2007 open everything at gnomedex 4.4
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One one "cult" brief that is said to be popular with Anonymous and Lutzsec -- I would be glad if that were true. Open Source Everything is now a meme and a mind-set (see my 2012 book), this was the beginning of my final 20 year push.
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- 1. Open Everything: We Won, Let’s Self-Govern Robert David STEELE Vivas CEO, OSS.Net, Inc. Friday, 10 August 2007, in Seattle Version 4.4
- 2. Who Is? • Oil brat, 20 years in Latin America & Asia • USMC infantry Cmd & Staff • Recovering CIA spy (3 field tours, 1 chasing terrorists) • 2 MAs, War College • CIA/OIT Advanced IT/AI • Created USMC Intelligence Command 1988-1992 • Husband, Father (3), Son • Author, Publisher, Reader • #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction (#46 over-all) • Earth Intelligence Advocate • World’s most pissed-off End User…
- 3. Outline • 05 minutes on four reforms in need of OPEN • 10 minutes on Seven Opens, Focus on Money • 10 minutes on State of the World • 10 minutes on the Global Information War • Remaining time for Q&A • This briefing with planned words in Notes format is posted at www.oss.net/GNOME.
- 4. Public Intelligence & Influence The More Open, the More Influence WikiAll— --WikiPedia --WikiHelp --WikiLearn --WikiCalc Amazon.com --Paragraphs for microcash --Proven authors by the email or hour --FedExKinko local print & deliver --CISCO AON --STRONG ANGEL Centers of Excellence --Sachs on Poverty at Colombia --Derek Bok at Harvard --International Counterparts Global Intelligence Network --Structured Bridging --Stuctured Validation --Multi-lingual versions not competitive but linked Bloggers Could Rule Rest of World --We have 5-10 years to define a pervasive approach to open everything. OPEN --Congressional Intelligence Office allied with Library of Congress --Open Source Agency as independent sister agency to Broadcasting Board of Governors Everything Citizen-Centered Governance --Cell phone as point of sale decision help
- 5. Take-Aways • Civil Affairs is focal point outside the wire. – Spies need support, do not share well. • Bloggers, not informants, are key. – This is about initiative, not control. • Bottom-up horizontal connection is key. – Sharing at all levels, not top down control. • Proof is in the doing, not the talking. – Enough on wanting tranformation. Be.
- 6. Four Reforms in Need of OPEN End Fraud, Wage Peace, Educate All OSINT is 80 To 95% of the Answer Transpartisan Reality-Based Budget Demand Reform Before 2008; Home Rule Also
- 7. Ron Paul? • At a delicate point • Restore Constitution yes! MISSING from his deal • Transpartisanship • Electoral Reform • Sunshine Cabinet • Balanced budget • Call for impeachment & indictment of Cheney, indictment of Rumsfeld, Gulliani, and Silverstein
- 9. The Earth Intelligence Network Transparency Rules! This could be the process that creates sustainable peace and prosperity while nurturing the five billion at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP), the four trillion a year marketplace addressed by C. K. Prahalad.
- 10. Open Source Software I of III • Not free of cost, but free to be improved. • If F/OSS communist, then Microsoft fascist. • Challenge to Microsoft: stable and transparent APIs, dump VISTA, start over on OSS base
- 11. Conversion of Paper Documents to Digital Form Open Literature Non-Text Data Restricted Information Automated Extraction of Data Elements From Text and Images Standardizing and Converting Data Formats Processing Images, Video, Audio, Signal Data Automated Foreign Language Translation Detection of Alert Situations Clustering and Linking of Related Data Statistical Analysis to Reveal Anomalies Detection of Changing Trends Interactive Search and Retrieval of Data Graphic and Map- Based Visualization of Data Modeling and Simulations Collaborative Work Notetaking and Organizing Ideas Structured Argument Analysis Desktop Publishing and Word Processing Production of Graphics, Videos and Online Briefings Revision Tracking and Realtime Group Review CISCO Open AON: Office Intelligent is great, Network it would Enables be Note to CISCO: greater Applications Buy Sun Now if it Before Google Does did all At this. All Points OSS II
- 12. Truly Exciting OS SW III ETL: Extract, Transform, Load • ETL allows applications to take data from outside sources, turn it into something usable and then make it available for loading in a database or business intelligence application. Steele to Gates: BLOG THIS! Hint: Amazon+CISCO AON+Sun +STRONG ANGEL+IBM. Google? Out of fantasy cash. No more clogged proprietary code. Are you in or out?
- 13. Open Source Hardware Subset of Sustainable Recyclable Design • Kofi Annan gets it. • Infinite wealth to stabilize earth demands open source everything • Includes logic design • Top priority is reducing toxicity while increasing re-use. • Reject ugly/old code and proprietary code.
- 14. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Harnessing All for One and One for All OSINT HUMINT SIGINT IMINT MASINT
- 15. Open Spectrum End of Broadcast, Age of Connection • Assigned frequencies are dead, dead, dead • Smart sending rules • Permissions system stifles innovation & wastes bandwidth • See the FAQ, Jock Gill taught me on this.
- 16. Open Money I Open Money is money that must be earned to be respected. Current monetary system based on scarcity & control, and creates waste • Proprietary • Expensive • Feudal • Occult • Enslaving • Unsustainable Open money is the global infrastructure for the emergent parallel monetary system. • Sufficient • Supports public good • Democratic • Open source • Free • Sustainable Michael Linton Jean-Francois Noubel
- 17. Open Money II Blogger Key Words • Virtual money • LETSystems • Open money • Open society • Community currencies • Open source • Collaboration • Open money manifesto • right of monetary creation – sovereign and universal
- 18. Open Money III Open money can reflect both tangible asets and intangible values. Open money can be controlled by the local community to meet its needs. http:openmoney.info/sophia/index.html- Eric Harris-Braun
- 19. Open Money IV Open Money, the coming of free/open source currencies, millions of them, that will sweep out the monopoly and pathology of the current system Open Money is a necessary condition for all the other opens and especially those I discuss today. Open Money is going to happen within the next 2-5 years, no matter what. With more conventional money investment, it will happen sooner and better. Open Money is our passion—TheTransitioner is on the job. Jean-Francois Noubel
- 20. Open Culture & Content • Opposite of cults including all extremist religions & gangs • Combines YIN Circle (the process of collaboration) and YANG pyramid (the structure of shared knowledge) • Death to trolls • Creative Commons
- 21. Open Networks I created this in the 1990’s. A smart guy named Spivak created this in 2004. One day I’d like to have a group discuss this in detail and create some kind of map on where we need to put funding to accelerate this. If it exists, please point me to it.
- 22. Open Society • Popper, by contrast, held that social affairs are unpredictable, and argued vehemently against social engineering. • He sought to shift the focus of political philosophy away from questions about who ought to rule toward questions about how to minimize the damage done by the powerful. • The book was an immediate sensation and has remained a landmark on the left and right alike for its defense of freedom and the spirit of critical inquiry. • Civil liberties are fundamental. • In open societies, government is responsive and tolerant, and political mechanisms are transparent and flexible. The state keeps no secrets from itself in the public sense; it is a non-authoritarian society in which all are trusted with the knowledge of all. Political freedoms and human rights are the foundation of an open society. • A Republic, if you can keep it. • All Members of Congress failed us and are impeachable.
- 23. Open Government The Ultimate: Constant Participatory Democracy • Time for a Constitutional Convention • Time to destroy the two corrupt parties • Time to adopt Transpartisanship • Time to demand Open Budgets Online • Time to Restore We the People as sovereign • No prisoners! This is non-negotiable! BLOG!
- 24. Other Opens of Note w/o Borders Open Everything Means Just That • Open Search • Open Skies • Open Borders – Incentivizes global morality & wealth • Open Schools/Library – Free On-Line Education – Free “as needed” via cell – Teachers w/o Borders • Open Minds • Open Space • Open Carry • Open EVERYTHING • BLOG THIS!
- 25. Strategic Pause From This….. To This!
- 26. US Iranian Pawn?—Their End Game • Chalabi a strategic deception • Lured us close to their forces • Let us hollow out in Iraq • Now ready for coup d’main
- 27. Wild Card: Ethnic Fault Lines 15+ Genocide Campaigns On-Going Today Source: Dr. Greg Stanton, www.genocidewatch.org
- 28. Wild Card: Water & War Desalinating Water Takes Energy We Don’t Have Hyper-Arid Arid Semi-Arid Sub-Humid Water Pollution 1 2 Source: The State of the World Atlas (1997), chart 54, 53 3 4 5 6
- 29. Wild Card: Energy Solutions Available, Bottom-Up Demand Needed • Saudi Arabia lied • USG covered it up from 1974 onwards • WIRED Cover Story in 2000 nailed it • Good example of what happens when public tunes out • Alternatives available now but public mind is wandering. Blogging True Cost Information and Blogging Alternatives is your sacred duty and greatest contribution to all.
- 30. Global Threats to Local Survival Complex Emergencies 32 Countries Refugees/Displaced 66 Countries Food Security 33 Countries Modern Plagues* 59 Countries & Rising Child Soldiers 41 Countries Water Scarcity & Contaminated EWthatneirc* C*onflict 18 Genocides Today** Resource Wars, Energy Waste & Pollution** Corruption Common 80 Countries Censorship Very High 62 Countries *State of the World Atlas (1997), ** Marq de Villier (Water), John Heidenrich and Greg Stanton (Genocide), Michael Klare et al (Resources), all others from PIOOM Map 2002
- 31. Ten High-Level Threats • Poverty • Infectious Disease • Environmental Degradation • Inter-State Conflict • Civil War • Genocide • Other Atrocities • Proliferation • Terrorism • Transnational Crime LtGen Dr. Brent Scowcroft and other members of the High-Level Threat Panel of the United Nations have published A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, find it at http://www.un.org/secureworld/.
- 32. Twelve Vital Policy Domains • Agriculture • Communication • Diplomacy • Economy • Education • Energy • Family • Health • Justice • Security • Society • Water I culled these from the varied Mandate for Change books with chapters from the wanna-be Cabinet candidates of each party. These are the core domains. Economy includes Debt. Society Includes Civic Duty as well as Immigration.
- 33. Ten State-Based Challenges I chose these on the basis of their demographic numbers and strategic relevance to determining whether or not we can sustain the Earth’s ecology. Africa is the Wild Card. The 900M “most powerless” whom we have looted and victimized since time immemorial is the moral and economic challenge of our time.
- 35. Need Four Forces
- 36. Blogger Opportunities We Cannot Do Public Intelligence Without You! • Subscribe to the free weekly report • Read the Forecasts • Adopt a threat, policy, or player and blog it • Join the wiki for it at TheTransitioner • Become a Local Intelligence Officer and create your own report, add to the pot. • Post the local budget
- 37. Amazon as Hub All Information, All Languages, All the Time Expert Forum OPG VPN Weekly Review Distance Learning Virtual Library Shared Calendar Virtual Budget Shared 24/7 Plot Shared Rolodex One-Stop Shop Displaces Intermediaries & Triples Profit
- 38. 360° 24/7 All Languages…. Amazon.com Amazon.edu • Books • Answers/Reach-back • Authors • Classes/Degrees • Local Buyer Networks • Mentors • Content for Microcash • Testing/Challenges • Alerts on new work • Global Library Amazon.time Amazon.event Amazon.net • News by threat, policy, challenger, neighborhood • True Cost information via ScanBack • Eyes On Everywhere Amazon.org • Social Investing • Micro-Cash • Lift the 5 Billion • Flush the Corrupt • Save the Planet Amazon.calc • MyBudget • BudgetMonitor • National Budget Online for Dialog Amazon.geo • Places to books • Books to places • Actual & virtual influence circles Video & Brief at www.oss.net in Archives, EIN Library, at the top.
- 39. Intelligence & Information Operations (I2O) Evolutionary Eras 1st Generation 2nd Generation 3rd Generation 4th Generation 5th Generation 6th Generation 7th Generation What Do We Need to Know Easy: Where is the army? Easy: Where are the trenches? Moderate: How many with what? Hard: Watch every non-state actor. Hard: Watch everything on the fly. Hard: Make sense of billions of bits. Very Hard: 24/7, 33+ languages, 150 dialects & plot it on map (automated).
- 40. Four Levels of MindWar • STRATEGIC: Educate ourselves & poor so the latter can create stabilizing infinite wealth • OPERATIONAL: Understand perceptions, especially cultural, tribal, ethnic, historical, gender • TECHNICAL: Buy right stuff at right time and no waste • TACTICAL: One man, one bullet on the dark side, wage peace everywhere else without creating black markets Your government is operating on 2% of the relevant information. The gap between people with power and those with knowledge is huge. We have zero appreciation for history, culture, ethnicity, or non-Western values. We don’t speak 33 languages, only 7 and only a few of us, and no dialects at all.
- 41. War and Peace in the Digital Era • Command inherent in intent, not direction • Education determines detection & resilience • Close all bases, have virtual/stealth eyes on • Global grid can not be controlled, only helped • Brainpower instead of Firepower • Open Source Agency • $3B/Year at FOC • $1.5B/year for global networks focusing on 150 key topics ($10M each/year) • $1.5B/year for 50 community information sharing networks, 114, 119, www.telelanguage.com • EarthGame *is* reality, everyone plays themselves
- 42. Our Advantage I We were here in 2006… 9-11 & Katrina, then multiple policy failures Here in 2007! US public scared back into reading and thinking; 75K amputees, GAO declares USA insolvent, 27 secessionist movements, “home rule” up, and corporate personality down. Critical Junctures
- 43. TIME IMPACT SHORT TIME IMPACT LONG SINGLE-CULTURE SINGLE-ORGANIZATION EQUITIES MULTI-CULTURAL & TRANS-NATIONAL EQUITIES LEADERS DECIDE PEOPLE DECIDE TOP-DOWN COMMAND & CONTROL SECRET SOURCES & METHODS OPEN SOURCES & METHODS BOTTOM-UP INFORMATION-SHARING OBVIOUS DETAIL OBSCURE DETAIL OLD NEW Our Advantage II Localized Resilience Sustainable Reality-Based Transpartisan Budgets
- 44. Our Advantage III Expert Forum Weekly Review Distance Learning Virtual Library Shared Calendar Virtual Budget Shared 24/7 Plot Shared Rolodex
- 45. Our Advantage IV National Military Law Enforcement Business Secrets "Intelligence" "Protected" Open Targeting Signals Imagery Order of Battle Mapping Undercover Investigation Privacy Metrics Client Information Pricing Information Cost Information External Information Academic NGO-Media Citizen+ Secret Sensitive Private Open Secret Sensitive Private Open Secret Sensitive Private Open
- 46. Advantage II Our Advantage V This is the real “End Game”
- 47. Next Step
- 48. Warning Notice • DoD is developing Sentient World Simulation (SWS), a really expensive and badly conceptualized program to mirror the real world individual by individual—only they decide who you are and what you think. • The Matrix Expands. For the truly indiscriminate…share it all.
- 49. Open Everything! See the Table of Innovators at Earth-Intelligence.net • Co-Intelligence Networks • InfoNet-Public – Amazon ScanBack Plus – CISCO AON for all – iPhone becomes Sensicast- Tranzeo 3000, RFID Public • InfoNet-Domestic – 114, 119, 911, RFID Sensitive – www.telelanguage.com • InfoNet-Multinational • Spies & Secrecy Only 10% BLOG THIS: Multinational Information Sharing Act Write your Senators—Send them a copy from EIN Library
- 50. Hackers & Bloggers Rule! To understand the role of reputation in the open-source culture, it is helpful to move from history further into anthropology and economics, and examine the difference between exchange cultures and gift cultures.” "Abundance makes command relationships difficult to sustain and exchange relationships an almost pointless game. In gift cultures, social status is determined not by what you control but by what you give away." From: <http://futurepositive.synearth.net/stories/storyReader$223> To Blog for Peace End Secrecy, Be Happy
- 51. Will speak for sushi • Robert D. Steele • www.oss.net • www.earth-intelligence.net • www.citizens-party.org • Meta documents: – www.oss.net/BASIC – www.oss.net/LIBRARY • Cool briefs: – www.oss.net/FAILURE (of 20th Century Intel) – www.oss.net/HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) – www.oss.net/BRAIN (Future Brief for Amazon) – www.oss.net/AMAZON (Raw Brief for Amazon) – www.oss.net/VEGAS (IT brief to NSA) • Steele at Amazon Movie – www.oss.net/AMAZONTV1 (compressed) – www.oss.net/AMAZONTV2 (full) • This brief: – www.oss.net/GNOME
- 52. Information Peacekeeping & Infinite Wealth for All Through Multinational Information Sharing
- 53. Before I Go…. The U.S. Intelligence Community Before & After 9/11
- 54. What the Czar Does… I am NOT making this up….
- 55. Dare to Want it All!
Editor's Notes
- Secrecy and Openness have been at war since time immemorial. We still need some secrecy, but the battle over which should rule is over. We won. We are at that special moment in the battle when we know we have won, and the other side does not quite realize that we are, as Jeff Bezos said to TED, at the very beginning of a new age of innovation and I would add, of connection.
- I was told you’d be asking if I did not include this, so here it is. I am not your normal bear. Very much an odd duck, one reason I feel so good being with hackers and bloggers.
- Here’s the outline. I’ll put our context out as four reforms in need of openness, and the Open Source Agency I propose in my latest book, then discuss, in turn, a number of opens, the state of the world, the global information war, By the end of this briefing you will have a better grip on reality and what we all need to do to create infinite stabilizing wealth around the globe. I’m going to go fast, you can download the brief later to read all the words I have in Notes format but may not necessarily use.
- I see real signs of both emergence and convergence. It is unfortunate that key personalities at Amazon, CISCO, Google, and Wikimedia do not seem to play well together. All this is swirling around us. With a tip of the hat to Nat at O’Reilly, Open Source is Darwinism while proprietary malware and secrecy are Intelligent Design that is not so intelligent. We need open standards and open metrics. Openness is resilience, sustainability, strength.
- My brief is going to be complicated. Here is the simple summary. Not here to criticize the $60 billion a year in waste as much as to mobilize the open world to be all it can be. If you take nothing else from my presentation, remember these four points: Civil Affairs Bloggers Bottom-Up Be the answer.
- The US Government spends $60 to $70 billion a year on the 5% they can steal. It costs $1.2 billion a *week* to keep the President “informed” with secret sources and methods. Our military budget of $700 billion a year is relevant to only 10% of the threat, the state threat, contributing nothing to waging peace. Self-Rule by Transpartisan Transparency is “Our Deal,” and I believe that we can restore We the People as sovereign, and in doing so, achieve all four of these reforms. Electoral Reform now is the only big issue in 2008, everything else follows from re-engaging America.
- I moved this slide from the end to up front to stress to you that there is plenty of money for peace and prosperity. Medard Gabel built the World Game with Buckminster Fuller, now we want to build the EarthGame so we can all play ourselves with one big difference: we each have access to all information in all languages all the time. You will be able to blog for peace and for prosperity.
- Your mission, if you wish to accept it, is to help create the Earth Intelligence Network. Make it your own. This is the new printing press, you control what, when, where, and how. This is a non-profit meant to augment human capacity and preserve the commonwealth. The only strong suggestions I have is that you focus on reality, that you integrate real-world budgets, and that you think about Serious Games with truthful data sets as the next big leap in understanding and blogging in time and space for results. How people vote, if they vote, depends on whether they have a compelling incentive to vote. The educational system has failed, it is up to you to re-educate and energize the American public so as to save our Nation.
- I’ve read Richard Stallman’s book and listened to him speak at Hackers on Planet Earth. He is the embodiment of what Yochai Benkler writes about in Wealth of Networks and the harnessing of the social capital that all of you represent. Microsoft is part of the problem. They have done some truly great things for industrial-era productivity, but VISTA is scary and they may be losing out to Amazon and CISCO. First-rate marketing is no longer good enough to sell second-rate products, and if Microsoft cannot match Open Office with a full range of Open Tools, then we part company now.
- Diane Webb at CIA created the inset version of this in the 1980’s. We still don’t have them because both CIA and Microsoft are medieval bureaucracies. STRONG ANGEL shareware may be a solution, along with Open Office plus. It’s time to redirect the secret budget, not because of morality, but because of how they are mis-spending $60 billion a year. We can do better at a fraction of that cost. If they cannot adapt, they die. Amazon and CISCO AON can give us this, Google and Microsoft cannot.
- We’re turned the corner. I want Sun and others to buy or invest or partner with these guys and also Waterstone, whose geospatial layers and time series capabilities are 75% ahead of Google Earth, ESRI, and the US Government. If Microsoft were willing to go open source and focus on open source collaboration and analytic software, we sure could use their help in burying Google and restoring privacy, security, and a neutral Internet that creates infinite wealth without the predatory and intrusive aspects of Google.
- Computer hardware is the most toxic unrecyclable trash on the planet. Even CISCO, a very smart company, has not realized that it should standardize its router boxes and re-use them by offering trade-in value. Hardware is becoming more important than software, both as an innovation arena, and as a curse that will be with us always. It needs to be open. Tip of the hat to WikiPedia, despite the trolls, on balance it is useful to me for stuff like this.
- The governments’ traditional tools for winning the information game are the secret disciplines. HUMINT tries to recruit a player to predict where the ball will go, and send someone to catch it—or not. SIGINT plants a listening device in the dug-out, trying to overhear plans and intentions. IMINT takes an overhead photo of the field every three days and tries to call the game that way. MASINT sniffs for the ball, and the gloves and when that does not work, asks for ten billion more. OSINT changes the rules: any catch by a member of the crowd is an out, and we offer to buy the ball back at very low cost. That’s how we handle the information explosion—everyone gets to play, and they know we will pay cash or kind when they send us the ball they caught. It is a universal unstructured winning order of battle. It is also adaptable and resilient—an open network.
- Jock Gill, a world-class communicator and co-founder of GreaterDemocracy.org, has an FAQ on Open Spectrum. He and Margaret Wheatley and others say that we are no longer about critical mass, we are about connecting. I say we need to connect dots to dots, dots to people, and people to people. Washington still does not understand that this is about real-time horizontal dots and mostly about bottom-up not top-down dot analysis. If Google were at smart as it thinks it is, it would not be buying wireless, it would be pushing Open Spectrum. We the People need to own and control both our personal data, and the last mile.
- The same shift will take place with money that has taken place with other opens. We do not need credit and we most certainly do not need to pay banks interest on money they invented without any basis in gold. We can dump the predatory WTO and IMF, and free the poor countries from dependency on Western credits that are not in the best interests of either the giving or the receiving public. Most importanly, we can implement community and value-based peer-to-peer wealth metrics.
- Here are some key search terms. This could be a great project for the blogger community to develop in the sense of helping many others understand and develop this liberating capability around the world.
- In my view, the greatest value of open money is that it can reflect community and social values that respect sustainability, true cost, and long-term localized investment. Why should we allow corporations to loot any commonwealth and transfer assets that are inherently in the commons? Transparency of all existing budgets, in combination with open money, should end fraud, waste, and abuse. Bloggers have a vital role to play here.
- As I said in my opening slide, we have won. The time has come to spread the word, mobilize the apathatic, and MOVE ON. Michael Linton, Ernie Jacub, and Jean-Francois Noubel, among others, are in the forefront. As a side note, I commend to you my list of books on Transpartisanship at Amazon, and especially the book, Escaping the Matrix.
- Cass Sunstein in Infotopia, Lawrence Lessig in various books and web movies, Yochai Benkler, a few others, have clearly documented what one writer calls Wikinomics. A couple of important things are happening that give me hope. The people now have a digital memory. Look for retrospective impeachments of government officials who are now known to have sold out the public interest back in the 1970’s. Networking has restored power to the aggregate and taken away many of the advantages of secrecy, cult and gang membership. Reciprocal altruism is alive and well. Trolls and free riders are still a problem. I anticipate that a combination of karma points, non-violent demerits, citation analysis at the paragraph level, and Open Money, will take us forward faster than we can imagine right now.
- We cannot harness the distributed intelligence of the Whole Earth without completely open but also secure networks. Google is open but not secure. CISCO AON is secure but not open. Most of the world is in Quadrant I, internal data mining. You are all in Quadrant II. My clients are in Quadrant III and we created a non-profit to help everyone else get there. A handful of countries, e.g. Singapore and companies. e.g. Robert Buckman, are in Quadrant IV.
- George Soros is best known for this concept in modern times, but it goes back to Karl Popper and others. The critical point here, and I favor Chomsky and Vidal on this matter, is that if you lose sight of civil liberties and morality, you become a state terrorist. The United States of America is guilty of two centuries of genocide against the Native America, virtual colonialism, unilateral militarism, and predatory immoral capitalism. What has been done in our name are war crimes, betrayals of the public trust, and treason. We need to get a grip, as Francis Lappe Moore says in her next book.
- There are 27 secessionist movements in America, because the the federal government is broken beyond repair. It cannot be fixed, it must be displaced by networked constant participatory democracy. You can take the lead. BLOG THIS.
- I am going to forego political commentary to focus on the substance of this brief, but I will say just one thing: “You may not be interested in reality, but reality is interested in you.” I co-founded the Earth Intelligence Network because the federal government has failed the intelligence test, and state and local and non-governmental organizations don’t know how to do public intelligence or reality-based budgeting. Helping your respective neighborhoods and countries get in touch with reality could be the Blogger mission of the century. You are all “intelligence minutemen.” Brains, not guns, rule.
- Howard Bloom issued a memorandum a while back on “War as Deception” and he reminds us that Iran is the descendant of the Persian Empire. These are smart, clever, patient people. I am not going to get into who shot John, who’s to blame, I will just emphasize that we are on the verge of a nuclear war in the Middle East because We the People have either not been paying attention, or have accepted what one book calls Weapons of Mass Deception. This is not about who’s right or wrong, this is about “are you paying attention?” or in the case of bloggers, since we know you are, the question is, “what are you doing to increase public attention to vital issues and alternatives?” We’ve already established that the US Government walked into this blind, what can bloggers do to provide a service of common concern to the public by blogging public intelligence on any given issue?
- There are 5,000 distinct racial, ethnic, linguistic and cultural groups are lumped together into only 189 nation states. We got it backwards—instead of sovereign states we should be sovereign peoples, with bottom up “home rule.” Darfur is but one of over 15 genocides taking place today. There have been over 70 major genocides in history. This is important because the federal government is an industrial-era bureaucracy and it is inept. Only a networked “Smart Nation” can connect, adapt, and prosper, and one of the things it will do is respect Home Rule and neighborhoods, tribes, and ethnic groups.
- These ethnic conflicts tend to coincide with conditions of severe deprivation. Note the red line---some of the worst water scarcity and some of the worst ethnic conflicts are along the Russian borders with both the Islamic states of Central Asia, and the Chinese state. Water scarcity is a national security threat that does not receive enough attention. We are being actively deceived by cities in the South and West that know they might not be viable in the future.
- I think of bloggers as the Paul Revere’s of our time, digitally sounding the alarm, making sense, connecting dots. Bloggers can both discern, and disseminate. The month in which secret meetings were taking place with Enron and Exxon, WIRED nailed it with a cover story on a two-way energy grid, localized energy, and a wide variety of alternative energies. The good news is that IF we localize agriculture, demand green recyclable products, eliminate chlorine and most plastic waste, and get smart at the LOCAL level, we can move the Nation and the world. Waste can become energy. Water is actually capable of produced a closed system perpetual energy generator. The thermal differences in the ocean are being tapped today for power.
- The instability of the world is relevant to our homeland security because it spawns migrations, criminal activity, and disease as well as terrorism, all in part influences by climate change as well as corruption. There are roughly 32 complex emergencies involving over 20 countries that are considered to be “failed states.” We have millions of refugees, millions of starving people, millions of people subject to plagues and epidemics. The USA is very nearly a failed state.
- I am not going to belabor these. What is important to note about these are two facts: 80% to 95% of all relevant information about these threats is not secret—it is open source information. The US government is ignoring eight of these threats and doing a very bad job on the two it “likes”: proliferation & terrorism. We are doing nothing of significance in the area of multinational information sharing. That is my focus of effort in the near term, after energizing Amazon.
- Here you need to know two things: First, neither the executive bureaucracy nor the Congressional committees receive classified intelligence support in any of these areas, nor do they know how to do open source intelligence. They excel at staffing policy that benefits those who have bribed them. Second, we have to address all twelve policies holistically. They are all connected.
- Here I simply want to emphasize that nothing we or the European Union do in the next ten years matters in isolation. Even if we are both perfect from tomorrow, unless we can create a World Brain that is able to help all eight of the other players adapt, innovate, and nurture the emergence that Paul Hawkin writes of in Blessed Unrest, we are toast. Unless we can provide free education and on demand answers via cell phone to each of the five billion poor, so they can create unlimited wealth, we are toast. How we treat Africa is critical to the future of mankind.
- I developed this slide in the mid-1990’s at the Marine Corps University. It got circulated bit never got traction because the mind-set is such that one Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said “Real men don’t do Operations Other than War.” We used to be good at Big War, Not any more. We deal very poorly with these other three threat types because the Pentagon has the money and they only want heavy metal.
- At the same time, I developed this approach to dealing with our needs. I call this strategy the 1 plus triple i, for being able to do one big war and three lesser “engagements” simultaneously instead of the traditional Pentagon focus, two big wars, ignore all else. Colin Powell should have been given $100B the day after 9-11, and told to wage peace. Instead we have destroyed two nations and created vastly more terrorists and insurgents than existed prior to 9-11. We have also bankrupted the Nation’s blood, treasure, and spirit.
- If I can help you in any way, let me know. Every person needs to be a collector, producer, and consumer of public intelligence or decision-support. There are free training materials at oss.net, the short cuts are forward slash BASIC and forward slash LIBRARY. You can subscribe to the free daily RSS feed, the free weekly executive report, and now, you can read the Forecast for each at a Wikipage within The Transitioner, and discuss or document. Ideally, at some point each zip code will have a Local Intelligence Officer, an LIO, who creates this kind of report for their zip code, and works with others to post budgets and local reality so we can get to transparent accountable reality-based self-governance at every level across every issue.
- Amazon, not Google, is positioned to be the hub of the World Brain, the service of common concern that integrates social networks, sense-making tools, and unlimited access to substance—all information in all languages all the time. See the entire brief in multimedia at www.oss.net forward slash AMAZON for the slides and notes, or forward slash AMAZONTV1 (compressed to 9 minute download) or forward slash AMAZONTV2 (full at 30 minute download) for the 66 minute actual interchange. Times are at 100MB speed.
- This is a second slide, just to give you a sense of the comprehensiveness of our discussions. You can find the actual brief with planned words in Notes format, as well as both a high resolution and a 56K baud optimized video of the presentation and the questions & answers, at OSS.Net in the Archives, in the EIN Library.
- Dr. Col Max Manwaring, a brilliant officer and scholar, developed this slide, up to the 6th Generation. With his blessing I am taking us to the next level. Most governments still have a 3rd Generation force structure, and barely—and I do mean barely—comprehend 4th Generation warfare. You are digital natives and not yet recruited into the global war of ideas because your government is still ruled by secrecy, still demands control, and still does not “get it.” It’s time for you to self-organize and create the Earth Intelligence Network on your own behalf.
- For the half trillion dollars we have wasted in Iraq, I could have given every single one of the five billion poor a free cell phone, and from abandoned DoD communications satellites, free T-1 connectivity. The poor do not have 18-22 years to waste on rote learning. We must put all education online free in all languages, and also create a global network of volunteers who can provide on demand answers in 33 languages and 150 other dialects or minor languages via cell phone so the poor can learn as they go while working full time.
- I am developing a monograph on war and peace in the digital age, and the bottom line is that both our secret intelligence and our heavy metal military are inside out and upside down. They are both mammoths neck deep in the tar pit of history, but no one seems to have the courage to declare the Emperor is naked. I’ve done that in five books, but only the really smart people read them, not those in power. For just $3B a year, I could internationalize US education, provide free on demand learning via cell phone to the five billion poor, support all Congressional jurisdictions and all levels of the Executive, and restore what Thomas Jefferson called “A Nation’s best defense: an informed citizenry.
- We have the advantage. Regardless of who is in office, We the People are now paying attention and demanding citizen-centered democracy and moral capitalism. I am quite certain that Transpartisanship and Electoral Reform can restore the Republic with dignity, liberty, and justice for all.
- The future is here now, and it is about bottom-up multi-cultural decisions that are based primarily on shared open sources of information, not secrets, and that focus specifically on achieving sustainable long-term agreement. Paul Hawkin and his colleagues at the Natural Capital Institute have nailed it. I believe the highest calling for any blogger is the research and posting of “true cost” information about any product or service.
- This is all it takes to be a node for the World Brain. I consider Google predatory, and also very insecure. I’m waiting for CISCO Application Oriented Network to allow me to store my personal information in my personal router, under my control, at the same time that we implement Doug Englebart’s Open Hypertextdocument System (OHS) so that we can link at the paragraph level, while allowing all data to carry geospatial as well as reputation attributes. I am trying to get Amazon to offer all eight of these functionalities and unite its authors into global intelligence councils at the same time that if helps its readers organize local Wisdom Councils.
- As a former spy, and as one of the founders of the Marine Corps Intelligence Command, I am often frustrated by the obsession that we have with secrecy, and with intelligence. I will tell you what I have learned in the past sixteen years. I have learned that 95% of what we call intelligence is not secret; and I have learned that at least 70% of what we need to know and need to share is not intelligence and not secret. These pie charts depict my view of what is share-able among the seven tribes without any attention to restricted, private, or secret information. We are not going for the green, and we need to.
- With this slide I am offering you a strategic perspective on your potential as information warriors. The book “No Logo” has it exactly right—if we all attach ourselves leech-like to a threat, a policy, a player, or to an organization, or product or service or locality, we can use information to clean house. Ours is a uniquely moral and peaceful endeavor. We also represent mankind’s last hope.
- This is my new idea. I have a six page flyer posted in the About section of the Earth Intelligence Network, and would be grateful for feed-back and buzz. We are asking each of 20 foundations and each of ten countries to give us a $25,000 grant this year, and as we prove our value, get that increased to $250K a year. For that amount of money, and by harnessing volunteers and sharing this as a tool—this is to the digital era what the printing press was to the industrial era—we empower billions of people around the world, in all languages.
- This is dangerous because they don’t care what you need, only what you think, so they can manipulate you. You should worry about Google’s indiscriminate relations with organizations that really don’t care about your privacy. You should also worry about their keeping a copy of everything….forever. Medard Gabel and the Earth Game are morally and technical superior because he focuses on empowering each person to play themselves, but with access to all information all the time.
- For twenty years I have been working toward the concept of public intelligence in the public interest. Today bloggers and citizen journalists are finally wrestling the truth into the open and the lies into hiding. I need your help. Grab a copy of the two-page outline of legislation that I have proposed, send it to your Senator, and ask them to co-sponsor the legislation. I have Senator Webb in mind to lead us all. BLOG THIS!
- You are all, as are Hackers, pushing the edge of the envelope. You have the right stuff. We need more of it. In my view, up to this point you have been the militia, lurking in the woods and working often alone. The time has come to organize. I challenge you to do for public intelligence what LINUX has tried to do for open source software.
- I love what I do, I need to do more of it. This briefing is at http://www.oss.net/GNOME
- We are, as Jeff Bezos discussed in his lecture to TED, at the very beginning of the innovative era. Before he died, Peter Drucker wrote that we have spent 50 years focusing on the T in IT, and that we must now focus the next 50 years on the I. With your help, that is exactly what I am going to do: public intelligence in the public interest. Thank you.
- Questions?