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Mongoose: Bradley Manning – a Case Study in Government Misconduct, Government Ineptitude, and More Government Misconduct — Daniel Ellsberg Walked, Bradley Manning Probably Should As Well

UPDATED 1 Mar 2013 to add Comment from Paul Harper at Google+. The US Government is incredibly stupid about counterintelligence. They learned nothing from the Falcon and the Snowman, and it is clear that the defense team for Bradley Manning will be able to bracket the charges with a) government misconduct as revealed in the …

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SmartPlanet: High-Speed Rail — Teaching Governments, Mobilizing All Eight Tribes to Press Forward on High-Speed Rail and Localized Everything

“The Morning Briefing” is SmartPlanet’s daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we’re reading about high-speed rail. 1.) Protests bring Italian high-speed rail mega-tunnel to its knees. High-speed rail has garnered a lot of praise recently. The U.S. has a new national high-speed network map. China has unveiled the world’s longest high-speed line. …

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Winslow Wheelers: Morally Bankrupt Flag Officers Need to Go + Pentagon Corruption RECAP

The Joint Chiefs of Staff testified to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees this week arguing that unless their budgets are augmented with still more money they will hollow out the armed forces. Most in the press and Congress didn’t read their assertions that way, but two near simultaneous reports that provide some meaningful …

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Michel Bauwens: The Inevitable Localization of Globalization

Essay of the Day: Why Localization is Inevitable in a Resource-Scarce World * Article: The New Geography of Trade: Globalization’s Decline May Stimulate Local Recovery. By Fred Curtis, David Ehrenfeld. Solutions Journal, Volume 3 | Issue 1 | Page 35-40 | Jan 2012 Introductory Citation “It is an article of faith that global trade will …

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Patrick Meier: Map or Be Mapped — Psycho-Social Political-Economic Power in a Map

Map or Be Mapped: Otherwise You Don’t Exist “There are hardly any street signs here. There are no official zip codes. No addresses. Just word of mouth” (1). Such is the fate of Brazil’s Mare shanty-town and that of most shantytowns around the world where the spoken word is king (and not necessarily benevolent). “The sprawling …

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Intelligence with Integrity Chapter 1: Public Governance & Public Intelligence

Utilizar el Traductor de Google en la parte superior de la columna central Utilisez Google Translate au haut de la colonne du milieu Google’ın Orta Sütun Top of Çevir kullanın Используйте Google Translate в верхней части среднего столбца Sử dụng Google Translate Đầu Cột Trung उपयोग Google मध्य स्तंभ के शीर्ष पर अनुवाद 在中间一列的顶部，使用谷歌翻译 استخدام …

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Theophillis Goodyear: Chomsky on Paranoia of the Superrich

The Paranoia of the Superrich and Superpowerful Noam Chomsky Huffington Post, 4 February 2013 EXTRACT Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the act. Centuries ago, there used to be something called presumption of innocence. If you apprehend …

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