The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Thursday, 30 June 2011 WAR NERD: How the IRA used Systems Disruption I’ve enjoyed The War Nerd for years. Great, colorful writing. The author of the column, “Gary Brecher,” was never on the same page as me when it came to warfare. However, that’s changed. He now thinks, and makes an excellent case for global guerrilla …
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JOURNAL: The Resilient Community Wiki The great part about starting out small, simple, and a little cheesy is that it can only get better from there. Using that logic, my friends and I have launched a wiki called Miiu (pronounced me-you). Miiu is a visual wiki. Essentially, a catalogue of things (products, tools, etc.) and …
THE BITCOIN BUBBLE If you haven’t already heard about bitcoin, the first popular cypto-currency, you soon will. The idea for the currency is simple. It’s a software system that makes it possible to manufacture and trade (P2P), in a public and decentralized way, a limited digital resource. That’s it. So why the interest in bitcoin? …
JOURNAL: The Economic Juggernaut of Genghis Kahn Global Guerrillas Some fun thinking for Wednesday… Here are some of the economic reforms that turned the horde of Genghis Kahn into a steamroller than flattened most of the world’s kingdoms/empires.* He: Delayed gratification. He banned the sacking of the enemy’s camp/city until all of the fleeing soldiers, …
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Monday, 23 May 2011 OPEN VENTURES: Entrepreneurial Superempowerment Global Guerrillas Corporations haven’t changed much organizationally since the middle ages. They’re dinosaurs. It’s time to turn them into history, where they belong. As part of the new venture I’m working on, we’re developing a set of new rules that allow a new form of corporation to …
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Networked tribes, systems disruption, and the emerging bazaar of violence. Resilient Communities, decentralized platforms, and self-organizing futures. By John Robb HOW TO THRIVE (ECONOMICALLY) AS THINGS FALL APART Posted: 20 May 2011 11:30 AM PDT The most likely scenario for the next decade starts with the resumption of global economic depression (D2). Economies shrink. Wealth …
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D2 SCENARIO I gave a little talk at a financial conference (Casey Research) that included the following very simple economic scenario: Oil prices are going up (inexorably). China + Peak Oil + Financial diversification. Oil doesn’t stop going up until GDP goes down. It’s an inexorable force until then. The US middle class is broken. …
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