Penguin: Open Source Data Storage & Intelligence

Open source storage: driving intelligence in the small data sprawl era Organisations are turning to open source storage solutions to gain value from the data they store. But, what has driven this trend? Cloud architectures and open source storage Open source in the analytics space Open source storage driving intelligence Read full post.

Review: Hate Inc. Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi 5 Stars — Totally Brilliant Let me begin with my 7-Star regard for Matt Taibbi — he is one of just three authors who have TWO books in my top 50 cosmic life-changing books lecture, the others are Will Durant and Edgar Morin and that is Nobel-level company. His two are Griftopia and …

SPECIAL: The Death of Clandestine HUMINT in the Digital Age

ROBERT STEELE: Afer nine years as a spy including three back-to-back tours overseas with five times the regional recruiting and production record, in 1988 I conceptualized the modern discipline of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). In 1993 Alvin Toffler built a chapter around me, “The Future of the Spy” and called me “the rival store” but …

Review: For a New Critique of Political Economy by Bernard Stiegler

Bernard Stiegler 4 Stars Brilliant Vital Focus on Human Contributions to Economic Wealth Creation, Turgid Beyond Comprehension The only thinig worse that reading a book in turgid academic French ( which I cannot do) is reading the same book translated into turgid academic English — turgid on steroids. This book could have been a ten …

Review: Before Our Very Eyes – Fake Wars and Big Lies from 9/11 to Donald Trump by Thierry Meyssan

Thierry Meyssan 5 Star Brilliant and unique truth telling from three points of view: Arab, French, US — an Indictment of Empire I have been a deep admirer of the intelligence and integrity and local knowledge as well as strategic acumen of  Thierry Mayssan ever since he accurately understood 9/11 as an inside job, long …