The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Ismael Hossein-azdeh Review of Hossein-zadeh, Ismael. 2014. Beyond Mainstream Explanations of the Financial Crisis: Parasitic Finance Capital., May 16, 2014 By Isaac Christiansen Ismael Hossein-zadeh has done a masterful job in explaining the causes of the 2007-08 financial collapse and in identifying what must be done in response. He sets out in Beyond Mainstream Explanations …
School closed, actors used: Robbie Parker, entertainer, exposed by Jim Fetzer and Victoria Muramoto “In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”–Barack Obama As I have previously explained (“Sandy Hook Elementary School: closed in 2008, a stage in 2012″), the school …
Crisis Mapping in Areas of Limited Statehood I had the great pleasure of contributing a chapter to this new book recently published by Oxford University Press: Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood. My chapter addresses the application of crisis mapping to areas of limited statehood, drawing both on theory …
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WEEKEND EDITION JANUARY 17-19, 2014 The Cockburn Report Defense Spending: Putting Toys Before Boys by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch Being pro-defense in the Hall of Mirrors of Versailles on the Potomac means, in the salty words of my late friend Col. David Hackworth, one of the U.S. Army’s most decorated combat soldiers, putting “the toys …
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Crowdsourcing Crisis Information from Syria: Twitter API vs Firehose Over 400 million tweets are posted every day. But accessing 100% of these tweets (say for disaster response purposes) requires access to Twitter’s “Firehose”. The latter, however, can be prohibitively expensive and also requires serious infrastructure to manage. This explains why many (all?) of us in the …
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A Fresh Look at Big Data May 8, 2013 Next week I am doing an invited talk in London. My subject is search and Big Data. I will be digging into this notion in this month’s Honk newsletter and adding some business intelligence related comments at an Information Today conference in New York later this …
Huh? Tell others please — Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, The Nation — now is the time for the public to come together. Update 1.4 There is a very good chance no one was actually injured and this was a “no real blood” false flag. Tell others. The second post below is the new master post …
