The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
If you are new to content curation here the ten, key fundamental steps you need to take to out yourself on the right course. Content curation is not about saving time. It is about selecting, organizing, adding value and context, and finally about effectively presenting information on a specific topic to a selected group of …
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Calculating How Much Amazon Costs Amazon Web Services are a good way to store code and other data, but it can get a little pricey. Before you upload your stuff to the Amazon cloud, check out Heap’s article, “How We Estimated Our AWS Costs Before Shipping Any Code.” Heap is an iOS and Web …
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The NSA’s Losing Argument The Editors, Bloomberg, 26 January 2014 Of the many questions that still surround the National Security Agency’s vast global spying operations, one seems especially pertinent: Do they actually work? That is, have they helped to prevent terrorist attacks against Americans? In the case of the NSA’s phone-data program — in which …
This post originally ran on Robert Reich’s Web page. People ask me all the time why we don’t have a revolution in America, or at least a major wave of reform similar to that of the Progressive Era or the New Deal or the Great Society. Middle incomes are sinking, the ranks of the poor …
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COMMITTEE FOR THE REPUBLIC _________________________ Empire Salon with David Stockman ____________________ THE GREAT DEFORMATION: THE CORRUPTION OF CAPITALISM IN AMERICA ____________________
Privacy Board Urges New Criteria for Secrecy The public controversy that erupted over NSA bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records was a clear sign, if one were needed, that the boundaries of government secrecy had been drawn incorrectly, and that the public had been wrongly denied an opportunity to grant or withhold its consent in …
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Thanks to: Billy Wimsatt I found myself really moved reading this long-form piece on Dan Cantor and the roots and growth of the Working Families Party. Although I love WFP, consider Dan a friend, and have heard him rant often and at length about the WFP’s strategy, I didn’t know half the stuff in this …
