Continue reading “Robert Steele: Who Owns What When Virtue Counts?”
Robert Steele: Who Owns What When Virtue Counts?
Cultural Intelligence, Peace IntelligenceRobert Steele: Are We Ready for the Age of Virtue?
Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Continue reading “Robert Steele: Are We Ready for the Age of Virtue?”
Graphic: Why Oregon Matters — Need to End Federal Ownership of Land
Cultural Intelligence
Continue reading “Graphic: Why Oregon Matters — Need to End Federal Ownership of Land”
Sepp Hasslberger: Open Modular Hardware
Hardware
How to localise manufacturing – go modular and build for re-use…
How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware
Reverting to traditional handicrafts is one way to sabotage the throwaway society. In this article, we discuss another possibility: the design of modular consumer products, whose parts and components could be re-used for the design of other products. Initiatives like OpenStructures, Grid Beam, and Contraptor combine the modularity of systems like LEGO, Meccano and Erector with the collaborative power of digital success stories like Wikipedia, Linux or WordPress.
Steven Aftergood: US Army Intelligence Support to Urban Operations
IO Impotency, Military
Intelligence Support to Urban Military Operations
To the eyes of a military planner, a city presents āan elaborate combination of horizontal, vertical, interior, and exterior forms superimposed on a landscapeās natural relief, drainage, and vegetation.ā A newly reissued U.S. Army manual contemplates the difficulties facing military action in the urban environment with a focus on intelligence collection. See Intelligence Support to Urban Operations, TC 2-91.4, December 2015.Ā Ā Read additional extracts.
CounterPunch: Origins of the Oregon Confrontation Between Ranches and Federal Government
Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government
Showdown in the Malheur Marshes: the Origins of Rancher Terrorism in Burns, Oregon
In the early 1990s, Hammond repeatedly transgressed federal environmental laws, trespassed on federal lands and hurled death threats atĀ federal wildlife officials. Little action was taken against Hammond by a timid Clinton administration. Emboldened, Hammond and some of his fellow ranchers continued over the next two decades to flagrantly flout environmental laws and harass federal officials. These activities finally culminated in an act of poaching on Steens Mountain and two arson fires. Hammond and his son were convicted in federal court and sentenced to five years in prison. That conviction sparked the armed takeover of federal buildings now unfolding in Burns. Here is our report from 1995. ā JSC
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Data
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