Stephen E. Arnold: Industrial Catastrophic Sabotage Via the Cloud?

Juicy Target: Big Cloudy Agglomerations of Virtual and Tangible Gizmos What’s the implication? Forget Go to My PC vulnerabilities. Old news. The bad actors may have the opportunity to derail certain industrial and manufacturing processes. What happens when a chemical plant gets the wrong instructions. Remember the Port of Texas City mishap? A tragic failure. …

Tom DeWeese: Green New Deal = UN Socialist Agenda 21 + Robert Steele Comment

Green New Deal Reveals The Naked Truth Of Agenda 21 Sometimes if you fight hard enough and refuse to back down, no matter the odds, your truth is vindicated and prevails! For years I’ve watched politicians smirk, roll their eyes, and sigh whenever the words Agenda 21 were uttered. As George Orwell said, “The further …

Review: ANTIFRAGILE – Things That Gain From Disorder

Nassim Nicholas Taleb 7 Star Transformative — As Important as Governing the Commons — LOCALIZE For those who do not know this, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action earned Elinor Ostrom a Nobel Peace Prize in Economics. This book, by the author of Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable …

Berto Jongman: Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates

Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates J. Peter Scoblic, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School, is a fellow in the International Security Program at New America and the author of U.S. vs. Them: Conservatism in the Age of Nuclear Terror. “From bias to probabilities, Kent anticipated …