote this for Homeland Security Today. It will appear when the site works out its production problems. As background, check out “The Defense Department Thinks Troves of Personal Data Pose a National Security Threat.” If the Big …
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How A ‘Deviant’ Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut This story appears in the September 2, 2013 issue of Forbes. EXTRACT Palantir lives the realities of its customers: the NSA, the FBI and the CIA–an early investor through its In-Q-Tel venture fund–along with an alphabet soup of other U.S. counterterrorism and military agencies. In …
Dear Friends and Fellow Supporters of ReThink911, I’m Cynthia McKinney—former U.S. Congresswoman, Green Party presidential nominee, and life-long social justice activist—and like you I have been watching in amazement at ReThink911’s remarkable growth over the last two months. Take it from someone who has run for office nearly a dozen times—raising $225,000 for a campaign …
Huh? Chinese firm paid insider ‘to kill my company,’ American CEO says A Chinese energy firm offered big money and access to women to entice an engineer at a U.S. company to launch a cyber raid on his employer, stealing sensitive computer codes and “thereby cheating (the firm) … out of more than $800 million,” …
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Talking ‘Smart Power’ With Admiral Stavridis By Oliver Barrett US News & World Report, July 25, 2013 With one-liners like, “We are excellent at launching Tomahawk missiles; we need to get better at launching ideas,” it is not hard to appreciate why The New York Times labeled recently retired Admiral James Stavridis a “Renaissance admiral.” Labels like “innovator” …
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Following is stunning, coming as it does from the left-wing newspaper we called “Pravda on the Potomac” during the Cold War.) Two op-eds from mainstream media follow; both discuss need for Legislative and Executive Branches of the USG to get their [sierra] together and serve the national interest. Washington Post, August 4, 2013, Pg. 18 …
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The coming push for open source everything When we can no longer trust proprietary hardware or software, open source becomes the only option By Paul Venezia | InfoWorld July 22, 2013 Frankly, I can’t say I was surprised when I read that RIM’s BlackBerry 10 transmits user email account credentials to RIM servers, which then …
