The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Here is what the American Surveillance State looks like (publicly) to Europe. This is a German assessment published in one of Europe's leading publications. I confess I don't like my country being thought of in this way.
Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security
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Continue reading “SchwartzReport: Surveillance State — Good, Bad, Ugly”
A military with poor morale is a military that fights poorly.
The key factor is senior leadership that has not kept faith with its troops. The rest of the force that doesn’t live within the Washington, D.C., beltway feels that it is being ridden hard and put back wet so that the generals and admirals can claim success before civilian leaders in Congress and the White House. They have come to believe that they are expendable.
Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: The Real Reason For The Poor State Of Military Morale”
8 Ways to Make a Living with Open Source Hardware
LIST ONLY:
#1 Product – You Sell Your Own
#2 Product – You Sell Products Made by Others
#3 Product – You Sell Products Made with Others
#4 Third-Party – You Sell a Service
#5 Third-Party – You Sell Your Expertise
#6 Knowledge – You Sell Workshops
#7 Donations – You Ask for Donations
#8 Subsidies – You Partner with a Larger Company
I have been thinking about this story all day. If one out of two babies born in the U.S. will be autistic by 2025, if the present trend continues, what kind of world can that be? In 2013 the number of live births in the U.S. was 3,952,840. as described this would mean 1,976,420 autistic children. Within a generation the care of these millions would consume the nation. This is completely insane. Say the estimate is 50% off. It would still be 19,764,200 in 20 years. All of this damage in the service of profit.
Half of All Children Will Be Autistic by 2025, Warns Senior Research Scientist at MIT
Phi Beta Iota: We include diseases spread by industrial mal-practice in the “infectious” disease category ranked as high-level threat to humanity number two. Our ignorant corrupt government is literally murdering our public.
The Tragedy of the American Military
The American public and its political leadership will do anything for the military except take it seriously. The result is a chickenhawk nation in which careless spending and strategic folly combine to lure America into endless wars it can’t win.
This is a few months old but it does mark good progress for eventually developing the capability of space exploration without having to take rocket fuel along for the ride.
NASA successfully tests engine that uses no fuel, violates the laws of physics
If the efficacy of the drive is confirmed, the implications for space travel are profound. It seems that another technology from Star Trek may be about to become reality,.
Searchblox Announces New Visualization Method for Search Results
The brief article on Searchblox titled A Visualization Is Worth a Thousand Search Results relates the addition of visualization to the Elasticsearch-based system, Searchblox. Searchblox is an open source enterprise content search engine founded in 2003. Its customers range over 25 countries and include Harley Davidson, Capital One Investments, Kellog, and the US Department of Justice, to name just a few. The article discusses the latest advancement of visualization with a note on how to use the new plugin and how it works. The article states,
