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Koko: Wall Street Occupation Continues, Ignored by Media

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Mobile, Policies, Threats
Koko

Occupy Wall Street Protest Being Systematically Ignored by Mainstream Media

Even a rather non-observant person would have noticed by now that the Occupy Wall Street protest is being ignored by the mainstream media, or at least not taken seriously. Corporate-owned media knows its masters well.

DJ Pangburn

Death & Taxes, 23 September 2011

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Phi Beta Iota:  The Wall Street Occupation, now going into its second week, with many additional demonstrations planned across the USA for 6 October 2011, is being ignored by the elite and their media sock-puppets.  This is one reason most do not realize that the “Day of Rage” is about electoral reform and a non-violent repossession of the US and the US Government.

See Also:

2008 ELECTION 2008: Lipstick on the Pig

DefDog: PSYOP Reading List for Citizens

Journal: Third Party Desired by 58% in America + ReCap

Koko: Day of Rage 17 September–How Will it End?

John Robb: Anonymous on Wall Street Occuption

Paul Fernhout: Global Groundswell Mad as Hell

Review (Guest): Confidence Men – Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Review: Grand Illusion–The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny

Review: Griftopia–Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

Review: Rebooting the American Dream–11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country

Review: Running on Empty–How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It (Paperback)

Review: The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown–Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash

Robert Steele: Day of Rage = Electoral Reform & Integrity Plus General RECAP on Purple Public & Third Party Rising

Steven Aftergood: Obama Ambivalent on Open Government

 

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John Steiner: Michelle Bachman Right on the Vacines – Gardasil HPV is demonstrably bad

06 Family, 07 Health, 09 Justice, Civil Society, Corruption, Government
John Steiner

Vaccination Safety Choice: Lives ruined, “Gardasil Girls” abandoned by CDC/ manufacturers/ media – CHECK OUT CA BILL re 12 yr olds

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, September 15, 2011

Contact: Vaccine Safety Council of Minnesota / Nancy Hokkanen 952-831-3777 GOP Debate Spotlights Vaccination Safety, Choice

Lives ruined, ³Gardasil Girls² abandoned by CDC, manufacturers & media

ST. PAUL, MINN. ­ Vaccine consumers were shortchanged yet again by media¹s
selective reporting of Rep. Michele Bachmann¹s HPV vaccine comments from Monday night¹s Tea Party debate. Whatever one¹s opinion of Republican Presidential candidate Bachmann, the seriousness of vaccine injury was lost to many journalists indulgences in bias, jingoism and ignorance.

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Jon Lebkowsky: Jean Russel on Thrivability

11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Blog Wisdom, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics
Jon Lebkowsky

Worldchanging Interview with Jean Russell on Thrivabiliity (2009)

In September 2009, Worldchanging published my interview with thrivability consultant Jean Russell. I’m republishing the interview here in its entirety. Jean and I have had many conversations since, and I’m persistently intrigued by her well-grounded positive vision of a world in which we humans not only survive sustainably, but thrive. (Last February, Jean arranged for Todd Hoskins to interview me – that interview’s at Thrivable.net.)

Technology consultant, entrepreneur and thrivability theorist Jean Russell joined Jerry Michalski’s August 3 Yi-Tan Conference Call for a conversation about thrivability as a conceptual replacement for sustainabilty. After that talk (which you can hear via the above link), I asked Jean to join me in a brief but enlightening Worldchanging interview.

Jon Lebkowsky: Let’s start with the definition of thrivability I found at http://thrivable.wagn.org/wagn/Nurture, that it’s “our path out of unsustainable practices toward a world where all people have a high quality of life, a voice, and a nurturing earth supporting them. Using whole systems approach, it demands that we evolve our way of being together, of collaborating, so that our collective wisdom and action bring forth a flourishing world and thriving life.”

What’s the origin of this definition, and what led you to start thinking about “thrivability” vs sustainability?

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John Robb: Visualizing the Arab Spring Information Flows – Revolutions Were Tweeted

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence
John Robb

The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions

The shift from an era of broadcast mass media to that of networked digital media has altered both information flows and the nature of news work. Mainstream media (MSM) outlets have adopted Twitter as a means of engaging with and enlarging audiences, strengthening their reach and influence while also changing how they rely on and republish sources. During unplanned or critical world events such as the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings, MSM turn to Twitter, both to learn from on-the-ground sources and to rapidly distribute updates.

The data and findings on this site are based on our paper The Revolutions were Tweeted in which we extracted and analyzed prominent information flows on Twitter during the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings. The flows are drawn from two datasets of public tweets each shared during a period of approximately one week. The first covers the Tunisian demonstrations from January 12–19, 2011; the second covers the Egyptian demonstrations from January 24–29, 2011. We analyzed both data sets to identify different types of users who posted to Twitter regularly, sorting them into what we call “key actor types”: e.g., MSM organizations, individual journalists, influential regional and global actors, and other participants who actively posted to Twitter on these two revolutions. We look at how each actor produced and passed information over the networks of Twitter users. In each case—Tunisia and Egypt—we describe how information flowed across different actor types and discuss why we see certain patterns. We conclude by discussing the symbiotic relationship between news media and information sources.

We display our coded and analyzed data on this site for others to explore. By clicking on ‘start visualization' you can dive into specific information flows, seeing the actor types we identified during the coding process.

 Phi Beta Iota:  Two ominous signs in the USA are that the Day of Rage (which is about electoral reform) was squelched across the corporate news media, and Mayor Bloomberg blanketed the area with cell jammers to repress any social network communications.  The police state is alive and well in New York City.

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Mini-Me: Ron Paul and Ralph Nader to Form Independent 2012 Presidential Ticket?

11 Society, Civil Society, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics
Who? Mini-Me?

Ron Paul and Ralph Nader to Form Independent 2012 Presidential Ticket?

Ralph Nader & Ron Paul Discuss Their Common Ground (Video)

Ron Paul Hosts 3rd Party Press Conference with Ralph Nader Outlining Principles of Agreement (Video)

As our country continues on its downward spiral, we need to come together and unite against the two political parties that have led us into this crisis. Both parties have been paid off and represent the interests of the most powerful and tyrannical global corporations over hardworking American citizens. With all-time high disapproval ratings for the Democratic and Republican parties, the time is ripe for an Independent ticket to winthe 2012 presidential election.

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Steve Aftergood: Citizen Scientists Using Mobile Phones

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Hacking, InfoOps (IO), Mobile, Policies, Real Time, Threats
Steven Aftergood

Using Mobile Phones to Engage Citizen Scientists in Research
E. A. Graham, S. Henderson, and A. Schloss
[Abstract] [PDF]

Mobile phone–based tools have the potential to revolutionize the way citizen scientists are recruited and retained, facilitating a new type of “connected” citizen scientist—one who collects scientifically relevant data as part of his or her daily routine.  Established citizen science programs collect information at local, regional, and continental scales to help answer diverse questions in the geosciences and environmental sciences. Hundreds of thousands of citizen scientists contribute to recurring research projects such as the Audubon Society’s annual Christmas Bird Count, which drew more than 60,000 observers in 2009, or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Volunteer
Monitoring program, through which trained volunteers improve the monitoring of water quality in lakes and streams across the United States. These programs have relied on traditional recruiting techniques and written observations. New methods for engaging participants through technology, specifically, mobile applications, or apps, provide unprecedented ways for participants to have immediate access to their own and others’ observations and research results.

Phi Beta Iota:  Changes to the Earth that used to take 10,000 years now take three.  Real-time science is no longer a dream, it is a necessity.  Governments and corporations as well as universities appear to be largely out of touch with the possibilities, but we do note that for years Taiwan has been paying a bounty to citizens who capture polluters in the act with a snapshot and GPS location.

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DefDog: US Surveillance Law Goes to Supreme Court

07 Other Atrocities, Civil Society, DHS, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Ethics, Government, IO Technologies, Law Enforcement
DefDog

Court allows challenge of U.S. surveillance law

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Washington Post, 21 September 2011

A group of plaintiffs hoping to mount a challenge to U.S. surveillance law secured a major victory Wednesday when a federal appeals court upheld their standing to sue the government.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ 6-6 decision allows a group of American lawyers, human rights activists and journalists to challenge the constitutionality of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as amended by Congress in 2008.

The revision expanded the government’s surveillance authority, permitting intelligence agencies to collect information on U.S. soil without a warrant identifying a particular individual — as long as the government could assure a surveillance court that its targeting procedures are designed to find people who are not U.S. persons and who are overseas.

U.S. government has typically attempted to block such challenges by arguing that litigation would reveal state secrets or that the plaintiffs lack standing to sue. But in March, a three-judge panel accepted the argument of the plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, that the law had harmed them by forcing them to take draconian measures to avoid government interception of their phone calls and e-mails to overseas clients.

In other words, the plaintiffs in the case, Amnesty International v. Clapper, had standing.

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