Graphic: The Smart Grid — Is This Also the New Spy Grid?

Source Phi Beta Iota:  All of this stuff can be hacked.  Until the governments of the world get honest and real about code-level open source security, every single one of these is — to honor Ralph Nader’s earlier dictum, “unsafe at any speed.”  Nader’s fight was not about automobile safety, it was about corporate accountability …

SchwartzReport: New Phone App Allows Point of Sale Boycott of Koch Brothers and Monsanto Products — Now Imagine an App with Face, Address, and Credit Card Recognition That Can Refuse Service to Anyone Working for Them….

This is wonderful news. One of those little social acupunctures that allows the 99 per cent to speak out effectively — don’t buy their stuff.  Go to: http://www.buycott.com/ to download.   I urge all my readers to do so and shop accordingly. New Phone app Allows Users to Boycott Koch Brothers and Monsanto Products ARTURO GARCIA …

Michael Ostrolenk: Letter to President Obama on Guantanamo Prisoners

As sent.  Actual document:  2013-05-03 Letter to Obama on Releasing Guantanamo Prisoners National Commission on Intelligence Misuse to Justify War 722 12th Street, N.W., 4th Floor Washington, D.C. 20005 bruce@intelcommission.org Phone: 703-963-4968 May 3, 2013 President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Re: Releasing the Innocent Prisoners at Guantanamo …

Open Power: Democracy Lost & Found Essay, Book Review Blurbs and Links [Updated 3 MAR 2015]

NEW: Kindle Book Open Power ($2.99) OLD: Core Documents for Both Initiatives (Free) OLD: the foundation book The Open Source Everything Manifesto ROBERT STEELE: There are two schools of thought on effecting political (and hence economic and social) reform. One school is the school of love — this school emphasizes trust building and doing no …

Theophillis Goodyear: Subprime Mortgage — Open Source Could Have Prevented, but Various Information Pathologies (Corruption of Government Being One of Them) Enabled the Fraud

The Subprime Mortgage Crisis: A Perfect Example of the Potential Benefits of Open-Source Governance in the Real World The article: The Nature and Origin of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis, (San Jose State University Department of Economics) says,”The guilt for the subprime mortgage financial crisis lies both with the lenders who knowingly put borrowers into booby …

2007 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) 2.0

Now that everyone is paying attention, this is being posted in full text online in support of a larger M4IS2 / OSE dialog. Document:  Strategic OSINT (Chapter 6 in Strataegic Intelligence Vol 2) 10 MB Links added below throughout, updated where appropriate. See Also: 21st Century Intelligence Core References 2.0 Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Robert …