Chuck Spinney: Uri Avnery on Terrorism & Idiocy

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
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Chuck Spinney

The Reign of Absurdiocy

There is no such thing as “international terrorism”. To declare war on “international terrorism” is nonsense. Politicians who do so are either fools or cynics, and probably both.   . . .  The modern media, by their very nature, are the terrorist's best friend. Terror could not flourish without them. The next best friend of the terrorist is the politician.

Mongoose: US Air Force Has Civilians Flying Killer Drones — Probably Illegal, Certainly Stupid

04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities
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Mongoose

Air Force hires civilian drone pilots for combat patrols; critics question legality

For the first time, civilian pilots and crews now operate what the Air Force calls “combat air patrols,” daily round-the-clock flights above areas of military operations to provide video and collect other sensitive intelligence.

ALERT: Free Film Today and Tomorrow, “A Time to Choose” on Environmental Collapse and Alternatives

#Events, 03 Environmental Degradation
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Greg Maybury
Greg Maybury

From   Director, Wall Street documentary ‘Inside Job'; Author, ‘Predator Nation'

For 48 hours starting at 9:30 am local time today, people around the world can watch and share Time To Choose, my latest documentary and a project I hope can help the world understand and address our common climate challenge.

Click on Time To Choose for free access 30 Nov – 1 Dec 2015.

Earth Intel @ PayPal — Donate $5 Please!

#OSE Open Source Everything
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We are trying the new PayPal.me link — please consider a donation (all 14,308 of you) in any amount, help us go to the next level. Our primary focus in the year to come will be the mapping of the open source everything frontier. Your donations will help fund the new web site (http://ose-21.org) and outreach including travel.

Click here: https://www.bigbatusa.org/donate

Sepp Hasslberger: Mosaic Social — Facebook & Google Killer?

Advanced Cyber/IO
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Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

What would it take to bring the social net under OUR control… here's a project

Mosaic.Social

This is a first draft of a proposal to design and build a user friendly, egalitarian, and decentralized social platform that enables and inspires a mass of cooperative participants to come together as a powerful movement.   . . .  The hope is that social entrepreneurs will utilize this decentralized protocol to develop decentralized apps to disrupt any and all tech monopolies with decentralized P2P schemes, egalitarian business models, and “platform cooperativism”.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Jeff Bezos & The Washington Post — Newspaper of Record? Barf.

IO Impotency
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Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

The New Real Journalism: Bezos a WaPo to the Gray Lady

I read “Jeff Bezos Says The Washington Post’s Goal Is to Become the New Paper of Record.” As Jack Benny used to say when someone mentioned $1 million, “Yipes.”

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