Josh Kilbourn: Breaking Faith – $1 Trillion Student Debt Bubble Bursting — Unemployment Rate in US for 18-24 is 46%

The First Crack: $270 Billion In Student Loans Are At Least 30 Days Delinquent Back in late 2006 and early 2007 a few (soon to be very rich) people were warning anyone who cared to listen, about what cracks in the subprime facade meant for the housing sector and the credit bubble in general. They …

Patrick Meier: Crisis Mapping Syria – Automated Data Mining and Crowdsourced Human Intelligence

Crisis Mapping Syria: Automated Data Mining and Crowdsourced Human Intelligence The Syria Tracker Crisis Map is without doubt one of the most impressive crisis mapping projects yet. Launched just a few weeks after the protests began one year ago, the crisis map is spearheaded by a just handful of US-based Syrian activists have meticulously and …

Search: strategic modeling for government spending

Search as is: 2008 Rebalancing the Instruments of National Power (Full Text Online for Google Translate) My Talk With Tom Atlee: Primer on Citizen Intelligence Human in the Loop Result: Search: Strategic Analytic Model Phi Beta Iota:  No one does this correctly for multiple reasons.  Tracking dollar inputs or dollar outputs is virtually useless as …

Mini-Me: Geithner’s Fingerprints? Tungsten Gold Bar in UK + Meta-RECAP on Financial Fraud

Huh? Tungsten-Filled 1 Kilo Gold Bar Found In The UK The last time a story of Tungsten-filled gold appeared on the scene was just two years ago, and involved a 500  gram bar of gold full of tungsten, at the W.C. Heraeus foundry, the world’s largest metal refiner and fabricator. It also became known that said …

Patrick Meier: Communication with Disaster Affected Communities –

Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities Would be great to see how this type of search data compares to data from Tweets. Take this analysis of tweets following the earthquake in Chile, for example. RT @UNFPA: Professional systems are being replaced by consumer tools says @Google Crisis Response #commisaid And as a result, crisis-affected communities are increasingly becoming …

Review: Republic Lost – How Money Corrupts Congress – and Plan to Stop It

Lawrence Lessig 5.0 out of 5 stars Diplomatically Provocative — A Foundation, Not a Structure, March 22, 2012 I come late to this book but my review will be much more detailed and useful than most others now posted, including the several that I voted for. I received it this afternoon and it has absorbed …