The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Sorting Through the Snowden Aftermath Public discussion of the Edward Snowden case has mostly been a dialog of the deaf, with defenders and critics largely talking past each other at increasing volume. But the disagreements became sharper and more interesting over the past week. . . . . In an interesting response to Jack Goldsmith, …
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Lousy Backlog? Sell with Interesting Assertions. If you are struggling to fill the sales pipeline, you will feel some pressure. If you really need to make sales, marketing collateral may be an easy weapon to seize. I read “Examples of False Claims about Self-Service Analytics.” The write up singles out interesting sales assertions and offers …
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Obama: Would be ‘personal insult’ to legacy if black voters don’t back Clinton (NYT) With Democratic leaders increasingly worried about a lack of passion for Hillary Clinton among young black voters, President Obama is rolling out a new and more personal campaign message: “It’s about me.” Obama: Low Turnout By Black Voters Would Be ‘A …
Brain cancer replaces leukemia as deadliest cancer for kids, study shows The new numbers are a result of major advances in leukemia treatment and lack of progress when it comes to brain cancer, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Further to the Phi Beta Iota comments on the mistaken limitation of OSINT to passive monitoring of web sites and such…. Prevalent approaches to countering ‘radicalisation’ ineffective, conceptually flawed “A lack of research based on primary sources has been one of the major impediments to progress in the field of (counter-) terrorism studies… As numerous …
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Earth’s wilderness could be lost by 2050, tenth already destroyed – study Writing for the journal Current Biology, researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society have revealed that over the last 20 or so years, the Earth has lost 3.3 million square kilometers (1.27 million square miles) of wilderness – an area twice the size of …
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