The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the race to cool the planet Critics fear that manipulating weather patterns could have a calamitous effect on poorer countries John Vidal The Observer, Sunday 10 July 2011 Phi Beta Iota: This really excellent article is highly recommended along with a look at the only book in English out just …
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http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1182 In 1968, Stewart Brand founded an alternative information service and distribution system within a single publication, called the Whole Earth Catalog. Influenced by the work of Buckminster Fuller, the catalog developed into an extensive reference tool for designing the environment, living spaces, and new media practices. In sections titled “Understanding Whole Systems,” “Shelter and …
Phi Beta Iota: It has become evident that this integrative post is needed. It should be obvious–but evidently it is not–that both Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2) are inherently integrating by nature. Both are the anti-thesis to “Rule by Secrecy” and the Weberian concept of stove-piped …
Since the year 2000, when I watched in horror as Al Gore took the dive and played dead in Florida (the theft was exposed three months before the fact by Greg Palast writing for The Observer in the UK, he subsequently published The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization, and …
UPDATED 2011-09-07 Chapter As Published (PDF) See Also the Original Briefing with Notes: 2009 The Ultimate Hack: Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth (Denmark 27-28 October 2009) Full Text (Translatable) Below the Line
Howard Rheingold, then editor of the Whole Earth Review (WER) gave us access to all past issues of WER, and permission to select and print this special collection of authors and idea relevant to the Revolution in Intelligence Affairs (RIA). All of it remains relevant because both government and industry have chosen to remain on …
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It’s About Context, Business Ecosystems, and IT Impact September 18, 2010 Ric Merrifield I bought this book on the recommendation of a colleague whom I have known for twenty years, both of us members of the Silicon Valley Hackers Conference started by Stewart Brand and now managed by Glen Tenney. When I came to buy …
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