The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
SwiftRiver Throws a Lifeline to People Drowning in Information There’s a problem that constantly plagues us in this day of information overload, and that is the ability to sift the stream of incoming information into the bits that are valuable from those that aren’t. It’s a tough issue that we’ve been working on at Ushahidi …
New Asian Unions Means Fall Of The Dollar Gekko Money Trends Research, 2 January 2012 One of the most frustrating issues to haunt the halls of alternative economic analysis is the threat of misrepresentative terminology. For instance, when the U.S. government decided to back the private Federal Reserve in lowering the interest rates on lending …
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POLITICS The `K Street Clausewitz’ Remembered By CHUCK SPINNEY | December 30, 2011 Mark Thompson’s 27 December posting, “General Newt,” alerted readers of Battleland to Karen Tumulty’s pastiche of mini portraits of Newt Gingrich’s martial prowess. Mark highlighted one the few passages that zeroed in on the insubstantial essence of the K Street Clausewitz. Unable to contain my …
2011 in Review: The Year Secrecy Jumped the Shark As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2011 and discussing where we are in the fight for a free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. December 23, 2011 | By Trevor Timm The government …
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UPDATE 11 December 2012: The report is now out. The below commentary was posted 12 December 2011, one year prior to the final report. Global Trends 2030: Full Copy (166 Pages) Here, Review by Robert Steele — Report Lauds Fracking as Energy Solution, Disappoints on Multiple Fronts Although Global Trends 2030 will not be released …
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Charter of Open Source Org is Classified, CIA Says Open Source Works, which is the CIA’s in-house open source analysis component, is devoted to intelligence analysis of unclassified, open source information. Oddly, however, the directive that established Open Source Works is classified, as is the charter of the organization. In fact, CIA says the very …
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Open (Source) Protest in Moscow Posted: 10 Dec 2011 10:23 AM PST Open source protest, an organizational method that allows many, many small groups to come together to take on larger foes, has been spreading by leaps and bounds. It’s now reached Moscow. A picture from today: The crowds on Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square (and the …
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