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2014/02/202014/02/20

BUCKY 2.0: Y Worlds at VIMEO [Big Data Cross-Cultural Multi-Disciplinary Visualization with World Brain Educational Potential]

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice

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Y Worlds – a community in progress organized about ways to better understand, better communicate, and better organize every aspect of our complex lives. This is NOT a tech on tech project. This is totally focused on the humans, on eliciting from each human in the network real-time interaction, and on educating humans one interaction at a time. It is intended to be a change agent system that can be applied one instance at a time, or across multiple instances. It does what Wikipedia, Google, and all other data management systems cannot do — makes sense.

NOTE: 32 offerings. All of the below times are in minutes and seconds.

Phi Beta Iota Top Picks:

17 2013 Meaning (00:59) – Meaning is what shines.

32 2014 The Art and Science (01:47) – High-level fast introduction.

19 2013 Language-2 (05:03) – Ancient, limited, not up to the challenges of communication and understanding complexities.

31 2014 Proof Process (5:50) – An in-depth look at Y Worlds' Proof Process.

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2014/02/202014/03/08

Review: The People’s Advocate – The Life and Legal History of America’s Most Fearless Public Interest Lawyer [Danny Sheehan]

6 Star Top 10%, America (Founders, Current Situation), Congress (Failure, Reform), Corruption, Crime (Corporate), Crime (Government), Culture, Research, Democracy, Empire, Sorrows, Hubris, Blowback, Executive (Partisan Failure, Reform), Impeachment & Treason, Intelligence (Public), Justice (Failure, Reform), Military & Pentagon Power, Nature, Diet, Memetics, Design, Philosophy, Politics, Power (Pathologies & Utilization), Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution, Voices Lost (Indigenous, Gender, Poor, Marginalized)

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Danny Sheehan

6 Stars on Substance, Revolutionary Illumination, February 20, 2014

This is a book for smart people who care about the Constitution, the Republic, and America the Beautiful — the America of good people with big hearts and strong souls who do the best they can while trapped amidst a complex of corrupt systems that now include most labor unions, most non-profits, and most religions — all the safety nets are gone. It is not an easy read but it could be the most important book you could read right now, as we prepare for the 2014-2020 civil war between the 99% and the 1%. For a sense of where I see Danny Sheehan in modern US history, see my review of Arsonist: The Most Dangerous Man in America. Danny Sheehan's is to the second American revolution as James Otis was to the Founding Fathers. The 1% and their political bi-opoly (the best of the servant class in the eyes of the 1%) are the target for a massive apolitical cross-cultural uprising rooted in natural law, social justice, and common sense.

The book cannot be fully appreciated without first understanding that the author has been a major player in every fundamental Constitutional case having to do with public agency — the sovereignty of the public versus the assumption by the “government” that it has inherent powers once reserved for kings, and that the citizens “donate” (abdicate) their powers once they “elect” said government. I highly recommend Wikipedia's biography on Daniel Sheehan (attorney). This — or the timeline below — is what should have opened the book in the first place. I take the trouble to do this because the value of this book lies with the next generation, the generation now in college and graduate school (or unemployed and unOccupied), not in the generation that rose with Danny and failed to beat down New York money, Texas energy, and the Nazi hydra combined with elite embrace of drugs, money laundering, and pedophilia, among other high crimes against the Republic.

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2014/02/20

Danielle Villegas: Google Seeks to Fiber 34 US Cities

03 Economy, 07 Health, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics

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More availability to internet conduits and competition will help drive down prices and make access more…accessible to the masses. It'll be interesting to see how Google Fiber works out! –techcommgeekmom

Google will explore bringing Fiber to 34 new cities including Portland and Atlanta

Google just announced that it's invited cities in nine metro areas across the US to explore “what it would take” to bring its Google Fiber gigabit internet service to more locations. “People are hungrier than ever for faster Internet, and as a result, cities across America are making speed a priority,” Google says. “We've long believed that the Internet’s next chapter will be built on gigabit speeds, so it’s fantastic to see this momentum.” Google says up to 34 cities in all could potentially receive Fiber service. The nine metro areas where those cities are located include:

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2014/02/202014/02/20

Sepp Hasslberger: Seafloor Carpet Generates Energy

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Apparently waves are pretty energy dense and could be used to generate power in a simple way…

“Alam estimated that one square meter of a seafloor carpet system could generate enough electricity to power two U.S. households.

He added that wave energy from just 10 meters of California coastline, or about 100 square meters of a seafloor carpet, could generate the same amount of power as an array of solar panels the size of a soccer field, which covers about 6,400 square meters.”

Seafloor carpet catches waves to generate energy

UC Berkeley engineers are developing a seafloor carpet system to capture ocean wave energy and convert it into usable electricity. The system could eventually help lower the cost of converting seawater into fresh water, easing the pressure during periods of drought.

For assistant professor Reza Alam, an expert in wave mechanics, the seafloor “carpet” he is proposing will convert ocean waves into usable energy.

“There is a vast amount of untapped energy in the oceans, and with increasing worldwide demand for power, the need to find cleaner alternatives to fossil fuels is critical,” said Alam. “We are also seeing greater population growth along coastal cities, so the ocean-based system we are developing would produce electricity in a carbon-neutral way right where it is needed.”

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2014/02/202014/02/20

Berto Jongman: Secrecy As Culture of Waste

03 Economy, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military, Peace Intelligence

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Secrecy = culture of waste.

Balancing Transparency and National Security

Is keeping military funding secret truly necessary for national security? Not according to Pieter and Siemon Wezeman. Greater transparency not only makes governments more accountable, it also helps reduce the causes of insecurity and conflict.

By Pieter Wezeman and Siemon Wezeman for SIPRI

EXTRACT

The secrecy of military matters is an illusion

Many governments justify secrecy in military budgets on the basis that such information should not be allowed to fall into the hands of potentially hostile forces. However, maintaining secrecy about military spending and key military procurement projects is practically impossible. For example, SIPRI has had 45 years of experience in collecting information about military budgets and international arms transfers. Open sources, official or non-official, provide SIPRI with a wealth of information about the procurement of major arms. If organizations like SIPRI, with minimal resources and working only with open sources, can calculate military spending and map global arms transfers with a high degree of comprehensiveness and accuracy, then national intelligence agencies in potentially hostile countries are obviously able to achieve a lot more.

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2014/02/202014/02/20

JZ: Feeding 9 BIllion with Seeds of Change in India (YouTube 9:03)

01 Agriculture, 03 India

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Jason "JZ" Liszkiewicz — Jason “JZ” Liszkiewicz

For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=65613&a…

In India, climate change is forcing farmers to adapt in order to survive. While scientists race to breed a new batch of climate-resilient super seeds, locals are instead turning to the ways of their ancestors.

Saltwater intrusion, flooding, droughts, rising sea levels and violent storms wreak havoc on the agriculture of countries like India, forcing many to seek out more resilient seed varieties. Rice conservators like Debal Deb are helping to reintroduce traditional, salt-tolerant solutions for struggling farmers. “They are more precious than gold,” says a local affected by cyclone Isla four years ago. People like Deb say these seeds rival modern scientific billion-dollar investments, including GM. But scientists say reintroducing old seed varieties simply doesn't produce enough to feed 9 billion people on a climate-changing planet.

Centre for Investigative Reporting

2014/02/202014/02/20

John Robb: Global Civil War Coming — 99% Against the 1% Kleptocracy [Switzerland May Be Safe, But Absentee Ownership and Rents Are Toast]

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Officers Call

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The Dream vs. the Kleptocracy

Here's a strong motive for open source warfare — the model of warfare that has become the hallmark of 21st century conlfict, from potest movements to fullscale insurgencies.

It's the driver of the recent conflict in Ukraine.

A conflict we're going to see much more of. A struggle between the people that want the opportunity to earn some prosperity, and those that want to take all of it.

In other words, a growing number of people around the world now want to make the American Dream their own.

Unfortunately, they face a kleptocracy of government, business, and finance that wants to prevent that.

Here's one story from that fight. One that you should know.

It's the story of a young man that pursued the Dream, only to have it stolen away from him.

Basboosa vs. the Kleptocracy

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