Richard Stallman: Free Software Supporter Issue 76, July 2014

IO Newsletter Free Software
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman

Free Software Supporter

Issue 76, July 2014

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • FSF congratulates UK Government on choosing Open Document Format
  • Interview with Tox.im
  • Introducing Tyler Livingston, a summer Licensing Team intern
  • Tell the FCC: Net Neutrality is crucial to free software
  • Seattle free software event this fall: Call for Participation now open
  • Welcome Jessica Tallon, GNU MediaGoblin’s second full-time hire
  • European Commission distorts market by refusing to break free from lock-in
  • LibrePlanet featured resource: Community toolkit
  • GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 18 new GNU releases!
  • GNU Toolchain Update
  • Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events
  • Thank GNUs!
  • Take action with the FSF!

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Robert Steele: Stephen Draper on Intelligence in Complex Environments, with Comment

Advanced Cyber/IO, Ethics, Government, Military
Robert Steele
Robert Steele

Intelligence in Complex Environments

by Stephen Draper

Small Wars Journal, 1 August 2014

Four years into the United States military’s effort to counter the Lord’s Resistance Army in central Africa its leader, Joseph Kony, remains elusive. This certainly isn’t for lack of effort or resources. One hundred Special Forces advisors, a robust command and control structure, contracted airplanes, even the occasional short-term deployment of a CV-22 squadron have all assisted African partner forces to remove a few leaders from the battlefield and enable many more fighters, wives, and children to escape the organization. Yet the mission still faces serious obstacles. The tyranny of distance has oftentimes been crippling to the effort, hindering logistical resupply and time sensitive strikes. In addition to geography, this mission continues to pose many challenges which test the U.S. intelligence community but, if overcome, can serve as a model for U.S. intelligence support in low-intensity conflicts and other crisis areas worldwide. Removing Kony and his LRA from the battlefield is, foremost, an intelligence problem. Without accurate intelligence of Kony and his forces’ location, counter-LRA forces will continue to be reduced to “searching for a needle in twenty haystacks.” Further complicating the situation, in addition to the joint U.S. and combined foreign forces requiring coordination, many other stakeholders are active in the area of operations. Non-government organizations (NGOs), aid organizations, the United Nations, civilian village defense forces, even the Catholic church all contribute to central Africa being a complex environment.

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Stephen E. Arnold: 1% of Science Gets Published — What Cost to Economics?

Academia, Earth Intelligence, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

No Search Or Publishing For Science

The scientific method is used to approach a problem logically and come to reasonable conclusion based off the presented evidence. Allow me to present the following question: if only a small percentage of scientists publish their work, does that not distort scientific information? Let us approach this problem in the same manner that Erik Stokstad did in his Science Magazine article “The 1% Of Scientific Publishing.”

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Eric Zuesse: NYT Dangerous Lies About Ukraine & Russia

IO Deeds of War
Eric Zuesse
Eric Zuesse

(PREFACE: Right before this went to press, Britain's Guardian headlined “Moscow May Walk Out of Nuclear Treaty,” and Washingtonsblog bannered “Senior U.S. Intelligence Officers: Obama Should Release Ukraine Evidence.” The latter newsflash is a memo to the President signed today by 9 senior retired U.S. intelligence professionals who gently lay out the evidence that President Obama has been lying about the evidence regarding the shoot-down of the Malaysian airliner, and telling him that unless his Administration comes clean on that matter very soon, and offers the world solid evidence of Russia’s and/or Ukrainian separatists’ involvement if he has any, he is going to look very bad, and that he therefore needs to act quickly to “curb the risk that relations with Russia might escalate from ‘Cold War II' into an armed confrontation.” I can only add: It might already be too late for him and the Times  and the rest of the U.S. propaganda-establishment to quit deceiving the gullible U.S. public, but the risks from continued lying are even higher, nothing less than a nuclear war. So: they must.)

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Robin Good: Content Curation as a Problem-Solving, Re-Assembling and Stewardship Process

IO Sense-Making, IO Tools
Robin Good
Robin Good

Content Curation as a Problem-Solving, Re-Assembling and Stewardship Process

Ibrar Bhatt, shares some of the insights he has been been able to discover in his research work for his forthcoming PhD thesis (“A sociomaterial account of assignment writing in Further Education classrooms”) for the University of Leeds.

In his short blog analysis he first comprehensively defines the new emerging content curation space, and then he highlights

the relevance this may have, once it is validated and acknowledged, in allowing students to explore the creation of reports and the development of new work assignments in a new light.

Here a few brief excerpts:

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Jean Lievens: Village in a Box – Open Source Ecology Project Uses 3D Printers to Build the Next Economy

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Village in a Box: Open Source Ecology Project Uses 3D Printers to Build The Next Economy

by

3dprint.com, July 24, 2014

…the folks at the Open Source Ecology project say you only need about 50 machines such as a wind turbine, cement mixer and sawmill to get things going. And they should know since they are currently building and creating open source industrial machines and sharing the designs online without cost.

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Berto Jongman: Theory of US-Ukraine Failed False Flag Operation

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 06 Russia, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Government, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

This is the most detailed analysis I have come across so far and makes the theory of a failed false flag operation likely. It also details the ridiculous attempts by Kiev and Washington to cover up their failed plan. It contradicts everything MSM are telling us and our governments are trying to impress on us.

MH17 Verdict: Real Evidence Points to US-Kiev Cover-up of Failed False Flag

Until this past Monday, the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17th, 2014, was a potential game changer for global geopolitics and the New Cold War. However, a funny thing happened on the way to the Kremlin…

In this report, we will lay out the facts based on a wide breadth of available information and data surrounding MH17. We will also present and give critique to Washington and Kiev’s “mountain of evidence” that has saturated US and European-based media coverage since the incident took place. 21WIRE has compiled this report with the help of many contributors and references from English-speaking media, as well as material translated from Russian and Ukrainian media sources, along with other historical references to provide context. Our objective is to get as close to the truth as possible. Although many revelations will appear to be self-evident, we still encourage the public to draw their own conclusions regarding this pivotal event.

There are other well-known anomalies surrounding this event which have been covered at 21WIRE, as well as connections to MH370, but for the purposes of this investigation we will focus on both factual and speculative evidence brought forth by the US, Ukraine and Russia.

As we will clearly demonstrate, the only wild conspiracy theories being pushed right now, are those coming out of the US State Department, and the government in Kiev, Ukraine, which are being repeated by CNN, BBC, FOX-NewsCorp, ABC, CBS and NBC…

Read full analysis with graphics and links — most extraordinary.

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