Robert Steele: Ebola, ISIS, & Dysfunctional Government

We have a perfect storm in the making. Among the ingredients: 01 Ebola for real — contagious, airborne, mutating. 02 Ebola from Fort Detrick — weaponized, perhaps planted in Africa and Venezuela. 03 Health “professionals” committing treason (CDC) and generally betraying the public trust (Spain, everywhere else). 04 Neo-cons, Zionists, Saudi Wahabbists, and  Turks intent …

Tom Engelhardt: Failure is Success – How American Intelligence Works in the Twenty-First Century PLUS Robert Steele on Steps President Obama Could Take…

Failure Is Success: How American Intelligence Works in the Twenty-First Century “While taxpayer dollars flowed into your coffers, no one considered it a problem that the country lacked 17 overlapping outfits bent on preventing approximately 400,000 deaths by firearms in the same years; nor 17 interlocked agencies dedicated to safety on our roads, where more …

Patrick Meier: Integrating Geo-Data with Social Media Improves Situational Awareness During Disasters

Integrating Geo-Data with Social Media Improves Situational Awareness During Disasters A new data-driven study on the flooding of River Elbe in 2013 (one of the most severe floods ever recorded in Germany) shows that geo-data can enhance the process of extracting relevant information from social media during disasters. The authors use “specific geographical features like hydrological data and …

Yoda: Big Data Mergers, Acquisitions, & Mistakes

Wandering, Big Data is… Top 10 mergers and acquisition in the Big Data space 2014 LIST ONLY Oracle & BlueKai Salesforce & RelateIQ TIBCO & Jaspersoft Cloudera & Gazzang Hortonworks & XA Secure Teradata & Think Big Analytics Google & Rangespan IBM & Cloudant Microsoft & Capptain Twitter & Namo Media

Books

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Yoda: Big Data Potential — and Ignorance

Baby steps… What Big Data Can Mean for Sustainability The first Industrial Revolution showed the world how much machines could accomplish. What GE calls the “Next Industrial Revolution” is now showing how much machines can accomplish when they communicate with each other. And just as steam — and later electricity — powered the first industrial …

Yoda: Neil Irwin in NYT Gets Its Right – Scotland’s Independence Vote Shows a Global Crisis of the Elites — Robert Steele Comments + Book Review RECAP

At last, NYT gets something right. Scotland’s Independence Vote Shows a Global Crisis of the Elites Neil Irwin New York Times, 18 September 2014 When you get past the details of the Scottish independence referendum Thursday, there is a broader story underway, one that is also playing out in other advanced nations. It is a …