The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Syria’s Bashar al-Assad faces most serious unrest of his tenure By Leila Fadel, Thursday, March 24 Washington Post Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was facing the most serious unrest of his 11-year tenure Thursday as anti-government protests in a southwestern city threatened to escalate after a deadly crackdown. . . . . . . . On Wednesday, …
Listen: Secret Libya Psyops, Caught by Online Sleuths By Noah Shachtman WIRED (Danger Room), 20 March 2011 The U.S. military has dispatched one of its secret propaganda planes to the skies around Libya. And that “Commando Solo” aircraft is telling Libyan ships to remain in port – or risk NATO retaliation. We know this, …
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The globalisation of revolution Taral Barlaawi Al Jazeera, 21 March 2011 Revolutions are caused by human agency; not telecommunications technologies, scholar argues. To listen to the hype about social networking websites and the Egyptian revolution, one would think it was Silicon Valley and not the Egyptian people who overthrew Mubarak. Via its technologies, the West …
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Program as of March 2011 Phi Beta Iota: Those organizing, and those named as confirmed and invited, are the “creme de la creme” of the old regimes. There isnt’ a hacker, autonomous internet, cloud, anonymous/transparency, open anything participant in the whole lot. And the youth–by invitation only, as if the organizers have any legitimacy among …
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Message from Craig Newmark: This is the biggest thing in my life, and I’d like a little help from you. Together, we can work from the grassroots up to make things better for everyone. I want us to use the Internet to connect and protect organizations that are making an impact. http://craigconnects.org
Listening to the Foes of Globalization Laurence Brahm South China Morning Post, 11/22/2005 EXTRACT: Ironically, those in the so –called anti- globalization movement are all for the globalization of information. Mobile phone and the Internet are most critical tools, forming an underground media that people globally must now turn to in order to understand what …
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America’s absurd stab at systematising sock puppetry The US has a chance to move on from a history of clandestine foreign policy – instead it acts like a clumsy spammer Jeff Jarvis The Guardian, 17 March 2011 The US government’s plan to use technology to create and manage fake identities for social interaction with terrorists …
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