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2014/05/062014/05/06

Berto Jongman: Mozilla Idea for FCC to Keep Net Neutrality – Reclassify ISP as Remote Service Providers

Mozilla proposes fix to keep net neutrality

Joan McCarter

Daily Kos, 5 May 2014

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has been reacting to the backlash against his proposal to gut net neutrality with a lot of excuses for why he's ready to give the internet away to the big service providers, despite the fact that President Obama—the guy who nominated him for this job—has been a proponent of net neutrality since 2006. Wheeler speaks as though he doesn't have any other options than giving this big gift to the industry, but that's not true.

For example, there's this fix proposed by Mozilla, which the company has filed with the FCC.

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2014/05/062014/05/06

SchwartzReport: Tennessee First State to Jail Women for Pregnancy Outcomes

06 Family, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy

This is extraordinary legislation, and the latest in the Theocratic Right's war on women. If I were a fertile woman I am not sure I would live in Tennessee now that this is the law. This is what the world would look like if the Theocratic Right had its way.

It's Official: Tennessee Becomes First State to Jail Women for Pregnancy Outcomes
KATIE MCDONOUGH, Assistant Editor – AlterNet (U.S.)

Tennessee has become the first state in the nation to pass a law criminalizing women for their pregnancy outcomes. Republican Gov. Bill Haslam took the 10 days allotted to him to consider the advice of doctors, addiction experts and reproductive health groups urging him to veto the punitive and dangerous measure that allows prosecutors to charge a woman with criminal assault if she uses illegal drugs during her pregnancy and her fetus or newborn is considered harmed as a result. Haslam ignored these recommendations – and the recommendations of nearly every major medical association, including the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy – and signed the measure anyway.

2014/05/062014/05/06

NIGHTWATCH: Polio Re-Emergent, Pakistan Central, CIA Partly to Blame

07 Health, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Idiocy

Pakistan: The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that Pakistan's failure to stem the spread of polio has triggered a global health emergency. The WHO is recommending all residents must show proof of vaccination before they can leave the country and should present a polio vaccination certificate.

The WHO's emergency measures also apply to Syria and Cameroon, which, along with Pakistan, pose the greatest risk of exporting the polio virus.

According to Pakistani press, Pakistan is the only country with endemic polio that saw cases rise last year. The number of Pakistanis with polio rose to 93 from 58 in 2012, accounting for more than a fifth of the 417 cases globally in 2013.

A WHO official said the virus has spread recently to Iraq, Israel and Syria, and has been found in sewage in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and greater Cairo. These outbreaks have been traced back to Pakistan, according to Pakistani press. Polio also appeared in China two years ago.

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2014/05/052014/05/05

Sonrisa: CityCop – Citizen Spot Report Application

Civil Society, Government, Law Enforcement

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Citycop: una app uruguaya para que los ciudadadanos denuncien

Desde hoy está disponible para descargar esta aplicación que permite que cualquier persona suba alertas de diferente tipo y cree zonas de interés para chequear niveles de seguridad. Sus creadores presentaron el sistema al Ministerio del Interior

“¿Cuántas veces presenciaste un hecho delictivo y no pudiste hacer nada?”, con esta premisa se lanza este lunes Citycop, una aplicación uruguaya de alerta comunitaria para combatir la delincuencia. Sumando fuerza con otras personas, esta aplicación promete contribuir para evitar robos y otro tipo de delitos aumentando la seguridad de la ciudad y calidad de vida de sus usuarios.

La app funciona de la siguiente manera: la persona debe descargar el aplicativo CityCop y registrarse como usuario indicando sus datos personales (nombre, apellido, correo electrónico y país). Luego, marca sus zonas de interés, como por ejemplo “casa”, y administra sus zonas de alerta desde el menú.

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2014/05/052014/05/05

Sepp Hasslberger: Daniel Nocera Achieves Holy Grail of Energy Research — a Silicon Leaf that Splits Water

05 Energy

Simple and efficient – producing hydrogen and oxygen from water by use of light and catalysts. They say electricity is cheap and no one wants the new technology, so Nocera is setting his sights on the developing world…

The artificial leaf that could power the world

Cambridge, MA (CNN) — As Daniel Nocera gazed down on one of his experiments in what has come to be known as the “holy grail” of energy research, his response was to shrug:

“Oh, that can't be right.”

It was a glass of tap water with a thumb-sized strip of silicon floating in it. When he held the glass up to the light, the strip began to gently bubble. It seemed to be splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. But this would mean you could take any tub of water and — with no more than a few cheap materials and a little light from the sun — produce two incredibly powerful fuels. It couldn't be right. Professor Nocera went back and, for 8 months, tried to prove himself wrong.

The artificial leaf: better than nature
Scientists had split water before. By 1870, electrolysis using platinum electrodes and vast electrical currents could achieve the feat. In the 20th century, too, simpler methods had been developed which used sunlight to power the reaction — but these, too, relied on prohibitively costly metals. Nocera's “artificial leaf” is different.

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2014/05/052014/05/05

Gordon Cook: Policy Paper on Connectivity

Access, Advanced Cyber/IO, Architecture, Design, Economics/True Cost, Governance, Innovation, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, Spectrum, Transparency

Policy Paper on Connectivity

1. Executive Summary
2. Introduction
3 Technical Background
3.1 Peering and Transit – How thousands of Networks become the Global Internet
4. Special Issues in Connectivity
4.1 Access for Scientists
4.2 Access for Rural Areas
4.3 Access for Citizens via a Civil Society Stakeholder Body
5.The Ecuadorian Political, Economic, and Infrastructural Framework
5.1 Existing Infrastructure and Policy Goals for Unbundling, Structural Separation and Sale of IRUs
5.2 Celec EP (Corporación Eléctrica del Ecuador – Celec EP)
5.3 Telconet
5.4 CNT
5,5 CEDIA – The Ecuadoran University Network necessary for global connectivity to Collaborative Science
5.6 Formulation of a Vision for “Higher Education”
6. Alternative Models
6.1 Case Study 1: Brazil, Netherlands
6.2 Case Study 2: guifi.net
7. Policies to Assist the National Broadband Plan and Strategies for Expanding Internet Use
7. 1 Policy Goals of the Broadband Plan and the Three Basic Strategies
8. Ecuadoran Policy Recommendations
8.1 A single overriding basic principle
8.2 Policy for Bringing guifinet to Ecuador
9. Bibliography
10. Why I Withdraw this Paper [Extract Only]

Full Paper with All Notes and Active Links DOC (24 Pages): Cook on Connectivity

Full Text NOT Footnotes NOT Links Below the Fold

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2014/05/052014/05/05

Berto Jongman: Occupy Forms Political Party

Cultural Intelligence

Occupy Founders Launch The After Party in Detroit

Some of the founding members of the occupy movement are launching a new political party — THE AFTER Party.

Carl Gibson is among them. He says, ” What sets The After Party apart that 364 days out of the year is a humanitarian organization. The way we organize politically, what sets us apart is that finding needs within the community, and then working to meet them using the communities assets.”

And, so is Radio Rahim, yes the real life persona behind the character in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing.

“There is a little bit of Radio Rahim in everybody (…) we all love our music and we have outrage about different things.”

How will After Party be different than other 3rd party alternatives? Why start a political party at all? And should Mookie have thrown that garbage can through the window of Sal’s Pizzeria?

All of those questions asked and answered this week on Acronym TV.

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