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Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) Number 9

HOPE Number Nine will be taking place on July 13, 14, and 15, 2012 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. H.O.P.E. stands for Hackers On Planet Earth, one of the most creative and diverse hacker events in the world that's been happening since 1994.

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Robert David STEELE Vivas

Live at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City

The opening speaker for HOPE in 1994, he has been invited back to every HOPE since then, offering both a serious briefing, and SPY IMPROV, his “open anything” Q&A.

AnyMan for President

30 Minutes: Robert Steele: How I Tested the Boundaries of the Two-Party Tyranny – Last Call for Occupy/*

Not to be outdone by Jello Biafra, Robert Steele ran for President in 2012. Accepted by the Reform Party as a candidate, he tested the boundaries for six weeks, created a world-class presidential platform, a coalition cabinet, and the foundation for a national strike to demand electoral reform. He also connected with every single other candidate less Romney, and reports his impressions….not pretty at all. His campaign put forward AnyMan for President, and is the only campaign to focus on a concept instead of a personality. We the People Reform Coalition

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30 Minutes: 2012 The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, & Trust (Evolver Editions, June 2012)

If you thought Steele was motivated before, promoting Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), you ain't seen nothin' yet. Now he's going for the whole enchilada. In a 215 page pocketbook (use the link above to see the 33 slides and buy it in advance from any number of sources) he lays out how We the People can reconnect with our integrity, harvest the integrity inherent in Nature, and stomp into oblivion the fraud, waste, and abuse characteristic of all of our organizations — academic, civil society, commerce, government, media, military, and non-government/non-profit. Steele is for intelligence (decision-support) what Stallman is for software. The citizens' intelligence militia is self-organizing, from zip code to global. Panarchy rules!

2 hours: SPY IMPROV: Everything you ever wanted to ask about anything…

Steele, a recovering spy, honorary hacker across multiple continents, and the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, reading in 98 categories (see the list here) will answer any question on any topic. Having already set the world record at The Next HOPE (8, 2010) with an eight-hour Q&A, this year the time is being strictly limited to 2 hours.

See Also:

THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust

2012/05/242014/01/17

2012 Reality Sandwich: How I Tested the Boundaries of the Two-Party Tyranny

09 Justice, 11 Society, Articles & Chapters, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Politics

How I Tested the Boundaries of the Two-Party Tyranny

Robert David Steele Vivas

Reality Sandwich, 24 May 2012

For six weeks in early 2012 I ran for the office of President of the United States of America. I was accepted by the Reform Party (one of six accredited national parties completely shut out of the political process in the US), was listed at Politics1, participated in a WikiNews interview and got my views posted at On the Issues. I created We the People Reform Coalition, and I wrote letters to every single candidate for President including Rocky Anderson and Buddy Roemer, throwing in Dennis Kucinich for grins. This is my report — there are no winners.

Preamble

I was shocked into paying attention by Al Gore's playing dead in 2000 (despite Greg Palast outing the Bush family scheme to disenfranchise 50,000 people of color, doing so three months in advance of election day). I was radicalized by 9/11 — a clear false-flag operation in which elements of our own government were complicit — and infuriated with the ease by which this nation was taken to war on the strength of 935 now-documented lies — lies that no serving officer — including Colin Powell — was willing to confront. Then I lost everything in the 2008 economic crash described so well by Matt Taibbi in GRIFTOPIA — it took two years for my company to go out of business — and along came Occupy. Occupy failed. This is their story and mine. If this story moves you, I believe we have 90 days from today to take seven steps that can bury the two-party tyranny and install an honest coalition government.

Continue reading “2012 Reality Sandwich: How I Tested the Boundaries of the Two-Party Tyranny”

2012/05/242012/05/24

Patrick Meier: Disaster Response, Self-Organization and Resilience: Shocking Insights from the Haiti Humanitarian Assistance Evaluation

Corruption, Government, IO Impotency, Non-Governmental

Disaster Response, Self-Organization and Resilience: Shocking Insights from the Haiti Humanitarian Assistance Evaluation

Tulane University and the State University of Haiti just released a rather damming evaluation of the humanitarian response to the 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12th. The comprehensive assessment, which takes a participatory approach and applies a novel resilience framework, finds that despite several billion dollars in “aid”, humanitarian assistance did not make a detectable contribution to the resilience of the Haitian population and in some cases increased certain communities' vulnerability and even caused harm. Welcome to supply-side humanitarian assistance directed by external actors.

“All we need is information. Why can't we get information?”

A quote taken from one of many focus groups conducted by the evaluators. “There was little to no information exchange between the international community tasked with humanitarian response and the Haitian NGOs, civil society or affected persons / communities themselves.” Information is critical for effective humanitarian assistance, which should include two objectives: “preventing excess mortality and human suffering in the immediate, and in the longer term, improving the community’s ability to respond to potential future shocks.”

This longer term objective thus focuses on resilience, which the evaluation team defines as follows:

Continue reading “Patrick Meier: Disaster Response, Self-Organization and Resilience: Shocking Insights from the Haiti Humanitarian Assistance Evaluation”

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Josh Kilbourn: Unemployed College Graduates – Trending Ugly

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, General Accountability Office, Government, Office of Management and Budget

The Benefits Of A College Education

Tyler Durden

ZeroHedge, 05/21/2012

… Are what again? As the following graphic from IBD demonstrates, for the first time in history, a majority of jobless workers over 25 have attended some college, and now outnumber those without a job who simply have a high school diploma or less. But at least those in the fomer category have tens of thousands of non-dischargeable debt to show for it.

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.. Are what again? As the following graphic from IBD demonstrates, for the first time in history, a majority of jobless workers over 25 have attended some college, and now outnumber those without a job who simply have a high school diploma or less. But at least those in the fomer category have tens of thousands of non-dischargeable debt to show for it.

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2012/05/222012/05/22

Marcus Aurelius: USG Giving Away Alaskan Islands & Oil to Russia? Since 1977? All Secret, All Henry Kissinger…

02 Diplomacy, 06 Russia, Corruption, Government

Marcus-Aurelius-150x150 — Marcus Aurelius

Some good stuff including giveaways to Russia done in secret, no publicity at all.

http://www.statedepartmentwatch.org/index.htm

Giveaways to Russia

■ Giveaway of 8 American Alaskan Islands and Vast Oil-Rich Seabeds to Russians

■ Henry Kissinger Ordered the Alaskan Island Giveaway Secretly in 1977

■ Giveaway of Southern Sakhalin Island and its Vast Oil to Russia Injures 46 Countries

■ State Department Helps Russian Bogus Claim to North Pole

■ United Nations Helps Giveaway of American Islands and Seabeds to Russians

State Department Imperils 70 American Islands and Resource Zones

■ FailureIn Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean Loses Millions of Square Miles
Of Oil, Fishery, and Other Resources; Allows Giveaways to Other Countries

Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: USG Giving Away Alaskan Islands & Oil to Russia? Since 1977? All Secret, All Henry Kissinger…”

2012/05/212012/05/21

Eagle: An End to Blind US Jewish Support for Neo-Nazi Zionist Israeli Government?

06 Genocide, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Military

Cross Talk : Farewell Israel?

Veterans Today, 21 May 2012

Is the American-Jewish romance with Israel coming to an end?
Are the American Jews known for their liberal views distancing themselves from Israel?
Or is it simply an overstatement?
Do they support the current Israeli policies?
Does the Israeli lobby represent their views?
And do they have a strong connection to the Holy Land?
Cross Talk with Norman Finkelstein, Daniel Pollak and Mouin Rabbani.

cover knowing too much — Amazon Page Pending

Norman Finkelstein's new book on the American Jewish community has been both widely praised and criticized by influential writers. So is the American-Jewish romance with Israel coming to an end? Are the American Jews known for their liberal views distancing themselves from Israel? Or is it simply an overstatement? Do they support the current Israeli policies? Does the Israeli lobby represent their views? And do they have a strong connection to the Holy Land? CT-ing with Norman Finkelstein, Daniel Pollak and Mouin Rabbani.

Phi Beta Iota: Israel is not the only albatross around the neck of the USA, there are others, but Israel (its government, not its people) is the one that has most often committed atrocities and sabotaged the USA with espionage, corruption, and inducing US Jews to commit treason–we refer especially to all those holding Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information clearances who are either publicly or in some cases silently dual-citizens. What has been done to the Palestinian peoples has been a long-running crime against humanity, right up there with undeclared wars that produce depleted uranium babies and destroy entire societies for no decent moral reason. The Zionization of US foreign policy–and the castration of US financial policy–are two great crimes against humanity that are directly linked to the Zionist state of Israel and its twin agents, Mossad and Goldman Sachs/AIG et al. The Israeli attack on the USS Liberty did it for us–we would have wiped out the originating airfield and expelled the Israeli Embassy, and then removed the building from the planet, sowing salt in the dirt and making it a memorial to the perfidy of “friends.” We favor a two state solution that restores the Palestinian lands back to Biblical times, tears down the walls that Joseph Stalin would have been proud to call his own, and makes Jerusalem an international open city with a multi-religious governing council that excludes all state claims on any part of Jerusalem.

2009 The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship

2007 The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

2003 They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby

2012/05/21

Reference: Warren Pollock and Reinhardt of Enterprise Corruption

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government

Newsletter writer “Reinhardt” joins me for his first public appearance anywhere. Concerned with the Enron debacle, Reinhardt discovered a repeated pattern of industrial and political corruption over history that applies to critical issues of today.

Starting in 1993, Reinhardt began a person business journal. Its was a journal of things that just did not seem right in the world of high finance. In the process of keeping a journal he learned what to pay attention to and why to pay attention to it. He looked at media, political, and business propaganda from a different perspective. He noticed which events got the most airtime were never the most important. It was always the under-reported events which were most important.” Reinhard thew away his history books as he studied booms and busts going as far back as 4000 BC. Reinhardt has applied that knowledge and critical thinking approach to his ongoing analysis of current events.

Enterprise Corruption http://www.enterprisecorruption.com/

Important points covered.

Enron . Tyco . 2008 Market Crash . Military movement provide cheap labor for trade routes . Dutch Settlement Scheme . Emmegration . Special Interest . Long View . Critical Thinking . Overview . modern silk road . northern distribution network . world trade . military use of trade routes . military industrial complex . corporate imperative . Afghanistan . US military . war . The fallacy of Adam Smith . the fallacy of ideology . the fallacy of free markets . government involvement in industry . trends in labor value . dutch east india company . socialism communism . divide and conquer . totalitarianism in our fascist regime . think tanks . loss of control

Phi Beta Iota: An extraordinary contribution by Warren Pollock and his guest “Reinhardt” of Newsweek. Tip of the Hat to Josh Kilbourn for the pointer.

John C. Bogle, Battle for the Soul of Capitalism

William Greider, The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy

W. Cleon Skoussen, The Naked Capitalist

Carroll Quigley, Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time