The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phoney net: UK police can blanket-track mobile phones Britain’s Metropolitan Police have purchased a system which can identify, track and possibly shut off every cell phone in a 10-square kilometer area. The Orwellian system has raised concerns over potential abuses and violations of privacy. The system, produced by the company Datong, uses a special transmitter, …
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George: Re the article below: This is terrible. It is bad enough on its face, but to realize that MIT’s Malone is at the heart of this breaks my heart, devastates my soul and outrages my professional sensibilities. Now I am sorry that we didn’t do a paper on pubic wisdom for his conference next …
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In the last nine months of planning the Contact Summit, I’ve come across a range of projects and initiatives building toward the “Next Net.” Though they vary in their stages of development and specific implementations, they fall under the common themes of enabling peer-to-peer communication and exchange, protecting personal freedom and privacy, and giving people more …
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NSA spooks win fight to keep secret possible ties to Google The National Security Agency will get to keep secret documents that may, or may not, show a working relationship with Google. In a decision made public Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon denied a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the curious …
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Declaration of the Occupation of New York City Posted on September 30, 2011 by NYCGA This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on september 29, 2011As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all …
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Court allows challenge of U.S. surveillance law By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post, 21 September 2011 A group of plaintiffs hoping to mount a challenge to U.S. surveillance law secured a major victory Wednesday when a federal appeals court upheld their standing to sue the government. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ 6-6 decision allows a …
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This essay discusses how the USA’s security clearance process (mainly related to ensuring secrecy) may have a counter-productive negative effect on the USA’s national security by reducing “cognitive diversity” among security professionals. Background refs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_clearance#United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy Scott Page wrote an insightful book about the value of “cognitive diversity” in making effective groups, called The Difference: …
