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2010/08/152010/08/17

Institutions of Higher Education Ineligible for Federal Funds (because they disallow military recruiters)

+ Vermont Law School
+ South Royalton, Vermont
+ William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota.

12 August 2010

From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary
 
List of Institutions of Higher Education Ineligible for Federal 
Funds

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD).

ACTION: Notice.

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2010/08/15

Journal: Incoherence of US Government Continues…

07 Health, Government, Military

Marcus-Aurelius-150x150 — Marcus Aurelius Recommends

(COMMENT: The drumbeat to screw retirees continues…)

Tacoma News Tribune
August 14, 2010
Pg. 14

Military Update

Higher Health Premiums On Gates' Cost-Cutting Agenda

By Tom Philpott

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has signaled that the department’s fiscal 2012 budget request to be sent to Congress early next year will include recommendations to raise TRICARE premiums for some beneficiaries.

If past proposals are a reliable guide, the target of higher fees is likely to be military retirees rather than active duty families.

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2010/08/142010/08/14

Worth a Look: F/OSS Rankings

07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, InfoOps (IO), Tools, Worth A Look

Ranking Corporations for Open Source Support

by Jason

My Rankings

Again, in the context of corporations, I would rank some commonly mentioned entities as follows:

Red Hat
Mandriva
Canonical
Google
IBM
Oracle
Apple (Below here is active harm)
Novell
Microsoft

Phi Beta Iota: The author was reacting to a very strong negative comment on Google, both the spark and the fire are worth reading. Our view is unequivocal: Google is evil. We support Open Everything, but especially Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS), Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), and Open Spectrum.

2010/08/14

Journal: Bill Gates Has Blinding Flash of Insight

04 Education

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Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web

August 9, 2010

Source: TechCrunch — Aug 6, 2010

“Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world,” says Bill Gates. “It will be better than any single university.”

He believes the $50,000 a year university education could be done via the web for as little as $2,000.

Phi Beta Iota: Duh. It comes down to political integrity–creating measures of learning rather than selling credentials. This will be a race to the bottom among universities, and a race from the bottom among restless poor people savvy enough to hack the Internet and use it as a lever to redirect both democracy and capitalism back toward the common good. This is of course what both Amazon (World Brain Brief) and Google (Googlization of Intelligence Brief versus Do MORE Evil) should have been doing all along, but on an Open Everything standard.

2010/08/142010/08/15

Journal: Traitor to Some, Hero to Others

10 Security, 11 Society, InfoOps (IO), Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Officers Call, Open Government, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy

(COMMENT: Really too bad that individuals like this are entitled to Constitutional protections… If he in fact compromised assets, as I have read in open press, they will be lucky if all the Taliban does is shoot them.)

Washington Post
August 14, 2010
Pg. 2

Army Analyst Celebrated As Antiwar Hero

Many rally to soldier's defense after disclosure of classified documents

By Michael W. Savage

For antiwar campaigners from Seattle to Iceland, a new name has become a byword for anti-establishment heroism: Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning.

Manning, a 22-year-old intelligence analyst, is suspected of leaking thousands of classified documents about the Afghanistan war to the Web site WikiLeaks.

FULL STORY ONLINE

Phi Beta Iota: This needs to be evaluated at multiple levels.

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