Berto Jongman: Social Media Mandarins – We Fucked Up! Autonomous Internet Against #GoogleGestapo Anyone?

Autonomous Internet, IO Impotency
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Berto Jongman

The Internet's Original Sin

It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web.

At the end of the day, the business model that got us funded was advertising. The model that got us acquired was analyzing users’ personal homepages so we could better target ads to them. Along the way, we ended up creating one of the most hated tools in the advertiser’s toolkit: the pop-up ad.

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Tom Atlee: Is the Public Well-Informed Enough to be Trusted with Democracy?

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
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Tom Atlee

Is the Public Well-Informed Enough to be Trusted with Democracy?

Dear OZY Third Rail folks,

You ask “Is the Public Well-Informed Enough to be Trusted with Democracy?

Your question dances around an even bigger, even more important situation, without actually acknowledging it and its related question:

Is it realistic to depend on our current form of democracy when its collective intelligence is undermined by dynamics like the following?

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Robert Steele with David Seaman: Intense Interview in 2 Parts

Interviews OF Robert
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Robert David STEELE Vivas

Robert Steele with David Seaman, “(Former) CIA Officer INTENSE INTERVIEW, Part I,” Fulcrum (Bitchute, 17:36), January 24, 2018 and “(Former) CIA Officer INTENSE INTERVIEW, Part II,” Fulcrum (Bitchute, 35:07) January 24, 2018.

Phi Beta Iota: David Seaman has been abused by #GoogleGestapo. We support him in principle and believe he merits attention as one of the progressives on the edge.

Ellen Brown: How Uncle Sam Launders Marijuana Money

Corruption, Government
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Ellen Brown

How Uncle Sam Launders Marijuana Money

In a blatant example of “do as I say, not as I do,” the US government is profiting handsomely by accepting marijuana cash in the payment of taxes while imposing huge penalties on banks for accepting it as deposits. Onerous reporting requirements are driving small local banks to sell out to Wall Street. Congress needs to harmonize federal with state law.

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