Anthony Judge: Counteracting Extremes Enabling Normal Flying – Insights for Global Governance from Birds on the Wing and the Dodo

Counteracting Extremes Enabling Normal Flying Insights for global governance from birds on the wing and the dodo Introduction Underside of normality? Lost art of bird watching? Bird flight as offering a global transformation of systemic perspective Styles of flight as styles of governance Empowering democratic take-off through coordinated wing flapping Lift, banking and control as …

Stephen E. Arnold: Microsoft Embraces Open Source – Watch for Flying Pigs

Watch for Flying Pigs as Microsoft Embraces Open Source Microsoft is getting its open source on. Ars Technica reports, “Microsoft Open Sources a Big Chunk of .NET.” It seems the tech giant is softening its stance on open source resources; perhaps they now see they have little choice if the company wants to remain relevant. …

John Maguire: YouTube (1:49:40) John Searl, Flying Discs, and Anomalous Energy

This documentary, filmed in 2007, is an overview of the life and work of British Engineer John Searl: A man who in the 1960s made national headlines in England after constructing and publicly demonstrating flying saucers (aka Levity Disc Generators). Not only did Searl’s devices defy gravity, but due to their superconductive properties and anomalous magnetic effects (aka Searl Effect) they …

Mini-Me: Navy Dependant Put on No-Fly List for Critical Views – Stranded for Five Days in Hawaii – No One In TSA Able to Think or Over-Ride?

Man stranded after finding himself on no-fly list during stopover in Hawaii JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii –  Hawaii is a paradise for most visitors. But it was Wade Hicks, Jr.’s prison for five days. The 34-year-old from Gulfport, Miss., was stranded in the islands this week after being told he was on the FBI’s …

Yoda: In with Flynn, Out with What? Can He Effect Change Clapper Could Not?

Military Intelligence Gadfly Will Lead All Military Intelligence Spencer Ackerman WIRED, April 17, 2012 One of the most disruptive men in the sprawling U.S. spy community, someone who turned the military’s elite killers into top spies, will likely soon be in charge of all military intelligence. The Pentagon on Tuesday nominated Army Lt. Gen. Michael …

Edwin Jewett: QAnon Pivots Its Exiled Online Movement to the Real World

QAnon Pivots Its Exiled Online Movement to the Real World THE CROWD PULSED as more than 1,500 attendees stamped and sang “We’re Not Gonna Take It!” While the For God & Country Patriot Roundup, a QAnon-linked conference in Dallas in late May, began with narratives of unity and love, speakers alluded to or outright spoke …