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Today's Fresh Blogs...| WaPo Pulls Cartoon Because It’s Relevant |
| Published: August 26, 2007, 4:27 pm |
| Tags: Comic Strip Tease, Reporters Terrorists, The Hive Mind, Ideas For Idealists |
| The Washington Post pulled an Opus cartoon making fun of radical Islamists. Stoke the jihadist fire by clicking through to the full cartoon, published at Salon.com: |
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| Angelina Jolie Invades Iraq |
| Published: August 28, 2007, 10:55 pm |
| Tags: Iraq Sucks, Ideas For Idealists |
| Angelina Jolie visited Syria and Iraq this week on behalf of the U.N. High Council on Refugees, the A.P. reports: Jolie traveled to the Al-Waleed refugee camp on the Iraqi side of the border and spoke to some of the 1,200 Iraqis living there before visiting a contingent of U.S. troops in the area, the agency said. UNHCR spokeswoman Astrid Van |
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| Experts Say Experts Can’t Be Trusted |
| Published: August 29, 2007, 11:05 pm |
| Tags: Brainiacs, The Hive Mind, Ideas For Idealists |
| Who’s better at predicting threats, conflicts and their outcomes: policymakers and pundits, or a bunch of average slobs? According to one recent study, they’re all about the same: The research can have serious consequences for foreign policy and business. [Co-author Kesten] Green says, Political leaders in the West are |
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| Sats Spot Burma Human Rights Abuses (Updated) |
| Published: September 28, 2007, 1:00 pm |
| Tags: Spaced Out, Ideas For Idealists |
| Hot on the heels of geek-driven efforts to spot missing adventurer Steve Fossett using commercial satellite imagery, human rights groups have harnessed space-based imagery to track abuses in violence-wracked Burma. It’s all part of what American Association for the Advancement of Science spokesman Lars Bromley describes as a sort of |
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| Sats Spot Burma Human Rights Abuses (Addendum) |
| Published: October 2, 2007, 1:54 pm |
| Tags: Spaced Out, Ideas For Idealists |
| Last week I reported how commercial satellites were helping human rights groups spot government abuses in Burma (new army encampment pictured). Some readers worried that space-based imagery was too easy to fake or misinterpret. As it turns out, the imagery specialists from the American Association for the Advancement of Science team up with |
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| LockMart Whistleblower: Vindicated! |
| Published: January 30, 2008, 6:58 am |
| Tags: The Industry, At Sea, Lies My Leaders Told Me, Ideas Are For Idealists |
| Two years ago ex-Lockheed Martin engineer Michael DeKort, in a bout of frustration, posted a video on Youtube accusing his former employer of cutting corners on the electronics suites for 123-foot patrol boats for the Coast Guard — allegations that have since been proved by leaked Coast Guard documents. Today DeKort continues to |
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| Army: Wikis Too Risky |
| Published: February 17, 2008, 11:53 pm |
| Tags: Reporters Are Terrorists, The Hive Mind, Ideas Are For Idealists |
| They might not build $150-million F-22 stealth fighters, but in other ways insurgents and terrorists are amazingly tech savvy. For one, they’re hip to using grungy, bare-bones websites to spread tactics and ideology across the planet on the cheap, transforming once-isolated local and regional conflicts into genuine threats to global |
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| FM 3-0: Army Gets It Right |
| Published: February 26, 2008, 11:38 pm |
| Tags: Ideas Are For Idealists, Food Fight |
| Bravo, U.S. Army. Crunching lessons from more than 15 years of post-Cold War instability, the service’s top thinkers have prepared a revised manual for basic land warfare doctrine. Lieutenant General William Caldwell and a team at Fort Leavenworth were responsible for updating the 2001 edition (big pdf!) of FM 3-0 to reflect the Army’s |
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