Event: 27 Dec 2012 Hamburg DE Enemies of the State: What Happens When Telling the Truth about Secret US Government Power Becomes a Crime

Enemies of the State: What Happens When Telling the Truth about Secret US Government Power Becomes a Crime Blowing the Whistle on Spying, Lying & Illegalities in the Digital Era Featuring Thomas Drake, William Binney, and Jessaelyn Radack With the post 9/11 rise of the leviathan national security state, the rule of law in the …

Berto Jongman: Top 10 Whistle Blowers

Top 10 Most Influential Whistleblowers The subject of insiders — or “whistleblowers” — is somewhat tricky; anyone on the inside is often presumed to be compromised by their former allegiance. Nonetheless, the nature of government work is rooted in compartmentalization. So, perhaps the best indication as to whether whistleblowers have something valid to say is …

Mini-Me: Former NSA PM – U.S. Is Turning Into East Germany

Huh? Greg Adams of We The People Foundation posted this  video. It’s the first of three videos which that group is releasing.  Source. Phi Beta Iota: The principal witness is William Binney.  Jim Bamford and others provide some useful commentary.  This is fraud, waste, and abuse, but on balance it is not the widespread violation …

Patrick Meier: Situational Awareness in Mass Emergency – Behavioral & Linguistic Analysis of Disaster Tweets [Thin Thread for Twitter]

Situational Awareness in Mass Emergency: Behavioral & Linguistic Analysis of Disaster Tweets Sarah Vieweg‘s doctoral dissertation from the University of Colorado is a must-read for anyone interested in the use of twitter during crises. I read the entire 300-page study because it provides important insights on how automated natural language processing (NLP) can be applied to …

John Robb: Automation of Censorship and Extra-Judicial Assassination

The Automation of Government Coercion Posted: 25 May 2012 09:10 AM PDT I recently did a series of interviews for an international venture investing newsletter called Capitalist Exploits.  Here’s a question I got that I thought we be of interest to GG readers.  I’ve extended the answer a bit from the original in the interview. …