Yoda: The NSA’s Losing Argument

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Military
Got Crowd? BE the Force!
Got Crowd? BE the Force!

The NSA’s Losing Argument

The Editors, Bloomberg, 26 January 2014

Of the many questions that still surround the National Security Agency’s vast global spying operations, one seems especially pertinent: Do they actually work? That is, have they helped to prevent terrorist attacks against Americans?

In the case of the NSA’s phone-data program — in which the agency vacuums up information about essentially every call made by Americans — it’s getting harder and harder for the government to answer yes. The latest evidence comes from a report last week by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent federal agency established on the recommendation of the Sept. 11 Commission to balance the right to liberty against the need to prevent terrorism.

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Anthony Judge: Quantum Wampum Essential to Navigating Ragnarok Thrival in crisis through embodying turbulent flow

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Anthony Judge
Anthony Judge

Quantum Wampum Essential to Navigating Ragnarok

Thrival in crisis through embodying turbulent flow

Introduction
Collapse of confidence, value, meaning, honour, options and patience
Wampum and its modern variants
Transcending the binary framing of confidence
Implications of quantum framing of reality
Enabling radical reframing of reality by non-physicists
Technomimicry as key to a new mode of knowing?
Cognitive constraints on conventional “life raft” design
Interweaving threads beyond the standard model: “life crafting”?
Distinguishing the elements of “quantum wampum” essential to “life crafting”
Circulation of the light: What flows? What circulates? Cryptocurrency?
References

Berto Jongman: Atrocities Etcetera + Best of Ukraine 1.7

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

9/11: CIA black operation murders Philip Marshall? (Wayne Madsen)

BITCOIN: arrest of operators of two exchanges

BOOK: Integrated Peacebuilding: Innovative Approaches to Transforming Conflict

CHINA: annual urban exodus tracked by Baida

CONGO: ambush of commander

CONGO: situation worsening

CYBER: cash registers – crime wave

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John Maguire: Hacking Cold Fusion

05 Energy, Earth Intelligence
John Maguire
John Maguire

Hacking Cold Fusion

Cold Fusion (aka Low Energy Nuclear Reactions or LENR) is on the precipice of altering the landscape of energy-production, and along with it, the cultural landscape as well. Four separate companies: Industrial Heat LLC, Brillouin Energy Corporation, Defkalion Green Technologies, and Blacklight Power all appear to be on the threshold of breaking into the marketplace with cheap, environmentally safe, and virtually limitless energy technologies. Beyond energy, LENR-based processes hold promise for both the desalination of drinking water and the remediation of nuclear waste. My presentation will focus not only on the technical applications of the CF-LENR phenomenon, but also the sociological and historical implications as well.

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Jean Lievens: “Economix – How Our Economy Works (And Doesn’t Work)”

03 Economy, 11 Society, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Reposted from the C-Realm podcast a great conversation demystifyng economics and some of the myths drawn up around Adam Smith and his writings.

From the shownotes to the episode:

“KMO welcomes Michael Goodwin, author of Economix: How Our Economy Works (And Doesn’t Work) In Words and Pictures to the C-Realm to talk about money, history, the interplay between corporations and government, and Adam Smith’s actual words on the trustworthiness of capitalists. The conversation touches on the NYC soda ban, which Michael favors and KMO disdains. Michael will be the featured speaker at the third Full Circle Series event. KMO concludes with some remarks about the struggles of a small hog farmer in Michigan who is fighting against the Michigan state government, which favors corporate CAFO over the humane animal husbandry of small”

 

Sepp Hasslberger: Goodbye Dangerous Kerosene….Hello Safe Solar MiniSun12H !

05 Energy
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

This is an indiegogo funding campaign for readying, testing and producing cheap rechargeable solar lights that are competitive with the “normal” kerosene lamps used in developing countries. What I do not understand is why is it up to us to fund this, why isn't industry already producing billions of such lamps… oh yes – profit.

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David Swenson: Lessons from The Square (Tahir)

Cultural Intelligence
David Swanson
David Swanson

Misplaced Lessons of Tahrir

CONCLUSION:

The lesson I take away from The Square is that we must prevent the operation of business as usual until the institution itself, not its face, is fixed.  We can put up giant posters of a black man followed by a white woman followed by some other demographic symbol, but the posters will still be on the walls of prisons, barracks, and homeless shelters, unless we fix the structure of things.  That means:

  • Rights for people, and for the natural environment, not for corporations.
  • Spending money on elections is not a human right of free speech.
  • Elections entirely publicly financed.
  • The right to vote, to have time off work to vote, and to vote on a paper ballot publicly counted at the polling place.
  • Free air time, ballot access, and debate participation to all candidates who have collected sufficient signatures of potential constituents.
  • A citizens branch and public initiative power by signature collection.
  • The application of criminal laws to authorities who commit crimes or abuse their office.
  • Mandatory impeachment and recall votes for officials facing prosecution.
  • The right to a decent income, housing, healthcare, education, peace, a healthy environment, and freedom from debt.
  • The rights of the natural environment to continue and thrive.
  • The institution of minimum and maximum wages and a ban on extreme wealth.
  • Demilitarization.
  • Dismantling of the prison industry.

Give me all of that or give me death.  Take your bullshit rhetoric about “liberty” and name a square after it.

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