The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
JOURNAL: Ding Dong Osama’s Dead Too little too late. A couple of trillion $$ and ten years late. Too little in that we got a corpse instead of a captive, when there was an opportunity to take him alive (or “mostly dead” if you get the reference). In all, we got more of a PR …
JOURNAL: The Education Bubble Peter Thiel (Paypal and other ventures) has been making some waves for his position that higher education in the US is the next bubble. In short, he’s right. Given what we now have available in terms of tools, it should be possible to get an Ivy league education for $20 a …
JOURNAL: Oil >$100 Crunch time ahead (again)? The last time the price of oil topped $100 a barrel for an extended period, we ended up in a global financial meltdown. Is this time any different? Not much. All of the excessively financial leverage and fraudelent derivative wealth we had during the last melt down is …
Tuesday, 22 March 2011 Global Guerrillas JOURNAL: Alternative Currencies Spent some time talking with some smart folks working on alternative currencies in SFO. Here’s the conclusions from this conversation. Alternative currencies can do three things: 1. Serve as a store of value. Presumably, this currency holds value better than existing currencies. In this way, it …
Bay Area Community Exchange Presents John Robb’s Open Source Ventures Friday, March 18, 2011 at 7:30 PM (PT) San Francisco, CA The Bay Area Community Exchange presents John Robb, author of Brave New War and originator of the concept of “open source warfare” which predicted many of the patterns of conflict observed in the recent …
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2010-12-04 How WikiLeaks builds a global open source insurgency 2010-11-21 Global Guerrillas (John Robb) on Open Source Jihad 2010-03-12 JOURNAL: OSW Standing Orders (11 of them) 2010-02-16 dkgreenroots: oil addiction, open source insurgency & black swans: Part II 2009-11-17 Open Source Insurgency through Software Tools 2009-09-14 An Early Plan for Open Source Peaceful Evolution 2008-03-23 …
A Plausible Promise by John Robb of Global Guerrillas For an open source revolt (here’s some background on “open source insurgency“) to be successfully formed, it needs a plausible promise. A meta issue around which all of the different factions etc. can form (remember, most of the groups and individuals involved in an open source …
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