Mini-Me: NSA Gutting of US Communications and Computing Likely to Cost US Tech Companies Way More Than $35 Billion

NSA Surveillance May Cost U.S. Tech Companies More than $35 Billion Two years ago, when Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s massive surveillance machine it didn’t just make Americans distrust the U.S. government—it also impelled foreigners to shy away from U.S.-made technologies. The result appears to be costly. In fact, a new report from the Information …

Dmytri Kleiner on Radical Openness

“Thinking about “the challenges of a open practice” gets me thinking about what “radical openness” could mean. On the surface, it could just mean really, really, extremely, very open. But that’s a overly colloquial understanding of the word radical, as in “totally rad,” as opposed to “radical critique.” Extreme or drastic is not necessarily radical. …

Chuck Spinney: Cartographic Games Divorced from Reality – Daniel Neep on The Middle Eastern Example

Below is a brilliant essay that shows how cartographic hallucinogenics can capture one’s Orientation and create an incestuously amplifying* decision cycle that disconnects a “policy” maker from real world. * Note to new readers: For an explanation of how “incestuous amplification” operates to disconnect a decision maker from the exigencies of the real world read my essay, Incestuous …

Berto Jongman: Secret Meeting in London to “End Cash”

Secret Meeting in London to “End Cash” Central banks aim to institute “governmental approval” for all purchases and sales Economist Martin Armstrong claims there is a “secret meeting to end cash” set to take place in London before the end of the month involving representatives from the ECB and the Federal Reserve. Armstrong, who is …

Owl: GoodGopher.com Favors Alternative Media, Bans Corporate and Government Propaganda

Health Ranger launches world’s first search engine that favors New Media while banning corporate and government propaganda: GoodGopher.com The official beta launch announcement is here! The world’s first privacy-protecting search engine that bans corporate propaganda and government disinformation is now ready for webmasters to submit their sites for indexing. The name of the new search …

ADMIN CRS Update 10 April 2015

The below newly-acquired Congressional Research Service (CRS) have been received from the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and are now catalogued and accessible here.

2015 Steele on Democracy Lost – “OUT OF CONTROL: Can Open (Public) Power Effect a Non-Violent Revolution?”

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Out of Control: Democracy Lost—Death of the USA—Can Open (Public) Power Effect a Non-violent Revolution? Is the USA a democracy? Have all of the checks and balances been corrupted across academia, civil society, commerce, government, law enforcement, media, military, and non-government/nonprofit domains? What can we, should we, do to restore integrity …