The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Putin Trying to Build & Secure Rail Link through DPRK(aka, “North Korea”) for Moving Goods between Asia and Europe Putin is inching closer to his goal of turning Russia into a major transit route for trade between eastern Asia and Europe by prying open North Korea, a nuclear-capable dictatorship isolated for half a century. Russia last …
Knowledge Is Power – Interview: Robert David Steele Tuesday, 22 October 2013 Ex CIA-Agent Robert David Steele answered Elevate Festival’s questions about news services, secrets and the hacker-scene. #e13knowledge
„Knowledge is power“ is the credo of enlightened modernism. However, Michel Foucault proclaims that whoever is in power determines which knowledge prevails in society, and ultimately this is the only knowledge that we have access to. It is certain that knowledge and power are closely interrelated, and that power relations in a society heavily depend …
Elevate Open Everything? Offshore Leaks has released secret tax haven bank account details, WikiLeaks was responsible for the disclosure of politically explosive classified documents, while Edward Snowden exposed intelligence agencies and private businesses that were spying extensively on respectable citizens. These are all vivid examples of the ambivalence of new technologies. On the one hand …
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Lee Camp 5.0 out of 5 stars SIX Stars — A National Enema with Champagne, October 17, 2013 Ten percent of the books I have reviewed here at Amazon make it into my six star group. This is such a book. I have been a fan of Lee Camp’s outrageously spirited, funny, and profane social …
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Lawrence Freedman 5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary Effort, Surprise Turn, One Gap, October 16, 2013 FINAL REVIEW The original review and its links remain valid. The book is misrepresented as a history of military strategy – despite flyleaf comments about the book also covering business strategy, the fullness of the book is not properly …
Will and Ariel Durant 7 Stars, Life Transformational, So Fundamental as to be Priceless, October 10, 2013 When I donated my 2500 volume library to George Mason University (down from 5000 in earlier years), this is one of a tiny handful of books I held back, along with Buckminster Fuller’s Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous …
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