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The Violence of Algorithms Why Big Data Is Only as Smart as Those Who Generate It By  Taylor Owen 1445 50 In December 2010, I attended a training session for an intelligence analytics software program called Palantir. Co-founded by Peter Thiel, a techno-libertarian Silicon Valley billionaire, Palantir is a slick tool kit of data visualization and analytics capabilities marketed to and widely used by the NSA, the FBI, the CIA, and other U.S. national security and policing institutions. The training session took place in Tyson's Corner, in Washington, D.C.,  READ MORE AT..... https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-25/violence-algorithms

solicitors: SOCIEDADES UTÓPICAS / UTOPIAN SOCIETIES : SOCIEDADES UTÓPICAS Em meio as manifestações sociais acontecidas nos meses de março e abril deste ano, a conceituada revis...

Aldemir Bendine, chief executive officer of Banco do Brasil SA. Photographer: Paulo Fridman/Bloomberg Petroleo Brasileiro SA, the state-run oil producer battered by months of bad publicity from a corruption probe and asset writeoffs, reported some surprising good news. The company posted $7.2 billion in one measure of first-quarter earnings, beating analysts’ expectations by 23 percent, after a fuel price increase allowed its refining and supply unit to turn a profit for the first time since late 2010...Read more http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-15/petrobras-first-quarter-earnings-beat-analysts-estimates

SOCIEDADES UTÓPICAS Em meio as manifestações sociais acontecidas nos meses de março e abril deste ano, a conceituada revista Britânica ” the Economist” noticiava que os Brasileiros saiam às ruas para protestar contra o governo e manifestar indignação pelo atual estagio de corrupção no país, comendo pipocas, tomando cerveja e com crianças vestindo trajes de super-heróis. Para eles, uma espécie de manifestação surreal no hemisfério sul. A Europa, velho continente, tem larga experiência em evolução de sociedades. Estas transformações se deram de forma bastante gravosa, passando por guerras, revoluções, pestes, perseguição, tortura, extremismos religiosos, diversas formas de violência até chegar a um pacto social ou contrato social, como propugnava Rousseau. Os países, ou sociedades europeias, sabem que a evolução ou mutação de classes, geralmente ocorrem de forma disruptiva, precedendo sempre a violência de grupos radicais prontos a acederem o estopim do caos par...

By  MarEx  2015-04-28 03:43:57 CMA CGM’s newest vessel  CMA CGM Kerguelen  has made its first call at the Port Klang Port Terminal in Malaysia. The terminal has set up a unique arrangement for the vessel so that 12 cranes were simultaneously used to match the vessel's exceptional length (398 meters) and capacity (17,722 TEU), setting a new record for one of the group’s vessels....Read more at http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/12-cranes-work-simultaneously-on-container-ship

Why Washington Should be Worried T he tiny African nation of Djibouti is the unsung hero in the United States’ ongoing war against terror and piracy. A few security scares notwithstanding—the U.S. embassy was briefly closed earlier this month for unexplained reasons—the country is a rare oasis of stability in the Horn of Africa. Camp Lemonnier...READ MORE BELOW http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/143728/john-lee/china-comes-to-djibouti

....May 9, 2015 shows that there are also other reasons why the war still hasn't ended for Russia. It demonstrates that the country's leadership needs the memory of that war more than ever, even though only a few soldiers who fought in it are still alive today. Finally, it shows that this anniversary, unlike all previous victory celebrations, has become a European political issue, because old trenches on the Continent have ...READ MORE EU - REOPENING OLD TRENCHS