Jean Lievens: Elements of Collaborative Economy – Social, Mobile, Payment Networks

Forget about Growth Hacking, the future is in the Collaborative Economy VIDEO Anyone working in digital can somewhat relate to the overuse of loosely defined marketing words – think ‘big data’ or ‘cloud computing’ (bzzzz). Growth hacking seems to be just another one of them. In colloquial terms, growth hacking is associated with the exploitation …

Marcus Aurelius: Defense Orders Most Furloughed Players Back to Work

Not sure just what this really means — What does “most” mean? I read the language of the law, which extremely broad and permissive. DoJ and, of course DoD (little difference) attorneys appear to have construed the language VERY, VERY narrowly SECDEF’s memo, link highlighted, follows suit, seeming to focus on employees doing things like …

Chuck Spinney: Israeli Genocide & Other Atrocities Against the Bedouin — Funded by the US Taxpayer!

Written by an Israeli activist. Published on Friday, July 12, 2013 by Al Jazeera Israel’s ‘Indigenous Invaders’ How Israel justifies the imminent relocation of thousands of Palestinian Bedouin by characterizing them as invaders. by Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini On June 24th the “Prawer Plan for the Arrangement of Bedouin-Palestinian Settlement in the Negev” passed …

Jon Rappoport: Center for Disease Control is a Taxpayer-Funded Fraud — The Flu Is Not the Flu, Lies Focus on Protecting the Money Machine Not the Public

A new giant vaccine scandal exposes government lies and psyops If you control the use of words and numbers, you can make trillions of dollars, and you can hide scandals that would otherwise take you down into infamy and prison. You can pretty much operate a whole sector of society and remain untouched. Nowhere is …

Jean Lieven: Local Motors Replay — Transformation of Design, Manufacture, and Sale of Personal Transport Vehicles

Green innovation: how Local Motors is revolutionalising the way cars and bikes are designed, manufactured and sold Alan Moore, Guardian Sustainable Business 22nd May 2013 Local Motors shares its innovations and lets customers be part of the car-building process, while keeping it local. Last year, I spoke at Shanghai’s Radical Design Week about the transformational …

Winslow Wheeler: GAO (A Legislative Entity) Plays Courtesan to Lockheed, DoD, and the Congressional Recipients of Lockheed Largesse + F-35 RECAP

DOD is circling the wagons to keep the F-35 propped up in the declining Pentagon budget.  Importantly, as noted by a prime Lockheed mouthpiece offering his thankfulness for it, GAO’s newest report on the F-35 offers a conclusion that the F-35 is on track for improvement–the data notwithstanding.  In point of fact, what the GAO conclusion …