The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Toward an Open Co-Operativism Pat Conaty and David Bollier, Commons Transition “The power of open source principles, now proven beyond a doubt, is rapidly proliferating into many other areas of culture, production and social life. The prospect of more participatory, socially convivial forms of production – accountable to communities and mindful of the larger common …
32,000 Open Source Hardware Designs This morning, our community has publicly shared over 32,000 open source hardware designs with the world. They span the full range of dev boards, power supplies, home automation, solar, picture frames, and wearables. We can’t speak highly enough of those dedicated to the open source hardware movement, and who choose …
Continue reading “Jean Lievens: 32,000 Open Hardware Designs”
David Tucker 3.0 out of 5 stars A poor thesis, rotten sources, with no quality control in the literature review, January 27, 2015 This is a hugely disappointing book. It reads like a graduate thesis badly overseen (with zero in the way of serious literature search). While the author has some experience in the foreign …
Kill Dead Zones With This Small Box DIY phone and internet service for rural areas Kurtis Heimerl enables entrepreneurs to build their own wireless networks. A postdoctoral student at the University of California at Berkeley, Heimerl packed a Linux computer, a 900 MHz power amplifier, and a 2G cellular-network antenna into a microwave-size box called …
Love Open Source? Good News and News I read “Top 10 FOSS Legal Developments of 2014.” A legal eagle generated the listicle. Despite my skepticism for birds of this feather, the list has some good news and—well, to put it positively—news for the open source movement. The good news is that folks from courts to …
Must read, this is. Who Should be Blamed for Muslim Terrorism? The West is Manufacturing Muslim Monsters by ANDRE VLTCHEK CounterPunch, 9-11 January 2015
Secret Torture versus Open Source Intelligence OpEdNews, 23 December 2014 In 1989, as a former spy for the CIA who became the second-ranking civilian in Marine Corps Intelligence, I ghost-wrote an article for the Commandant of the Marine Corps, “Global Intelligence Challenges in the 1990’s.” This was the first article to distinguish between the conventional …
Continue reading “Robert Steele: Secret Torture versus Open Source Intelligence”
