Review: Digital Humanitarians – How Big Data is Changing the Face of the Humanitarian Response

Patrick Meier 5.0 out of 5 stars World-Changing Book Documenting Intersection of Humans, Technology, and Policy-Ethics, February 2, 2015 This is a hugely important work, one that responds to the critical needs outlined by Micah Sifry in The Big Disconnect: Why The Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet) and others such as myself writing these past …

Michael Flynn: Obama Delusional, CIA Unprofessional [PBI: and USDI a Waste]

Former Defense Intel Chief Blasts Obama Lt. General Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, blasted the Obama administration’s approach to the War on Terror in a hard-hitting speech to a meeting of intelligence professionals. “The dangers to the U.S. do not arise from the arrogance of American power, but from unpreparedness or …

Owl: Will Elite Sacrifice Clinton (Pun Intended) to Focus Pedophilia Hunt on Him? – PBI Way Bigger than Monica Update 2

To paraphrase a line from a famous American novel, “The rich are different from you and me. They are practicing pederasts.” That’s what I think of in reading the articles below of the pederast scandal involving billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and the very rich and powerful people who may have used his pedo pimping services, as …

Chuck Spinney: Marisa Taylor on Criminally Dysfunctional Intelligence and Defense “Whistleblower” System — Screw the Truth, Kill the Messenger

Below is superb piece of reportage by Marisa Taylor of the Washington McClatchy bureau.  By a meticulous compilation of facts, Ms. Taylor has painted a detailed portrait of how this homeostatic control system protects normalcy in bureaucratic cultures.  The only point I would disagree with is her characterization of this system as being “broken.” To my thinking, …

Berto Jongman: Pedophilia UK — Five MP Rings Under Investigation — Time for an International Tribunal?

Scotland Yard is probing five VIP paedophile rings after Labour MP hands in dossier naming six serving politicians and Lords MP John Mann has given explosive dossier on alleged abuse to police Document names 22 politicians, including three serving MPs It also names three members of House of Lords linked to historic abuse Mr Mann …