Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Patrick Meier: Grassroots UAVs for Disaster Response — Actionable Timely Locally-Controlled, Locally-Exploitable

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Drones & UAVs, Ethics, Government
Patrick Meier
Patrick Meier

Grassroots UAVs for Disaster Response

 

I was recently introduced to a new initiative that seeks to empower grassroots communities to deploy their own low-cost xUAVs. The purpose of this initiative? To support locally-led disaster response efforts and in so doing transfer math, science and engineering skills to local communities. The “x” in xUAV refers to expendable. The initiative is a partnership between California State University (Long Beach), University of Hawaii, Embry Riddle, The Philippine Council for Industry, Energy & Emerging Technology Research & Development, Skyeye, Aklan State University and Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. The team is heading back to the Philippines next week for their second field mission. This blog post provides a short overview of the project’s approach and the results from their first mission, which took place during December 2013-February 2014.

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Michael Ostrolenk: OpenGov.com Putting City Finances Online — Empowering Citizens to Hold Politicians Accountable for Every Penny…

Civil Society, Ethics, Government
Michael Ostrolenk
Michael Ostrolenk

Imagine every citizen being able to hold politicians accountable down to the penny

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Against Crony Capitalism,

There is great hope that tech will bring local bureaucrats and crony capitalists if not to heal, at least more into the light in a big way, soon. We are at the beginning of a transformation. (Let’s hope.) As data becomes more and more available, and search engine tools become better and more intuitive, citizens are going to increasingly audit the books of their home towns.

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Peggy Duvette: WISER.org Closes – Social Network for Sustainability

Civil Society, Ethics
Peggy Duvette
Peggy Duvette

Dear Wiser.org friends, members and supporters,

After many months of reflection and extensive feedback from Wiser.org members, editors and our board of directors, we have decided to close and archive the Wiser.org website.

The archiving of the site will take place on April 10th 2014.

It has been an incredible journey and we are so grateful that you have shared part of it with us.
Our priority now is to ensure that all the hard work over the years is nurtured and continues to thrive in the hands of other community leaders in the field.

To this end, we have been working with partners who will help re-purpose parts of Wiser.org's content and support our community. Once our site is closed, the following partners have offered to build upon our data set:

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SchwartzReport: True Cost of Plastics Leaching Poison Into Foods and Bodies Now Emergent…

03 Economy, 07 Health, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Here is the latest on plastics, and the potential for harmful substances leeching foods packaged in plastics. This is not a happy story. My counsel is to choose foods, particularly liquid foods, that are not in plastic containers.

The Scary New Evidence on BPA-Free Plastics
MARIAH BLAKE – Mother Jones

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Berto Jongman: Malaysia Airlines – Israeli False Flag to Implicate Iran, Gone Wrong?

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Media Theories on Missing Flight MH370 Fail Analysis

Though One Plausible Scenario, Consistent with Known Facts, Does Explain Mystery 

By Doug E. Steil | Aletho News | March 17, 2014

Even though, the recent disappearance of Malaysian Flight MH370 continues to be a mystery, numerous scenarios that have been circulating in the past week can essentially be discounted, in particular technical failure.

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Berto Jongman: 20 Crucial Terms Every 21st Century Futurist Should Know

Advanced Cyber/IO
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

20 Crucial Terms Every 21st Century Futurist Should Know

George Dvorsky

We live in an era of accelerating change, when scientific and technological advancements are arriving rapidly. As a result, we are developing a new language to describe our civilization as it evolves. Here are 20 terms and concepts that you'll need to navigate our future.

Back in 2007 I put together a list of terms every self-respecting futurist should be familiar with. But now, some seven years later, it's time for an update. I reached out to several futurists, asking them which terms or phrases have emerged or gained relevance since that time. These forward-looking thinkers provided me with some fascinating and provocative suggestions — some familiar to me, others completely new, and some a refinement of earlier conceptions. Here are their submissions, including a few of my own.

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1. Co-veillance
2. Multiplex Parenting
3. Technological Unemployment
4. Substrate-Autonomous Person
5. Intelligence Explosion
6. Longevity Dividend
7. Repressive Desublimation
8. Intelligence Amplification
9. Effective Altruism
10. Moral Enhancement
11. Proactionary Principle
12. Mules
13. Anthropocene
14. Eroom's Law
15. Evolvability Risk
16. Artificial Wombs
17. Whole Brain Emulations
18. Weak AI
19. Neural Coupling
20. Computational Overhang

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Future of Freedom Foundation: CIA, JFK, and the Miami/Cuba PSYOP File….

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Officers Call

fff logoJFK Assassination: George Joannides’ CIA Files – Can They Help Determine Who Killed President Kennedy?

Fifty years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to release classified documents in CIA Officer George Joannides’ file that could perhaps determine what really happened in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

International Business Times, March 13 2014

Moreover, if you think the CIA's recent secret searches of computers and its deletion of documents that were used by Senate committee members in their investigation of a controversial interrogation program, as U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., charges, is appalling, if not unconstitutional and a perversion of justice, consider what the CIA has done regarding congressional JFK assassination inquiries.

In court filings, the CIA contends that at least 295 documents in Joannides’ administrative file can never be released in any form, due to “national security.” However, the CIA’s national security claim has never been independently verified.

The ongoing Morley vs. CIA suit, led by plaintiff Jefferson Morley, the author and moderator of JFKFacts.org, seeks to make public Joannides’ classified files.

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