Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

CYBER: Cyber’s Most Wanted DEFENSE: Iranian Mass Production of Coastal Submarines OPEN: interview With FBI Profiler of Psychopaths, Mary Ellen O’Toole OPEN: Italy Rise of Pitchfork Populists (USA Next?) OPEN: Lies About Singularity OPEN:  Missing Links: Access to Papers’ Raw Data Plummets by 17% Each Year OPEN: NSA Mismanagement, NSA Retaliation Against Whistleblowers (Kirb Wiebe) …

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

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

African State Fragility Long-Term Al Qaeda Inside Syria Bitcoin Bungling – Digital Flames Eat Investment Bitcoin Hits $1000 Chernobyl Update Conference Results: Geopolitics of the Arctic Crowdsourcing Dreams Around the World Cyber Threats to Business: The Top Ten DEFCON 16 Presentations Engaging the Muslim World with Public Diplomacy Japanese Banking Scandal: Lending to Yakuza Political …

Rick Falkvinge: 2013 List Of Stone Dead Industries

Rick Falkvinge’s 2013 List Of Stone Dead Industries Infopolicy:  There is a number of industries today that are already obsolete, kept alive by sheer inertia or by political subsidies. Many politicians, in an attempt to “save jobs”, are foolishly taking resources from new, viable industries and giving to these obsolete ones. “Saving jobs” in this …

Reference: HSBC South-South Special – What a Globalizing China Means for Latin America + China RECAP

Points to Consider: 01 PRC Rising in Caribbean, Central & South America 02 Banking, Mining, Power, Water… 03 PRC Non-Official Rising Employer and Tax Revenue Power 04 Not Addressed: Export of Chinese Males — Demographic Majority Inevitable Source Snap-Shot: South-South ties between China and LatAm are growing beyond the well-known trade flows. Chinese corporates are …

Chuck Spinney: Uri Avner on Greatest Danger to Israel – Meddling Idiot “Leaders”

The author of this incisive — and entertaining — analysis of (1) Israel’s political condition and (2) its arrogance with regard to pernicious meddling in the domestic politics of it friends is a former member of the Knesset, a hero of the 1948 War, and perhaps Israel’s leading (and most rational) peace activist.  He is …