The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
It’s 119 Degrees Outside. Ready for a Blackout? It’s HOT in the southwest. The temperature in Phoenix, Arizona hit 119 degrees (F) on the 29th of June, a new record for the date. The heat was so intense, it led to the cancellation of 18 regional flights at the airport (the aircraft used for those …
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The PiY Revolution. A World of Abundance. Here’s some advice you don’t hear often: Use all the energy, water, and food you desire. No really. Do it. However, there is one catch. In order to follow this advice, you will need to Produce it Yourself (PiY). Produce it where you live. Grow the food. Generate …
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Positive Control When something is very dangerous, like nuclear weapons, standard forms of protections and control methodologies aren’t sufficient. Something that potentially dangerous needs something more aggressive. In the military, that’s called positive control. Positive control is an active form of control where the dangerous item is under 24x7x365 monitoring, checking, patrolling, testing, etc. In …
Canada Makes the Automation of Tyranny Easier Here’s a sign of the times. Canada has made wearing a mask at a protest a crime. Why did they do this? It makes it easier for police to ID people using CCTV and social media photos after a protest occurs. It also makes it easier to …
Iran, Cyberwar, and the Perils of Lazy Thinking For those of you that don’t know, the US doesn’t spend much time/energy/effort on military strategy and theory. They do spend money on political scientists and engineers to provide a substitute. Regardless, this deficit means the US continually falls victim to strategic errors due to stale military …
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My Drone Book/Movie (If I wrote one) Posted: 16 Jun 2013 09:58 AM PDT If I did write a near future, CGI thriller about drones, here’s my back of the envelope sketch of the plot. It’s definitely a movie plot, and not real. That means it is meant to be over the top. If you …
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DATA Dystopia. The NSA Scandal and Beyond. In the last couple of weeks, we’ve gotten confirmation that what we’ve been assuming is true: The government is snooping on us. They aren’t lightly snooping. : They are gathering data on EVERYONE (inside and outside the US) simultaneously. Storing it in databases that will last forever, and …
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