The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Cold War Roots Of Islamist Terrorism Radio Liberty (a CIA Subsidiary) Saturday, July 13 2013 The highest-ranking intelligence officer ever to defect from the Eastern Bloc says the Soviet Union orchestrated an anti-American and anti-Israeli propaganda campaign in the Middle East four decades ago — and the effects of the effort still reverberate. Ion …
Drinking Water Runs Low [in West/Southwest] as Dry Conditions Drag On MARK PETERS – The Wall Street Journal 6 Horrifying Things About Pork Everyone Should Know MARTHA ROSENBERG – AlterNet (U.S.) New Long Distance Quantum Teleportation System ‘Extremely Reliable’ The Raw Story
We have not always been warriors. War was invented along with political hierarchy, writing, and the invention of kingship. This chapter tells the history of war starting with the end of the last ice age, 10,000 years ago, (before war was invented) up till the present when we may be seeing war becoming obsolete. It …
Genetic Engineering and the GMO Industry: Corporate Hijacking of Food and Agriculture “I recognized my two selves: a crusading idealist and a cold, granitic believer in the law of the jungle” – Edgar Monsanto Queeny, Monsanto chairman, 1943-63, “The Spirit of Enterprise”, 1934. When rich companies with politically-connected lobbyists and seats on government-appointed bodies bend …
Learning Collaborative Information Filters (PDF) Automating filtering via machine learning is an up-and-coming research category for infotention — Howard ” “Predicting items a user would like on the basis of other users’ ratings for these items has become a well-established strategy adopted by many recommendation services on the Internet. Although this can be seen as …
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Ann Blair on The History of Information The history professor and author of Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age tells us what researchers have been discovering about how earlier human societies collected, organised and used information… Amazing read and historical perspective about transmission. Knowledge and information are actually very different …
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Media Literacy and the Challenge of New Information and Communication Technologies SONIA LIVINGSTONE The Communication Review Volume 7, Issue 1, 2004, pages 3-14 “The article begins with a definition: media literacy is the ability to access, analyse, evaluate and create messages across a variety of contexts. This four-component model is then examined for its applicability …
