The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Source Online (26 Pages) Phi Beta Iota: This is interesting at multiple levels. It demonstrates that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) endeavor to achieve common solutions is not only not working, but does not properly integrate industry. It demonstrates that Cyber-Command is off on its own warpath, and not thinking deeply about the …
Syria’s Bashar al-Assad faces most serious unrest of his tenure By Leila Fadel, Thursday, March 24 Washington Post Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was facing the most serious unrest of his 11-year tenure Thursday as anti-government protests in a southwestern city threatened to escalate after a deadly crackdown. . . . . . . . On Wednesday, …
Listen: Secret Libya Psyops, Caught by Online Sleuths By Noah Shachtman WIRED (Danger Room), 20 March 2011 The U.S. military has dispatched one of its secret propaganda planes to the skies around Libya. And that “Commando Solo” aircraft is telling Libyan ships to remain in port – or risk NATO retaliation. We know this, …
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The globalisation of revolution Taral Barlaawi Al Jazeera, 21 March 2011 Revolutions are caused by human agency; not telecommunications technologies, scholar argues. To listen to the hype about social networking websites and the Egyptian revolution, one would think it was Silicon Valley and not the Egyptian people who overthrew Mubarak. Via its technologies, the West …
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Program as of March 2011 Phi Beta Iota: Those organizing, and those named as confirmed and invited, are the “creme de la creme” of the old regimes. There isnt’ a hacker, autonomous internet, cloud, anonymous/transparency, open anything participant in the whole lot. And the youth–by invitation only, as if the organizers have any legitimacy among …
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In the fall of 2010, CACI of Arlington, a major player in the U.S. government’s cyber security business, held a symposium entitled “Cyber Threats to National Security,” in partnership with the U.S. Naval Institute to discuss the issue of Cyber Security. CACI is chasing roughly $2 billion worth of cyber-related contracts over the next few …
Google Voice discovered allowing pure VoIP calls Google Voice users learned late Monday that the service now has a way of making purely Internet-based phone calls. Making a SIP call with a “sip:” prefix, the Google Voice phone number and @sip.voice.google.com skips the conventional phone network entirely, saving users cellphone minutes. Disruptive Telephony tested it …
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