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2011/02/142011/02/16

Review (Guest): What’s Mine Is Yours–The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

5 Star, Change & Innovation, Civil Society, Complexity & Resilience, Consciousness & Social IQ, Culture, Research, Democracy, Information Society, Intelligence (Collective & Quantum), Intelligence (Wealth of Networks), Nature, Diet, Memetics, Design, Philosophy, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution

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Rachel Botsman
(Author), Roo Rogers
(Author)

5.0 out of 5 stars Ways to Share That Benefit You and Others

September 17, 2010

ByKare Anderson “Kare Anderson” (Sausalito, CA) – See all my reviews

One Saturday a friend who lives on Nob Hill in S.F. drove a zipcar over to visit me in Sausalito. He was eager to tell me about his trip to Istanbul, paid for by renting out his spare bedroom. Earlier that morning, via a freecycle posting, a stranger picked up some clay pots I'd set out by my garage so he could make a deck garden. Our apparently different actions are, in fact, part of a trend that Roos Rogers and Rachel Botsman dub collaborative consumption in their book, What's Mine is Yours.

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2011/02/142011/10/22

Good People, Bad System

07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Government, InfoOps (IO), Reform

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Obama Isn't Trying to ‘Weaken America'

Some conservatives call the president the political equivalent of a suicide bomber: so consumed with hatred that he's willing to blow himself up in order to inflict casualties on a society he loathes.

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In short, the White House record of more than 200 years shows plenty of bad decisions but no bad men. For all their foibles, every president attempted to rise to the challenges of leadership and never displayed disloyal or treasonous intent.

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Phi Beta Iota: Both the extreme right and the extreme left persist in demonizing individuals while remaining oblivious to the fact that it is the two-party “system” (remember, there are 65 parties in America, 63 of them disenfranchised) that has with malice and deliberation “sold out” the US public. The fact is that top-down governance is impossible anyway, it is pathologically dangerous when done by corrupt uninformed parties. The ONLY thing that can get America back on track is Electoral Reform–yet to our astonishment, Ralph Nader, Ron Paul, Cynthia Mckinney, all others who would seem to have everything to gain by coming together and demanding Electoral Reform in time for 2012, remain silent. Could they be part of the theater? The ONLY agile governance in the age of complexity is collective self-governance rich in clarity, diversity, and integrity. Electoral Reform is the only way to get there.

2011/02/14

Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Daniel Ellsberg

Alpha E-H, Public Intelligence

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Daniel Ellsberg, Ph.D. (born April 7, 1931) is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.

Wikipedia Page

Other Photos of Daniel Ellsberg

Journal: Afghanistan = Viet-Nam, National Security Council Remains “Like a Moron”

Review: Secrets–A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

Review (DVD): The Most Dangerous Man in America–Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (Conscience Over Career)

Event: 19 Jan, Santa Clara CA – WikiLeaks: Why it Matters. Why it Doesn’t? Daniel Ellsberg, Clay Shirky, Neville Roy Singham, Peter Thiel

2011/02/142011/02/16

US Intelligence Lies to “Defer” to General Petraeus

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, Intelligence (government), Military

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National Intelligence Estimate Failed to Register Taliban Growth

Deferring to Petraeus

By GARETH PORTER, Counterpunch, 14 February 2011

Despite evidence that the Taliban insurgency had grown significantly in 2010, the U.S. intelligence community failed to revise its estimate for Taliban forces as part of a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan in December. That unusual decision was in deference to Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S.-NATO forces in Afghanistan, who did not want any official estimate of the insurgency's strength that would contradict his claims of success by Special Operations Forces in reducing the capabilities of the Taliban in 2010.

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2011/02/142011/02/16

Reference: No More Secrets in a Transparent World

Government, White Papers

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New Law and National Security Report – No More Secrets: National Security Strategies for a Transparent World

WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 3, 2011—Recent events highlight the difficulty of keeping secrets in today’s increasingly transparent world. A new report released by the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security summarizes workshop discussions led by national security experts identifying national security strategies for addressing this challenge. The group examined the implications of a world without secrets and what today’s secrets involve.

The team that convened included government, private sector, non-profit and academic national security experts. Although members of the working group did not all agree in every aspect of the discussion, there was general consensus that the government and private sector “confront an enormous challenge in trying to learn how to prevail in an increasingly transparent world.”

The report recommends that the government operate with fewer secrets to gain a significant advantage over those who “continue to cling to traditional notions of indefinite information monopoly.”

To schedule an interview, or for more information, please contact ABA Standing Committee staff director Holly McMahon at 202/662-1035 or Holly.McMahon@americanbar.org.

To access the report, go to www.abanet.org/natsecurity or www.nationalstrategy.com

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2011/02/142015/04/13

Worth a Look: Bill Strickland on Leadership, Creative Arts, and Engaging in Opportunities to Help Others.

01 Poverty, Academia, Civil Society, Commerce, Gift Intelligence, Non-Governmental, Videos/Movies/Documentaries, Worth A Look

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Bill Strickland, President & CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, on Leadership, Creative Arts, and Engaging in Opportunities to Help Others.

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Bill Strickland's story – From struggling Pittsburgh student to MacArthur grant with a global influence, all because of his dedication to empowering underprivileged youth.