The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
FIVE STARS The People We Pay to Look Over Our Shoulders By ERIC LICHTBLAU By Shane Harris At this very moment analysts at the National Security Agency some 30 miles north of the White House are monitoring countless flashpoints of data — cellphone calls to “hot” numbers, an e-mail message on a suspicious server, an …
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Twitter Teams with Haiti Telco To Provide Free Text Tweets WIRED 22 February 2010 Text messages have already raised $32 million for Haiti relief. Now Twitter is partnering with the devastated nation’s dominant telco to provide free text Tweets to Haitians so they can better keep in touch with each other and the outside world. …
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Almost a Five–Making Wrong Things Righter February 21, 2010 Beth Simone Noveck I sat down intending to make this a five, but the two fluff reviews have to be off-set. Robert Ackoff would say this is a spectacular book about making the wrong things righter instead of the right things righter–too many lawyers and focused …
Righteous New Knowledge, Rock Solid Achievement February 20, 2010 Matthew Hindman I read in threes and fours, this book is part of the set that includes SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa and Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful. This book educated me. It challenged and soundly …
(1) I’ve seen some of the surveillance video on CNN; here is a link to more. (2) Regardless of who ran the operation, sounds like the Hamas guy needed to go; (3) in addition to surveillance and biometrics, proliferation of commercially-available databases such ChoicePoint creates additional operational challenges.) How spy technologies foil old-school political killings …
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Beyond Six Stars–Hugely Important Useful Collection February 20, 2010 Edited by Sokari Ekine Contributing authors include Redante Asuncion-Reed, Amanda Atwood, Ken Banks, Chrstinia Charles-Iyoha, Nathan Eagle, Sokari Ekine, Becky Faith, Joshua Goldstein, Christian Kreutz, Anil Naidoo, Berna Ngolobe, Tanya Notley, Juliana Rotich, and Bukeni Wazuri This book will be rated 6 Stars and Beyond at …
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Best of Intentions, Good Individual Effort, February 20, 2010 Anne-Marie Slaughter Now that my own book INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainaabilty is at the printer am back into reading and really looking forward to catching up with the 25 books on my “to do” shelf. This one jumped to the top of …
