The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Dumb, computers are. A Busy Doctor’s Right Hand, Ever Ready to Type Amid the controlled chaos that defines an average afternoon in an urban emergency department, Dr. Marian Bednar, an emergency room physician in Dallas, entered the exam room of an older woman who had fallen while walking her dog. Like any doctor, she asked …
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BIG DATA: Rutgers Predicting Crime with Big Data, Affordably BOOK: Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA (John Rizzo as reviewed by Dina Temple-Raston) BOOK: Quantum Jumps: An Extraordinary Science of Happiness and Prosperity (Cynthia Sue Larson) CYBER: Intrusive Meta-Data CYBER: Zeus Malware Targeting Small Banks and Credit Unions DEATH: 25,000 …
2014: The Year of Encryption “The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.” Eric Schmidt, Patron of NSA Back Door Into Google Phi Beta Iota: Apart from the obvious, that only open source encryption can be scrutinized by millions of minds, this also kills Microsoft, whose software is always 1.3 times what the hardware …
Free Software Supporter Issue 69, December 2013 Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation’s monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 74,210 other activists. That’s 1,702 more than last month!View this issue online here: https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2013/december TABLE OF CONTENTS Build us up! Free software is a cornerstone of …
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IMHO, Snowden needs to experience being the object of an “extraordinary rendition” and then be warehoused incommunicado at either GTMO or one of the Supermax facilities. Too bad that appears tactically infeasible at the moment. Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished By Barton Gellman Washington Post, December 23, 2013 Phi Beta …
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African State Fragility Long-Term Al Qaeda Inside Syria Bitcoin Bungling – Digital Flames Eat Investment Bitcoin Hits $1000 Chernobyl Update Conference Results: Geopolitics of the Arctic Crowdsourcing Dreams Around the World Cyber Threats to Business: The Top Ten DEFCON 16 Presentations Engaging the Muslim World with Public Diplomacy Japanese Banking Scandal: Lending to Yakuza Political …
100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013 + Erica Chenoweth on Non-Violence + Jia Zhangke on Inequality = Violence Bushmaster Rifles Flying Off the Shelves CIA Bay of Pigs Documents – the last volume would “confuse” the public Deadly conformity is killing our creativity. Let’s mess about more People’s lives would be more fulfilling if they …
