Macro-Analysis and Research
Abstracts and Country Cloche.
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CSIS - Overviews of current happenings with contemporary political theory.
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CIA World Factbook - Constantly updated abstracts of every nation on the planet.
• ODNI's
Global Trends 2040 report.
Historical Geopolitical Research and Overviews.
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Our World in Data - Research and data visualization.
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World Bank Open Data - Free and open access to global development data.
World Bank's
search page for country overviews.
The World Bank's
databases.
World development indicators.
International debt statistics.
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Transparency International - Corruption perceptions index for 2017.
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OCCRP - Organized crime and corruption reporting project.
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Data USA - Research and data visualization of America.
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Data Africa - Research and data visualization of Africa.
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OECD - Factbook of economic, environmental, and social statistics.
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Democracy Index - For 2006-2017.
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PISA - Education rankings by country.
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UCR - The FBI's uniform crime reporting program.
Historical Economic Research and Overviews.
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Observatory of Economic Complexity - Data visualization of international trade.
OEC's
Economic Complexity Rankings of countries.
OEC's
Atlas of Economic Complexity, research on ECI by country.
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OpenSecrets - Research group tracking money in U.S. politics and elections.
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Quiver Quantitative - Tracks the insider trading of congress.
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Economic Freedom Index - Breakdown of economic stewardship by country.
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Doing Business - Yearly reports by the World Bank.
• WEC's 2020
Global Competitiveness Report.
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US Bureau of Labor Statistics - Breakdowns of pay, incentives, growth, and more.
CPI Inflation Calculator and the
Truflation dashboard.
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TradingEconomics - Breakdown of economic inidcators, markets, and forecasts.
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Landmatrix - Transnational land deals and
visual map.
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Global Financial Data Finaeon - Research and deep-data analysis web-end.
GFD's
global history of currencies.
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Market24hClock - the operating hours of every major exchange and market overlayed.
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FinVis - Data visualization for stocks, ETFs, and forex.
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World Debt Clock - Visualization of all world debt.
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Coin360 - Data visualization for cryptocurrencies similar to FinVis.
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Bloomberg Billionaires - Realtime tracking of the top 500 billionaires.
MilSim.
• List of all
current armed conflicts on the planet.
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Global Militarization Index.
• Total counts of
military personnel by country.
• Total counts of
military equipment by country.
• West Point's
atlas' of war - Maps of major invasions and battles.
• List of countries and dependencies by
number of police officers.
• Simple visualization for the
number of nukes each country has.
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Nuclear stewardship and deterrence.
• List of
military branches by country.
Miscellaneous.
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TheBlackVault - Every document released under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Filteries - Superior to traditional 2D political grids and things like 8values.
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Awesome OSINT - Curated list of open-source intelligence tools and resources.
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Global Terrorism Database - for up-to-date terrorist events around the world.
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IntelTechniques - OSINT training and resources.
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NorseCorp - Research on the global distribution of cyberattacks.
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Optimized Listening - Visualization and forecasting of news and social media.
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SpaceBook &
Stuffin.space - Realtime 3D maps of objects in orbit.
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They Rule - flash-based corperate and governmental connections.
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WBAD - Global birthrate and deathrate simulation.
Visual Resources
ECON
All The World's Exchanges (2016)
All The World's Money And Markets (2015)
All The World's Money And Markets (2017)
American Debt Clock (realtime)
America's Federal Budget (2016)
America's Wealth Distribution (2011)
The 50 Wealthiest Individuals (2016)
GEO
American Radio Freqeuncy Allocations (2016)
European Unemployment (2017)
Haplogroups
The English Speaking World
The True Size of landmasses.
World Population Growth (humanity is a bubble)
World Population Growth Projections (1950-2050)
True universal timescales.
MIL
American Base Distribution
American Base Notes
American Combat Vehicles
American Military Spending + Deployment
Drone Survival Guide (
PNG mirror)
Ranks: American Military And Paygrades
NATO
Military Spending (2017)
Ranks: Air Force
Ranks: Army
Ranks: Navy
Miscellaneous Resources
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Archive.li - Webpage archiving service.
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Maltego - Advanced data mining software for graphing and link analysis.
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Open Research Central - Open research publishing platform.
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oTranscribe - Webapp for auto-transcribing audio docs and interviews.
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Paleomap Project - What Earth's surface looked like in the distant past.
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Primes - Constantly updated lists of the largest known primes.
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SecureDrop - Whistleblower submission system for media organizations.
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SSS - The solar system simulator from NASA's JPL.
The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator, and property
owner in existence, with more wealth than any other Government, Institution, or Bank
in the world. If they paid taxes last year, they could have funded the end for world
hunger seven times over.
Prescription drugs now kill more people in the US than heroin and cocaine combined.
Livestock uses 30% of the Earth's entire land surface and agriculture is 18% of GHG.
Most Influential Living Minds
Ranking these is difficult and the metric used (effect on institutions) is not an
all-encompassing measurement of productive minds. All in this list have had an
incredibly enormous effect on the world of academia or think tanks, or intellectual
organizations, etcetera. These are all objectively large-minded people with large
spheres of effect, but the list is nowhere near exhaustive. The list was started in
2016 and names are crossed out as people die.
A:
Adam Back,
Ai Weiwei,
Amartya Sen,
Andrew Wiles
B:
Bas van Fraassen,
Brian Greene
C:
Craig Venter
D:
Daniel Dennett,
David Chalmers,
Demetrios Christodoulou,
Douglas Lenat
E:
Edmund Gettier,
Edward Snowden,
Edward Witten,
Elias Corey,
Elon Musk
F:
Frank Jackson,
Freeman Dyson (
+)
G:
Gabe Newell,
Gavin Andresen,
George Church,
Gilbert Harman,
Grigori Perelman
H:
Harold White,
Hilary Putnam
J:
Jaron Lanier,
Jim Gates,
Joe Rogan,
John B. Goodenough,
John Carmack,
John Conway,
John Searle,
Judith Jarvis Thomson,
Julian Assange,
Jurgen Habermas
K:
Kenneth Thompson
L:
Larry Page,
Leonard Susskind
M:
Markus Gabriel,
Martha Nussbaum,
Marvin Minski,
Max Tegmark,
Michio Kaku,
Miguel Alcubierre,
Moxie Marlinspike
N:
Nick Bostrom,
Nick Land,
Nick Szabo,
Noam Chomsky
P:
Peter Higgs,
Peter Ludlow,
Peter Sloterdijk
R:
Richard Hamilton,
Richard Stallman,
Robert Sapolsky,
Roger Penrose
S:
Saul Kripke,
Sean Carroll,
Slavoj Zizek,
Stephen Hsu,
Stephan Wolfram,
Stephen Hawking
T:
Terence Tao,
Thomas Nagel,
Tim Berners-Lee,
Timothy Williamson
V:
Vitalik Buterin
On The Fence:
Banksy (subject of academic study; greatest influence on the contemporary art world)
Conspiracy Corner
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CIA's alien documents released through FOIA.
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Nazi's alien documents regarding their Vril craft.
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The World Government (2005).
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The Woodpecker System and Scalar Wave technology.
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The Effects Of EM Radiation.
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Our Universities Of Mass Destruction.
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Skull and Bones & Knights of Malta.
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The Bohemian Club.
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Our Bechtelization.