Michel Bauwens: YouTube (15:46) MindMap Everything Open and Free

#OSE Open Source Everything
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P2P evangelist Michel Bauwens gets interviewed by Robin Good on how society is gradually becoming more and more open, with people sharing knowledge and goods. – http://www.MasterNewMedia.org

Core point: transformative change stems from underlying and persistent change in the value system.

ROBERT STEELE: Single most useful video I have watched in the past decade.

2010 YouTube (15:46) Below the Line

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Michel Bauwens: #Occupy Role of Power in a P2P Open Source Economy

#OSE Open Source Everything, P2P / Panarchy
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2012, trending again.

The role of power relations in a p2p economy

TheĀ #occupy movement, which is a surface manifestation of a deeper Multitude movement, is in factĀ a refutation of power. Not only of the “power in place”, i.e. big banks, governments, etc. but of what we callĀ “instituted power”, the kind of power your boss has over you. TheĀ consensus decision making process,Ā a form ofĀ direct democracyĀ that has been adopted by the #occupy movement, is the most obvious affirmation of this refutation of instituted power relations, which until now has been seen as a necessaryĀ structuring mechanisms of society.Ā  Read full article.

Michel Bauwens: YouTube on Deliberate Confusion — Manufacturing Mass Subservience

Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency
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Key point: financial lords use media lords to manufacture deliberate constant confusion and incoherence in order to prevent organized citizens from perceiving the truth or manufacturing their own coherent narrative that attracts and mobilizes masses in favor of the larger public interest.

YouTube (5:09) Below the Line

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Michel Bauwens: Analog TV Frequencies = Free Super-WiFi

Access, Spectrum
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Old analogue TV frequencies should turned into free ā€˜super WiFi’, scientists say

Old television frequencies are sold off by governments due to the change over from analogue to digital broadcasting, often to whoever is prepared to pay the most for them. They should instead be used to create a new range of free Wi-Fi, say scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. Transmitting WiFi over old TV frequencies would cover a far wider area than traditional WiFi because they use much lower frequencies. Current WiFi is transmitted over local area networks (WLAN) at about 2GHz and therefore has a limited range. Read full article.