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 Recording artists are fighting back, creating a coalition that will stand up to the major music companies' (RIAA) unfair and criminal practices. Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards: "We're on the threshold of a whole new system. The time where accountants decide what music people hear is coming to an end."
GM's new design of fuel cell cars opens some new possibilities. Everything's electrical, drive-by-wire, so it might be laid out very differently, remote controlled and that kind of stuff. Fuel cells are a good thing.
Scientists have broken the speed of light for electrical signals, with $500 worth of off-the-shelf parts. Hm, I would have thought that should have been somewhat bigger news than it is presented as. Sending signals with electricity at 4 times the speed of light, when the mainstream shore story for years have been that it is impossible for anything to go faster than light?! Not that I ever believed it, but still.
Bush planned a premeditated attack on Iraq before he even became president, according to a strategy document. As a British MP says: "This is a blueprint for US world domination -- a new world order of their making. These are the thought processes of fantasist Americans who want to control the world. I am appalled that a British Labour Prime Minister should have got into bed with a crew which has this moral standing."
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." --Thomas Jefferson
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 "The aftermath of the terrorist attacks has revived imperialist ideology in the United States, rather than caused it to query its world role. Writers do not hesitate to draw parallels between their nation and ancient Rome, which they hold to be a model for world domination in the 21st century." See Dynamics of World Disorder - Westward the course of Empire. Excellent article.
Attacking Iraq: Myth and Reality. Good list from Kuro5hin, taking apart some of the propaganda of the Bush Empire.
I was listening on the radio to Dr.Michio Kaku who's a theoretical physicist. Very refreshing to hear somebody who's a reknowned and respected "mainstream" scientific authority who's also so open to discovering something new. Lots of good stuff about hyperspace and wormholes and time travel. I was reading about M-Theory: Mother of all superstrings about new developments in string theory, beginning to look like a unified field theory. Seems like 11 or 12 dimensions are required to explain things now.
"Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 Future-Raft is gathering positive projects and products and messages to the future. The "future-raft" itself is a floating symbol of the transformation process from problems into solutions. See the Project Database and do the Message in a Bottle poll.
In Europe powerful forces are trying to stop the easy availability of vitamins and herbal supplements. The pharmaceutical industry wants to sell you drugs, rather than letting you pick out your own supplements in the healthfood store, and they're good at bribing and lobbying politicians into passing laws that suit them. At least when nobody is paying attention. In the U.S., when the same thing was happening, public protest forced a change of direction, and since 1994 the US has had a statute that guarantees both free availability of supplements and information about how they work.
Don't Be Fooled: America's Ten Worst Greenwashers. Big corporations are falling on top of each other to try to sound the most environmentally conscious. It is unfortunately often just pretense. Genetic engineering, anti-biotics and artificial colors are just not gonna be "all natural", no matter how pretty the ads are.
Apple has put out a new free calendar program for OSX called iCal. A possibly important thing about it is that there is a standard way of sharing calendar information that is now likely to be used widely, and before there wasn't. And they have a library of calendar content one can subscribe to. I think I'll figure out how to put the NCN calendar into that format. The calendar format is called iCalendar and is already used by Nescape Calendar Server and various other programs.
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 Very pleasant New Civilization Salon event this evening at Malibu Phoenix. Around 60 attendees. Inspiring and diverse group as usual. Good stories, inportant issues, singing, video showings.
Its a funny thing with this kind of event that it only really is happening when there is more than a certain number of people. More than around 50 or so, although that depends on how much space they're in. But there's a certain point where things sort of ignite by themselves. And in this case it worked well.
But it is hard to capture or condense here what goes on at an event like that.
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 I don't have much to say about 9/11 it seems. I don't think the U.S. has really learned much. People being loudly and blindly patriotic, accepting broadsweeping communist secret police policies without a thought, and the government looking for some other country to bomb, without having any good reason for it. So, some national grief was processed, but nothing was really learned.
Interesting 9/11 synchronicities: The New York evening lottery numbers came out as 9-1-1, and the Standard & Poor's 500 futures contract index closed Tuesday at 911.00. Coincidence?
I got an e-mail from Jim Brown in the Philippines. Jim was married to what appeared to be the richest little woman in the world, Luz Sta. Romano, the widow and heiress of Severino Garcia Sta. Romana, a powerful and very shadey financial figure, with fingers in many pies. It seems but a short time ago that Julie (Solheim) and I were cooking spaghetti with them in their hotel room, and she was talking for hours about having tea with the queen, helping out King Fahd with some gold bullion, Ferdnand Marcos raiding her late husband's vaults, and the troubles with getting her accounts un-frozen. She died now a few months ago after not being very well for a while. Which now in principle makes Jim very wealthy, but it looks more and more remote that anything will ever come out of it. But it seems that what fires up Jim the most is to tell the story, and to gather documents and information that adds to it. He writes as colorfully as he speaks and he's still working on the now 4 volumes of "The Golden Karat".
"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." -- Winston Churchill
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 Article by my friend Bruce Baumrucker about some things that it would be very appropriate for Americans to reflect on around the time of 9/11.
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 I occasionally have jokingly said that I'm a "Libertarian Socialist", to sort of put a stick in the wheel of political categorization. But now I realize that there actually IS something called Libertarian Socialism, so that doesn't work so well any more. But .. looking at it, maybe it is not too far off from what I believe in. I believe in freedom AND community. I believe that people should in principle be free to do the things they believe are right, and I believe that a truly free market might provide the synergy necessary to make society work. And I believe that hugely centralized power, like in governments and mega-corporations and centralized banks, are obstacles to achieving a free market, and to allowing people to work together freely. But it is also always risky to try to subscribe to any labels that comes with a lot baggage and implied meanings.
Europe now has more Internet users than the U.S.
Art of Living Coalition lists me as an "artist of life". That's nice. I'm in good company. I had a good long discussion with Frankie Lee Slater about artists of living this evening.
Solara's Surf Report for September: "Diving for the Pearl". Spot on as usual, I think.
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 4 days till the next New Civ Salon in L.A. The phone is usually ringing off the hook those few days with people RSVPing or asking what the heck it is.
When I was driving around Denmark with my family, after not having been there for a decade, one of the most striking differences is the thousands of windmills that now dot the landscape. Denmark had a plan of covering 50% of the national energy needs with wind by 2030. However, I wouldn't be very surprised if that goal is close to being met. Anybody knows? Here's an article from Wired about various ambitious wind projects in northern Europe. The picture to the right is of the 40Megawatt windmill park "Middelgrunden" at the entrance to the Copenhagen harbor.
A Skull & Bones Broadcast by Connie Chung scheduled for September 4th on CNN was cancelled without explanation. That shouldn't be any big surprise, as the current U.S. president and his dad are amongst the prominent members of this secret society, picked from seniors at Yale University. The best researched document about the Skull & Bones Society is the book "America's Secret Establishment" by Anthony Sutton, who at the time was a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. I couldn't put it down when I was reading it a number of years ago. The list of members is quite chilling.
I've been out looking for a new house to live in with my family this past week. Just another rental at this point, but the current house is really too small for us and our stuff. Not that I have the money or that I'm ready, but it seems to be time to move.
"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit." --Dawna Markova, Author of Open Mind.
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 John Ashbaugh is talking about his experience with NewsLogs. Music to my ears.
As to my own experiment with using my newslog differently, I think I'm happy with it. I didn't make any new features to the program yet to support it, but even if I didn't, it is still perfectly feasible to do a daily post with various sub-postings to it, like this one.
I write my newslog entries for myself and sort of addressed to the world. Meaning, I think of it as a place on the web people come by to see what I'm up to, or what I'm interested in, or what I'm like. And, secondarily, I'm interested in the synergy and community that forms amongst people who do the same sort of thing.
My friend Raymond Powers has released his new CD.
Controversy about some alleged pictures from Mars. See MSNBC Story 6 Sept. In brief, processing of the infrared pictures show the remnants of a large city. But, the origin of the pictures is disputed.
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 From Danish Radio: The Earth Summit ended on Wednesday with green campaigners heckling U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and decrying the outcome as a major letdown for the poor and the planet. At a closing session in Johannesburg, speaker after speaker attacked as too weak a plan meant to tackle global problems from AIDS to depleted fish stocks. "We should never have such shameful summits again," said Ricardo Navarro, chairman of Friends of the Earth International. "We feel anger and despair because world leaders have sold out to the World Trade Organisation and big business".
I've sent around 32,000 e-mail messages since 1994. I've kept all of them. I had e-mail since 1983, but most of the time I didn't know anybody else who did.
Madonna is said to be dropping the material girl image, for a more wholesome spiritual image, getting scenes left out of her latest movie that are too risque. Hey, why can't she both be nude and spiritual? I don't see any problem. Oh, all the power to her.
So, are these the news items most important to me right this moment? Oh, I don't know, but it is obviously very subjective what people choose to consider important or news worthy.
In 1997 Reuters reported that the death of Princess Diana got more coverage in the British press -- measured in column inches of copy -- than did the major events of World War II. The figures were released by Durrants Press Cuttings, a 117-year-old press clipping service in London. "There is no other subject in our archives to compare with the volume of newspaper coverage devoted to Diana's death, funeral and subsequent stories," said the agency. For weeks after Diana's death on August 31, 1997, British newspapers devoted an average of 35 percent of their coverage to that and related stories. By comparison, the most dramatic moments of World War II merited only 26 to 27 percent of total news coverage.
I just realized that the free RealOne Player easily picks up a whole bunch of radio shows over the net, including some that I otherwise usually miss. Such as Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, which currently has a lot of coverage from the Earth Summit. I'm listening to it right now.
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is. -- Albert Einstein
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 Chirac proposes a globalization tax to fight world poverty. Well, I generally don't believe in taxes, and most of the suggestions for how to carry it out are unfair, but it isn't entirely unreasonable to make the people pay for it who make the most profit from exploiting poor countries. Actually I'd be perfect happy if all taxes were being paid only by large corporations, and not by individuals. Governments have no right to tax individuals, but they have all right to tax corporations, as they invented them.
A pedal powered wireless network is providing Internet access to villagers in Laos.
Greek government bans all computer games. Yeah, that's really smart. Maybe I'll send my son to Greece and he'll take up collecting stamps.
Somebody is patenting technology for an invisibility cloak, sort of.
Bob Hiltner mentions BookCrossing. It is a very cool concept of registering books you own and have read, and then "releasing" them into the wild by giving them away, leaving them in a coffee shop or something. And then others will leave a history of journal notes about what happened with the book, what they thought about it, and what they did with it. Very intriguing, that idea of recording the history of an item which is passed from person to person.
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 George Bush Jr. wants his own personal war against Iraq, and most of the rest of the world thinks its a stupid idea. Which it is. Nelson Mandela says "We are really appalled by any country, whether a superpower or a small country, that goes outside the U.N. and attacks independent countries". And, thankfully, there's disagreement in the Republican party on this. And there's growing public sentiment against the war plans.
World Summit Agrees on Poverty Plan
I read an article about Quantum physics and free will, despite knowing that I usually end up really frustrated with somebody attempting a "scientific" discussion of something like free will. Usually doesn't have anything to do with scientific method, but rather some hapless person trying to reason himself logically towards what he already believes, without having much clue about what logic is or where it comes from. Just the scenario of human beings discussing whether they have free will or not, or whether they are really aware, or they just think they are - all of it easily ends up being humorously idiotic. The only thing useful to me in that article is that somebody quotes Stephen Hawking as saying that Free Will is a theory that allows us better prediction of human behavior than does any other available theory. And that he had a similar argument for the existence of God.
Couch potato lifestyle is worse for your health than smoking
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." --Albert von Scent-Gyorgyi
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 A new newciv.org website layout has been in progress since the last couple of months. Quite a considerable amount of work that is, as there are several hundred pages, as it needs to end up considerably more simple and usable than today. But it is looking very promising. Danny Caudillo is doing the graphical design.
Fuel-cell batteries are taking a bit longer to come to market than expected, but apparently around 2004 they would enter normal use. A fuel cell converts hydrogen to electricity without burning it, just by letting it go through a certain kind of mebrance. Sounds like magic, and it should produce batteries with 10 times the capacity of what is available today.
Meanwhile, Ford apparently [link] their electrical car project. Most car makers seem to focus on hybrid cars, rather than purely electrical cars, in the near future.
Yesterday I spent at a seminar with Al Joy called "Beyond the Matrix". Rather mind blowing, and very personal, and I can't really say much about it. Other than that I meet very, very few people who recognize what I'm about, even after knowing me for years, and it is marvelous to meet a stranger who's capable of figuring you out right away.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs
is people who have come alive.
--Harold Whitman
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Day six of the Summit. The leaders from around the world cannot agree on how to move forward on global environmental policy, which IÂ’m sure, is apparent in the news. Yet if you spend any time with the non governmental organizations (NGOs) it is clear there are 100,000s of global environmental citizens represented here, and their projects are the blueprints for the environmental clean up needs of today. The Summit only confirms by sense that there is new renaissance is a foot on this planet. ItÂ’s just a matter of time before the world leaders catch on to how much is being accomplished at the ground level in their own countries.
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 When talking with regular Americans, like my neighbors, about how it might be to live in different places, people here will always bring up how there are all these "freedoms" here and how it is a really "free" country. And people who haven't actually traveled much will tend to believe that story, and have weird ideas about what it might mean to live in a place that isn't "free". The truth is that the only thing here I can think of that makes it feel free is that, if you live in a very populous place like California, there are so many people that nobody's particularly watching you. The government doesn't bother much to keep track of you, unless you particularly stick out. And the general mindset of people is that you don't worry much about what your neighbors are doing. When it comes to it, there are more restrictive laws and morals here than in most places I know in Europe. You are much less free here to stand up and speak your truth. But you're more able here to hide and do your own thing, if you don't make too much noise about it. But if you're really successful and make a lot of money, then you will be allowed to bend the rules more. Which is pretty much the opposite to how it works in Denmark where I'm from.
Some of my good friends in the Bay area, specifically Allan Saxon, have created votery.org, which is a way of having a structured conversation where everything gets rated by the participants. The idea is that the most valuable or the most agreed-upon stuff will float to the top. I've been searching for good ways of doing that as well. Ways for collective intelligence to emerge while confusion is kept at a minimum. I'm not sure yet if this thing does it, but I think it is useful. You can see it as a guest, but to participate you need to be sponsored into Friendly Favors.
The government of Venezuela has adopted a policy of using Open Source software whereever possible.
The future has arrived. My cable TV has Video-on-Demand now. Except for that it already had about 300 channels that I'm not watching, so I don't really care. What'll make a difference is when it is like Napster and anything anybody could imagine watching would be readily available, from multiple sources.
"There is enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed." --Gandhi
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 When I was in Denmark, the cars we were renting were running on miljø (environment) diesel. Nothing special we did. It is just something that is very common there. That is, oil that either is made from some kind of local vegetable source for the purpose, or leftover or re-used oil from other sources. And once in a while the exhaust gave it away - I was driving a car running on former deepfry oil from McDonalds or some such place. And note that not only did the car have excellent acceleration and milage, the diesel was also cheaper than any other kind of fuel, and it hardly pollutes. ...But now I'm back in the U.S., and here there would only be a few eco freaks who had even heard of the possibility, or who had pursued converting their cars. But over there I'm talking about the TDI engine in completely standard Volkswagen car models, and standard rentals from Avis. Not Woody Harrelson's bus. And you buy it from any local gas station chain, such as Q8 - Kuwait Petroleum. See their specs. (in Danish)
Bruce Baumrucker puts my attention on Communities of Practice (CoP). "They may be a great 'Force Multiplier' to bring about the kind of open, exploring approaches we need to bring our world in line with our values. Below are some references." [link] [link] [link] [link]. I don't completely get it yet, but I think it is about a community defined by shared activity and knowledge, but cutting across any artificial ways of dividing things, like the departments in a company. Hm, so where's my Community of Practice? I want one.
I was teaching a Dahn class today. I do that only occasionally to help out in the local center. It is also kind of a nice boost to do so, from seeing a room full of people get really energized. DahnHak is a Korean system which is like a combination of Yoga, Tai-Chi, meditation and energetic healing.
"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it". --Dwight Eisenhower
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 From my friend Kate Lutz in Johannesburg for the (alternative) Summit today:
"Jo-burg is strong with the power of the vision
the vision of sustainablity
the vision of the one power of the earth tribe
my spirit is lifted each time I meet another
traveler on the environmental path
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 Days are all different it seems. Today everything was up in the air for me, not having a handle on anything. Until I went to my Dahn (Korean yoga kind of thing) class and did chakra exercises. Made me stop thinking, I guess. Which is often a good thing.
Did you know that quite a number of apparently quite normal people have been found to have no brain in their skull? It is a medical curiosity that is apparently well known, but little mentioned, amongst neurologists. It was studied intensively by the late Dr.John Lorber of Sheffield University in the 70s, who located hundreds of people with normal lives and intelligence, but with heads filled with liquid rather than grey matter. I'm not kidding.
There are more black men in Texas prisons than in college says a study. And, no, I don't think it is because prisons are better funded than colleges. I think it is because the U.S. government has worked so hard to make drug dealing a very lucrative, but unsafe, line of business to be in.
The website of RIAA, the music industry's mouthpiece was hacked today. I guess we can call that.. eh.. karma. The RIAA has bribed some U.S. congressmen (specifically Representative Howard Berman) to push legislation that would allow them to freely hack and sabotage anybody who might be copying music files they could have bought on CD.
A piece of tribal wisdom from the Dakota Indians:
"When you discover that you are riding a dead horse,
the best strategy is to dismount."
EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation promotes the Open Audio License (OAL), which helps artists share their work more widely, and helps them take control over their own art and be compensated appropriately for their works.
Note to self: I need to read up on Friedrich Hayek's theories of economics and social order. But there's not enough hours in the day to read big books.
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 The NCN public News Log at [link] was accessed 143146 times in the past 5 weeks. That's the most popular place across newciv.org and worldtrans.org. 20% of all traffic. A big thank you to Richard Carlson who's the person who selects the postings that make it there.
Lotus Notes was the leading edge collaboration tool for corporations in the 80s. Steve Gillmor says that Notes is Dead. Well, the online world has changed. Ray Ozzie was the guy who created Notes. 15 years later he created Groove which is a very cool peer-to-peer collaboration platform. And, as you can see, he has a weblog, and encourages his employees to have weblogs too.
Tara Sue Grubb is the first candidate for U.S. Congress with a weblog. Libertarian from North Carolina. I think I like her.
Apparently Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation trilogy of science fiction books were translated into Arabic under the title "Al-Qaida" and there's some serious speculation that it might have been an inspiration for Bin-Laden's Al-Qaida. Farout, but rather intriguing.
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 I think the legal fiction of a "corporation" is probably the biggest roadblock on the way towards a free society and a free market.
A corporation is largely a construct used to scam many people into giving their power to the very few, who will use it for their own gain.
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