NIGHTWATCH: Chinese Using Senkaku Islands Dispute to Experiment with Managing “Total War” Across All Domains

Japan-China: Bloomberg has published an excellent report that describes the economic consequences of Japan’s dispute with China over ownership of the Senkaku Islands. No other news outlet has published a comparably insightful and detailed account. The first point the journalists made is that trade relations between China and Japan multiply the costs of a territorial …

Patrick Meier: Creating Resilience through Big Data

How to Create Resilience Through Big Data I’ve been invited by PopTech and the Rockefeller Foundation to give the opening remarks at an upcoming event on interdisciplinary dimensions of resilience, which is  being hosted at Georgetown University. This event is connected to their new program focus on “Creating Resilience Through Big Data.” I’m absolutely de-lighted to be involved …

Rickard Falkvinge: Sweidsh Government Loses Its Integrity, Turns Over Two Swedish Citizens of Somali Origin for Rendition to USA, Without Informing Their Lawyers, Without Due Process

Two Swedes Renditioned To The US, Possibly To Death Penalty, In Secrecy And Without Lawyers’ Knowledge Posted: 04 Jan 2013 12:34 AM PST Process of Law – Henrik Alexandersson:  Mid-November, two Swedish citizens with Somali origins were renditioned from Djibouti to a prison in the United States of America. According to the US, they are …

SchwartzReport: End of Bulk Cable, Begining of Selective Wireless Channel Access

Intel Is Reportedly Going To Destroy The Cable Model By Offering People The Ability To Subscribe To Individual Channels Intel is reportedly on the cusp of delivering something that consumers around the world have been wanting for a long, long time.Kelly Clay at Forbes reports Intel is going to blow up the cable industry with …

Steven Aftergood: Congress to Public: Butt Out — We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Intelligence Oversight or Public Accountability — ESPECIALLY on Drones and Assassinations

Intelligence Oversight Steps Back from Public Accountability The move by Congress to renew the FISA Amendments Act for five more years without amendments came as a bitter disappointment to civil libertarians who believe that the Act emphasizes government surveillance authority at the expense of constitutional protections.  Amendments that were offered to provide more public information …

Mini-Me: Court Seals Evidence of Multiple Shooters in Aurora — Police Radio Transcript, Blood Trail, Second Gas Mask…

Huh? Evidence of multiple shooters at Aurora Theater massacre covered up Niall Bradley Veterans Today, 30 December 2012 In light of evidence that a cover-up is underway concerning the Sandy Hook school massacre, I’m reposting the following article by Michael Kelley of the Business Insider, first published on Tuesday 7th August 2012. Readers of my …