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2013/12/302013/12/30

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 1.5

Afghanistan: 12 Year Review Al Qaeda: 2013 Comeback Year Bees Under Attack — Bayer and Syngenta Suing EU to Overturn Ban on Bee-Killing Pesticides Bill Gates Favorite Health Graphic BOOKS: Foreign Affairs Best Picks for 2013 BRAIN: Reading a Novel Boosts Brain BRAIN: Russia Spent 1 Billion on Mind Control CIVIL: NYPD Cites Mosaic Theory, …

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2013/12/282013/12/28

Jean Leivins: SLATE Falls Short in Covering the Sharing Economy

The only thing more tired than the “sharing economy” meme might be this opinion. While there’s truth in what he and many others before him have said, his post throws the baby out with the bath water. It shows a shallow understanding of the economic transformation underway, and this being Slate, with millions of readers, …

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2013/12/242013/12/24

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

A Special Tribute to Gandhi: In my view, four aspects of Gandhi’s legacy remain relevant, not just to India, but to the world. First, non-violent resistance to unjust laws and/or authoritarian governments. Second, the promotion of inter-faith understanding and religious tolerance. Third, an economic model that does not rape or pillage nature. Fourth, courtesy in …

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2013/12/242013/12/24

Marcus Aurelius: Snowden Says “Mission Accomplished”

IMHO, Snowden needs to experience being the object of an “extraordinary rendition” and then be warehoused incommunicado at either GTMO or one of the Supermax facilities. Too bad that appears tactically infeasible at the moment. Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished By Barton Gellman Washington Post, December 23, 2013 Phi Beta …

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2013/12/232013/12/23

Jean Lievens: The War on Knowledge — The Year Hacktivists and the Government Went to War

The Year Hacktivists And The Government Went To War Gerry Smith Huffington Post, 20 December 2013 Peter Ludlow, a philosophy professor at Northwestern University, wrote in The Nation that the prosecution of hacktivists was part of “a war on knowledge” that extends beyond hackers to include Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, who exposed government secrets. …

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2013/12/192013/12/19

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

ANALYSIS: Methodology to Analyze Future Security Threats (3): Scenarios as an Organic Living System BOOK: Evaluation Methodologies for Aid in Conflict BOOK: Global Intellectual History BOOK: Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present CYBER: BIOS Malware Can Destroy Any Computer