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WikiLeaks Mania? Libertarian Grabbe Site Leads Curve
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 12:10 AM |
LIO Advisor and "Einstein-like" Economist Dr. J. Orlin Grabbe predicted
Wikileaks phenomenon. Now his pioneer user-helped site is providing top coverage of Wikileaks panic, while challenging "global underbelly," official secrets culture.
Though officials panic worldwide as Wikileaks reveals their wrongdoing secrets--with calls for its founder to be assassinated and bizarre proposals for even more secrecy--savvy Libertarian fans are turning to the outside-the-box website of information prophet and Libertarian publicist Dr. J. Orlin Grabbe. Users at the time described the site as an interactive and innovative combination of web information and a "hive mind" of advanced and progressive thinkers who were its key users. "Its a new thought-tool, a semi-cyborg encyclopedia of cutting edge information," said one, a Yahoo developer.
The non-obvious but pioneering invention was just one brainchild of the late economist, described as "Einstein-like" by Milton Friedman, and who founded key areas of the economic study of information transfer that revolutionized markets and opened the way for items ranging from essential internet to options protocols. In the process he predicted that with the rise of information availability old structures of official secrecy, information denial and even copyright would crumble or have to be re-evaluated as users became empowered. Attempts to suppress the process would only speed it up as users did work-arounds to generate imitators, and the backfire would ignite growing public discussion to abolish improper or outmoded restrictions.
Examples might be Nappster, which fell before legal attacks that in turn created such interest that new information sharing methods have blossomed so the old ways are, say experts, dead letter. Newspapers, libraries, money transfer such as Paypal and more testify to this "You can't send them back to the farm once they've seen gay Par-ee" phenomennon.
Perhaps emblematic is officials denouncing books for "revealing secrets," such as how to build atom bombs, already available in the public domain by laws proposed by the self-same official bodies.
SITE CONTINUED BY SUPPORTERS
To help the process along, he founded the expose site OrlinGrabbe, a "Playboy for the Hi-IQ" complete with a special button periodically showing cute if naughty-looking models "for all sexes" balanced by his own formula-laden papers on a range of topics from thoughts on financial analyses to quantum physics and information packets.
His model? "Accelerate thinking" by simply accumulating edgy but obscure information on a host of topics relating to secrecy and hard-to-obtain knowledge. For context, his companion Laissez-Faire Times invited Libertarian leaders to write contrarian and often wildly satirical thinkpieces questioning the underlying assumptions behind those current events, and readers to suggest areas of research or links. As his worldwide readers responded, it became a clearinghouse for enlightening information that would have otherwise been lost. In turn, this attracted opinion leaders who saw the site as the place for game-changing information. As a result, few of his readers will likely find the Wikileaks revelations much of a surpise...or the panic of many officials. With his untimely death, the site has been after a slow start continued by supporters, and is in the process of re-loading older pages as well while making sharing of information easer than ever.
Nor will they be surprised that the market for information is seemingly behaving as Grabbe suggested yet again. As officials have Intrepol hunt the Wikilieaks spokesman Julian Assange on what many are reporting--again contrary to official media--as trumped up charges, Wikileaks is not only replicating itself as staff announce they're starting Wikileaks clones on a variety of models, but bringing the spotlight on less celebrated research efforts in secrecy such as that maintained by the venerable New Scientist.
http://orlingrabbe.com/ shows a variety of Wikileaks edgy stories, from under-reported revelations that mafia connections in government are exposed, to a blossoming of Wikileaks mirror sites, to a satire based on a spoof of the US announcing secret budgets in the confusion. The site, which operated as a blog precursor, now uses openly available blog software with a vengeance.
This much is certain: The model of an edgy site simply publishing information known at first to the few for consumption and action first by opinion leaders, then average citizens, is here to stay, a transformative social invention. With it, public dialogue on the very need for official secrets acts will increase.. and more people will follow the Wikileaks grandaddy site, OrlinGrabbe, to both see and share what is really going on, ahead of the information curve, as they create their own clones and variations.
(Below: sample of Grabbe coverage after sample of Wikileaks revelations reported in GOOGLE)
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
1.Check out newsources such as Grabbe and link to them, consider your own site
2.Call for dialogue on official secrets acts in your area
3.Check out and evaluate sample information from Grabbe and Wikileaks as below.
RESOURCES:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Orlin_Grabbe
- http://orlingrabbe.com/
- http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,732212,00.html Wikileaks workers prepare new whistleblower site
- http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/01/lieberman/index.html Reaction of officials critiqued
- http://www.newscientist.com/search?doSearch=true&query=secrecy+report New Scientist secrecy watch
- http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/09/a-dangerously-explosive-book.html Scientists deride officials unaware of Atom Bomb plans long in public domain
- http://vimeo.com/17393373 Jay Rosen, noted thinker, discussion of Wikileaks
- http://www.lewrockwell.com/casey/casey66.1.html Economist Doug Casey on Wikileaks
- http://www.youtube.com/results?search_filter=1&suggested_categories=25&search_query=wikileaks&page=2 Nearly 8,000 Youtubes discussing Wikileaks are up as of December, 2010
- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1007&bih=513&q=wikileaks+revelations&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= Over 10 million results at GOOGLE for Wikileaks revelations search. Top as of December 1, 2010:
About 10,600,000 results (0.15 seconds) Search ResultsNews for wikileaks revelations
Clinton's WikiLeaks alchemy: Can she turn outrage into unity on Iran? - 3 hours ago
Clinton's stop in Bahrain – and her efforts to divert attention away from the WikiLeaks revelations and toward international unity against Iran's nuclear ...Christian Science Monitor - 2591 related articles - Shared by 10+
Politicians distance themselves from WikiLeaks revelations - Daily Star - Lebanon - 58 related articlesIndia not embarrassed by any WikiLeaks' revelations - Times of India - 556 related articles - Shared by 5+
Tempers rise over WikiLeaks revelations - Yahoo! News
Dec 1, 2010 ... The United States on Wednesday faced a storm of anger from foreign governments who were scrutinized in leaked cables as President Barack ...
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/.../wl.../usdiplomacymilitaryinternetwikileaks - CachedTop 10 revelations from WikiLeaks cables - Yahoo! News
On Sunday, five international news outlets published a selection of more ...
news.yahoo.com/s/yblog.../ts.../top-ten-revelations-from-wikileaks-cablesShow more results from yahoo.comRussian media ignore WikiLeaks revelations | World news | The Guardian
Dec 2, 2010 ... State-controlled TV is silent on WikiLeaks claims that US diplomats see Russia as a criminal state.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/.../russian-media-ignore-wikileaks - CachedThe 10 most important WikiLeaks revelations - War Room - Salon.com
Nov 29, 2010 ... From Iran to Yemen to Israel to North Korea to the UN -- what the leaked documents tell us about the world.
www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/.../wikileaks_roundup - CachedTop Ten Middle East Wikileaks Revelations so Far | Informed Comment
Dec 1, 2010 ... How is the Wikileaks revelation that the Head of the IAEA is claimed to be “solidly in the U.S. court” going to affect the supposed ...
www.juancole.com/.../top-ten-middle-east-wikileaks-revelations-so-far.html - CachedNew WikiLeaks revelations show Ireland blocking U.S. arms to ...
Dec 2, 2010 ... Cable sent in 2006 indicates that the Irish government has been making it increasingly difficult for American weapons shipments to Israel to ...
www.haaretz.com/.../new-wikileaks-revelations-show-ireland-blocking-u-s-arms-to-israel-1.328298?... - CachedWikileaks revelations | HeraldTribune.com
Oct 29, 2010 ... I am appalled by the testimony of violence contained in the hundreds of thousands of Iraq-related military documents released last week by ...
www.heraldtribune.com/article/20101029/LETTERS/101029733Second Opinion: The WikiLeaks revelations - Baltimore Sun opinion ...
Jul 27, 2010 ... The WikiLeaks revelations. Americans have known for some time that the war in Afghanistan was not going well, and many have suspected that ...
weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/2010/07/post_84.html - CachedWikileaks revelations are deeply embarrassing to the us - The Inquirer
Jul 26, 2010 ... Wikileaks revelations are deeply embarrassing to the US. Collateral murder and Pakistan's corrupt duplicity in a losing war come to light ...
www.theinquirer.net/.../wikileaks-revelations-deeply-embarrassing-us - CachedWhat Are the Most Significant WikiLeaks Revelations? - PBS
Nov 29, 2010 ... What are the most significant WikiLeaks revelations? The U.S. diplomatic cables portray the leaders of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab ...
www.pbs.org/.../what-are-the-most-significant-wikileaks-revelations.html - CachedVideos for wikileaks revelations
WikiLeaks US embassy cables: as it happened ...
4 days ago
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Wikileaks revelations emerge
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