The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Writes well, does David.
With Linux and Creative Commons, The $9 CHIP Computer Reveals Its Open Source Details
We’ve been wondering exactly how open source CHIP, the $9 computer, is. Turns out, it’s really freaking open! … The most exciting thing about CHIP is not that it is the first $9 computer, but that it is the first truly Open Source $9 computer.
CROWD-SOURCING THE TREATY VERIFICATION PROBLEM
“Never before has so much information and analysis been so widely and openly available. The opportunities for addressing future [treaty] monitoring challenges include the ability to track activity, materials and components in far more detail than previously, both for purposes of treaty verification and to counter WMD proliferation,” according to a recent study from the JASON defense science advisory panel. See Open and Crowd-Sourced Data for Treaty Verification, October 2014.
Continue reading “Steven Aftergood : JASON on Open Sources — 25 Years Late”
Anonymous NYT Review of Books
Nothing since the triumph of the Vandals in Roman North Africa has seemed so sudden, incomprehensible, and difficult to reverse as the rise of ISIS. None of our analysts, soldiers, diplomats, intelligence officers, politicians, or journalists has yet produced an explanation rich enough—even in hindsight—to have predicted the movement’s rise.
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: The Mystery of ISIS — Robert Steele: The Mendacity of the West”
Idle speculation from a counterintelligence officer.
1) Go back to Trump’s recent past, you see he is buddies with the Clintons, especially Hillary. He has given money to their foundation and he was once a big fan of of Hill’s views on immigration reform. With his background, he’s a really a Demo in Repub drag covertly sullying and tainting the Republican BRAND both by endless accusatory charges against individual Repub elites and by embodying in his person and message – in a very exaggerated way – the worst and ugliest dark shadows looming behind the Repub agenda. When people look at and listen to him, he implicitly reminds voters – in his very own personal example – that Repub pols are racist and way too rich to care about anybody but the rich, plus profoundly hypocritical, indifferent to the facts, etc. When they see/hear him hurl bitter accusations against other Repubs, he reminds them explicitly, like a Demo might, that Repub pols are are incompetent, hypocrites (e.g., not caring for vets), and religious nutjobs. He makes them look bad in his personal example AND what he directly says about them. Objective of this two-pronged approach: get enough people to be revolted by the sheer unattractiveness – on all levels – of Repub pols to vote Demo instead. Bingo, Hill wins. Likelihood: High.
Continue reading “Mongoose: Is Donald Trump Hillary Clinton's Dirtiest Trick?”
U.S. Intelligence Officials Demand that Obama Release MH-17 Intel
If the White House has concrete, probative intelligence regarding MH-17, we strongly suggest that the time is right to approve it for release before the “blame Russia” narrative becomes completely dominant. The American people are perfectly capable of judging for themselves what took place but they need to have all the information presented without bias and without any attempt to evade unpleasant conclusions. And it should be done even given the risk of compromising “sources and methods,” as the broader issue of war or peace with Russia is something that should be of paramount concern to every American.
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‘Tech’ Is Political—How We Respond to It Needs to Be Just as Political
New technologies will not solve our problems: People acting collectively will.
By Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor
The Internet and associated technologies reflect and amplify the winner-take-all economy in which they are embedded, inseparable from the political and financial revolution that has been unfolding since the 1970s.
Here is a potential game changing infrastructure technology, once again from the Dutch. And very good news. Road construction and maintenance using recycled plastic is a brilliant idea.
Netherlands Company Introduces Plastic Roads That Are More Durable, Climate Friendly Than Asphalt
