Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Bojan Radej: Oxfam Reference on Political Capture and Economic Inequality

Access, Commerce, Corruption, Government
Bojan Radej
Bojan Radej

A fine reference.

Oxfam (2014). Working for the Few: Political capture and economic inequality (Briefing Paper, 32 pages).

Phi Beta Iota: The elite is starting to fracture — inclusive and redemptive capitalism are code for “stop the pitchforks.” What the broad elite does not get yet is that infinite wealth can be created if they give up 1% of what they are hoarding and get out of the way — stop rigging the system. Electoral Reform is the only “root” means of restoring integrity to the government, the economy, and society.

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

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

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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Stephen E. Arnold: Enterprise Search Does Not Work — Big Data? Useless to the Front Line Worker

IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Enterprise Search: A Problem of Relevance to the Users

There is no fast, easy to use, stable, and helpful way to look for information on a couple of terabytes of local storage. The files are a mixed bag: Excels, PowerPoints, image and text embedded PDFs, proprietary file formats like Framemaker, images, music, etc.

See Also: Guide to Getting the Most Out of Your Unstructured Data

 

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SchwartzReport: Solar & Wind Energy Edge Ahead

05 Energy
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Here is the latest good news about the trend shifting us out of carbon energy. I see more and more of these stories and they lead me to believe that this transition is going to happen more quickly than most planners assumed.

Solar trees are taking root around the world

​Sologic’s sustainable eTree provides free WiFi, a cold drink and more.

Huge New Area Soon To Open For Offshore Wind Power In New England

Phi Beta Iota: Birds are routing around the wind farms — they are not wiping out birds as originally feared.

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

Civil Society, Corruption
Mongoose
Mongoose

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.

See Also:

Review: The Cheating Culture–Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead

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

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Nafeez Ahmed: CIA, Google, NSA, Goldman Sachs, the Highlands Forum, DoD, and More…

Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency, Military
Nafeez Ahmed
Nafeez Ahmed

How the CIA made Google

Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet—part 1

Why Google made the NSA

Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet—part 2

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Owl: Saudi Instability, Pedophilia Taking Hillary Down, Warren as Manchurian Candidate, a Muslim Europe?

Cultural Intelligence
Who? Who?
Who? Who?

A few days ago, in a post mentioned here, John Robb predicted ISIS would invade and take Saudi Arabia in Spring, at the earliest. With King Abdullah dead, http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/middleeast/saudi-arabia-king-abdullah-dies/, Robb has changed his forecast and states ISIS will likely take a southern pivot, moving troops from Iraq and Syria, going south after Mecca and Medina, and signs are evident that just such a pivot is underway. Robb briefly articulates how ISIS could do it and what the worst case implications would be:

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