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BitTorrent Tests Websites Hosted in the Crowd, Not the Cloud

An experimental browser shows how peer-to-peer technology can serve up entire websites, not just individual files.

An experimental new Web browser makes it possible for sites to be hosted not on a company’s servers but, instead, by a shifting crowd of individuals on their personal computers. That turns the usual approach to serving up websites on its head and could provide a more effective and reliable way to disseminate bulky media files or distribute vital information in the event of natural disaster.

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2015/01/252015/01/25

SchwartzReport: Princeton: US Not A Democracy

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Government

Well, I don't see how you could make it any plainer than this. I now have two grandsons — two years for one, one month for the other — and I wonder what kind of country, if they stay in this country, the United States will be when they grow to adulthood. It seems very doubtful it will be the democratic republic of my youth, in substance whatever hollow forms may remain.

Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy

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2015/01/24

Sepp Hasslberger: End of Servers II – Future of the Internet

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics

They have been working on it for years and it seems ready to go now. I believe that the SAFE network could be our chance of re-making the internet from the bottom up, using our own resources instead of centralised servers for our data and our communications.

Project SAFE (Secure Access For Everyone) aims to create a decentralized and secure Internet 2.0 (here is a whitepaper). The SAFE Network is a secure and fully decentralized data management service. The network is made up from the unused computer resources provided by the network users.

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2015/01/232015/01/24

Mongoose: Tom Brady, Patriots, Deflategate, and a Culture of Cheating

Civil Society, Corruption

Brady Bashing Reaches All-Time High As Ex-Players Slam Tom's Take on Deflategate

Deflategate theory: What if Pats inflated balls in warm environment?

Phi Beta Iota: All of our safety nets — all the checks and balances — are gone. Each of the eight “tribes” fosters a culture of cheating — academia, civil society (including labor unions, religions and sporting teams), commerce, government, law enforcement, media, military, non-government/non-profit.

Paradigms of Failure @ 2008 ELECTION 2008: Lipstick on the Pig

2015/01/22

Jean Lievins: Utility 3.0: How to Democratize Energy in the U.S.

05 Energy, Civil Society, Ethics

Utility 3.0: How to Democratize Energy in the U.S.

As the U.S. turns to renewable energy, the question remains: who will benefit?

Among those concerned with the United States' energy future—including, increasingly, the utility companies themselves—the business model known as “Utility 2.0” appears as a beacon of hope. Utility 2.0 addresses the concerns of both energy watchdogs and conventional electricity utilities by offering the latter financial incentives to adopt greener, more flexible infrastructure. But while this new paradigm presents solutions to many of the problems associated with centralized, fossil fuel-reliant power grids, some argue that it does not go far enough.

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2015/01/202015/01/19

Robert Steele: The Armed Unemployed — Lessons Not Learned + Revolution RECAP

05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, Civil Society, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence

Robert David Steele Vivas

The below two headlines should give the 1% great pause.

ISIS: Western Journalist Embedded With Group Says He Came Into Contact With Americans

Reporter who spent ten days with ISIS says the West ‘has no concept' of how dangerous the group is and says they want to ‘kill all non-believers and enslave their children'

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2015/01/17

Justin Raimondo: In the Absence of Leaders with Integrity — Charlie Hebdo as War-Mongering

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics

The Uses of Charlie Hebdo

This isn’t about free speech – it’s about war

As the great libertarian writer and editor Garet Garrett put it some sixty years ago: “No doubt the people know they can have their Republic back if they want it enough to fight for it and pay the price. The only point is that no leader has yet appeared with the courage to make them choose.”

The American conundrum, and that of the movement for peace and the restoration of the Constitution, is a crisis of leadership. The country yearns for it, cries out for it – and may yet be rewarded for its patience.

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