This Prezi is about “making assignments ‘Prezilicious' but it's really about visual representation of information and learning; i.e., infotention — Howard
Howard Rheingold: Visual Representation and Infotention
Knowledge20120711 Open Source Everything Highlights
Highlights
Open Source Everything
DAILY HIGHLIGHTS: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ALL
ROOT POST: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ROOT
THE BOOK: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-Steele
THE PERSON: http://tinyurl.com/Steele2012
Includes Autonomous Internet, Crowd-Funding/Sensing/Sourcing, and Transparency-Truth-Trust, & True Cost
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Graphic: Largest Financial Scam in History – Libor, Wall Street, the Federal Reserve & You
Corruption, Graphics, Political, Threats
NO LABELS Tries Again — Still Corrupt, Still Clueless
Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Politics
Phi Beta Iota: they have been scorned out of existing twice now, but evidently Mike Bloomberg and his friends have not given up kludging together three failures to try to make lemonade, all three corrupt to the bone:
Independent Voters / Jackie Salit, well-funded stalking horse for Bloomberg, does not play well with others and specifically ignores both grass-root Independents and the six small parties.
Americans Elect, despite a great deal of money, could not overcome the abject obviousness of its internal corruption and the abysmal even shocking ineptitude of its web design and content management teams.
No Labels — the cartoon says it all. These people really do not “get” the travesty of their dismissal of the six small parties that have been blocked from ballot access, or the shallowness of their general intellect. No Labels, No Brains, No Balls.
Below the line is the email that went out across the land today. What is shocking is the number of progressives angry at Obama who really think No Labels might be on to something. For an example of what an honest viable alternative to the two-party tyranny might look like, see We the People Reform Coalition. We can still save 2012, but it will require organized people, not organized false flag money.
ON A CONSTRUCTIVE NOTE: If NO LABELS and Americans Elect would come together to sponsor an Electoral Reform Summit in early September 2012, they could restore the integrity of America. They are probably not capable of making that ethical and intellectual leap, but if they did, they would in one instant achieve their alleged goals dishonored behind closed doors, and open the way for the Second Republic. Add the six small parties, Occupy and the Tea Party and the Independents without Jackie Salit playing games, and it is “game over.” There is NOTHING stopping the election of a coalition cabinet and a reform ticket in November 2012 except a lack of FOCUS by all those who share the same desire: to create a prosperous America at peace, to restore America the Beautiful. We are the passive silent majority at this time. We need to be the active vocal majority for the next 90 days. 90 days.
See Also:
THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust
Steele at Hackers on Two-Party Tyranny & Battle for the Soul of the Republic
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David Isenberg: What the US Government Knew About PMC Slave-Trade & Atrocities – The Case of Najlaa
Commerce, Corruption, Government, Knowledge
What the U.S. Government Knew About Najlaa
Huffington Post, 11 July 2012
A bit over a year ago a report I co-wrote, documenting human trafficking and abuse of workers by Najlaa International Catering Services, a KBR subcontractor, was published by the Project on Government Oversight.
The internal company documents I uncovered revealed, among other things, that U.S. authorities were aware of the deplorable living conditions Najlaa workers endured back in 2008. To their credit both the U.S. government and KBR both worked to pressure Najlaa to fix things once they were alerted to the problem.
But, thanks to the American Civil Liberties Union, newly released documents reveal that the U.S. government and KBR were even more aware of the problem than previously known.
In July 2011 the ACLU filed a lawsuit demanding that the government release documents relating to the trafficking and the abusive treatment of foreign workers on U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case sought documents from the Departments of State and Defense that detail audits and complaints about military contractors working in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bear in mind this is hardly an isolated problem. As the New York Times reported:
David Isenberg: Private Military Corporations – The Worst of All Evils
07 Other Atrocities, Commerce, Corruption, Government, KnowledgePMSC Not Ready for U.N. Prime Time
Huffington Post, 11 July 2012
For many years now, private military and security contractor (PMSC) advocates have argued that utilization of PMSC in United Nations peace operations offers an alternative to doing nothing or trying to organize a frequently dysfunctional U.N.-sponsored, often ill-equipped and organized intervention.
Indeed, about ten years ago, Doug Brooks, head of the International Stability Operations Association (ISOA), a PMSC advocacy group, wrote in a paper that:
PMCs offer the only military forces both willing and capable to provide rapid and effective military services in most Third World conflicts. PMC operations in the past have saved tens of thousands of lives, but their potential is even greater. Working as “force multipliers” PMCs can provide the competent military backbone to ensure the success of UN or regional multinational peacekeeping or peace enforcement operations.
As sweeping generalizations go that, to use my childhood Yiddish, takes a lot of chutzpah.
Don't get me wrong. While I'm the first to agree that U.N. operations often leave a lot to be desired, a U.N. blue helmet peace operation can only be as successful as members of the Security Council want it to be. Given the often radically differing agendas and interests of Council members that doesn't happen very often.
And to be objective about it, the United Nation already employs large number of private contractors for all sorts of humanitarian purposes and has greatly increased its use of these companies in recent years. But does the record to date with regard to PMSC use by the U.N. encourage even greater use of and dependence on PMSC?
There is reason to doubt that, according to a just released report by the Global Policy Forum and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
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Event: 29-31 Oct Berlin Online Democracy
AccessSAVE-THE-DATE – NOTICE
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and the “Forum Medien und Entwicklung” (FoME)
invite you to the 7th FoME-Symposium
From Online Activism to Offline Action Digital Media and Democratic Space
Monday, October 29th – Wednesday, 31st , 2012 Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
