Worth a Look: AVAAZ Movement 13 Million and Growing

Dear Amazing Avaazers, It feels like everything is happening exponentially. In the last 30 days, our community has grown by 2.5 million people. We were already the largest political web movement ever, and yet we’re growing faster than anyone has seen before! We’re taking more actions, winning more victories, donating more and generating thousands more …

Michael Peterson: Jew on Jew – The Importance of Dissent

Phi Beta Iota:  The following is a comment posted  to the reviewby Robert Steele of Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul (Carroll & Graf, 2002).  It is a combination of Constitutional and religious counterintelligence commentary that we found to be encouraging–most American Jews are not Zionist sayanim [traitors to …

Venessa Miemis: Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems

Am reviving the Autonomous Internet Roadmap at the P2P Foundation. Found this in passing. Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems (IRIS) at MIT Directly Related Projects Chord: Scalable Peer-to-Peer Lookup Open DHT: A Publicly Accessible DHT Service Kademlia: XOR metric-based routing Coral: The NYU Distribution Network Ocean Store: Providing Global-Scale Persistent Data Pastry: An infrastructure for …

Berto Jongman: Kurzweil Blog – Bypass the Internet!

Bypass the Internet! Amara D. Angelica Kurzweil Blog, January 30, 2012 I’m sick of hearing about how we need to cave into repressive governments and throttle back Google, Twitter, Facebook, and other information services and accept Web censorship and limits on free expression. Get the hell off my cloud. “If a full-surveillance world prevents us …

Eagle: Call for Internet “Quality Control” aka Quash Dissent

Columnist Calls for Internet “Quality Control” to Quash Dissent Michael Tennant New American, 25 January 2012 Do you think anthropogenic global warming is a hoax? Are you unconvinced that your ancestors had more in common with Cheetah than with Tarzan? Have you any doubts about the official version of how 9/11 went down? Then you, …

John Robb: When Government is Hollow, Servant to the Rich

The Copyright Cartel’s Enforcers: The FBI What happens when a government hollows out? Answer:  Private interests take control of the machinery of state to enhance and protect their profitability. In some cases, this results in simple looting (like the US mortgage fiasco and EU meltdown).  In others, Byzantine laws and rules are enacted that crush …