Wayseer Manifesto Does Google Make Us Stupid? Overview of responses In an online survey of 895 technology stakeholders’ and critics’ expectations of social, political and economic change by 2020, fielded by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center: » Google won’t make us stupid: 76% of these experts agreed with the statement, “By 2020, people’s use of the Internet has enhanced human intelligence; as people are allowed unprecedented access to more information they become smarter and make better choices. Nicholas Carr was wrong: Google does not make us stupid.” Some of the best answers are in Part 1 of this report. » Reading, writing, and the rendering of knowledge will be improved: 65% agreed with the statement “by 2020 it will be clear that the Internet has enhanced and improved reading, writing and the rendering of knowledge.” » Respondents hope information will flow relatively freely online, though there will be flashpoints over control of the internet.
Former CIA director: ‘We kill people based on metadata’ Published time: May 12, 2014 18:27 Edited time: May 13, 2014 22:11 Former National Security Agency (NSA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Michael Hayden (Reuters/Larry Downing) At a recent debate concerning the National Security Agency’s bulk surveillance programs, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden admitted that metadata is used as the basis for killing people. The comments were made during a debate at Johns Hopkins University, after Georgetown University Law Center professor David Cole detailed the kind of information the government can obtain simply by collecting metadata – who you call, when you call them, how long the call lasts, and how often calls between the two parties are made. Writing in the New York Review of Books, Cole elaborated (you can also watch his explanation around the 14 minute mark of the embedded video): “Of course knowing the content of a call can be crucial to establishing a particular threat.
The Astonishing Success of Fleet Farming: Breaking New Ground in the "Food Not Lawns" Movement | Wake Up World July 31st, 2017 By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World If you’re anything like me, America’s obsession with ornamental lawns seems nothing short of folly at best, sheer polluting waste at worst. Many are unaware that lawns are one of the largest sources of pollution in the US, with 40 million acres under cultivation, they absorb three million tons of chemical fertilizers and 30,000 tons of pesticides, and use 800 million gallons of gasoline for mowing each year. And for what? We can complain and fume about this state of affairs — or we can do something about it. The Problem — And an Innovative Solution Did you know, here in the US, each meal travels about 1,500 miles from farm to table? What if this was taken one step further, where a bike-powered fleet is used, instead of gasoline-powered vehicles, for all transportation of produce? Farmlette to Table — A New Model of Local Organic Produce How Does it Work? Fleet Farming outlines the requirements for program participants:
Partner With Us : Overview SmartBrief 101 5 Million Subscriptions 180+ Partners / Associations 1,047 Advertisers Total number of summaries in one year - 522,022Total sources used - 7,355 (*2,000 used more than once)Total articles ‘examined’ in a year - 52,445,700 Number of emails sent: Daily - 2.63 millionAnnually - 960 million Lead. At SmartBrief we strive to keep you informed and prepared. Former Al-Qaeda Operative Claims Qaeda/ISIS Run By The CIA Brandon TurbevilleActivist Post More evidence has been entered into the files of public record that terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the al-Nusra Front are completely controlled by the CIA and other Western intelligence agencies. In fact, according to Nabil Na’eem, founding member of the Islamic Democratic Jihad Party and a former commander of al-Qaeda, all current al-Qaeda affiliates are nothing more than offshoots of an overarching CIA terror operation. He also claimed that these groups will eventually be turned against Saudi Arabia, despite the fact that Saudi Arabia has acted as a bankroller and facilitator for them for years on end. Na’eem made his statements during the course of an interview with al-Maydeen , a Beirut-based news agency that serves a number of countries in the Middle East. The interview was translated by Arabi Souri of Syria News. Na’eem stated, This was recorded and sent to the public prosecutor and this is what Mohammad Morsi is being tried for.
Why Every Parent Should Consider Unschooling | Wake Up World By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Gillian Lynne. Gillian was fidgety. Author and educator Sir Ken Robinson tells this story in his 2006 TED talk, How schools kill creativity. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. An unorthodox approach to learning With programs like No Child Left Behind (millions of children have actually been left behind) and Common Core (otherwise known as Common Conformity) in the United States, parents are finding the educational climate so unacceptable that they are willing to take a radically different path. Homeschooling allows parents to hand-pick curriculum to fit their children’s learning style or religious affiliation. Unschooling is a method of homeschooling that puts the learning in the hands of the learner. “The beauty of unschooling is in the search for the answers. According to Babauta, unschooling is not: Instead, unschooling encourages: Babauta feels the benefits of unschooling are vast, including:
Broad Museum's scandalous math: A $7.7 million land gift to billionaire from broke Los Angeles City Hall By Tibby Rothman What can $1 a year get a billionaire in Los Angeles these days? click to enlarge Hard bargainer Evidently, a property worth $7.7 million. Here's the truth, even though it's often unmentioned in media coverage of this touchy issue: The roughly two acres of land is owned by city taxpayers (not by the county, as Los Angeles media have wrongly reported). The $7.7 million valuation was determined by Ronald L. So far Villaraigosa has made no effort to find out if 4 million Los Angeles residents want to fork over a $7.7 million piece of their land to Eli Broad. Moreover, local media including the Los Angeles Times have continued to vastly underplay -- or even leave out entirely -- the fact that the public land to be handed over to Broad will mostly be used for his private foundation's new offices and other non-public space -- not for the much smaller space set aside for the art museum. The pricey parcel across the street from MOCA is part of the long-stalled Grand
The significance of a forgotten CIA document: MKULTRA Jon RappoportActivist Post This June 27, 1994, document is stored at the National Security Archive at The George Washington University. It was written by a CIA advisory committee, and forwarded to the Presidential Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, which was preparing public hearings at the time. The document has many interesting implications. In this article, I want to focus on two. The first point concerns the CIA mind control program, MKULTRA. Here is a key quote: Helms was not only admitting he destroyed the records, he was stating that the MKULTRA program deployed, through contracts, “outsiders” to carry out mind control experiments. Subsequently, some of these “outsiders” have been revealed. The second point I want to cover is made clear by this quote from the 1994 CIA document: “The Church Committee [investigating the CIA] reports that one of the three principal functions of the Special Operations Division (SOD) of the U.S.
Who is Michael Tellinger? | Global Freedom Movement Michael Tellinger is en route to Sydney to share with us some of the most important information, discoveries and insights that our world has ever seen. Have you ever wondered whether there is a true solution to the poverty, disease and corruption-filled system that our world exists in? Have you ever thought that there must be a better way? Have you ever wondered whether we will experience a world that supports everybody’s livelihood; not just a select few? If so, Michael Tellinger’s event on the 23rd July is the place for you. Michael Tellinger, author, scientist, explorer, has become a real-life Indiana Jones, making groundbreaking discoveries about ancient vanished civilizations at the southern tip of Africa. “I trust that our actions in South Africa will inspire people in every other country to start an UBUNTU Party on their land too. Please come to the Michael Tellinger Sydney event! Get your tickets to Michael Tellinger Sydney here! We’ll see you there!
Grand Avenue Drenched in Misdirection The Luxe Grand Avenue Project, if ever built on a hunk of taxpayer-owned land downtown, will feature a glittery five-star hotel and the curious involvement of the wealthy royal family of Dubai, who control a tiny Gulf oil nation cited by the U.S. State Department for human rights abuses. One thing the public project does not feature, however, is transparency. In a series of moves unusual even for the cloaked deals that precede official rubber-stamping of controversial projects in Los Angeles, key politicians in City Hall and the County Hall of Administration will not — or maybe cannot — answer basic questions about a project that will receive up to $158 million in taxpayer subsidies. The developer, the nationwide Related Companies, says it needs more time because the construction loan market is virtually frozen. The spin from Molina, Perry and other politicos sounds simple — Related just needs several extra months to do the unexpected paperwork. Why?
Human Rights Court Condemns Poland for CIA Torture Black Site Joe WrightActivist Post The CIA global torture network is coming under much-needed revived scrutiny from the latest revelation that a secret prison existed in a Polish forest for the purpose of rendition and interrogation of suspected terrorists. As the video report below highlights, the European Court of Human Rights has concluded that Poland fully cooperated with the establishment of the site and subsequently failed to investigate prisoner claims of torture while being held there. Two men at the heart of the ruling were essentially kidnapped from Thailand in 2002 and brought to the site. While the court's ruling is symbolically important, until those who orchestrated the global program of kidnapping and torture are brought to justice, this might become an ongoing piece of political theater that actually covers up more than it exposes. Transcript by Erik Shute The European Court of Human Rights ruled Poland violated an international treaty by hosting secret CIA prisons within its borders.