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Mini-Me: US Government Lies to the US People? Huh?

Huh? Reagan Assistant Secretary of Commerce Paul Craig Roberts: Friday’s Jobs Report: More Lies From “our” Big Brother EXTRACT: In his report on the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest jobs and unemployment report, statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) writes: “The July employment and unemployment numbers published today, August 3rd, were worthless and likely misleading. . . …

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Patrick Meier: Truth in the Age of Social Media: A Social Computing and Big Data Challenge

Truth in the Age of Social Media: A Social Computing and Big Data Challenge I have been writing and blogging about “information forensics” for a while now and thus relished Nieman Report’s must-read study on “Truth in the Age of Social Media.” My applied research has specifically been on the use of social media to support …

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William Pfaff: Financial Oligarchy Buries Constitution Democracy in USA

Rise of the Managerial Class Posted on Jun 19, 2012 By William Pfaff At a time when corporate America is exploring and exploiting its new Supreme-Court-bestowed role in the management of American election results, an earlier transformation in the composition and political role of American business leadership should be recalled. This was the replacement of the Gilded …

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Andrew Cockburn: Air Power Sucks Big Time — USAF Lies Like a Dog, Marine Corps Aviation is Close Behind…

Did Air Strikes Do It?  No. Andrew Cockburn New York Review of Books, July 12, 2012 In response to: The Dilemma of Madeleine Albright from the June 7, 2012 issue To the Editors: Paul Wilson, in his review of Madeleine Albright’s Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937–1948 [NYR, June 7], sensibly …

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Event: 26-27 Jun Victoria BC Canada Youth, Governance, Peace-Building and the Role of the Social Media

Youth, Governance, Peace-Building and the Role of Social Media June 26-27, 2012 Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and an Online Global Webinar “Young people everywhere deserve the power to get information, to connect and to ask hard questions – about justice, equality and opportunity. Our job is to listen …

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The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 5 Integrity, Lies, and Panarchy Extract I

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 5 Extract I In the twenty-first century, intelligence, design, and integrity comprise the triad that matters most.  The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is the non-negotiable starting position for getting it right, and this is crucially important with respect to the sustainability of the Earth …

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John Robb: The Official US Process of Death by Powerpoint

The US President’s Hit List or “Death by PowerPoint” Posted: 29 May 2012 12:01 PM PDT Last Friday, I wrote a post on how: – US national security agencies increasingly use computerized analysis of collected data to designate a person as an enemy combatant. – The US currently uses non-judicial Presidential “hit lists” to simplify …

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