An alert reader provides a summary below the fold — worth a full read!
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Berto Jongman: Surveillance Capitalism and Silent War – Kees Van der Pijl
07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption, Government
Surveillance Capitalism and Crisis
Makes the case that elite contrive perpetual crisis to keep the poor in a state of tension and unable to organize for political or financial power.
Patrick Cockburn: Economic Sanctions = War Crimes
04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime
It’s Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes
Economic sanctions are like a medieval siege but with a modern PR apparatus attached to justify what is being done. A difference is that such sieges used to be directed at starving out a single town or city while now they are aimed at squeezing whole countries into submission.
Sanctions are just as much a collective punishment as area bombing in East Aleppo, Raqqa and Mosul. They may even kill more people than the bombs and shells because they go on for years and their effect is cumulative.
Yoda: Incumbents Fleeing Congress — 53 Republicans, 21 Democrats (for now…)
Corruption, Government
Senate: 0 Democrats, 3 Republicans
House: 21 Democracts, 50 Republicans
See Also:
Robert Steele with Jim and Angie Blake: Remember USS Liberty & Trump vs. The Deep State Who Will Win?
Interviews OF RobertAndre Staltz: The Next Web – Mesh Web – Death to Facebook Etc.
#OSE Open Source Everything
A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet
My previous article, The Web began dying in 2014, here’s how, raised much more awareness than I thought it would.
There are three promising things that can enable a reinvented internet:
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Penguin: Open Source 2018 (Enterprise trends and opportunities)
Software
Open source in the enterprise: Trends and opportunities in 2018
Thomas Di Giacomo, CTO at SUSE, outlines key trends and emerging opportunities in open source and enterprise IT for 2018.
- Diversification of the public cloud landscape
- Containerised applications
- Hardware re-emerges as a competitive differentiator
