The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Silicon Valley: Off Ramp Closed for Repairs?
We learned that Alibaba (a Chinese outfit) has entered into a deal with Russian firms for online payments. Reuters reported the tie up in “Alibaba’s JV in Russia to Use Russia’s Payment System.” The system is used in Russia.
TechCrunch points out in “Alibaba Goes Big on Russia with Joint Venture Focused on Gaming, Shopping and More”:
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Beyond the Cyber Leviathan: White Hats and U.S. Cyber Defense
…the majority of attacks that weaken information systems have nothing to do with geopolitics. Governments need to start thinking about defense as systemic health and resilience, not simply military conflict.
IBM Embraces Blockchain for Banking: Is Amazon in the Game Too?
IBM recently announced the creation of LedgerConnect, a Blockchain powered banking service. This is an interesting move for a company that previously seemed to waver on whether it wanted to associate with this technology most famous for its links to cryptocurrency. However, the pairing actually makes sense, as we discovered in a recent IT Pro Portal story, “IBM Reveals Support Blockchain App Store.”
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Google: Online to Brick and Mortar Cross Correlation
Our research suggests that Amazon may have a slight edge in the cross correlation of user data. Google, whether pulling a me too or simply going its own way, has decided to link online and brick and mortar data.
The effort was revealed in “Google and MasterCard Cut a Secret Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales.” Amazon has access to some data which makes it possible for those with appropriate system access to perform analyses of Amazon customers’ buying behavior.
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How China's Mobile Ecosystems Are Making Banks Obsolete
Giant Chinese tech companies have bypassed credit cards and banks to create their own low-cost digital payment systems.
The President needs a truth channel that connects him directly with the 200 million eligible voters in the USA (70% of them blocked from ballot access and meaningful vote). Such a truth channel must combine text messages, emails, posts, videos, and shared documents and must not be subject to censorship, manipulation or digital assassination such as are now common to Amazon, Facebook, Google, MeetUp, Twitter, YouTube, and Wikipedia (known collectively as #GoogleGestapo).
The President can create this truth channel virtually overnight if he will undertake five initiatives in the next 90 days:
I have known Stephen E. Arnold since the early 1990's when he quickly became the only speaker to be demanded by my international audience every year. I have relied on him over the years for truthful open source intelligence and deep insights not available from other commercial sources. Although he is now retired, I believe he will be instrumental in guiding millions of dollars in investments intended to create a national truth channel and social ecology that cannot be censored.
Here is my favorite bit up front:
“There is not enough money available to start over at Google. After two decades of fixing, tweaking, and enhancing, Google search is sort of chugging along. I think it is complex and swathed like a digital mummy in layers of code.”
Interview below the fold.
