The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
US Government: Computer Infrastructure Notice that the US Federal government spent $0.68 cents of every IT dollar on operations and maintenance in 2010. Jump to the 2017 estimate. Notice that the status quo is likely to consume $0.77 cents of every IT dollar. Bam! Pow! Zap! Palantir Steps Up Fight with US Army I recall …
This essay was written for the Retreat Conference 2016 organized at Athens, Greece, on September 24th, 2016. Data-driven journalism in the post-truth public sphere The novelty of the 2010’s is the disdain of public figures for the truth. Michael Gove, quoted above, justified lying not by producing an excuse immediatly as Machiavelli advised, but by …
Would you buy a C4I system from the same people that built the F-35 and the USS Gerald Ford? Of course you would. That’s why you are dysfunctional. Riot (formerly known as Vector while it was running in Beta) is a new UK-borne app. It’s aiming to bring conversations and productivity tools together, across different …
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Not only is the cost noteworthy but it appears that there are attempts now to “lock in” contractors as a permanent element of the total force. Latest Estimate Pegs Cost of Wars at Nearly $5 Trillion Naomi LaChance @ The Intercept The total U.S. budgetary cost of war since 2001 is $4.79 trillion, according to …
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Harvard study: Political ‘dysfunction’ crippling U.S. economy America’s dysfunctional political system has emerged as the biggest threat to its economic competitiveness, according to a new Harvard Business School study. . . . The authors polled Harvard Business School alumni on the political reforms they thought were needed. “By far the most common category of suggestion …
“Postmodernist French social theorist Jean Baudrillard argues that a simulacrum is not a copy of the real, but becomes truth in its own right: the hyperreal. Where Plato saw two types of representation—faithful and intentionally distorted (simulacrum)—Baudrillard sees four: (1) basic reflection of reality; (2) perversion of reality; (3) pretence of reality (where there is …
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UPDATE: Former DNC chairman calls for Clinton contingency plan (Politico) UPDATE: Will Hillary Clinton Drop Out? How Joe Biden Could Become The Next Democratic President (International Business Times) Phi Beta Iota: The media could not be more worthless. Clinton is not suffering from pneumonia, all video and historical evidence points to a severe stroke, rapid …
