The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
ideas to think about, make better, hack on, from venessa miemis:
– access to a global communication infrastructure should be a human right
– i should be able to exchange value directly with a peer without third party involvement
– i should have control over the data that i generate
– it is my right to know how third parties are using my personal data
– i should have the capacity to allow or deny access to aspects of my data
Tip of the Hat to Isaac Wilder at Google Group Next Net.
Dear Friends:
See the below [December 2010] article from our old friend, Chellis Glendinning, now living in Bolivia, that she did on the administration's recent anti-eco projects, and the following sent from a friend of a friend also living there now.
Sad to hear the other side of the story…JAS
“Need to tell you that this is all bull. Mr. Morales turns out to play to the international audience (you) — while at home he's got something else going on: industrial development up the kazoo, dams many times bigger than Hoover, nuclear power plants, uranium mining, lithium mining, new oil wells, pipelines through indigenous lands, new highways that tribes are fighting. Every time the people rise up against his plans — which happens constantly now (a friend just lost his eye to the police in the streets) — the administration dismisses them saying they are in the hands of the capitalists or are trying to tear down the state. Plus, public opinion has been cut via new laws that minimize the voice of journalists with heavy fines and perhaps closing papers, radio stations, etc. if
convicted. It is commonly said that EM says one thing but does the other.
“So, here at ground level, we don't take this law very seriously. It's nice, a nice collection of words. Sorry to tell you this. Non-democractic socialism, it turns out, is no picnic.
“The challenge begins now, as the people were too afraid to protest for the last years due to the assault by the right. But that's not a threat just now, so the people are rising up. It's a whole new ballgame at this point.
No one knows what will happen. Today's news is that El Evo liberated a bunch more millions to spend on further industrialization!”
See Also:
The Consequences of Modernization: The Techno-Fantasies of Evo Morales, Counterpunch, Christmas Weekend Edition, December 24-26, 2010
For folks who want to get involved with reforming the mess that is Universal Service Fund (USF), this is for you.
Intercarrier Compensation/Universal Service Fund Reform Workshop
April 27, 2011 / 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM EDT / 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554
The second of three workshops on Universal Service reform will focus on modernizing current programs that support voice service into a Connect America Fund (CAF) that will drive investment in and access to 21st Century broadband and voice services in rural areas.
1. Simpol – John Bunzl – Interview Part One (April 15, 2009)
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See Simpol's Founder, John Bunzl, explain Simpol on Youtube, Part 1. (about 5 minutes) |
2. Simpol – John Bunzl – Interview Part Two (April 15, 2009)
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See Simpol's Founder, John Bunzl, explain Simpol on Youtube, Part 2. (about 5 minutes) |
Politico The Arena, 26 April 2011
The Ron Paul Revolution in 2008 and the tea party movement that followed shows that the American conservative mainstream is starting to awaken to its own pre-neocon past and potential future. It is seeing itself as the bulwark needed to protect our Republic, the rule of law, individual liberty and our fiscal health against those in both parties whose policies have taken the United State to the precipice of disaster.
For those who think both constitutionally as Dr. Paul does and systemically, it's impossible to distinguish between our national debt and our foreign policy. Dr. Paul is one of the few candidates who offers an integrated and systemic way of understanding the difficulties we face as a country and the means to restore our Republic.
It is not about politics. It is about the “American Hologram”, as Joe Bageant calls it:
“All Americans, regardless of caste, live in a culture woven of self-referential illusions. Like a holographic simulation, each part refers exclusively back to the whole, and the whole refers exclusively back to the parts. All else is excluded by this simulated reality.”
The Great American Media Mind Warp: A Feast of Bullshit and Spectacle
Of course Joe, who died recently, is pretty far out there. But his notion of the Hologram, which has become almost sacred in some parts of our culture, is pretty accurate. Compare and contrast, for example, main stream media with Rachel Maddow. She reports, I am told, on the negative receptions GOP members get at their so called town hall meetings. But the MSM? Or look at Wikileaks on Gitmo vs the MSM on Gitmo. Or look at the failure of the MSM to link the decline of the dollar to the price of gasoline.
So what we need is a counter-narrative that strips the current hologram of its power to delude and anesthetize. IE, until we see through the hologram and realize it is naked, as it were, we are not going to get much meaningful change. Change is not what the powers that be want, which of course is why they promote consumption, celebrity and entertainment over all. A nation of zombies, who don't even know they are being duped, is what they want.
This is not rocket science and is well known, but so far no one has been able to articulate a sufficiently compelling alternative narrative.
Massimo Pigliucci on Ignorance Today
AMERICA: Y UR PEEPS B SO DUM? Ignorance and courage in the age of Lady Gaga
Journal: USA Theater of Politics Adds a Side Show
Review: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
