December 2010 – Page 16 – Public Intelligence Blog

This new Rockefeller Institute study on the budget crises facing virtually every state is tough sledding but a must for all those going googoo over NJ Gov Christie after last nights 60 Minutes performance.

This is the very best source for State budgets, med programs and initiatives. Kicks Harvard Kennedy School butt coming and going.

2010/12/20

Journal: A Glimpse Into Emergent Populist Intelligence

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

Tags Activist Altruist Centrist Coffee Party Communitarian Globalist Green Humanist Organizer Patriot Peacemaker Programmer Progressive Spiritual Theorist Transpartisan Universalist Volunteer Worker Writer

Issues Balanced judgment Church and state Citizen participation and engagement Cooperation Corporate power Fragmented or disjointed thinking Grassroots mobilization Inclusion Media Mistrust Money in politics National unity Partisanship in politics Spin and distortion The culture of blame and accusation The role of government The spirit of democracy Unscientific or irrational thinking Water Wisdom Women

Skills Community organizer Editor General computer skills Programmer – ColdFusion Programmer – MS SQL Database Special academic training and expertise Team leader Transpartisan politics Writer

Phi Beta Iota: Below the line is an email with several links that has been broadcast by and to what we think of as the “thinking man's kum-ba-ya crowd.” They have not gotten a grip on public intelligence in the public interest yet, they are still crawling around the edges of structured organization. Think of them as raw material for GroupOn. A mix of naivete, scary, and inspiring. Please also note, as Tom Atlee has emphasized, that CITIZENSHIP makes “transpartisanship” a moot if not a counter-productive term. The Coffee Party is seriously over-hyped in the material that follows, but the spirit of the note is authentic and merits respect.

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Journal: Corporate Hijacking of Cyber-Space

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, InfoOps (IO), Methods & Process, Mobile, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Policy, Politics of Science & Science of Politics, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests, Privacy, Reform, Standards, Strategy, Technologies

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The Wall Street Journal

OPINION
DECEMBER 19, 2010

The FCC's Threat to Internet Freedom

‘Net neutrality' sounds nice, but the Web is working fine now. The new rules will inhibit investment, deter innovation and create a billable-hours bonanza for lawyers.

By ROBERT M. MCDOWELL WS

Tomorrow morning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will mark the winter solstice by taking an unprecedented step to expand government's reach into the Internet by attempting to regulate its inner workings. In doing so, the agency will circumvent Congress and disregard a recent court ruling.

How did the FCC get here?

Read entire article….

Phi Beta Iota: The public is now much more aware that neither of the two political parties can be trusted, and that trust for any given government element, policy, or point of view is contingent on a much deeper examination of bias and motive than many would wish. There are two sides to this issue, irrespective of the competency and good faith of government: on the one side are the corporations, including Google and Verizon, that wish to hijack cyber-space and claim that they own it. This will allow them to charge premium prices for access to high-speed services. On the other are those whose taxes paid for the creation of the Internet in the first place, the US taxpayer–they see the vital importance of open spectrum, open source software, and open source intelligence as the tri-fecta of cyber-freedom. At OSS '92 John Perry Barlow said that the Internet interprets censorship as an outage, and routes around it. Our view is that the corporations will succeed in hijacking cyberspace in the near term, but in the mid-term and beyond OpenBTS and other bottom-up public innovation solutions will restore the noosphere to its rightful owners, the human minds that comprise the World Brain.

2010/12/20

Off-Beat Fun: THE TORTURE SIDESTEP–a Bush “Waterboard” Musical

Offbeat Fun, YouTube

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Journal: Ron Paul C-SPAN’s Newsmakers + Ron Paul RECAP

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Budgets & Funding, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Corporations, Ethics, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy

Focus on tax package, Republican future, focus on Federal Reserve and oversight if not termination of the Federal Reserve. Focus on danger of central economic planning. Do not attack individuals, but rather the “system.” It's going to get a lot worse. Need more transparency. Everything Fed does is secret and they have a budget bigger than US Congress. They bail out the insiders, not America. Bad economics and not legal under the Constitution. He is pressed hard by interviewers on bubbles existing before the Fed. You pay the price of SHORTER recessions. The debt is liquidated. Today our whole goal is to perpetuate the mistakes. Only thing worse than the Fed would be a “One World” currency. Explicit prohibition against printing money (applies to BOTH the Fed and to Congress). What is really at issue here is NOT the Fed, but rather the role of government in the eyes of the people. Stopping the Fed stops the US Government from being a world policeman and a regulator of our lives and the world.

C-SPAN VIDEO (31.:05) “Newsmakers” Interview of Ron Paul

Books by Ron Paul

Review: The Revolution–A Manifesto . . . . . . .Review: A Foreign Policy of Freedom–Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship (Paperback). . . . .End the Fed . . . . . . .Liberty Defined: The 50 Urgent Issues That Affect Our Freedom . . . . . . .Pillars of Prosperity . . . . . Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse. . . . .Ron Paul Speaks. . . . . .Case for Gold: A Minority Report of the United State Gold Commission. . . . . .Mises and Austrian Economics: A Personal View