Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Rickard Falkvinge: Europe Slams US on Mass Surveillance Suspends Trade Talks and Data Sharing

Ethics, Government
Rickard Falkvinge
Rickard Falkvinge

Europarl Suspends U.S. Trade Talks, Data Sharing Over Mass Surveillance

Privacy: The European Parliament has just voted on a comprehensive bill to express its massive disapproval of U.S. mass spying on ordinary citizens. In the bill, it calls for suspension of trade talks, suspension of data sharing, suspension of U.S. corporate rights to European data, and calls for the general principle of only surveilling suspects to be honored. This follows a several-months-long continuous inquiry into United States spying practices.

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SchwartzReport: US Milk Bad — and Why

01 Agriculture, 07 Health, Earth Intelligence

If you have issues with milk you are going to find this story very important. We have here what I think is going to be an new datastream, a new thread tracing the failure of the Industrial Animal Husbandry model.

You're Drinking the Wrong Kind of Milk
JOSH HARKINSON – Mother Jones

When my in-laws moved from India to the United States some 35 years ago, they couldn't believe the low cost and abundance of our milk-until they developed digestive problems. They'll now tell you the same thing I've heard a lot of immigrants say: American milk will make you sick.

It takes HOW much water to make a glass of milk?!

It turns out that they could be onto something. An emerging body of research suggests that many of the 1 in 4 Americans who exhibit symptoms of lactose intolerance could instead be unable to digest A1, a protein most often found in milk from the high-producing Holstein cows favored by American and some European industrial dairies. The A1 protein is much less prevalent in milk from Jersey, Guernsey, and most Asian and African cow breeds, where, instead, the A2 protein predominates.

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Berto Jongman: Tim Berners-Lee Calls for Online Magna Carta – a Global Constitution and Universal Bill of Digital Rights

Advanced Cyber/IO
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Web Inventor's Bold Call: Time for ‘Online Magna Carta'

Tim Berners-Lee issues call for “a global constitution – a bill of rights” to defend digital rights

– Andrea Germanos, staff writer
TIm Berners-Lee

As the World Wide Web celebrates its 25th anniversary Wednesday, Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the system, is calling for an online ‘Magna Carta' to protect users in the face of growing surveillance and attacks on an open internet.

Twenty-five years on, Berners-Lee said, “we need to make sure we establish the principles that the Web's been based on — principles of openness, principles of privacy, principles of not being censored.”

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Berto Jongman: NSA Malware for Millions of Computers

07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Government, Military
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

NSA Malware Designed to Infect Millions of Computers

Anthony M Freed

Tripwire, Mar 12, 2014

First Look’s digital publication The Intercept is reporting that classified documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that the National Security Agency is developing “groundbreaking surveillance technology” designed to infect millions of computers with surveillance malware.

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Transition Network Game Plan: 12 Ingredients

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

The twelve key ingredients to the Transition model

To begin with, it is important to note that although the term “Transition Town” has stuck, what we are talking about are Transition Cities, Transition Islands, Transition Hamlets, Transition Valleys, Transition Anywhere-You-Find-People.

These ingredients are not designed to be followed slavishly – like a good recipe in the hands of a creative chef, sometimes you'll need to switch the order around, substitute certain items, change the emphasis, add some spice! And that's what Transition Initiatives are doing – taking these ingredients, putting them in different orders and adapting them to local conditions. An example of this is Transition Town Bridport's interpretation of the 12 ingredients.

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Transition Network Concept Paper: Region-Wide Resilience in New England

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

Reflections for Consideration

This short paper offers some “grist for the mill” as we consider together what regional resilience could mean for New England.

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New England has a long tradition of radical communitarian culture. The colonists came here as congregations or communities rather than as individuals. Communities banded together into state parliaments here and laid the groundwork for the American Revolution. The region has a tradition of social change, moral crusades and entrepreneurial invention which provides its unique character. It is no wonder that today New England is home to many thriving grassroots Transition and resilience groups. Our region has already organized three region-wide gatherings to share stories, lessons, inspiration and more, bringing together over 200 people from 50 communities and all six New England states.

While Transition and other grassroots groups focus on the vital task of local resiliency, it is becoming clear to many of us that the demands of our time, and the transition now unfolding, also require us to think regionally. What follows is an attempt to sketch out a rationale for thinking at a regional scale — as opposed to only the local, national, and global ones we are more accustomed to.

This document is offered in the spirit of provoking reflection and as a springboard for further discussion. We hope it sets the stage for a deeper dive into the ideas of regional resilience. We also hope it serves as an invitation for us all to collectively imagine the kind of region where we, our children, and our grandchildren, can grow and thrive.

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Owl: Did an Electro-Magnetic Pulse Bomb Take Down the Malaysian Airlines Flight to China?

IO Deeds of War
Who? Who?
Who? Who?

Did a Non-Nuclear Electro Magnetic Pulse Weapon Take Down Flight 370?

This article poses the theory that Flight 370 was taken down by a non-nuclear portable EMP device to work as a dry run for more future and large coordinated attacks against cities. This type of attack in essence fries the electronics of jets and virtually all unprotected electronics. Such a device would not have been detected by monitoring systems already in place to detect nuclear EMP events:

“The other possibility is one that is often not discussed, yet has emerged as a highly effective military system in recent years. This involves the use of a non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse weapon. Weapons designers specializing in high-energy physics can now create electromagnetic pulses without going into outer space. One approach involves harnessing the force of a conventional explosion. Others are simply just modifications of radar, which bounces pulses of energy off aircraft in flight, vehicles on the ground, and other objects. Crank up the power and you have an EMP weapon, ready to point at the computers of your favorite enemy. This knowledge has set off a new arms race. Whether fitted into cruise missiles or parked at the side of the road in a van, non-nuclear EMP weapons have the potential to devastate the electronic systems of areas as large as a city or as small as a selected building, all without being seen, heard, or felt by a single soul. It is a dream come true for any and all terrorists.

Sound far-fetched? It did not in 1993 to the owners of automobiles parked about 300 meters from a U.S. Defense Contractor’s EMP generator test site at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Their alternators and electronic engine controls were accidentally fried by a pulse during classified field trials.”

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