Sepp Hasslberger: The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) with Comments from Phi Beta Iota Editors

Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Impotency
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

This is about de-centralising the net, distributing the data to the periphery where it's needed, rather than running everything through big data pipes and central servers…

HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the distributed, permanent web

HTTP is broken. It's time for the distributed, permanent web. The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a new hypermedia distribution protocol, addressed by content and identities. IPFS fundamentally changes the way we look for things, and this is it's key feature. With HTTP, you search for locations. With IPFS, you search for content. IPFS is still in Alpha release, but you can find out more here

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Ty Simpson: There’s a blockchain for that!

Advanced Cyber/IO
Ty Simpson
Ty Simpson

There’s a blockchain for that!

The code that secures Bitcoin could also power an alternate Internet. First, though, it has to work.

For now, think of it as a way of transferring a digital message from one party to another, where both parties can count on the integrity of the message, even when they don’t trust, or even know, each other. Right now, these messages are mostly virtual cash. But they could be any kind of information.

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Mongoose: Irresponsible Government = Infectious Diseases

02 Infectious Disease, Corruption, Government
Mongoose
Mongoose

UK faces alarming rates of ‘Victorian’ diseases

London – It has been mistakenly assumed that ancient diseases are totally eradicated, especially in developed countries. The United Kingdom particularly is now facing a “Victorian” disease epidemic, as cases of tuberculosis, scurvy, cholera, whooping cough, and scarlet fever are rising alarmingly. Experts believe the main causes could be immigration, malnutrition, poverty and lack of access to health care.

Ty Simpson : Monsanto Closing 3 Research Centers, Cutting 2,600 Jobs

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 07 Health, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption
Ty Simpson
Ty Simpson

Monsanto Reports the Closing of 3 Research and Development Centers

After announcing a 2,600 job cut

Following news made just weeks ago about Monsanto slashing 2,600 jobs and ending $3 billion to buy back shares from investors, the biotech giant is now reporting that it will be closing 3 research and development centers in order to cut costs in the agricultural commodities market.

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With more and more consumers looking for non-GMO food, the heyday for biotech patented seed just might be coming to an end.

Mongoose: Elliot Higgins & BellingCat Blown

Civil Society, Corruption, Media
Mongoose
Mongoose

Comments by Abe made in response to Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) “A Call for Proof on Syria-Sarin Attack,” Consortiumnews.com, provide compelling indictment of Elliot Higgins and BellingCat, pretenders in the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) world who have taken in the gullible in the mainstream media. We find these comments so useful we are preserving them in their entirely here below.

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Philippe Baumard: Denial: uncertainty in economics and strategy — do not abandon thinking in favor of ideology

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Philippe Baumard
Philippe Baumard

No words can express the sadness we all felt after the attacks that targeted France on 13 November. Facing the irreparable, and more than ever, the strategic vacuum the question arises. I am pleased to participate in a conference whose objective is to encourage the study and practice of the strategy, as part of this collective initiative that was the Encyclopedia of strategy.

A strategic vacuum is a situation where the economic models, societal, “strategic” cease to provide relevant answers to a crisis involving the sustainability of a company, of a political, economic or military. It is, in mirror, a window of opportunity for those who exploit the lack of direction, the confusion of beliefs, the vulnerability of a social or economic fabric prey to superstitious beliefs, or dismayed by the repetition of peoples empty.

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