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Neelie Kroes To Give A Final Interview At Disrupt Europe In London

Neelie Kroes will give one of her last ever on-stage interviews at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in London before leaving her role as Vice-President of the European Commission.

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On the Commission’s ‘Digital Agenda’ she has been at least as forthright. Early on she advocated free and Open Source Software, previously unheard of at high levels of European governance.

Kroes pushed hard for more competition and the levelling of the broadband playing field; went to war with mobile operators over roaming charges and has since gone on to fiercely defend and promote technology entrepreneurship, particularly amongst Europe’s young people, many of whom face economies where traditional industries have fewer and fewer jobs.

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2014/10/03

Owl: Ebola Catastrophe – Real Terrorism or False Flag? Competing Narratives!

02 Infectious Disease, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence

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DHS Chatter: Suspected Terrorists Planning to Infect Themselves With Ebola

Video: Proof Of US Plan To Kill 90% Of World Population With Airborne Ebola?

See Especially:

Sheriff’s Officers Fearful After Being Ordered into Quarantined Ebola Apartment

See Also:

Ebola @ Phi Beta Iota

False Flag @ Phi Beta Iota

2014/10/032014/10/03

EFF: Open Access Week

Access

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Knowledge Should Not Be Trapped Behind A Paywall: Get Ready For Open Access Week

Open Access Week is less than a month away! Now in its eighth year, Open Access Week is an international event that celebrates the wide-ranging benefits of enabling open access to information and research–as well as the dangerous costs of keeping knowledge locked behind publisher paywalls.

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2014/10/03

Chuck Spinney: Ukraine Crisis Focused on Stopping Russian-German Alliance

Peace Intelligence

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Professor Vladimir Golstein’s opinion piece (below) in Russia Insider presents a very interesting point of view, especially when one thinks about it in light of a recent poll by the German Marshall Fund portraying a sharp decline in positive attitudes in Germany toward America and President Obama. According this report (in German), the poll found that only 58% of the German people now hold a positive opinion of the US. This is down from 68% only a year ago. Moreover, the percentage of Germans holding a positive view of President Obama has plummeted from 87% in 2010 to 76% in 2013 to 56% now. Golstein's argument is also interesting when one compares the implications of his ideas to the Russophobic pronouncements and forward force decisions that emerged from the recent US controlled NATO summit.

Chuck Spinney

In Ukraine Crisis, Germany is the Prize

2014/10/032014/10/03

Mini-Me: We’ve Lost 50% of Vertebrate Life…

03 Environmental Degradation, Earth Intelligence

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Huh?

It's time to shout stop on this war on the living world

Our consumption is trashing a natural world infinitely more fascinating and intricate than the stuff we produce

George Monbiot

The Guardian, 1 October 2014

This is a moment at which anyone with the capacity for reflection should stop and wonder what we are doing.

If the news that in the past 40 years the world has lost over 50% of its vertebrate wildlife (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish) fails to tell us that there is something wrong with the way we live, it’s hard to imagine what could. Who believes that a social and economic system which has this effect is a healthy one? Who, contemplating this loss, could call it progress?

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2014/10/03

Jean Lievens: fab labs, open innovation and smart cities

Design, Hardware, Innovation, Manufacturing, Materials

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4/4 Fabbing & cities: Barcelona Fab City

This post is the fourth of 4 posts about Digital manufacturing (fabbing) environments that we have been publishing weekly on Fridays. In these posts I have shared my research on fab labs, open innovation and smart cities, mainly in Europe and in Spain.

The fourth post is the result of a research on fab labs and their relationship with smartcities. In the last two articles I have written about two recent nodes of the global fab lab network. Although there are other fablabs in Spain, I decided to give visibility to these two initiatives in León and in Sevilla. Among all fab labs in Spain those two are giving a real opportunity to make personal production and digital manufacturing accessible and comprehensible for a wide range of people. However, the most popular manufacturing laboratory in Spain is Fab Lab Barcelona (2008). It is settled in the IAAC – Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and it is part of the Fab Lab Network. I would like to share my interest in their research on how the digital production ecosystem could make our cities smarter.

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