Jean Lievens: Wikinomic Innovation Redux – World Upside Down

Hothouse innovation redux: The world “upside down” Recently The Economist released a feature report on how innovation in emerging markets may be eclipsing innovation in North America. The report, The world turned upside down (click “Buy PDF” for a complimentary copy courtesy of BASF) reinforces the fact that globalization and disruptive innovation is no longer …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

Atrocities in Central African Republic Crime Pays — Development Role of Gangsters Failure of NSA — Wretched, Truly Wretched IARPA — Equally Wretched Ignorance Project Artemis – OSINT activities on Deep Web Unlocking the NSA Vault with Snowden Documents US Intelligence Reform Act (Have a Puke Bag Handy)

Paul Craig Roberts: Ignored Reality Is Going To Wipe Out The Human Race

Ignored Reality Is Going To Wipe Out The Human Race To inform people is hard slugging. Everything is lined up against the public being informed, or the policymakers for that matter. News is contaminated by its service to special interests and hidden agendas. Many scientists or their employers are dependent on federal money. Even psychologists …

Jean Lievens: How the 99% Are Using Lateral Power to Create a Global Revolution

How the 99% Are Using Lateral Power to Create a Global Revolution It’s happened before, in 1848 and in 1968. The youth of the world took to the streets to protest the injustices of autocratic political regimes and rapacious business interests and to demand the most basic human right to participate as equal citizens in …

4th Media: America’s Threat-Centric [Lie-Based] Education System: Out of Date and Out of Time

America’s Threat-Centric [Lie-Based] Education System: Out of Date and Out of Time “History is a story. That’s why we fight over history. We make sense of ourselves, the world and ourselves in the world through the struggle to tell the truth through stories. Facts have to be contextualised to become the truth. And that truth …

Chuck Spinney: Strategy? Or Stupidity on a Grand Scale?

Professor Brenner gave me permission to distribute and post the attached essay.  Without saying so, he describes a way that seems tailor-made to systematically violate just about all the criteria for a sensible grand strategy.    Chuck Spinney The Blaster   27 OCTOBER 2013 NSA DOES THE GRAND TOUR by Michael Brenner, PhD Professor of International …