The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Following up on the excellent post, Mongoose: Moti Nissani on Who Killed Aaron Swartz? it is now clear MIT refuses to cut any kind of deal, and the prosecutor went nuclear on what should have been a matchbook case. Now it emerges that the prosecutor going after Swartz went after another young man involved with …
Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz’ Prosecutor Reaches Goal Activism: Early Tuesday morning, the petition to the U.S. Administration to fire Carmen Ortiz reached the prerequisite 25,000 signatures. Carmen Ortiz was the prosecutor that drove the prosecution against Aaron Swartz, which many mean contributed or led to his tragic suicide. The U.S. Administration, by its own rules, …
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Aaron Swartz’s Guerilla Open Access Manifesto Written by Aaron Swartz, July 2008, Eremo, Italy “Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful …
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Secreacy and National Security Whistleblowing Daniel Ellsberg Huffington Post repritned from Social Research, 13 January 2013 I) Reflections on Secret-keeping and Identity In the “national security” area of the government — the White House, the departments of state and defense, the armed services and the “intelligence community,” along with their contractors — there is less …
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Obama may want out of Afghanistan, but he is under to pressure to stay, and the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) still has a budgetary interest in maintaining perpetual war, be it cold or hot ( for reasons I explained here). The bloom is off the Karzai rose (as Amy Davidson explained in her 11 Jan …
Bio-Terror & Infectious Disease Outbreak: Detection Technologies and Global Markets – 2012 Edition The US Bipartisan Bio-Detection 2011 Report Card Status Evaluation (Source: The US Bipartisan WMD Terrorism Research Center, October 2011 Bio Response Report Card) Events of the recent decade confirm that the threats of bio-terrorism and infectious disease outbreaks are real. Attacks such …
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Reading the report, the fine print says sequestration is unlikely to occur. Pentagon would furlough all civilians under revised sequestration, analyst says Chalres S. Clark Government Executive, 9 January 2013 Unless Congress achieves a deal to head off the revised schedule for across-the-board spending cuts, the Defense Department in March will be forced to begin …
