Rickard Falkvinge: Sharing is a Constitutional Law Right, Copyright is an Ordinary Law Privilege — This is Huge Advance for Public Over Private Corruption

Court Of Human Rights: Convictions For File-Sharing Violate Human Rights Civil Liberties:  The European Court of Human Rights has declared that the copyright monopoly stands in direct conflict with fundamental Human Rights, as defined in the European Union and elsewhere. This means that as of today, nobody sharing culture in the EU may be convicted …

Patrick Meier: Map or Be Mapped — Psycho-Social Political-Economic Power in a Map

Map or Be Mapped: Otherwise You Don’t Exist “There are hardly any street signs here. There are no official zip codes. No addresses. Just word of mouth” (1). Such is the fate of Brazil’s Mare shanty-town and that of most shantytowns around the world where the spoken word is king (and not necessarily benevolent). “The sprawling …

Marcus Aurelius: Gun Control, Revolution, & Secession

This is circulating among retired SOF O-6’s. The Next American Civil War Cusp of violence: Defend something the political left, an authoritarian cabal itself, cannot abide, at all: personal freedom, individual freedom. “Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating …

Intelligence with Integrity Chapter 1: Public Governance & Public Intelligence

Utilizar el Traductor de Google en la parte superior de la columna central Utilisez Google Translate au haut de la colonne du milieu Google’ın Orta Sütun Top of Çevir kullanın Используйте Google Translate в верхней части среднего столбца Sử dụng Google Translate Đầu Cột Trung उपयोग Google मध्य स्तंभ के शीर्ष पर अनुवाद 在中间一列的顶部,使用谷歌翻译 استخدام …

Owl: Disposable Drones to Assassinate Military-Industrial Complex Leaders and Bankers at Home — Panic, Anyone?

A brief article Bring on the Drones! offers a wonderfully hopeful and positive view of open-sourced drone technology that will be available to the 99%. Here’s the key take-away quote from it: “Imagine, if you will, a world in which drones are cheap and widely available. Then stop and think about the target profile of …

SmartPlanet: Is a free nationwide WiFi network coming to the U.S.?

Is a free nationwide WiFi network coming to the U.S.? Tyler Falk, 4 February 2013 The United States government wants to make access to fast and free WiFi as easy as accessing public roads. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has proposed to free up digital infrastructure to allow free public access to WiFi — more powerful …

Mini-Me: USG Sues S&P for Fraudulent Ratings

Huh? News Summary: S&P expects to be sued by Justice Dept. over its ratings of mortgage securities By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, February 4, 8:11 PM US CHARGES SEEN AGAINST S&P: The U.S. government is expected to file civil charges against Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, alleging that it improperly gave high ratings to mortgage debt that …