Category: Ethics

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Stephen E. Arnold: Steve Ballmer Does Good — USAFacts

Advanced Cyber/IO, Ethics, Non-Governmental
Stephen E. Arnold

USAFacts Centralizes Access to Data on Government Spending

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s recent project was inspired by his wife, Connie, who wished him to practice more philanthropy. Wouldn’t it help to know what our government is already doing  with its (our) money, he wondered? Out of this question has sprung USAFacts, a website that serves up “federal, state, and local data from over 70 government sources.” I appreciate the presentation, which ties data to four specific directives embedded in the Preamble to our Constitution. For example, the heading Establish Justice and Ensure Domestic Tranquility leads to stats on Crime and Disaster, Safeguarding Consumers and Employees, and Child Safety and Social Services. Tying such information to our founding document will prompt many to consider these data points in a more thoughtful way.

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Steve Bannon: My “To Do” List….

Ethics, Government

Tip of the Hat to Colleen Shalby of the Los Angeles Times for sharing a transcription of Steve Bannon's white board goals — important goals but a tiny fraction of what Donald Trump actually promised to do on the campaign trail. See the color coded list at the end for all those promises — one third done, one third stalled, one third never happening.

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Jon Rappoport: Senator Chuck Schumer is Afraid — Very Afraid

Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Media
Jon Rappoport

What Chuck Schumer is revealing out in the open

Chuck Schumer is echoing what many of his colleagues—and far more powerful people—are worrying about. Their vaunted mouthpieces, the NY Times, the Washington Post, etc., are failing. They can’t carry the same old freight with impunity.

So Schumer “worries about the future of democracy.” What he’s actually worried about has nothing to do with democracy, and it certainly has nothing to do with a Republic, which was the form of this nation from the beginning. Schumer is worried about decentralization.

He’s worried that people are defecting from the authoritarian arrogant Castle of Truth.

And, given his position, he should be worried.

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CounterPunch: The Intelligence Dilemma — What’s Intelligence Worth When It is Both Right and Refused?

Ethics, Government

The Dilemma for Intelligence Agencies

Crooke notes that U.S. intelligence had raised doubts as to the Syrian government’s responsibility for the release of poison gas.

The American mass media nevertheless immediately blamed Damascus for an attack using chemical weapons. Trump, also immediately, believed the mass media. He is, after all, increasingly known as the Fox TV president. Taking his cue from the media, he paid insufficient heed to his own intelligence agencies’ doubts. As a result, as Crooke puts it, “the Tomahawks flew.”

All of this led Crooke to ask “whether Western intelligence agencies still retain an ability to speak-out to power.”

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Laughing Monkey: The Circada Platform at GitHub

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Ethics

CICADA: The Internet We Always Wanted

Breakthrough Decentalized Application and Distributed Direct Democracy Platform

Blockchain breakthrough, human unique identifier, info wallets, new proof of work, delivers a practical universal basic income, anonymous voting with end-to-end verifiability, gamifies voting, citizen proposal and filtration system, expert panels legislation, XML-based law, action tokens and currency, stops denial of service attacks dead, ends the crypto wars, ends censorship, suvivable mesh network fallback,

Executive Summary

White Paper with Graphics

Steemit Commentary on Cicada

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Worth a Look: PollMole – a Direct Democracy App

Civil Society, Ethics

The Next Generation in Interactivity, Connectivity, and Accuracy in Polling and Market Research Technology.

Robert David Steele

ROBERT STEELE: I am extremely interested in this offering and planning to use it to test drive the below twelve elements of the Unity-Integrity Act (the Election Reform Act of 2017) when Cynthia McKinney and I form our team and begin raising funds for confronting every Member during the summer recess demanding that they sign the Unity-Integrity pledge and co-sponsor the Act as shown below (the below is a starting point for a national conversation, not a prescription). In the interim, there is a poll on vaccines that I hope everyone will consider.

Please consider downloading the app and giving me feedback on it.  Visit http://pollmole.vote.