The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Why The Global System is Killing Trust Posted: 09 Feb 2012 03:35 PM PST Trust is an essential building block of any economic and social system. Systems that attempt to operate without it inevitably fail. A loss of trust typically preceeds a collapse in legitimacy. That’s our future. Here’s why: Let’s start with a philosopher …
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Simple equation: A national security system that is mostly bloat and mission creep instead of real, honest to goodness, security + Badly design social media monitoring tools that are sifting through billions of messages a day? = FAILURE Here’s a simple example. A young British guy makes a tweet to his friends: Easy to discern …
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Drone Diplomacy: Comply or Die Gunboat diplomacy was the essence of military power projection for centuries. Want to coerce a country? Sail a aircraft carrier battle group into their national waters. However, carrier battlegroups are hideously expensive, increasingly vulnerable to low cost attack, and less lethal than they appear (most of the weapons systems are …
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The Copyright Cartel’s Enforcers: The FBI What happens when a government hollows out? Answer: Private interests take control of the machinery of state to enhance and protect their profitability. In some cases, this results in simple looting (like the US mortgage fiasco and EU meltdown). In others, Byzantine laws and rules are enacted that crush …
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Modern Darknets The classical definition of a darknet is: a private file sharing network. That’s a bit outdated (those of you that have been reading Global Guerrillas for a while are already way ahead of the power curve on this). It’s time to update/widen the term to accommodate a wider range of modern activity. A …
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The Digital Roll-Out of Resilient Communities Many of us believe that networked resilient communities are the key to the future. These communities are not only a way to survive the current global collapse, they are something more: The next step in social/economic organization. For those of us that are successful (by hook or crook) in …
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Bitcoin Reborn: As a Financial Wire Service for the $10 Trillion System D? As a store of value or an asset Bitcoin’s shady. Here’s why: since the supply of bitcoin is limited and knowledge/use of it is growing (potentially virally) it’s the perfect breeding ground for a speculative bubble. In a world awash with scams …
