Public Intelligence Blog – Page 1726 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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I think we can safely and accurately say that the people of the United States, collectively, while they may care about their own children, or the children of their friends, do not care for children in general. We also have the highest level of food stress with 17 million children going hungry at least part of the year.

Child homelessness in U.S. reaches historic high at 2.5 million

I began writing about what I see as the new American slavery in 2011 (see The New American Slavery). This trend is made up of several parts, prison privatization, all the industries that suckle at the teat of the American Gulag, and the indentured exploitation of prisoners. And it just keeps getting more and more disgusting and blatantly what it is.

California Tells Court It Can’t Release Inmates Early Because It Would Lose Cheap Prison Labor

2014/11/182014/11/18

ANSWERS to Tomas in Brazil on Capitalism, Free Energy, Black Global Government, and Extra-Terrestials

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1) The Global Black Government (GBG) is, at least, 100 years ahead of any openly know technology.

This is really two issues: whether Extra-Terrestial (ET) Technology has been obtained from ETs, and whether technology such as free energy has been repressed to protect legacy investments. I believe the answer to both is yes. I have no direct experience or access to ET arena but I have reviewed a number of books that I find completely credible, and at Phi Beta Iota there are a number of posts, for example on the Canadian Defense Minister testifying about 8 ET “races” that the government was officially in liaison with.

extraterrestrial @ Phi Beta Iota . Intelligence (Extra-Terrestrial)

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2014/11/18

Darrell West: Michael Lewis on Why Inequality is Bad for Billionaires

Cultural Intelligence

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Hope you saw author Michael Lewis’s article in The New Republic on how great wealth encourages bad behavior among the rich Extreme Wealth Is Bad for Everyone—Especially the Wealthy. He writes that “a body of quirky but persuasive research has sought to understand the effects of wealth and privilege on human behavior … one study … [found that] people driving expensive cars were four times more likely to cut in front of other drivers than drivers of cheap cars.”

Graphic: Preconditions of Revolution in the USA Today

2014/11/18

Berto Jongman: Robert Reich on Inequality [EXPENSIVE!]

Commerce, Corruption, Government

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If You Want to Know What’s Happened to Our Democracy, Follow the Richest .01 Percent

If you want to know what’s happened to the American economy, follow the money. That will lead you to the richest .01 percent. And if you want to know what’s happened to our democracy, follow the richest .01 percent. They’ll lead you to the politicians who have been selling our democracy.

Phi Beta Iota: Concentrated wealth is expensive at multiple levels, but particularly so in relation to externalized diseconomies associated with poverty, disease, and environmental degradation. Concentrated wealth is rooted in dishonesty among the few (particularly the two-party political tyranny) combined with ignorance and apathy among the many. There is a simple solution: a mass uprising with a non-violent strike demanding Electoral Reform (all eleven points).

Graphic: Preconditions of Revolution in the USA Today

Robert Reich @ Bill Moyers

2014/11/172014/11/17

Michel Bauwens: P2P Future Scenarios

Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

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Four scenarios for the inevitable P2P Future

P2P and networked technologies are here to stay, are expanding, and will become the dominant technological format. Yet, that doesn’t mean at all that the future is a foregone conclusion. Around these technologies we will see political and social struggles that will involve ownership and governance (control), and also their mobilization by social forces having their own worldviews, interests and agenda.

To distinguish various futures, I have produced a impromptu four quadrant structure according to two axes:

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Event: 21-22 March 2015 Cambridge MA LibrePlanet

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Registration is now open for LibrePlanet 2015, March 21-22, 2015 in Cambridge, MA. Register today!

LibrePlanet is an annual conference for free software enthusiasts, co-produced by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the Student Information Processing Board at MIT (SIPB). LibrePlanet brings together software developers, policy experts, activists and computer users to learn skills, share accomplishments and face challenges to software freedom. Newcomers are always welcome, and LibrePlanet 2015 will feature programming for all ages and experience levels. FSF members and students attend LibrePlanet gratis.

This year, the theme of LibrePlanet is “Free Software Everywhere.”

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2014/11/17

Stewart Brand: Kevin Kelly on Holos Rising

Cultural Intelligence

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Stewart Brand

When Kevin Kelly looked up the definition of ?superorganism? on Wikipedia, he found this: ?A collection of agents which can act in concert to produce phenomena governed by the collective.? The source cited was Kevin Kelly, in his 01994 book, Out of Control. His 02014 perspective is that humanity has come to dwell in a superorganism of our own making on which our lives now depend.

The technological numbers keep powering up and connecting with each other. Their aggregate is becoming formidible, rich with emergent behavior, and yet it is still so new to us that it remains unnamed and scarcely considered.

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