Steven Aftergood: CRS on US Research & Development (R&D) Funding and Performance – Half a Trillion — 500 Billion — A Year

Commerce, Congressional Research Service, Fact Sheets, Government, IO Impotency
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U.S. Research and Development Funding and Performance: Fact Sheet

John F. Sargent Jr.
Specialist in Science and Technology Policy
Congressional Research Service
June 29, 2018

Comment and key graphic from report below the fold.

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Worth a Look: Books on Islam Being Read by Alt-Right Christians

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
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Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law (Thomas Nelson, 2009)

Robert R. Reilly, The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2011)

Norbert G. Pressburg, What the Modern Martyr Should Know: Seventy-Two Grapes and Not a Single Virgin: The New Picture of Islam (Amazon CreateSpace, 2012)

Hamed Abdel-Samad, Islamic Fascism (Prometheus Books, 2016)

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Penguin: Swarm – Ethereum’s 3rd Shot at Decentalized Internet

Advanced Cyber/IO, Autonomous Internet, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Peace Intelligence
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Swarm: Inside Ethereum's Push to Create a Decentralized Internet

The Lead Developer of the Swarm team, Viktor Trón, has announced the immediate release and deployment to the public testnet of Ethereum’s Swarm client v0.3, which represents the third proof-of-concept (POC3) installment of this tool.

Decentralized Technologies like Ethereum, Swarm, and Whisper, which Trón calls “The Holy Trinity”, will revolutionize how we share information, who owns it, and who can profit from it. However, there is still a lot to accomplish before this is possible.

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Norie Huddle: Obama Weaponized IRS, FEC, FBI, DoJ Against Conservatives

04 Education, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Deeds of War
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Judicial Watch Obtains IRS Documents Revealing McCain’s [Minority] Subcommittee Staff Director Urged IRS to Engage in “Financially Ruinous” Targeting

“The Obama IRS scandal is bipartisan – McCain and Democrats who wanted to regulate political speech lost at the Supreme Court, so they sought to use the IRS to harass innocent Americans,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Obama IRS scandal is not over – as Judicial Watch continues to uncover smoking gun documents that raise questions about how the Obama administration weaponized the IRS, the FEC, FBI, and DOJ to target the First Amendment rights of Americans.”

#GoogleGestapo: Facebook & Google Obscure & Manipulate Privacy Settings

Commerce, Corruption, IO Privacy, Media
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Facebook and Google use ‘dark patterns' around privacy settings, report says

Facebook, Google and Microsoft push users away from privacy-friendly options on their services in an “unethical” way, according to a report by the Norwegian Consumer Council.

It studied the privacy settings of the firms and found a series of “dark patterns”, including intrusive default settings and misleading wording.

The firms gave users “an illusion of control”, its report suggested.

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