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Corruption Chronicles is a labor of love by one citizen, and is replicated tens of thousands of times around the world. Goggle does not provide the needed architecture for being able to aggregate and then de-aggregate this kind of information by name, place, event, and so on, but the day is coming when the public will be able to amass and share better information about anyone in public service than the government bureacracies are now able to amass on indviduals. It's the difference between Weberian cetralization with its knowledge cubbies, and open decentralization with its infinite linkages. To understand this concept, start with David Weinberger's Everything Is Miscellaneous–The Power of the New Digital Disorder.

2009/12/07

Journal: Citizen Cyber-Detectives on the March

10 Security, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Law Enforcement, Methods & Process, Mobile, Peace Intelligence, Real Time

Video 9:40 Min

The Internet Detective – Switzerland

There is a new breed of super-sleuth emerging in the virtual world of the web. For both petty criminals and major terrorist groups, internet detectives are fast becoming a force to be reckoned with. Making it his business to track down criminal activity through the web, Guido Rudolphi, the Sherlock Holmes of the cyber world, considers himself a legal hacker. “So much more information can be accessed, quite legally, than the individual user would ever imagine.” Rudolphi has taken advantage of this new free-flow of online information to catch paedophiles, fraudsters, and even unearth international cells of Al-Quaeda. He demonstrates how it takes less than twenty minutes to establish a persons credentials, locate them and hand them over to the police. “People seem to think theyre anonymous online, that nothing can happen to them there thats very naive.”

2009/12/07

Journal: US Public on Auditing the Fed

03 Economy, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Government

Eight of Ten Americans Want to Audit the Fed

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday voiced his opposition to legislation calling for regular audits of the Fed’s monetary policies, but 79% of Americans think auditing the Fed is a good idea.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just seven percent (7%) of adults oppose auditing the Federal Reserve and making those results available to the public. Fourteen percent (14%) are not sure.

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2009/12/062009/12/06

Journal: The Cost of Being Black

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence

THE COST OF BEING BLACK

White Americans have long resisted the idea of reparations to the descendants of slaves.We examine the psychological basis of such resistance, primarily testing the possibility that resistance may be a function of Whites’ perception of the ongoing cost of being Black. White participants (n = 958) across twelve independent samples (varying in age, student status, and geographic location) were asked variations of the question: How much should you be paid to continue to live the remainder of your life as a Black person? Participants generally required low median amounts, less than $10,000, to make the race change, whereas they requested high amounts, $1,000,000, to give up television.

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2009/12/062009/12/06

Journal: Withdrawal? We Don’t Need No Stinking Withdrawal…

08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, Government

Clinton And Gates: No Deadline On Afghan Withdrawal — We Swear!

Chuck Spinney Sends….

In today's cameos [summary attached below] on the Sunday talk show circuit, Defense Secretary Gates (no doubt the Surge's wily deus ex machina) and Secretary of State Clinton (Gates' transparent accomplice) stated again that there is no deadline for a withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. This proves again, as if any more proof were needed after their appearances before Congress last week, the whole Surge-and-Withdrawal Strategy enunciated by President Obama in his West Point speech last Tuesday was a Bait-and-Switch Strategy to sucker the anti-war base of the Democratic Party, while locking in the long-term budgetary benefits of the Long War on Terror for the cash-bloated MICC. Which begs the question: Is Mr. Obama the real decision maker or an empty suit carrying the water for an emergent National Security Regency chaired by Secretary Gates, with Secretary, CJCS Admiral Mullen, and General McChrystal as the senior voting members? Unfortunately, the postmortem purporting to analyze Obama's “decision” process in today's New York Times does little to clarify this important question.

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2009/12/052016/03/26

Reflections on Peace & Prosperity

All Reflections & Story Boards, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Key Players, Policies, Real Time, Threats

Interestingly, the fraud of Al Gore and the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) combine with the total ineptitude of the Nobel Peace Prize “Committee” to jointly demonstrate that the fragmentation of scientific, economic, and political knowledge has now become catastrophic, and that “top-down” elite organizations such as the Nobel Preace Prize Committee pretends to be, are so ignorant of reality as to be counter-productive. Below is an illustration of our current vision. As we suggested recently to key United Nations officials and a select number of Ambassadors in Washington, D.C., crisis is an opportunity for innovation. Brazil, India, China, and Russia certainly understand this. In Copenhagen, the leaders can choose to bury the IPCC and commit instead to creating the World Brain Institute with an embedded Global Game that connects all human minds to all relevant information in all languages all the time.

UN Good & UN Bad — United Nations Potential

UN World Brain Institute and Global Game Talking Points (2 pages)

2008 COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace

Review: A More Secure World–Our Shared Responsibility–Report of the Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change

Review: The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid–Eradicating Poverty Through Profits (Hardcover)

Review: All Rise–Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity

Review: Creating a World Without Poverty–Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

Review: The Wealth of Networks–How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Hardcover)

2009/12/052009/12/05

World-Changing: Evolutionary Activism

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Key Players, Methods & Process, Policies, Real Time, Reform, Threats

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Once again, Tom Atlee offers a fresh, and penetrating perspective–connecting our understanding of evolution, consciousness, and activism into a new and compelling synthesis for making a difference in today's challenged world.
—Juanita Brown and David Isaacs, The World Café

Reflections on Evolutionary Activism

Essays, poems and prayers from an emerging field of sacred social change

A seed sown by Tom Atlee, toward the emergence of a movement of conscious evolutionary activism

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