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Chuck Spinney: The Mind of the Decider — Ignorance Plus Arrogance — Disconnected from Reality While All Others Buried Their Integrity

NATIONAL SECURITY Iraq Invasion Anniversary: Inside The Decider’s Head By Chuck Spinney, March 22, 2013 [note: a shorter version of this essay also appeared in Counterpunch here] In the summer of 2002, during the lead up to the Iraq War, a White House official expressed displeasure about with article written by journalist Ron Suskind in Esquire. He asserted people like Suskind were trapped “in …

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Sepp Hasslberger: World’s largest solar power plant

Sepp Hasslberger‘s insight: It took $ 600 million and 3 years to build this – not bad for a plant that doesn’t need fuel, leaves no polluting exhaust and is extremely safe. Arabia could be exporting electricity instead of oil. Future business for desert countries? Who needs oil? World’s largest solar power plant with 258,000 …

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NIGHTWATCH Plus: North Korea — US B-52 Follies, NK Threatens US Bases in Pacific, Crashes SK Networks

B-52’s & NK Counter-Threat In Show of Force, US Bomber Trains Over S. Korea North Korea: B-52 flights an ‘unpardonable provocation’ North Korea threatens US Pacific bases over B-52 flights NK Cyber-Attack on SK?  [Israel also suspect] South Korean TV networks and banks suffer computer crashes after suspected cyber-attack from the North NIGHTWATCH North Korea: …

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John Robb: How Drones Can Recharge from Power Lines and Remain Active for Years

How Drones Can Live off the Land for Years Cyberweapons and synthetic biological weapons (GMOs) can self provision. They have the ability to live off the land (hosts, like human bodies and PCs) once they are unleashed. NOTE:  In many cases, they can also make perfect copies of themselves (copies in the trillions). But what …

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Patrick Meier: Crisis Mapping, Neogeography, and the Delusion of Democratization

Crisis Mapping, Neogeography and the Delusion of Democratization Professor Muki Haklay kindly shared with me this superb new study in which he questions the alleged democratization effects of Neogeography. As my colleague Andrew Turner explained in 2006, “Neogeography means ‘new geography’ and consists of a set of techniques and tools that fall outside the realm of …

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Michel Bauwens: Abandoning Checks & Balances

Question authority! ‘We are abandoning all the checks and balances’ WASHINGTON – Evgeny Morozov is a Belarus-born technology writer who has held positions at Stanford and Georgetown universities in the United States. His first book, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, argued that “Western do-gooders may have missed how [the Internet] … …

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