Canary in the Coal Mine - Day

Sunday, February 26, 2017

1:07PM

https://www.interpol.int/notice/search/wanted/(RequestingCountry)/290/(current_age_maxi)/100/(search)/1
https://www.interpol.int/notice/search/wanted/(offset)/9/(RequestingCountry)/290/(current_age_maxi)/100/(search)/1

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1:43PM

"Emma Briant, a propaganda specialist at the University of Sheffield, wrote about SCL Group in her 2015 book, Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change. Cambridge Analytica has the technological tools to effect behavioural and psychological change, she said, but it’s SCL that strategises it. It has specialised, at the highest level – for Nato, the MoD, the US state department and others – in changing the behaviour of large groups. It models mass populations and then it changes their beliefs."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage

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2:52PM

"If you want to make big improvements in communication, my advice is – hire physicists, not communications people from normal companies and never believe what advertising companies tell you about ‘data’ unless you can independently verify it. Physics, mathematics, and computer science are domains in which there are real experts, unlike macro-economic forecasting which satisfies neither of the necessary conditions"

https://dominiccummings.wordpress.com/2016/10/29/on-the-referendum-20-the-campaign-physics-and-data-science-vote-leaves-voter-intention-collection-system-vics-now-available-for-all/

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3:10PM - Donald Kagan on War and Human Nature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7i1X4jh7oQ

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