Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Journal: Terminator to Feds–“Can You Spell Nullify?”

10 Security, 11 Society, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Government
State Rights Emergent

Marijuana in California: Prop. 19 won't stop federal drug enforcement

Even if voters pass Proposition 19 on Nov. 2, which would legalize use of marijuana in California, the Justice Department will continue to enforce federal drug laws there, Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday.

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Phi Beta Iota:  States have the right to secede from the Union–they also have the right to nullify federal regulations within the state.  Over in Virginia, suit has been filed against the mandatory purchase of health insurance.  What we are seeing is the coming end to both the Federal Reserve and the Federal Empire.  The federal government is supposed to be a service of common concern to the United STATES of America, but over time, the “top two” parties have conspired to exclude the other 63 parties and their members from both politics and governance, and to exclude the Governors and state from governance.   The world is changing.  The spectacle of an Attorney General who is obviously loosely-educated and has no clue that he is a servant of the people, not their master, more or less sums up the state of the federal government…..dead in the water and sinking fast.  IOHO.

ALERT READER observes:

Thanks, also a note to your posting on States rights….look what is happening in the foreclosure world, 49 States are now looking into the legal issues while the feds say there is nothing wrong….

See Also:

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Leadership for Epoch B

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Self-Determination & Secession

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Diversity of Voices & Values (USA)

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Disinformation, Other Information Pathologies, & Repression

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Empire as Cancer Including Betrayal & Deceit

Worth a Look: Impeachable Offenses, Modern & Historic

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Institutionalized Ineptitude

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Journal: WikiLeaks Losing Funding Channel, Plot Thickens

07 Other Atrocities, Civil Society, Military, Peace Intelligence

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WikiLeaks says funding has been blocked after government blacklisting

Founder Julian Assange hits out at decision by Moneybookers, which collects the whistleblowing website's donations

The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government.

Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist.

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Phi Beta Iota: This is interesting at multiple levels and requires further investigation.  As best we can tell, WikiLeaks is not subject to US secrecy REGULATIONS and US laws do not apply–if anyone knows differently, please let us know.  We believe Moneybookers when they say the US Government did not call on them.  This reeks of lawyers with too much power over simple business decisions.  We do not trust WikiLeaks management to be completely honest.  Finally, it is not possible to censor information once it is out.  As John Perry Barlow said so famously at OSS '92, “The Internet interprets censorship as an outage, and routes around it.”

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Journal: Tracking Animal Abusers Begins

09 Justice, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, Law Enforcement
I know where you live....

Animal Abuse Registry: Suffolk County, NY Creating Nation's First Public Database Tracking Animal Cruelty Offenders

FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. — You've heard of Megan's Laws, designed to keep sex offenders from striking again. Now there's a law created in the hope of preventing animal abusers from inflicting more cruelty – or moving on to human victims.

Suffolk County, on the eastern half of Long Island, moved to create the nation's first animal abuse registry this week, requiring people convicted of cruelty to animals to register or face jail time and fines.

“We know there is a very strong correlation between animal abuse and domestic violence,” said Suffolk County legislator Jon Cooper, the bill's sponsor. “Almost every serial killer starts out by torturing animals, so in a strange sense we could end up protecting the lives of people.”

Phi Beta Iota: Would you hire a known animal abuser to walk your dogs?  What is interesting about this is not the context, but the fact of.  What can be tracked will be tracked.  There will be PerpFax service just like CarFax.  No place to hide–and virtual justice will also be done, as people who buy their way out of high crimes are “outed” everywhere they go.  Non-violent shaming and shunning…now there's an ancient concept coming back to life.

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Journal: A Conversation with Clay Shirky

Media
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Net Positive: A Conversation with Clay Shirky
in Media | October 14th, 2010

EXTRACT:

My current formulation is that markets supply less accountability than democracies demand—that if you leave the presence of accountability to an entirely market-driven press corps, you get less coverage than democracies need to survive. And we’ve had all of these ways in the past of subsidizing that, right? So broadcast news had to be subsidized because the FCC said so when they handed out the licenses, and newspapers subsidized it because they had essentially enjoyed local monopolies but were relatively free of too much interference by advertisers. But a lot of those old subsidies are breaking. So the advertising subsidies that newspapers enjoyed, and the subsidies that were essentially required by the federal government of broadcast outlets, are all going away at the same time, and they’re all going away for the same reason, which is to say, none of those subsidies survive abundance. So the question I’m asking myself is—assuming this hypothesis is right—what are other ways that society can subsidize the kind of journalism that leads to accountability of elites, principally politicians but also business and religious elites? I don’t know the answer to that. There’s a lot of interesting experiments: ProPublica, Spot.us, GroundReport. But that’s the question I’m turning my attention to.

Tip of the Hat to Stan Garfield at LinkedIn.

See Also:

Review (Guest): Cognitive Surplus–Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

Review: Here Comes Everybody–The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Review: The World Is Open–How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education

Review: Everything Is Miscellaneous–The Power of the New Digital Disorder

Review: Mobilizing Minds–Creating Wealth From Talent in the 21st Century Organization

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Event: 12 Nov 2010 HealthCamp (BlueCross)

07 Health
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HealthCampDC

Friday, November 12, 2010 from 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM (ET)

Washington, DC

About HealthCampDC

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is the Foundation Sponsor for HealthCampDC which takes place on Friday November 12th, 2010.

HealthCampDC is the latest in the HealthCamp un-conference series addressing the Transformation of Health Care to a participatory model with active patient engagement through the use of Social Networks, Open Standards and Web 2.0 Technology. This is part of the Health 2.0 movement towards participatory health care inspired by the definition that Ted Eytan and others (including patients) evolved for Health 2.0:

Health 2.0 is participatory Healthcare

Enabled by information, software, and community that we collect or create, we the patients can be effective partners in our own healthcare, and we the people can participate in reshaping the health system itself.

Join Physicians, entrepreneurs, bloggers and others who are passionate about improving Health Care at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield's DC offices (at 840 1st St, NE, Washington, DC 20002) on Friday November 12th, 2010.

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Reference: BarCamp–Self-Organized Learning & Sharing

Blog Wisdom, Methods & Process

BarCamp is an international network of user-generated conferences (or unconferences). They are open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and were related to open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. The format has also been used for a variety of other topics, including public transit, health care, and political organizing.

BarCamps are organized and evangelized largely through the web; anyone can initiate a BarCamp using the BarCamp wiki.

The procedural framework consists of sessions proposed and scheduled each day by attendees, mostly on-site, typically using whiteboards or paper taped to the wall. This approach has been dubbed to play on words, The Open Grid approach.

FooCamps and BarCamps are based on simplified variations of Open Space Technology (OST), relying on the self-organizing character of OST. Unlike classical conference formats, BarCamps and OST rely on the passion and the responsibility of the participants.

Although the format is loosely structured, there are rules at BarCamp. All attendees are encouraged to present or facilitate a session. Everyone is also asked to share information and experiences of the event via public web channels, including blogs, photo sharing, social bookmarking, twitter, wikis, and IRC. This encouragement to share is a deliberate change from the “off-the-record by default” and “no recordings” rules at many invite-only participant driven conferences. It also turns a physical, face-to-face event into a ‘hybrid event‘ which enables remote online engagement with Barcamp participants.

Learn more:

Wikipedia Page for BarCamp

Wikibook: BarCamp – How to Run Your Own

History: Open Space Technology → Foo Camp → BarCamp → Unconference

Tip of the Hat to Paul Harper.

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Reference: Daring to Dream

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Key Players, Policies

33 Pages Online

Seven Challenges

1.  Restoring Belief in the Future  to Overcome Fear, Pessimism, and Passivity

2.  Cultivating Leaders Who are Thoughtful, Inspiring, and Think Long-Term

3.  Empowering Six Billion People Economically and Politically

4.  Harmonizing Cultural, Racial, and Gender Differences in a  Globalizing World

5.  Reinventing an Outdated Educational System for the 21st Century

6.  Guiding Technological Progress Wisely

7.  Addressing Climate Change and Creating Social and Environmental Responsibility

Tip of the Hat to Paul Harper.

Phi Beta Iota: There are two sucking chest wounds in this otherwise superb report:  first, the complete absence of any sort of strategic analytic model with which to actually inform decisions; and second, the no doubt deliberate avoidance of the raw fact that corruption is the single largest obstacle to achieving any of these dreams, the reason the public strategic analytic model and public intelligence in the public interest are needed.

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