Robert James Beckett: John Stanton on Data Imperialism & Digital Slavery

Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency
Robert James Beckett
Robert James Beckett

Ethics? We don't need no stinkin' ethics.

Imperialism via Data: The Digitization of Human Behavior, “Social Radar”, Sensors and Neuroscience

John Stanton, Global Research, 13 March 2016

In 2007 I wrote and presented a conceptual paper to an international studies group in Portugal. The subject matter was, generally, the use of Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience (ECN) to manage humanity. That paper would eventually finds its way, remarkably, into Rebecca Costa’s seminal The Watchman’s Rattle.   . . . In just under ten years, the topics alluded to in my 2007 paper have taken the form of four converging and accelerating movements that seem likely to usher in drastic change in the human condition: The digitization of human behavior; cracking open the brain through neuroscience; the engineering and manipulation of human and non-human genomes; and the proliferation of the Internet of Things, which is code for the sensorization of the human/non-human, home, work, school, automobile, street, global commons, etc.  Read more.

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Michel Bauwens: P2P, the Commons, and Civil Renewal

Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens

Video Interview in Eleven Parts

01 – genesis of the P2P Foundation
02 – what are the commons?
03 – Old Vs New
04 – constitutionalism from below
05 – civil renewal
06 – why can't we work together?
07 – democratization of culture & education
08 – Us and them vs mutualization
09 – localised production and the future of community
10 – from disintermediation to reintermediation
11 – mindfulness and the commons

Ellen Brown: Hillary Clinton’s Libyan Agenda — It’s the Gold, Stupid!

Corruption, Government, Military, Peace Intelligence
Ellen Brown
Ellen Brown

Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary's Emails

Before 2011, Libya had achieved economic independence, with its own water, its own food, its own oil, its own money, and its own state-owned bank. It had arisen under Qaddafi from one of the poorest of countries to the richest in Africa. Education and medical treatment were free; having a home was considered a human right; and Libyans participated in an original system of local democracy. The country boasted the world's largest irrigation system, the Great Man-made River project, which brought water from the desert to the cities and coastal areas; and Qaddafi was embarking on a program to spread this model throughout Africa.

Among the emails to Clinton from Sidney Blumenthal:

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Berto Jongman: Japanese Citizen-Scientists Measure Food Radiation

08 Proliferation
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

The mothers who set up a radiation lab

They saved and collected $600 (£420) to buy their first Geiger counter online, but when it arrived the instructions were written in English, which none of them understood. But they persevered and with the help of experts and university professors, organised training workshops. Soon they knew all about becquerels, a unit used to measure radiation, and sieverts, a measure of radiation dose. They would meet at restaurants and cafes to compare readings.

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