The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
NETmundial Initiative
A multistakeholder Initiative to energize bottom-up, collaborative solutions in a distributed Internet governance ecosystem.
This initiative was started by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in partnership with the World Economic Forum (WEF), and so far it has attracted a lot of skepticism and critics from civil society, business and governments. Learn more from Carolina Rossini.
This is a link to a well done video providing an update on Ebola and, more particularly, the misinformation and obfuscation being promulgated by the CDC, et al.
Elza S. Maalouf, Foreword by Don Beck
5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary — Empowering, World-Changing, Rich in Substance, December 6, 2014
This book was recommended to me by Michael Ostrolenk, whom I consider one of the most inspiring transpartisan figures in America today, and endorsed by Elisabet Sahtouris, evolution biologist and “Yoda” to many of us. Given those two recommendations, my own review is pro forma, summary notes for smart people.
This is a most extraordinary book that I found deeply absorbing, inspiring, and practical. It is an original work in every possible sense of the word, and brings to the public insights, concepts, and methods that are essential to creating peace and prosperity among vastly diverse groups whose cultures, mind-sets, life conditions, and existing forms of governance and economics are not just in conflict, but downright pathologically dysfunctional.
Within this rich offering are a few things that are simply not found elsewhere, that could and should redefine and mature Western and Eastern understanding and practice:
Cosmic, this is.
Lantern: One Device, Free Data From Space Forever
Global access to the webās best content on your mobile device. Anonymous. Uncensored. Free. Outernet
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It's time for the drivers, hosts, and community members to get a piece of the companies that couldn't exist without them.
Lisa Gansky
Fastcoexist.com, 4 December 2014
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The Future of News: Looking East
I read āHacking Media: Al Jazeera Hackathon Imagines the Future of News.ā The write up is interesting because it suggests that fresh thinking about ārealā journalism does not occur in Midtown Manhattan.
The other main point I noted was:
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: The Future of News (as Big Data Made Small and Local)”
Robert Steele: UNASUR – The Revolution Begins
The headquarters of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) is now complete and being inaugurated in Quito, Ecuador on 5 and 6 December 2014.
I was just in Ecuador, delivering a briefing on the importance of civil-military relations in professionalizing intelligence. That briefing is available free online in both Spanish and English. It was featured on the front page of Ecuadorean intelligence web site, which for me represented all that is right with Ecuador and all that is wrong with the USA — my ideas, nine books, two Senators, and a Congressman later, have NEVER been accepted by the $100 billion a year US Intelligence Community — indeed, they call me “Open Sores.” (Alvin Toffler, in the chapter on “The Future of the Spy“, more kindly refers to me as “the rival store.”)
Below I provide a very short assessment of what I believe is going to emerge from UNASUR, and three ideas that I have proposed to UNASUR directly and also indirectly via the Government of Ecuador.
Continue reading “Reflections: UNASUR – The Revolution Begins”
