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The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% - ex CIA spy
The Guardian ^ | Thursday 19 June 2014 | The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% - ex CIA spy

Posted on 06/24/2014 1:46:00 PM PDT by 11th_VA

Robert David Steele, former Marine, CIA case officer, and US co-founder of the US Marine Corps intelligence activity, is a man on a mission. But it's a mission that frightens the US intelligence establishment to its core....

...Drawing on principles set out in his latest book, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth and Trust, he told the audience that all the major preconditions for revolution – set out in his 1976 graduate thesis – were now present in the United States and Britain....

"...We are at the end of a five-thousand-year-plus historical process during which human society grew in scale while it abandoned the early indigenous wisdom councils and communal decision-making," he writes in The Open Source Everything Manifesto. "Power was centralised in the hands of increasingly specialised 'elites' and 'experts' who not only failed to achieve all they promised but used secrecy and the control of information to deceive the public into allowing them to retain power over community resources that they ultimately looted...."

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: anarchists; anarchy; internet; leftwingrant; opensource; socialism; socialistanarchists
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To: stinkerpot65
and that the September 11 attacks were a false flag event staged by the Bush Administration.

Yea - that's a red flag ...

21 posted on 06/24/2014 4:53:05 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Decriminalize Tax Evasion)
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To: 70times7
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony ... :)
22 posted on 06/24/2014 4:56:16 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Decriminalize Tax Evasion)
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To: 11th_VA
Oligarchy.

It's not just a good idea...

It's the Law!

23 posted on 06/24/2014 4:56:27 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Funny :) ... I just saw that on a t-shirt today talking about Gravity :)


24 posted on 06/24/2014 4:58:15 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Decriminalize Tax Evasion)
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To: 11th_VA

This guy may be working for the nsa. Open source refers to your life and communications which will be used in pattern analysis.

Their predictions of future actions may carry more weight than your current actions.

This would not be pleasant, to say the least.


25 posted on 06/24/2014 5:00:31 PM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: 11th_VA
Read my prior more closely...

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical dodging of responsibility for Benghazi ... :)

26 posted on 07/22/2014 4:50:17 PM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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