The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Youth, Governance, Peace-Building and the Role of Social Media June 26-27, 2012 Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and an Online Global Webinar “Young people everywhere deserve the power to get information, to connect and to ask hard questions – about justice, equality and opportunity. Our job is to listen …
Occupy Rio+20 Publishes Open Source Imperative The following statement will be presented by the Earth Summit WG to the United Nations as a participating group in the Rio+20 conference in Brasil. The Open Source Imperative Hello World, We Who Occupy The Earth thank the UN for supporting civil society through granting us “interested party” status …
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Organization of American States (OAS): For the record. At the end of the 42d General Assembly of OAS members in Bolivia, the foreign ministers of Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Nicaragua announced that their countries had decided to withdraw from the Inter-American of Reciprocal Assistance, better known as the Rio Pact. In making the announcement, Ecuadorian …
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Big Data Philanthropy for Humanitarian Response My colleague Robert Kirkpatrick from Global Pulse has been actively promoting the concept of “data philanthropy” within the context of development. Data philanthropy involves companies sharing proprietary datasets for social good. I believe we urgently need big (social) data philanthropy for humanitarian response as well. Disaster-affected communities are increasingly the source …
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Lies and Consequences in Our Past 15 Wars By David Swanson “Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their peoples in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was their object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame …
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Keep the Internet Open By VINTON CERF New York Times, May 24, 2012 The Internet stands at a crossroads. Built from the bottom up, powered by the people, it has become a powerful economic engine and a positive social force. But its success has generated a worrying backlash. Around the world, repressive regimes are putting …
Some good stuff including giveaways to Russia done in secret, no publicity at all. http://www.statedepartmentwatch.org/index.htm Giveaways to Russia ■ Giveaway of 8 American Alaskan Islands and Vast Oil-Rich Seabeds to Russians ■ Henry Kissinger Ordered the Alaskan Island Giveaway Secretly in 1977 ■ Giveaway of Southern Sakhalin Island and its Vast Oil to Russia Injures …
