The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Human Cities Symposium in Bruxelles.
The proceedings for the conference have just been published.
You can also click below to download them.
Fukushima Disaster Was Man-Made, Investigation Finds
The Fukushima nuclear disaster was the result of “man-made” failures before and after last year’s earthquake, according to a report from an independent parliamentary investigation.
The breakdowns involved regulators working with the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. to avoid implementing safety measures as well as a government lacking commitment to protect the public, the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission said in the report.
The March 11 accident, which set off a wave of reactor safety investigations around the world, “cannot be regarded as a natural disaster,” the commission’s chairman, Tokyo University professor emeritus Kiyoshi Kurokawa, wrote in the report released yesterday in Tokyo. It “could and should have been foreseen and prevented. And its effects could have been mitigated by a more effective human response.”
The report dealt the harshest critique yet to Tokyo Electric (9501) and the government. The findings couldn’t rule out the possibility that the magnitude-9 earthquake damaged the Fukushima Dai-Ichi No. 1 reactor and safety equipment. This is a departure from other reports that concluded the reactors withstood the earthquake, only to be disabled when the ensuing tsunami slammed into the plant.
Open Source Everything
From Tech to Toilet Paper, Berliner Tries to Live Completely Open Source for One Year
Radical Openness: 5 Things I Learned at TEDGlobal
Open Source
UK teachers are free to choose open source curriculum
The Open Source Balance at Banks
Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FOSS, FLOSS, F/OSS)
FLOSS Manuals' Fee-based Online Books Complement Free Ones
The next GPL: Why it's being shaped on GitHub
Continue reading “20120706 Open Source Everything Highlights”
Tip of the Hat to Deb Tremper of Six-Penny Graphics.
Phi Beta Iota: Around the Earth, a revolution is emergent at the intersection of open source everything — from minds to technologies to data access. Got crowd? BE the open force.
See Also:
Open Source Everything Highlights at Phi Beta Iota
THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust
Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Robert David STEELE Vivas
We could build an open Twitter, but would anyone use it?
GigaOm, Jul. 4, 2012
Amid the recent brouhaha over Twitter’s future — which some say is aimed at restricting what developers can do with the real-time information network, in an attempt to monetize it more easily — a number of critics have proposed duplicating the network using open-source tools and principles. This idea, which has also been proposed in the past by blogging pioneer and programmer Dave Winer, seems to have a lot of merit: after all, if a short-messaging utility like Twitter is a useful service for society to have, then why not recreate it as an open-source project? The only problem is that others have tried to do exactly that, and have mostly failed to achieve any traction. For better or worse, we seem to be stuck with Twitter.
Continue reading “Michael Bauwens: We could build an open Twitter, but would anyone use it?”
Phi Beta Iota: The full combination of pieces is strongly recommended as a total read. The contributing author whose work has been forwarded by Brother John makes a fundamental ethical and intellectual mistake, assuming that there is a significant difference between the Democratic and Republican parties. Not so. This is not an either/or choice between two evils. True heroism demands a “neither” choice, and a demand for an Electoral Reform Summit in time to open November 2012 to all eight qualified parties, not just the two-party tyranny that fronts for those it has corrupted (business does not corrupt government — government shakes down business when it chooses to be corrupt). Learn more about imminent possibilities demanding only public intelligence and public integrity, at http://bigbatusa.org.
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Below please find “From A ‘Politics of Hope’ To A ‘Politics of Heroism’,” recently published by Tikkun (see their spring issue on Occupy — http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/
Continue reading “John Steiner: From Israel, Call for Politics of Heroism versus Hope”
