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Reflections on Lincoln, Principle, Compromise, Autonomous Internet & Citizen Intelligence / Counter-Intelligence 2.0 with Meta-RECAP

EDIT of 21 January 2013:  I have gotten both sharp criticism from folks I revere, and complements.  I am more than willing to delete this, but I am more interested in having people think outside the lines.  I’ve made some revisions, adding issues and readings in each section.   Email me as you please, robert.david.steele.vivas [at] …

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Mini-Me: Aaron Swartz, Internet Activist, “Suicided?” Joins “Suicided” Also Hung Mark Lombardi in the Cloud

Huh? Aaron Swartz, Precocious Programmer and Internet Activist, Dies at 26 John Schwartz New York Times, 12 January 2013 Aaron Swartz, a wizardly programmer who as a teenager helped to develop a computer code that provided a format for delivering regularly changing Web content and in later life became an unwavering crusader to make that …

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SwartzReport: Legalizing Marijuana – Across the States

Legalizing Marijuana: What’s Happening in Other States? The Patriot-News (Central Pennsylvania) Not surprisingly the legalization of Marijuana in Washington and Colorado, has set in motion a train of events. It is important to keep in mind that this is how alcohol prohibition ended; it began with the states. Read full article.

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Yoda: Mississippi Down? Lower the Ocean, Raise the River — Army Corps of Engineers Finds a New Challenge, a New Way — But Who Will Pay?

Mississippi River may hit record low, halt traffic in December Michael Winter USA TODAY, Obama is urged to declare emergency so Army Corps can take steps to keep 200-mile stretch open. 8:27PM EST November 28. 2012 – A key stretch of the drought-ravaged Mississippi River may fall to a record low by mid-December, halting barge …

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