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Friday, February 13, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
GovLoop.Com - Can Obama use technology to change government?
http://www.govloop.com
Adding a public layer of citizenship participation to Washington DC and other US government structures.
Complete transparency to begin in Obama's White House has an ally at govloop.com.
GovLoop is the premier social network connecting the government community
Beware because the corporations do not want the USA's citizenship to use the Internet for its own benefit. Rather, the corporate world, in general, has a vested interest in the a stupid population. There are corporations on our side, but they do not have the clout needed to ensure net neutrality. It's up to us.
South Koreans have control over their last mile of fiber optics. Do we? NO!
Everyone needs a chance to participate as the US economy evolves into its new configuration.
Obama has set his sites on an improved Internet and net neutrality. If he emulates the South Korean model we are in. South Korea's model helps its economy.
Why not make Internet access a right the way we did telephones. With direct access everyone gets to participate. People will have an ability to be involved in their grass roots government as well as the government hierarchy. Just think what we can do to cronyism!
Adding a public layer of citizenship participation to Washington DC and other US government structures.
Complete transparency to begin in Obama's White House has an ally at govloop.com.
GovLoop is the premier social network connecting the government community
Beware because the corporations do not want the USA's citizenship to use the Internet for its own benefit. Rather, the corporate world, in general, has a vested interest in the a stupid population. There are corporations on our side, but they do not have the clout needed to ensure net neutrality. It's up to us.
South Koreans have control over their last mile of fiber optics. Do we? NO!
Everyone needs a chance to participate as the US economy evolves into its new configuration.
Obama has set his sites on an improved Internet and net neutrality. If he emulates the South Korean model we are in. South Korea's model helps its economy.
Why not make Internet access a right the way we did telephones. With direct access everyone gets to participate. People will have an ability to be involved in their grass roots government as well as the government hierarchy. Just think what we can do to cronyism!
More on the depression -
Now we're watching demopublicans trying to get out of this mess they and we are in. I predicted this situation years ago as others of my ilk did the same. It was obvious that capitalism goes boom and bust. None of this is new.
It's interesting watching the republicans pray for Obama's failure. I can understand this after watching the shameful, greedy, stupid Bush actions. Obama's like a naive kid that wants everyone to get along, "Can't we all just get along." Now he's going to become jaded.
Obama shows his emotions to the close observer. He's a sensitive man. He's too kind to be in office. He had a about-to-cry emotion on his face when he referred to the Wall Street ruling class CEOs getting their bonuses. "Shameful" elicited the emotion.
Obama comes from a place in the World where his social circle actually gave more than they received, gave kindly to all they could. He's too much of a cup cake for office. The Republican dung cakes will blame all failure upon him; the failures are inherent to capitalisms crush of all before it. Obama will be one of the crushed if the Republican dung cakes have their way.
How anyone can call theirself "republican" is beyond me. They have no shame. There is no individualism, no responibility, no accountability in their politics. The democrats are looking like they are a step above the republicans, but this is a small, meaningless step. It's Obama that brings a sense of stability, a sense of honesty and accountability to Washington DC's corrup doings.
Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup School
It's interesting watching the republicans pray for Obama's failure. I can understand this after watching the shameful, greedy, stupid Bush actions. Obama's like a naive kid that wants everyone to get along, "Can't we all just get along." Now he's going to become jaded.
Obama shows his emotions to the close observer. He's a sensitive man. He's too kind to be in office. He had a about-to-cry emotion on his face when he referred to the Wall Street ruling class CEOs getting their bonuses. "Shameful" elicited the emotion.
Obama comes from a place in the World where his social circle actually gave more than they received, gave kindly to all they could. He's too much of a cup cake for office. The Republican dung cakes will blame all failure upon him; the failures are inherent to capitalisms crush of all before it. Obama will be one of the crushed if the Republican dung cakes have their way.
How anyone can call theirself "republican" is beyond me. They have no shame. There is no individualism, no responibility, no accountability in their politics. The democrats are looking like they are a step above the republicans, but this is a small, meaningless step. It's Obama that brings a sense of stability, a sense of honesty and accountability to Washington DC's corrup doings.
Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup School
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Obama
Obama's pragmatism and intelligence seem to refresh everything US, with a few exceptions that I won't dwell on here.
I enjoy seeing someone with color in the White House. It is interesting to see his family in the White House. They seem to give the White House a vitality that's been missing for a long time. It has become alive, at least in my mind.
I am no longer ashamed of the US's president. I feel better about being a US American.
As far as the depression goes, I don't see how Obama can really make a big difference, but maybe he can. I don't know it all, although I did call this one as well as attacks on the US.
What I like more than anything about Obama is that he understands the necessity of moving toward renewable energy and the serious consequences of not doing so. To think that the US population sat on its hands for 8 long years is beyond my imagination, but now something is moving, something is happening. To my mind, Carter was late, but at least he was moving, doing something. Then came Raygun and the movement died. Now it's back.
Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup
I enjoy seeing someone with color in the White House. It is interesting to see his family in the White House. They seem to give the White House a vitality that's been missing for a long time. It has become alive, at least in my mind.
I am no longer ashamed of the US's president. I feel better about being a US American.
As far as the depression goes, I don't see how Obama can really make a big difference, but maybe he can. I don't know it all, although I did call this one as well as attacks on the US.
What I like more than anything about Obama is that he understands the necessity of moving toward renewable energy and the serious consequences of not doing so. To think that the US population sat on its hands for 8 long years is beyond my imagination, but now something is moving, something is happening. To my mind, Carter was late, but at least he was moving, doing something. Then came Raygun and the movement died. Now it's back.
Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Cronyism in Crime Scene Cleanup
"The economic and social costs of cronyism are paid by society. In the form of reduced business opportunity for the majority of the population, reduced competition in the market place, inflated consumer goods prices, decreased economic performance, inefficient business investment cycles, reduced motivation in affected organizations, and the diminution of economically productive activity. " Click here for source.
Because of cronyism in crime scene cleanup, the public suffers; friends and relatives of the deceased are cheated by cronyism. Also, honest crime scene cleanup companies lose needed revenue to service the public's need for professional death scene cleaners.
Cronyism in crime scene cleanup means that (usually) coroners' employees receive money from a crony crime scene cleanup company (green/blue above). In return these government employees give special favors to these companies, like the telephone numbers of crime scene victims and others needing professional death scene cleanup.
Sometimes coroners' employees start their own business with their privileged information. This privileged information is about who died, how, when where, and the telephone number of the deceased's family and friends.
Again, for example, in crime scene cleanup, coroners' employees give the public (bereaved) telephone numbers to crony companies for cleaning services. The crony companies get rich because they charge the public whatever they want. They have few real competitors. These companies are cronies because the coroner's employees give their telephone numbers to friends and relatives of the dead. The crony coroners' employees also get rich by selling their information to crony crime scene cleanup companies. The public pays more because of this unethical business between private companies and tax payer paid government employees. In a sense, the tax-paying public pays twice because of cronyism.
Crony's competitors and the public then suffer, we see. We can see how cronies gain much money, power, and influence while the public gets cheated. How would you like to pay more money for a service because your government favors one company over others? We know for a fact that this happens in many places.
We see that bureaucracies (like the coroner's office) in local, county, state, and federal governments hurt the public. Cronyism has crippled, in part, the Russian economy. So we can see again how cronyism steals from the public because it destroy free enterprise.
Bureaucracies become self-serving. Some even forget who they were created to serve. Add cronyism to this self-serving tendency, and we see again how free enterprise suffers as well as the public good. In regards to crime scene cleanup and cronyism, we can see how some coroners' employees work to benefit from their inside, special information.
After time, sociologically speaking, these relationships reflect an abbreviated form of fascism, but without government sanction.
Note: Legally, for a government agency to exclude one company for the benefit of a quasi-monopoly requires open-bidding for a contract. A contract all are entitled to bid for.
More though, in some areas coroners' employees have seized control of referrals for the benefit of relatives and friends who have started crime scene cleanup businesses. Callers have actually, gleefully, confirmed that they were to receive all or most of the referrals from those in control of referrals. It is like these callers had no idea that they were, in part, no different than cronies in the late Soviet Union.
These relationships cause one to wonder if there are many other ways that the US reflects Russian bureaucracies' cronyism. How else is free enterprise perverted by our various government agencies?
Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup School
Monday, November 24, 2008
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Way behind!
Too much going on and I was way behind before today. Now I'm so far behind there is no catching up. March on, I guess, since there's no alternative anyway.
Obama's skeleton plans sound fair enough, considering the limits to what he can and cannot do. Renewables and jobs make sense. Get the Co2 out of the air and stop producing it as soon as possible. Sequestering Co2 is not ecologically sound. Just stop producing more than nature will absorb ecologically.
I am pleased to hear the democrats making the correct connections between the environment and economics. It's about time. They too are way behind! The republicans remain to make the connections between "eco" and economics and the overpowering domination of ecology to all else.
Obama is a hard worker and driven to ends that I can only imagine. It's really pleasing to see that we will have an ambitious, intelligent president after 8 years of oil mogul rule.
Obama sees the importance of a paradigm shift, and it's underway with or without him or anyone else. The important idea is to keep the greed barons out of the way. Anything less will be criminal.
Eddie Evans
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