[P2P-F] Fwd: Civicist's First Post: The New Deal
Michel Bauwens
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Tue Dec 13 17:33:55 CET 2016
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Date: Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:22 PM
Subject: Civicist's First Post: The New Deal
To: Michel <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
December 13, 2016
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Micah L. Sifry
*The New Deal*
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"We need to see this for what it is. It is an attack on our very
democracy. It’s an attack on who we are as a people. A foreign
government messing around in our elections is, I think, an existential
threat to our way of life. To me, and this is to me not an overstatement,
this is the political equivalent of 9/11. It is huge and the fact that it
hasn’t gotten more attention from the Obama Administration, Congress, and
the mainstream media, is just shocking to me." Former acting CIA
director *Michael
Morrell*, who briefed President *George W. Bush* on 9/11, speaking
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to the Cipher Brief about Russia's interference in the 2016 election.
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"People of tech, now is the time to choose. The sidelines have vanished.
Neutrality is not an option. You face a question not that different from
the one *Steve Jobs* posed to a CEO long ago, when he asked, 'Do you
want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to
change the world?' Today the question is: Do you want to sell racism,
sexism, oil, climate disaster, surveillance, fear, and hate? Or do you want
to help save an endangered world? This is for real. This is now. There are
no pivots or reboots. Which side are you on?" *Scott Rosenberg,* "When
Tech Has to Choose Between Its President and Its Customers — Who Wins?
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Yesterday, Senator Majority Leader *Mitch McConnell* expressed support
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for a bipartisan investigation of Russian interference in the 2016
election, offering vocal support for the work of people in the Central
Intelligence Agency: “I have the highest confidence in the intelligence
community and especially the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA is filled
with selfless patriots, many of whom anonymously risk their lives for the
American people.”
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One might think that McConnell had decided to side with saner heads in
the CIA vs Trump, who trashed the agency this weekend. But one should never
take McConnell's words at face value. When he says that the Senate
Intelligence Committee "is more than capable of conducting a complete
review of this matter,” that should be understood as forestalling any more
far-ranging investigative effort, as *Austin Wright* explains
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in Politico.
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A group of ten presidential electors, mostly Democrats led by *Christine
Pelosi* of California (daughter of House minority leader Rep. *Nancy
Pelosi*), have written
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to the director of national intelligence *James Clapper* asking for a
briefing into "whether there are ongoing investigations into ties
between *Donald
Trump*, his campaign or associates, and Russian government interference
in the election, the scope of those investigations, how far those
investigations may have reached, and who was involved in those
investigations."
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Trump's decision to postpone
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a planned December 15 press conference on how he was supposedly divesting
himself of his businesses means that the Electoral College will vote
December 19th without knowing all the ways that he will likely be in
violation of the Constitution's Emoluments Clause when he takes
office, as *Norman
Eisen and Richard Painter,* respectively the ethics counsels for
Presidents Obama and Bush, explain
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in The Atlantic.
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Notably, Trump's view of the Constitutional prohibition on receiving
foreign gifts or payments while in office is this
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"Even though I am not mandated by law to do so, I will be leaving my
businesses before January 20th so that I can focus on my presidency. Two of
my children, Don and Eric, plus executives, will manage them. No new deals
will be done during my term(s) in office."
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Channeling her inner Donald voice, Recode's *Kara Swisher* writes
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that "the leaders of tech should be ashamed of themselves for lining up
like sheeple after all the numskull attacks Trump has made on what is
pretty much the United States’ most important, innovative and
future-forward business sector." She shares a bit of her background
conversations with a tech leader about tomorrow's "summit":
Like one tech leader who suddenly stopped mid-sentence about how to
really make deals, Kara, because the truth just had to be out. “Trump is
just awful, isn’t he? It makes me sick to my stomach,” the leader agonized,
as a real thinking person would. “What are we going to do?” Well, to start,
realize again that you have the smarts and invention and the innovative
spirit to do whatever you like. Realize you have untold money and power and
influence and massive platforms to do what you think is right. Realize that
you are inventing the frigging future. Instead, you’re opting to sit in
that gilded room at Trump Tower to be told fake news is a matter of opinion
and that smart people aren’t so smart and that you need to sit still and do
what they say and take that giant pile of repatriated income with a smile.
Or you can say no — loudly and in public.
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Tech investor *Chris Sacca*, who wasn't invited and isn't attending,
didn't mince words to Swisher: "It's funny, in every tech deal I've ever
done, the photo op comes after you've signed the papers,” he said. “If
Trump publicly commits to embrace science, stops threatening censorship of
the internet, rejects fake news and denounces hate against our diverse
employees, only then it would make sense for tech leaders to visit Trump
Tower.” He added: “Short of that, they are being used to legitimize a
fascist."
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*Dave Pell *of NextDraft (an excellent newsletter) offers a word of
sympathy
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for the tech execs meeting with Trump: "they feel they have a
responsibility to maintain shareholder value," and the president-elect has
shown that he will punish companies that don't heed his wishes.
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Related: Net neutrality will soon be on the chopping block, as *April
Glaser *explains
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in Recode.
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And Wharton professor and longtime FCC hand *Kevin Werbach* explains
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exactly how Congress will wield the axe.
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Civil rights groups led by Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) and MoveOn
are delivered
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200,000 petition signatures to the Justice Department yesterday asking
President Obama to cancel the National Security Entry-Exit Registration
System (NSEERS), which was created after 9/11 to register foreigners from
mostly Muslim countries. The program has been shelved since 2011, but the
groups want it ended before Trump takes office to make it harder for him to
re-activate it.
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Author *Amy Webb* writes
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in Politico that the government needs a "Department of the Future." She
wants it to "be charged not only with futures research and advising, but
also with educating our newly elected leaders, the vast majority of whom do
not have any background in science or technology. More than almost any
president before him, Trump is in need of such an education." File this
under Nice Idea In Some Other Universe.
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*This is civic tech*: Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist and a
longtime friend (and benefactor) of Civic Hall, has donated
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$1 million to Poynter to fund a five-year chair in journalism ethics
focused on verification, fact-checking and accountability in journalism.
Kudos Craig!
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Twitter CEO *Jack Dorsey* (who isn't attending the Trump tech summit)
will be streaming live
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with *Edward Snowden* at 12:05pm ET tomorrow.
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1776 NYC is still accepting applications
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for its first cohort of startup fellows, through December 16.
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*What sharing economy? *Uber is indeed a sharing company—five former
Uber security professionals tell *Will Evans* of the Center for
Investigative Reporting
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that even after it supposedly instituted strict policies preventing
employees from accessing users' trip information "the company continues to
allow broad access….Thousands of employees throughout the company, they
said, could get details of where and when each customer travels. Those
revelations could be especially relevant now that Uber has begun collecting
location information even after a trip ends." Evans also reports that
"internal Uber employees helped ex-boyfriends stalk their ex-girlfriends
and searched for the trip information of celebrities such as Beyoncé,
according to the company’s former forensic investigator."
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Your moment of zen: Radio.garden
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an interactive map of the Earth showing all the live radio streams
available.
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