The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
P2P Foundation / Demonetization
Book: Life without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies
Mark Boyle, founder of The Freeconomy Community. Mark is currently living without money for almost three years.
Book: The Moneyless Manifesto: Live Well, Live Rich, Live Free
Below: Mark Boyle at TED
Intel CEO Refuses To Answer Questions On Whether NSA Can Access Processors
Previously leaked NSA slide bragged that Intel chips were compromised
Steve Watson
Infowars.com
February 20, 2014
During a Q&A in which he’d promised to answer any questions put to him, The CEO of computer chip company Intel stayed silent when asked about NSA spying.
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: NSA “Owns” All Intel Processors?”
Bush or Clinton: Will America's Only Choice be a Presidential Dynasty?
After the inevitable disaster of having a dynasty in office, maybe Americans will want to roll it all back to before 1776, and just have a King or Queen in charge, screw democracy.
Which Dynast will win, Jeb Bush or Hilary/Bill Clinton? Ed Ross leans towards Jeb Bush in this article:
“Polls had New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ahead of the Republican pack and Democratic odds-on favorite Hillary Clinton until orange cones on the George Washington Bridge stalled his campaign bus. This far out from November 2016, there is time for perhaps a dozen other Republicans to take his place. One of them is former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Assuming he could win the Republican nomination, is the country ready for a third Bush president?
Y Worlds – a community in progress organized about ways to better understand, better communicate, and better organize every aspect of our complex lives. This is NOT a tech on tech project. This is totally focused on the humans, on eliciting from each human in the network real-time interaction, and on educating humans one interaction at a time. It is intended to be a change agent system that can be applied one instance at a time, or across multiple instances. It does what Wikipedia, Google, and all other data management systems cannot do — makes sense.
NOTE: 32 offerings. All of the below times are in minutes and seconds.
Phi Beta Iota Top Picks:
17 2013 Meaning (00:59) – Meaning is what shines.
32 2014 The Art and Science (01:47) – High-level fast introduction.
19 2013 Language-2 (05:03) – Ancient, limited, not up to the challenges of communication and understanding complexities.
31 2014 Proof Process (5:50) – An in-depth look at Y Worlds' Proof Process.
Google will explore bringing Fiber to 34 new cities including Portland and Atlanta
Google just announced that it's invited cities in nine metro areas across the US to explore “what it would take” to bring its Google Fiber gigabit internet service to more locations. “People are hungrier than ever for faster Internet, and as a result, cities across America are making speed a priority,” Google says. “We've long believed that the Internet’s next chapter will be built on gigabit speeds, so it’s fantastic to see this momentum.” Google says up to 34 cities in all could potentially receive Fiber service. The nine metro areas where those cities are located include:
Continue reading “Danielle Villegas: Google Seeks to Fiber 34 US Cities”
Apparently waves are pretty energy dense and could be used to generate power in a simple way…
“Alam estimated that one square meter of a seafloor carpet system could generate enough electricity to power two U.S. households.
He added that wave energy from just 10 meters of California coastline, or about 100 square meters of a seafloor carpet, could generate the same amount of power as an array of solar panels the size of a soccer field, which covers about 6,400 square meters.”
Seafloor carpet catches waves to generate energy
UC Berkeley engineers are developing a seafloor carpet system to capture ocean wave energy and convert it into usable electricity. The system could eventually help lower the cost of converting seawater into fresh water, easing the pressure during periods of drought.
For assistant professor Reza Alam, an expert in wave mechanics, the seafloor “carpet” he is proposing will convert ocean waves into usable energy.
“There is a vast amount of untapped energy in the oceans, and with increasing worldwide demand for power, the need to find cleaner alternatives to fossil fuels is critical,” said Alam. “We are also seeing greater population growth along coastal cities, so the ocean-based system we are developing would produce electricity in a carbon-neutral way right where it is needed.”
Secrecy = culture of waste.
Balancing Transparency and National Security
Is keeping military funding secret truly necessary for national security? Not according to Pieter and Siemon Wezeman. Greater transparency not only makes governments more accountable, it also helps reduce the causes of insecurity and conflict.
By Pieter Wezeman and Siemon Wezeman for SIPRI
EXTRACT
The secrecy of military matters is an illusion
Many governments justify secrecy in military budgets on the basis that such information should not be allowed to fall into the hands of potentially hostile forces. However, maintaining secrecy about military spending and key military procurement projects is practically impossible. For example, SIPRI has had 45 years of experience in collecting information about military budgets and international arms transfers. Open sources, official or non-official, provide SIPRI with a wealth of information about the procurement of major arms. If organizations like SIPRI, with minimal resources and working only with open sources, can calculate military spending and map global arms transfers with a high degree of comprehensiveness and accuracy, then national intelligence agencies in potentially hostile countries are obviously able to achieve a lot more.
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Secrecy As Culture of Waste”
