Category: Policies

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US Government Lies Part I [one source, one day]

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement
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U.S. official cites misconduct in Japanese American internment cases

By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau

Los Angeles Times, May 24, 2011

Acting Solicitor Gen. Neal Katyal says one of his predecessors, Charles Fahy, deliberately hid from the Supreme Court a military report that Japanese Americans were not a threat in World War II.

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Phi Beta Iota: We are totally fed up with this”Empire of Lies and Secrecy.”  Anyone who has sworn an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies domestic and foreign, who LIES to Congress or the Courts, should be indicted for treason [just as individual members of Congress should be IMPEACHED for any abdication of their Article 1 responsibilities].  The US public needs to demand INTEGRITY of its officials.

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New Concept: Holding Experts Accountable

03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Academia, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Earth Intelligence, Ethics

(AP) – 25 May 2011

ROME (AP) — Seven scientists and other experts were indicted on manslaughter charges Wednesday for allegedly failing to sufficiently warn residents before a devastating earthquake that killed more than 300 people in central Italy in 2009.

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Vote Now to End the Drug War–Regulate & Save

07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Law Enforcement
John Steiner

Please do consider sharing this one with everyone you know!

Phi Beta Iota: Actionable part right here up front, strongly recommended to one and all.  It's time we put the various “complexes” out of business.

If we can create a worldwide outcry in the next few days to support the bold calls of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, we can overpower the stale excuses for the status quo. Our voices hold the key to change — Sign the petition and spread the word:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/end_the_war_on_drugs_a/?vl

Dear friends,

In days, a group of powerful world leaders will ask the UN to end the war on drugs and move towards regulation. But politicians say that the public will not support alternative drug policies. Let's give this unique opportunity massive public support and get urgent action. Sign below, and tell everyone:

In days, we could finally see the beginning of the end of the Œwar on drugs¹. This expensive war has completely failed to curb the plague of drug addiction, while costing countless lives, devastating communities, and funneling trillions of dollars into violent organized crime networks.
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Growing Demands for Participatory Democracy

08 Wild Cards, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, InfoOps (IO), Methods & Process, Policies
Michel Bauwens

Constructing, living, and demanding Participatory Democracy in the #spanishrevolution Camps

Michel Bauwens, 23rd May 2011

We, the unemployed, the underpaid, the subcontracted, the precarious, the young … demand a change towards a future with dignity. We are fed up of reforms, of being laid off, of the banks which have caused the crisis hardening our mortgages or taking away our houses, of laws limiting our freedom in the interest of the powerful. We blame the political and economic powers of our sad situation and we call for a turn.’

Read long post including list of demands and original manifesto.

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Concrete Canvas–Add Water–Lots of Potential

01 Poverty, 06 Family, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Government, Non-Governmental, Peace Intelligence
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‘Concrete Canvas' Makes Erecting Permanent Buildings As Easy as Pitching a Tent

Drapeable fabric turns into solid concrete when it gets wet

popsi.com, Clay Dillow, 18 May 2011

When disaster strikes and permanent structures are leveled, as they were recently by earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand (and more distantly in Haiti), they are usually replaced in the short term by tent cities. Two engineering students thought they could do better and invented Concrete Canvas, a fabric impregnated with concrete that can turn a tent into a hardy, permanent structure in 24 hours. Just add water.

Read full article (includes link to very impressive video)

Phi Beta Iota: This has even more potential if combined with the use of cement from carbon, and non-potable water.

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Wall Street Journal On Bin Laden Raid Planning

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, Law Enforcement, Military
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More that should never have been written

Wall Street Journal
May 23, 2011
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Spy, Military Ties Aided Bin Laden Raid

By Siobhan Gorman and Julian E. Barnes

In January, the chief of the military's elite special-operations troops accepted an unusual invitation to visit Central Intelligence Agency headquarters. There, Adm. William McRaven was shown, for the first time, photos and maps indicating the whereabouts of the world's most wanted man.

Adm. McRaven—one of the first military officers to be brought into the CIA's latest hunt for Osama bin Laden—offered a blunt assessment: Taking bin Laden's compound would be reasonably straightforward. Dealing with Pakistan would be hard.

A Wall Street Journal reconstruction of the mission planning shows that this meeting helped define a profound new strategy in the U.S. war on terror, namely the use of secret, unilateral missions powered by a militarized spy operation. The strategy reflects newfound trust between two traditionally wary groups: America's spies, and its troops.

The bin Laden strike was the strategy's “proof of concept,” says one U.S. official.

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