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2011/10/01

Penguin: Truth Tellers versus Triumph of the Lie

03 Economy, Blog Wisdom, Budgets & Funding, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, IO Sense-Making, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth

Found this while browing, in comments to Robert Ringer's Triumph of the Lie, itself worth reading.

Doug Casey .. Douglas “Doug” Casey is an American-born free market economist, best-selling financial author, and international investor and entrepreneur.

Gerald Celente .. Gerald Celente is an American trend forecaster, publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultant and author who makes predictions about the global financial markets and other events of historical importance.

Bob Chapman .. Bob Chapman publishes International Forecaster, and brings to bear a lifetime of trading experience in gold and silver.

Bill Fleckenstein .. William A. Fleckenstein is president of Fleckenstein Capital, a money management firm based in Seattle. He writes a daily Market Rap column for his Web site, Fleckensteincapital.com, as well as the popular column Contrarian Chronicles for MSN Money.

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2011/10/012011/10/17

Koko: About 400 Arrested in Wall Street Protest….

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Law Enforcement

Koko Signs: Blocking traffic, bad. Arresting 400 also bad. More to come.

(Reuters) – About 400 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested on Saturday afternoon after blocking traffic lanes on the Brooklyn Bridge and attempting an unauthorized march across the span, police and witnesses said.

On the second week of protests by the Occupy Wall Street movement, a large group of marchers broke off from others on the bridge's pedestrian walkway and headed across the Brooklyn-bound lanes.

“Approximately 400 were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge late this afternoon after multiple warnings by police were given to protesters to stay on the pedestrian walkway,” a police spokesman said.

Mini-Me: Assassination – Made in America – At What Cost? Impeachable Treason.

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, DoD, Government, IO Deeds of War, Law Enforcement, Methods & Process, Military, Misinformation & Propaganda, Officers Call

The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality

Without a shred of due process, far from any battlefield, President Obama succeeds in killing Anwar al-Awlaki

Glenn Greenwald

Salon, 30 September 2011

The US Assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki and the Blurring of Bright Lines

E. D. Kain

Forbes, 30 September 2011

The Obama administration has demonstrated once again, as it did in Libya and as it’s done in a variety of surveillance cases, that its view of executive power in the arena of national security is hardly any less expansive than Dick Cheney’s was. The fact that this was predictable makes it no less alarming.

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2011/09/302011/10/17

Mini-Me: Cry from the Heart On US Electoral Fraud

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Law Enforcement, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Officers Call, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests

Reacting to:

Tom Atlee: Diebold Voting Machines Can Be Hacked Remotely–ONE THIRD of All Votes Can Be Easily Manipulated

From Canada via Email:

Why do you think I moved to Canada after the 2004 election was stolen in Ohio? I had direct experience as an election observer for the Democratic party at the Ohio recount in 2004, the Ohio 2006 elections, and the 2008 election. All were defrauded. I was on a citizen lawsuit filed in the Federal courts, and the judge refused our original evidence. We have a huge paper trail of evidence. Here’s the public record.

I personally tried to save the Republican IT guys whose plane went down in 2008 after he was deposed by the King Lincoln attorneys. I spoke with his attorney before he deposition and tried to keep him from speaking, even though that put the theft on record. We needed to save him for a protected testimony. Yes, that’s how it ends when you try to come clean.

Many MANY activists have worked on this since 2004. We were told by Salon and by Daily Kos, by all the bloggers we were conspiracy nuts, until Robert F. Kennedy Jr published his piece in Rolling Stone, I believe, in 2006. I realized we could not win this by activism or legal means. I moved to Canada and became a permanent resident. There are some wars you cannot win.

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2011/09/302011/09/30

Howard Rheinigold: Cultivating a Personal Learning Network

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Gift Intelligence

Institute for Social and Network Literacy

Life Skills for Knowledge Citizenship

Notes on cultivating a personal learning network

Explore — it’s not just about knowing how to find experts, co-learners, but about exploration as invitation to serendipitous encounter.

Search – Use Diigo, delicious, listorious, to find pools of expertise in the fields that interest you.

Follow candidates through RSS, Twitter. Ask yourself over days, weeks, whether each candidate merits continued attention.

Always keep tuning your network, dropping people who don’t gain sufficiently high interest; adding new candidates.

Feed the people you follow if you come across information that you suspect would interest them.

To find expertise, also use scholarly tool, scholar.google and freeware “Harzing’s Publish or Perish” shell of it.

Engage the people you follow. Be polite, mindful of making demands on their attention. Put work into dialogue if they welcome it.

Inquire of the people you follow, of the people who follow you. But be careful. Ask engaging questions – answers should be useful to others.

Also, use the fractal branching effect– when you find someone worth following, see who they follow, lather, rinse, repeat.

Respond to inquiries made to you. Contribute to both diffuse reciprocity and quid pro quo.

Howard also Recommends:

Goodbye Information Overload: Strawberryj.am Digs Out The Best Links From Your Twitter Connections

2011/09/29

Koko: Ralph Nader Loves Ron Paul, Hails Potential Left-Libertarian Alliance

Advanced Cyber/IO, Budgets & Funding, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Policies, Threats

Koko Signs: All that's needed now is the convergence of Independents, the Day of Rage and Freedom Plaza mobs, a revitalized labor movement, all centered on Electora Reform, a Coalition Cabinet, and the cancelling of corporate charters for any corporation screwing the public – and of course the repeal of “corporate personality.”

Ralph Nader Hearts Ron Paul, Hails Potential Left-Libertarian Alliance

Matt Welch

Reason.com, 28 September 2011

Michael Tracey, who wrote about restrictive teen-driving laws in the June issue of Reason, catches up with the consumer crusader for The American Conservative:

Looking ahead to the 2012 presidential race, one might assume that Nader has little to be cheerful about.

Yet he says there is one candidate who sticks out—who even gives him hope: Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. […]

“Look at the latitude,” Nader says, referring to the potential for cooperation between libertarians and the left. “Military budget, foreign wars, empire, Patriot Act, corporate welfare—for starters. When you add those all up, that's a foundational convergence. Progressives should do so good.”

Koko: Leaderless Mobs – Occupy Wall Street & Occupy Freedom Plaza in Limbo

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of Peace, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth

Occupy Wall Street protesters driven by varying goals

Almost two weeks into an anti-greed sit-in, the ‘leaderless resistance movement' is at a crossroads.

By Tina Susman

Los Angeles Times

September 29, 2011, 5:48 p.m

Reporting from New York—

Michael Moore and Susan Sarandon have dropped in. A seasoned diplomat dispenses free advice. Supporters send everything from boxes of food and clothes to Whole Foods gift cards. They even have their own app, for the legions of fans following them on iPhones and Androids.

Nearly two weeks into a sit-in at a park in Manhattan's financial district, the “leaderless resistance movement” calling itself Occupy Wall Street is at a crossroads. The number of protesters on scene so far tops out at a few hundred, tiny by Athens or Cairo standards. But the traction they have gained from run-ins with police, a live feed from their encampment and celebrity visits is upping expectations. How about some specific demands, a long-term strategy, maybe even … office space?

So far the group, which generally defines itself as anti-greed, has none of those.

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