The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
PDF (75 Pages, Active Links): 2015 Steele on Edu Intel Research
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SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Ecuador
This is the English-language version full text online. The version presented in Spanish with photographs of the event and other links is:
PDF (English with Notes): PDF Steele in Ecuador in English Final Draft with Notes
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At Davos, Tech Executives Skirt the Real Issues
On the panel were Google chairman Eric Schmidt, Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. During the session I frequently felt that that neither the optimistic statements of hope or anecdotes of those whose lives have improved adequately dealt with the challenge of the digital economy. I was tempted to quote Bill Clinton: āItās the economy, stupid.ā
The Digital Economy has become THE Economy. Yes, technology has created many wonders, but if we look at the macro level, the scorecard on economic results of technology are so far troublesome. Technology has unquestionably been at the heart of some negative developments including massive structural unemployment; growing social inequality where the benefits and wealth generated by technology have been asymmetrical; a fracturing of public discourse; and the loss of privacy and the rise of a surveillance society to name a few.
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Kill Dead Zones With This Small Box
DIY phone and internet service for rural areas
Kurtis Heimerl enables entrepreneurs to build their own wireless netĀworks. A postdoctoral student at the University of California at Berkeley, Heimerl packed a Linux computer, a 900 MHz power amplifier, and a 2G cellular-network antenna into a microwave-size box called Endaga CCN1. It costs a relatively modest sum of $6,000 and is simple to set up: Plug in power and Internet, mount the unit to a tree or pole, and voilĆ : connection. Endaga can connect up to 1,000 people within a six-mile radius.
Greece led the way to democracy in ancient times. Will they do it again, and show us how to build a p2p society?Ā
Will Syriza pave the way for a Commons-oriented society?
Andreas Karitzis, member of Syrizaās think tank on digital policies and a candidate MP in the ongoing elections, recentlyĀ wroteĀ an article in the Greek version of the Huffington Post highlighting the commitment of his party to free/open source technologies, transparency and participatory democracy. Mr. Karitzis claims that Syriza will support the adoption of free/open source software in the public sector and the distribution of public data under Commons-based licenses. It is true that from program to implementation, several steps are required, however the first step seems to have been made: Syriza appears to not only be aware of the advantages of free/open source technologies but also to realize the potential and the new political economy of this emerging proto-mode of production.
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Well, I don't see how you could make it any plainer than this. I now have two grandsons — two years for one, one month for the other — and I wonder what kind of country, if they stay in this country, the United States will be when they grow to adulthood.Ā It seems very doubtful it will be the democratic republic of my youth, in substance whatever hollow forms may remain.
Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy
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