The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Full text of Sanya Declaration of the BRICS Leaders Meeting Xinhuanet.com English.news.cn 2011-04-14 21:58:57 SANYA, Hainan, April 14 (Xinhua) — Leaders of five BRICS countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, released on Thursday a joint document, Sanya Declaration, at the BRICS Leaders Meeting in south China’s resort city of Sanya. The following is …
Global Voices Blog Critique from Jacob Appelbaum: My motivation for writing this response is to inform readers of the serious concerns that many people, myself included, have about the recent Freedom House report. I am always pleased to see more analysis of censorship circumvention and Internet security tools, but I have concerns about this report’s …
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Freedom on the Net: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media Freedom House 30 March 2009 As internet and mobile phone use explodes worldwide, governments are adopting new and multiple means for controlling these technologies that go far beyond technical filtering. Freedom on the Net provides a comprehensive look at these emerging tactics, raising …
building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet@googlegroups.com YAY Bucky Fuller! Strangely enough, with all the nightmare scenario’s currently playing out, their corollary, our best dreams are also playing out. The stuff about being targeted and persecuted, shut-down etc. becomes irrelevant in the face of a few billion users who are able to leapfrog the existing infrastructure and communicate directly with one …
The Future in Review (FIRE) Conference May 24-27, 2011 Montage Laguna Beach Laguna Beach, California About Future in Review (FIRE) .. Confirmed Thought Leaders .. 2010 Firestarters .. 2011 Firestarters .. FIRE Home Page .. Register for FiRe 2011 This year’s over-arcing FiRe theme is Technology-Driving Global-Economics. Discussions will include: Annual FiRe CTO Design …
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“The National Conversation” Debuts The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has announced a new initiative launching April 8, 2011: The National Conversation at the Woodrow Wilson Center. The National Conversation will examine overarching themes of U.S. international and domestic policy, drawing on high-profile guests and experts from all sides of the political sphere to …
REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software model and Microsoft to create GNU/Linux and the Open Source movement. On June 1, 2001, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said “Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” Microsoft fears GNU/Linux, and …
