The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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 …
Sometimes it occurs to me that all of our complex terminologies tend to overcomplicate the simplest and most important things, when sometimes a simple phrase can cut through all the illusory complications. Truth is the most precious of all human commodities. And the people and institutions who control virtually everything in our world . . . …
Foreign Policy is running my description of the hearing that Buck McKeon put on yesterday with Lockheed-Martin and a cast of lesser, not entirely cooperative, other characters. Find my analysis at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/07/19/hard_of_hearing?print=yes&hidecomments=yes&page=full, and below: Hard of Hearing Why the House’s attempt to save defense spending might flop. BY WINSLOW T. WHEELER | JULY 19, 2012 It …
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An important and informative Tony Capaccio article (from Bloomberg; shown below) came out today. It summarizes (accurately) CBO’s analysis of the budget effects of sequester: if sequester were to occur, the Pentagon’s “base” (non-war) budget would be $469 billion for 2013. This is slightly above what was spent in 2006, and it is “larger than the …
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Introduces the book just released 5 June by North Atlantic Books / Evolver Editions, and being distributed globally by Random House. Available through all the online bookstores, the book page http://tinyurl.com/OSE-2012 offers free extracts, an 11 minute interview with Warren Pollock, the original keytone at Gnomedex in Seattle in 2007, and links to all the …
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Genetic Engineers Explain Why GE Food Is Dangerous Nation of Change, Sunday 24 June 2012 One of the report¹s authors, Dr. Michael Antoniou of King¹s College London School of Medicine in the UK, uses genetic engineering for medical applications but warns against its use in developing crops for human food and animal feed. Aren¹t critics …
ADVANCE EXTRACT Demands of the people · Transparency and truth – reveal what chemicals and metals have been used. · Close all of the bases and radar facilities – completely de-militarize the island. · Clean and decontaminate the bases and land, aquifers and sea around them. · Provide health care to all people affected by …
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