The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Dear friends, Recently I’ve seen a swirl of information (mostly on the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation listserv) about participatory budgeting. Below, you’ll find a sampling of this info, in relatively raw form. I do not know enough to sort it all out, but it looks really fascinating. Most of this material is about …
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What’s a slogan for (banal on purpose) At MWC, Claes Magnusson saw the following slogans on 25 different high tech booths (companies like IBM, HP, etc.) Built Around People, Shaping Tomorrow With You, Leading A Smarter Planet, Your Messages Shape Our Future, Now What?, The Power Of Now, Today Changes, Power To You, Powering The …
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Phi Beta Iota: We now see a three-phase path for creating the World Brain and Global Game. Phase One, which we now recognize must be first, is to create the aggregate people power to overcome secular corruption that is the source of all scarcity and conflict, is the distribution of simple free open source cellular …
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UPDATED: Robert Smith comment at Facebook: “WHAT? Dictators $10 billion, Democracy lovers $25 million, hypocrisy priceless.” Phi Beta Iota: It is actually much worse than that. Our estimate of the cost of US being best pals with 42 of 44 dictators is closer to 500 billion, and that is a very conservative estimate. The cost …
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The Forward Foundation designs and leverages Internet and network technologies to create and cultivate sustainable wealth-generating ecologies, addressing the challenges of global and local communities in the 21st century. Their Home Page 20 Books They Recommend
Not the language we’ve been using. OSINT Handbook gets you there. In any event, here are the two “top guns” plus the Handbooks: 2011 OSINT Discovery Toolkit–Reuser’s Repertorium 2010 Handbook Online for Internet Tools and Resources for Creating Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) by Dr. Ran Hock, Chief Training Officer, Online Strategies, Inc. Three still standard …
COMMUNICATIONS An App for Dissidents A startup is offering free encrypted voice and text communications to protesters in Egypt. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2011 BY ROBERT LEMOS MIT Technology Review Two new applications for Android devices, called RedPhone and TextSecure, were released last week by Whisper Systems, a startup created by security researchers Moxie Marlinspike and …
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