A day does not go by that I do not receive inputs from citizens all over the world, generally of remarkably high quality and focus. Below the fold is a death notice for Facebook, which will probably not be able to rise to the European Community mandate that all end users must own their own data and be able to transfer it freely among applications; and a couple of related items.
As a side note, I continue to view with disdain all the lawyers now working cases in isolation against pieces of #GoogleGestapo. They are simply not rising to the possibilities of creating an orchestrated Title 7 Discrimination class action lawsuit against Twitter (Roger Stone ++), Facebook (David Icke ++), YouTube (Prager ++) and AdSense (Alex Jones ++). It is as if all the lawyers are deliberately not serving their clients' best interests.
Rumors that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman has hired mercenaries to torture recalcitrant royals and officials sleeping in the ballroom of the Ritz Carlton in Riyadh have been circulating since shortly after last month’s “corruption crackdown” naked cash grab.
The recent decision by President Vladimir Putin to create an independent Internet with a separate Domain Name System (DNC) that is impervious to Western attack including data corruption and mis-representation is a good decision. President Putin’s desire to have such an independent Internet in place by August 2018 is ambitious but achievable.[1] It is a great pity that the BRICS have wasted four years since they first considered this essential need.[2]
UPDATE 1: http://tinyurl.com/UNRIG-JOIN now open. 435 groups, one for each Congressional District, twice as good as MeetUp at a quarter of the price.
Context
Phase I of #UNRIG,[1] in which I teamed up with Cynthia McKinney to offer the provocative vision of an alt-right white guy and former spy and then non-profit educator united with an alt-left black woman and six-term Member of Congress who refused to sign the pledge to place Israel First, is over.[2] Our campaign was fatally wounded by #GoogleGestapo, a Deep State system of control and censorship that combined media hits jobs, MeetUp paid network cancellations, and hundreds of trolls who can get any person or institution labeled as a hater, spammer, or – the latest – purveyor of pornographic content. Read the article – it is the first-ever over-all description of “the system” that appears to be harmonized by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on behalf of the Deep State.[3]
Blockchain and ticketing
Blockchain and the sharing economy
Doom and gloom in the world of finance?
Blockchain will bring down Google
Blockchain in medicine
Every transactional business model will be impacted
The rise of cryptocurrency doesn’t merely threaten the monopoly of central banking, however; in fact the entire nation state apparatus rests precariously on the structure of banking carefully crafted over 400 years. What cryptocurrency threatens is the very existence of the nation state which will have to pivot quite radically in order to survive the coming onslaught from the blockchain. The resulting institutional framework might look entirely alien once the dust has settled.
Phi Beta Iota: This a deep “must read” for all of you.