by zen | Sep 4, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Big Brother’s little brothers are listening in on your calls, tapping your data When the government and ruling elites fashion a Creepy-State, it inevitably spawns a surveillance arms race. If your private data is...
by zen | Apr 12, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Colonel Keith Nightingale, was featured at Thomas Rick’s Best Defense blog ”future of war” series at Foreign Policy.com. It is a strong piece, well worth reading: The seven ingredients of highly...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 16, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a bit disconcerted by what I see looming in the futuristic mist — your view may of course differ ] . Okay, let’s begin this little tour with a recent news flash, to keep us grounded. This comes to you from Indiana: Indiana...
by zen | Oct 29, 2013 | Monitor
Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Ca.) is the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. She and her closest aides are privy to some of the nation’s most closely guarded secrets above and beyond that of an ordinary member of the intelligence committee. When a highly...
by zen | Oct 7, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Several weeks ago, Cheryl Rofer wrote an important post analyzing the report “Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action” by Microsoft billionaire, venture capitalist, theoretical mathematician and cookbook author, Dr. Nathan...
