20120717 Open Source Everything Highlights

Open Source Everything TWITTER HASH: #openall ARCHIVE OF DAILY HIGHLIGHTS: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ALL ROOT POST: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ROOT THE BOOK: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-Steele THE PERSON: http://tinyurl.com/Steele2012 All Opens Below Line .  Also Includes Autonomous Internet, Crowd-Funding/Sensing/Sourcing, and Transparency, Truth, Trust, & True Cost

Patrick Meier: Crowdsourcing for Human Rights Monitoring – Challenges and Opportunities for Information Collection & Verification

Crowdsourcing for Human Rights Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities for Information Collection & Verification This new book, Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use, promises to be a valuable resource to both practitioners and academics interested in leveraging new information & communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of human rights work. I had …

20120703 Open Source Everything Highlights

Open Source Everything Google Plus: Michel Bauwens Yesterday 12:20 AM  –  interesting conversation …(about author’s new book) Open Source Open World (with Graphic) Reality Sandwich: The Open Source Everything Manifesto Worth a Look: Open Source Everything Business Software Open Source Equinox Wants Open Source Skeptics Bacula4Hosts Launches Commercial, Open Source Disk Based Backup and Recovery …

Chuck Spinney: The Afghanistan Exit – Looting the Useful Idiots to the Bitter End

When Alexander the Great decided to leave Afghanistan, his plan was to exit via the Khyber Pass and march though what is now Pakistan and thence into India. But the Khyber was blocked by a warring Pashtun tribe. Legend has it that Alex’s exit strategy was to bribe another Pashtun tribe to open the door …

Mini-Me: Veteran’s Today Warns of False Flag Terror in US End of May — Russians Exercising in US Around NORTHCOM with Mission to Take and Hold Denver Airport…G-8 Moved to Camp David

Huh? U.S. False Flag Likely May 20-31, 2012 By Captain Eric H. May, Ghost Troop CO The breaking news from Chicago, ‘NATO 3’ had targeted Obama campaign HQ, Rahm’s house, police stations, prosecutors say, concurs with the analysis below: The United States is hosting the G8, NATO and the Bilderberg Group in a two-week span, …

Chuck Spinney: Neo-Liberalism Actually Neo-Serfdom

One of the pillars of the neo-liberal economic policies adopted by Republicans and Democrats alike in the UK and the US is privatization of government services on the theory that free market pressures will generate greater economic efficiencies.  The UK is a case study of how neo-liberal privatization policies promoted by Thatcher, Blair, and Cameron, …