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2014/08/182014/08/18

Berto Jongman: Saudi Ebola Student Martyrs in USA?

Obama Oversees Brazen Paris Convoy Attack Against Saudi Prince As we had, likewise, reported on after the issuance of last weeks SVR report, of the estimated 111,000 Saudi Arabian students currently in the United States, 8,000 have been identified as being Islamic State (IS) [also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant …

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2014/08/182014/08/18

Steve Aftergood: Court Told No Fly List Guidance is “Objectionable and Evidence-Free”

LEAKED DOCUMENT TO BE INTRODUCED IN STATE SECRETS CASE The plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the use of the “no fly list” to bar a US citizen from boarding an aircraft said last week that he would introduce a leaked copy of the government’s Watchlisting Guidance “to show just how objectionable and evidence-free Defendants’ watch …

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2014/08/182014/08/17

Robert Steele: Smart Rats Nail Tuberculosis in Spit from Smell Alone

I’ve been fighting a losing battle for 25 years to reassert the primacy of the human factor within the craft of intelligence (decision-support). Although I have no doubt this will happen eventually — industrial era technology is in performance free-fall — I am now becoming interested in plant and animal intelligence, and in how we …

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2014/08/162014/08/15

Jean Lievens: Is the Sharing Economy Potentially a Locust Economy Ravaging a Collaborative Economy More Delicate Than Realized?

The Locust Economy Venkat RibbonFarm, 3 April 2013 Last week, I figured out that I am a part-time locust. Here’s how it happened. I was picking the brain of a restauranteur for insight into things like Groupon. He confirmed what we all understand in the abstract: that these deals are terrible for the businesses that …

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2014/08/132014/08/12

Stephen E. Arnold: Worst of All Worlds — Google as Front End of 36,000 US Government Databases, and Grander Misrepresentation of Big Data Solutions

A Google Savior for US Government Web Sites Quote to Note: Big Data Getting Even Biggerest Super Fastly Full text with Phi Beta Iota comments and additional links below the fold.

2014/08/122014/08/11

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Goes Senile

Google Investing Billions to Get Billions. Obviously. I read “5 Google Projects That Will Pave the Future.” The title confused me. I think the author wanted me to think that Google was paving the way to the future. What I interpreted the title to mean is that Google wants to cover the future with Google’s own digital …

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2014/08/112014/08/09

Worth a Look: Fusion Economics by Laurence Brahm

AMAZON PAGE: Fusion Economics: How Pragmatism Is Changing the World Hardcover Pre-Order Now for 21 October 2014 Delivery Phi Beta Iota: Below is Robert Steele’s jacket blurb: Laurence Brahm is one of those unsung heroes who was changing the world for the better, and influencing various governments in most positive ways, long before ecological economics …

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