The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
2011: A Brave New Dystopia truthdig, Posted on Dec 27, 2010 By Chris Hedges The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was right. Would we be, as Orwell wrote, dominated by a repressive …
2010 was an incredible year in terms of viral videos. The increased use of social media like Twitter and Tumblr has taken our meme consumption to ridiculous levels. There have been a lot of “best viral videos of the year” lists floating around lately, but we feel this compilation from Videogum does the best job …
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Casting Light on “The Moment of Truth” Where’s the evidence to back up the fear mongering? A challenge to the Fiscal Commission’s report. James K. Galbraith James K. Galbraith is General Editor of “Galbraith: The Affluent Society and Other Writings, 1952-1967,” just published by Library of America. He teaches at The University of Texas at …
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Robert Scheer 5.0 out of 5 stars The great American Stickup September 8, 2010 By Herbert L Calhoun “paulocal” (Falls Church, VA USA) – See all my reviews In this book, “deregulation” is a four-letter word: a synonym for leaving the U.S. taxpayer, U.S. markets and the U.S. reputation wide open to greedy mindless homegrown …
Journal: The Security and Secrecy “Tax” – Global Guerrillas By John Robb at Global Guerrillas (Networked tribes, systems disruption, and the emerging bazaar of violence. Resilient Communities, decentralized platforms, and self-organizing futures) Wikileaks and Al Qaeda’s Open Source Jihad are both open source insurgencies. While there are obvious differences between the two, what’s more interesting …
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With Kinect Controller, Hackers Take Liberties Mr. Kreylos, who specializes in virtual reality and 3-D graphics, had just learned that he could download some software and use the device with his computer instead. He was soon using it to create “holographic” video images that can be rotated on a computer screen. A video he posted …
MOMENTUM: REAL OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE Here’s a short essay on a new software tool my team built called Momentum. It does something pretty unusual and worthy of note. It uses crowdsourcing (by leveraging the work of 500 million users on global social networks) to make open source intelligence gathering easy.* ___________________ Here are some real …
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