Mongoose: Five Reasons Presidential Candidates Should Refuse to Speak to AIPAC

Five Reasons Why Presidential Candidates Should Not Speak at AIPAC Ariel Gold, Dissident Voice, 16 March, 2016 1. AIPAC promotes Israeli settlements in direct opposition to international law. 2. AIPAC lobbies shamelessly for the US to fund Israel’s military. 3. AIPAC threatens and attacks anyone who is critical of Israel. 4. AIPAC acts as a …

Amazon Kindle: REVOLUTION!: How Donald Trump Can Win and Govern by Championing Electoral Reform, a Coalition Cabinet, a Balanced Budget, and a Constitutional Convention in 2018 (Trump Revolution Book 01)

We are all crazy, all black, and all angry. 2016 is the culminating year in which the two-party tyranny reaps as it has sown — Donald Trump on the right — winning by the rules — and Bernie Sanders on the left — losing by the rules — represent the 99% who have been disenfranchised …

Stephen E. Arnold: Free Academic Publishing? Harder Than Most Imagine…

Free Academic Journals? Maybe I read “This Renowned Mathematician Is Bent On Proving Academic Journals Can Cost Nothing.” If you are not an academic, you may not know that some folks pay the publisher to publish one’s research report, journal article, or wild and crazy summary of non reproducible results. Good business? You betcha. I …

Marcus Aurelius: OSINT Battle Rythm — the Best the US Army Can Do…. Plus DefDog Comment

Surfing the web with reservists….as published in Military Intelligence, July-September 2015. PDF (4 Pages): (U)_OSINT_Battle_Rhythm_(MIPB_Jul-Sep_15) Since the end of the Cold War, and especially over the last 10 to 12 years with the reduction of military and civilian staffs at combatant commands and national agencies, more and more “real-world” intelligence production at operational and strategic …

Adam Tucker: More Fish Than Plastic in Ocean by 2050?

There Will Be More Plastic Than Fish in the Ocean by 2050 There will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050, warned the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in a report published Tuesday. The report, The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the Future of Plastics, was produced by the foundation and the World Economic Forum with analytical support from …

Sepp Hasslberger: The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) with Comments from Phi Beta Iota Editors

This is about de-centralising the net, distributing the data to the periphery where it’s needed, rather than running everything through big data pipes and central servers… HTTP is obsolete. It’s time for the distributed, permanent web HTTP is broken. It’s time for the distributed, permanent web. The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a new hypermedia …