The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Attached herewith is an essay I just wrote for Counterpunch. For you convenience I have also attached a very important McClatchy report on the Orwellian Insider Threat Program being promoted by the Obama Administration. The lead co-author, Jonathan Landay, is one of the few mainstream reporters who has been onto the lunacy unleashed by 9-11 …
I share with Lawrence Lessig the conviction that corruption is the principal threat to humanity. I would add to that my own view that corruption is responsible for 50% of all investments being wasted, be they in agriculture, energy, health, or the military, as representative domains. I also believe that corruption will persist until individuals …
Marco Arment the creator of Instapaper, has an excellent and provocative piece on why Google is closing down all of its RSS appendages (they just closed also the RSS feeds in Google Alerts) and the logic behind this strategy. Lockdown He writes: “Officially, Google killed Reader because “over the years usage has declined”.1 I believe …
Circulating among SOF retired. The 213 Things Skippy is Not Allowed to Do in the U.S. Army At the bottom of the page is a little info about “Skippy”, the originator of the list. The ones listed after “Mike’s addenda” were added by an author, and a friend of mine, named Michael Z. Williamson. Extracted …
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The Merry Pranksters Who Hacked the Afghan War It was a dark time in a long, drawn-out war. Afghanistan was festering with resentment. The Pentagon brass were desperate. It was the kind of last-ditch moment when authorities start throwing an era’s weirdest ideas at its most hopeless bureaucratic mistakes. (ILLUSTRATIONS: GRAHAM SMITH) By Brian Calvert …
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Free Software Supporter Issue 63, June 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Free Software Foundation statement on PRISM revelations A second FSF-certified device from ThinkPenguin: long-range USB Wifi adapter with Atheros chip April’s English translation team is recruiting volunteers MediaGoblin 0.4.0: Hall of the Archivist Announcing the newest fully free GNU/Linux distribution: LibreWRT FSF polo shirts have …
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“In this chapter, we investigate the maker subculture and its manifestation in fabbing ecosystem. In other words, how the love of making things, hacking, tinkering, circuit bending and doing/making everything so-called DIY is a significant peculiarity of Fab Labs. We first look at the meaning and the emergence of the maker subculture and the development …
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