new elites arose

new elites arose: corporate chieftains, beaurocrats, media moguls. Mass production, mass distribution, mass education, and mass communication were accompanied by mass democracy, or dictatorships claiming to be democratic. (Alvin Toffler, "Powershift", p11)

redistribution of power

..closely held specialists' knowledge is slipping out of control and reaching ordinary citizens. Similarly, inside major corporations, employees are winning access to knowledge once monopolized by management. And as knowledge is redistributed, so, too, is the power based on it. --Alvin Toffler, "Powershift"

" Give me control over a nation’s currency and I care not who makes its laws." - Baron M. A. Rothschild (1744- 1812)

" It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

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There's no real enemy.
By having this a war on terror, you can never win it...
... so you can always keep taking people's liberties away
...the media can convince everybody that it's real.
You just keep talking about things, keep saying it over and over again and people start to believe this"
(N.Rockefeller)

Science itself doesn't make money. The wealth comes as a result of applications.

Opensource projects have been compared to science projects. Science itself doesn't make money. The wealth comes as a result of applications.

I don't care what anybody else does. I want to do what I think is right.

RedHat

For RedHat it wasn't important that we are shipping be a better operating system than Microsofts' or Sun's operating system. It becomes really important that we are shipping operating system that solves the problem for our customers that they cannot solve using the traditional proprietory binary only software. What we are doing is we are building a technology and giving it away. How do you make money doing this? And of course we would go to California to Silicon valley where they said you cannot make money in the software business giving you technology away. And we come back and we talk to our customers and we realize the only that kept our customers loyal to what we were doing was that we did give away our technology. For the very first time they had control over techoblogy they were using. [The code [5/7] from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgFMhfKPq80]

Linus is a good leader.

"Linus was someone who was a very very good leader, someone who is acually quite humble. He doesn't take credit for something he doesn't do."

Bush wants more terrorism, government-sponsored terrorsm

Authority is not truth. Truth is the authority.

We should fight for peace

"We have 1001 explanations why we should have war, an not one why we should have peace. We've got a problem here.
To me if war requires active participation, then peace requires active participation.
Without a hunger food means nothing.
"(Prem Rawat)

You have rights, the government has privileges

gorilla war

gorilla war is usually done by people who have little money, and little power, and little influence in society. The best explanation is by any means necessary.
There's a paradox. The more information is becoming decentralized in the Internet. There's more control of the information thank's to telecommunication deregulation act.
The best way to suppress information isn't to attack people who present it. But instead to have so many intelligent pleasures out there that all your information will be drowned out by the noise.

Crises precipitate change

If you fight terror with terror how can you say which is which?