Jason Livesay: Tiny Villages – Horizontally Scaling Society

Tiny Villages: Horizontally Scaling Society Cloud computing is about horizontally (as opposed to vertically) scaling systems. Instead of building one super-powerful server, you create many inexpensive servers that each contain a small part of the system. There are multiple advantages to “scaling out” rather than “scaling up”, such as incrementally improved capacity with little or …

Berto Jongman: CIA & NATO Faked Russian Subs Against Sweden, with Swedish Military Collaboration

CIA, NATO and Swedish military plotted regime change in Sweden in the 1980s. ‘Heroes’ and victims of 80’s US disinformation provide clues to today’s Russian scare To win the cold war President Ronald Reagan formed a secret ‘deception committee’ for a disinformation campaign against the USSR On several occasions ‘disinformation’ put the world on the …

Robert Steele: Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) – Achieving the SDG Goals in a Fraction of the Time at a Fraction of the Price

Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) Achieving the SDG Goals in a Fraction of the Time at a Fraction of the Price Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/SDG-OSEE Salient Points: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are not achievable using the prevailing paradigm of donors, intermediaries, and industrial-era proprietary technologies and costs. The SDG goals can be achieved at a …

Hal Berghel: Secretocracy

Secretocracy Hal Berghel, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Secretocracy is an insidious, anti-democratic form of government sustained by secrecy and defined by an ill-informed body politic. Securocrats, and the military–industrial complex that feeds on them, increasingly use computing technology to prevent the electorate from accessing complete information. PDF (5 Pages): Secretocracy Full text below the …

Berto Jongman: Advance Knowledge of ISIS Plots in Europe?

Intel agencies had hints of ISIS plot Source: It wasn’t a secret ISIS was targeting Europe Intelligence obtained by Western security agencies before the November 13 Paris attacks indicated as many as 60 ISIS fighters had been deployed by the group to Europe to carry out attacks on five cities and had already reached European …