Public Intelligence Blog – Page 2199 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Special report: We all thought Libya had moved on – it has, but into lawlessness and ruin

Libya has plunged unnoticed into its worst political and economic crisis since the defeat of Gaddafi

PATRICK COCKBURN

Independent, TUESDAY 03 SEPTEMBER 2013

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/special-report-we-all-thought-libya-had-moved-on–it-has-but-into-lawlessness-and-ruin-8797041.html

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2013/09/042013/09/04

Eagle: NRA joins spy lawsuit, says NSA creating gun registry

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NRA joins spy lawsuit, says NSA creating gun registry

Group joins lawsuit seeking end to spy agency's collection of Americans' phone records.

Michael Winter

USA TODAY, 4 September 2013

The National Rifle Association has joined a lawsuit against the federal government's sweeping surveillance program, claiming the collection of phone records and other data violates First Amendment rights and amounts to an illegal gun registry.

In supporting the American Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit, the NRA on Wednesday filed a supporting brief arguing the National Security Agency's datamining “could allow identification of NRA members, supporters, potential members, and other persons with whom the NRA communicates, potentially chilling their willingness to communicate with the NRA.”

The NSA's phone database would let the government track whether gun owners called the NRA, gun stores, shooting ranges or others.

The brief also says the database “could allow the government to circumvent legal protections for Americans' privacy, such as laws that guard against the registration of guns or gun owners,” thereby creating an illegal “national gun registry.”

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2013/09/042013/09/04

Jean Lievens: Enlivenment: Towards a Fundamental Shift in the Concepts of Nature, Culture, and Politics

Culture, Economics/True Cost, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience

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Enlivenment: Towards a Fundamental Shift in the Concepts of Nature, Culture, and Politics

Our mono-cultural worldview is literally preventing us from understanding the deeper causes of our multiple crises. Author Andreas Weber, in the below essay, gives us a glimpse of the different scientific paradigm now coming into focus. He calls it “Enlivenment,” because the new sciences are revealing organisms to be sentient, more-than-physical creatures that have subjective experiences and produce sense.

Enlivenment: Towards a Fundamental Shift in the Concepts of Nature, Culture, and Politics | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it Weber sees Enlivenment as an upgrade of the deficient categories of Enlightenment thought – a way to move beyond our modern metaphysics of dead matter and acknowledge the deeply creative processes embodied in all living organisms. The framework of Enlivenment that Weber outlines is a promising beginning for all those who stand ready to search for real solutions to the challenges of our future.

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2013/09/04

Patrick Meier: Free New Humanitarian Computing Library

#OSE Open Source Everything, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

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New! Humanitarian Computing Library

The field of “Humanitarian Computing” applies Human Computing and Machine Computing to address major information-based challengers in the humanitarian space. Human Computing refers to crowdsourcing and microtasking, which is also referred to as crowd computing. In contrast, Machine Computing draws on natural language processing and machine learning, amongst other disciplines. The Next Generation Humanitarian Technologies we are prototyping at QCRI are powered by Humanitarian Computing research and development (R&D).

My QCRI colleagues and I just launched the first ever Humanitarian Computing Library which is publicly available here. The purpose of this library, or wiki, is to consolidate existing and future research that relate to Humanitarian Computing in order to support the development of next generation humanitarian tech. The repository currently holds over 500 publications that span topics such as Crisis Management, Trust and Security, Software and Tools, Geographical Analysis and Crowdsourcing. These publications are largely drawn from (but not limited to) peer-reviewed papers submitted at leading conferences around the world. We invite you to add your own research on humanitarian computing to this growing collection of resources.

Many thanks to my colleague ChaTo (project lead) and QCRI interns Rahma and Nada from Qatar University for spearheading this important project. And a special mention to student Rachid who also helped.

2013/09/042013/09/04

John Maguire: Inventor Angelo Di Pietro Talks About EngineAir

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article: http://www.pureenergyblog.com/2013/08/27/1752/8502372_inventor-angelo-di-pietro-talks-about-engineair/

video: http://youtu.be/1Mx9iu0M1kk

2013/09/042013/09/04

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Is Not Free

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Are Google and Free an Oxymoron?

I am working on my presentation for the upcoming ISS intelligence conference. One of the topics which I will be addressing is “What is possible and not possible with Google’s Index”

Now don’t get the addled goose wrong. The goslings and I use Google and a number of other online services each day. The reason is that online indexing remains a hit-and-miss proposition. Today’s search gurus ignore the problem of content which is unindexable, servers which are too slow and time out, or latency issues which consign data to the big bit bucket in the back of the building. In addition, few talk about content which is intentionally deleted or moved to a storage device beyond the reach of an content acquisition system. Then there are all-too-frequent human errors which blast content into oblivion because back up devices cannot restore data. Clever programmers change a file format. The filters and connectors designed to index the content do not recognize the file type and put the document in the “look at this, dear human” folder or just skip the file type. And there are other issuers. These range from bandwidth constraints, time out settings, and software that does not work.

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2013/09/042013/09/04

SchwartzReport: Ocean Wave Power = Fresh Water Zero Carbon

05 Energy, Earth Intelligence

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Here is yet another report showing us that if we could emerge from our carbon energy trance there is an entire world of non-polluting energy available to us, as well as a potential freshwater source, which is equally important. Water is destiny. In this, and the next story on Germany, you can see what the transition out of carbon energy looks like when it works.

In contrast consider America's insistence on the continuation of carbon energy, most recently through Fracking, whose results are now well-known.

As citizens we must demand that the government focus on noncarbon technologies in service to our interests, as a people, with national wellness as the first priority. It is not the technology but the political will that is lacking. If enough people vote, and make the most compassionate life-affirming decision possible, we can change this. The power of collective intention expressed through voting is a great force.

How The Power Of Ocean Waves Could Yield Freshwater With Zero Carbon Emissions
JEFF SPROSS – Think Progress