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		<title>Social Chain Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Cooke sang it best in &#8220;Chain Gang&#8221;
The world has always been confusing place. It feels as if all morals have been thrown to the wayside. To most, guidance is murky and those seeking guidance usually are unaware of the guiders agenda. Those seeking guidance may be a little murky themselves.
While the digital age enables [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke">Sam Cooke</a> sang it best in &#8220;Chain Gang&#8221;</p>
<p>The world has always been confusing place. It feels as if all morals have been thrown to the wayside. To most, guidance is murky and those seeking guidance usually are unaware of the guiders agenda. Those seeking guidance may be a little murky themselves.</p>
<div id="attachment_140" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-140" title="Chain Gang" src="/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/chain-gang-300x232.jpg" alt="Chain Gang" width="300" height="232" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Chain Gang</p></div>
<p>While the digital age enables one to find information quickly, one doesn&#8217;t necessarily find the answers.  The Digital Age, Specifically the Era of Social Networking, is potentially a dangerous environment. It has the potential to be a breeding ground for manipulation.  This is where most are vulnerable and <a href="http://www.v3.co.uk/vnunet/news/2244436/eu-group-proposes-social">will most likely permit a legislative body to dictate.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7736311.stm">Let us remember the 13-year old girl harassed online until she killed herself.</a></p>
<p>If this interests you check out a presentation by the <a href="http://www.cis.uab.edu/forensics/Social.Computing.pdf">University of Albama Forensics Lab titled, &#8220;Safe Social Networking: (the danger of being friendly)&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Ego has been a driving factor in all of our lives.  Arrogance, I feel is what happens when the ego doesn&#8217;t get what it wants.</p>
<p>Arrogance and Ego could be  magic potion to dissolve your morality, your principles, and the ability to recognize and enforce them. When the potion sets in your blood, it could give one no other choice but to join the chain gang. Not  a literal Chain Gang, &#8211; the condition of having no other choice but to  give up on dreams and to be forced to sell out themselves to the rat-race only when it gets tough.</p>
<p>A Wise Man Once Said:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is our anger that gets us into a fight and our ego that keeps it there.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Now, there is nothing wrong with Self-Confidence. Knowing what oneself is capable is a valuable asset to oneself. The difference between &#8216;oozing-self-confidence&#8217; and confident in ones own abilities IS Ego! Perhaps if one is constantly gloating about what one could do, there could actually be deficiency and insecurity about the &#8216;skill&#8217; one is gloating about. THAT is ego. The brain is a muscle. After exercising that muscle for a period of time in such a fashion, the brain is going to ooze arrogance. Arrogance marching on in, supplementing what the ego could not address &#8211; the deficiency! Ego was afraid so it called up Arrogance. I feel that is how Ego and Arrogance dance together. Dance long enough they are going to get married. Divorce is long, expensive and painful.</p>
<h3>“You can&#8217;t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” &#8211; Henry Ford</h3>
<p>Whereas Ego + Arrogance Dance together, When qualities of Self-Confidence and Humility are combined there could be a potential for a five-star leader. Humility is the act of admitting one does not have all the answers. Humble people learn from others. Humility keeps ones ego at bay.</p>
<blockquote><p>The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn’t permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.<br />
<em>—Carlos Castaneda</em></p></blockquote>
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<p>In the Philippines, the qualities of Humility, Patience and Tactful Servitude are highly admired. Humility is also giving credit when deserved and taking credit when right. It is very difficult to keep an Ego in check in America where everyone is in a constant pissing contest. Perhaps if 100 years ago,  America as a whole put the brakes on its Moral Decay, it could be an everlasting superpower. The title of superpower is not going to hold true in this new Dawn of the East.</p>
<p><strong>To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a  not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one&#8217;s own.</strong> &#8211; Dr. Jose Rizal</p>
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		<title>Importantness of Open Internet &#8211; Iran Election and Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, on real time twitter we are really seeing history unfold in front our eyes.
Following @persiankiwi a student in iran first seek help obtaining a proxy because his government censors the internet&#8230; and the twitterverse responded to him.. .. THEN AS THEY DID, and HE USED THESE PROXIES, GOVERNMENT AGENTS WERE ALSO READING TWITTER and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today, on real time twitter we are really seeing history unfold in front our eyes.</p>
<p>Following @persiankiwi a student in iran first seek help obtaining a proxy because his government censors the internet&#8230; and the twitterverse responded to him.. .. THEN AS THEY DID, and HE USED THESE PROXIES, GOVERNMENT AGENTS WERE ALSO READING TWITTER and blocked the proxies&#8230;</p>
<p>then @persiankiwi, just announced he has secured a new proxy and will be tweeting on more often now , after 25 minutes of silence..</p>
<p>AT THE SAME TIME.. we were seeing tweets about how CNN is stating the elections were all set, and there is no resistance.. They are trying to downplay the fact, right before everyone goes to work.. so that they have another 24 hours to muzzle the news&#8230;</p>
<p>Imagine the Internet as a whole was censored.. If anyone wanted to win any agenda, they have to control the communication.. Thats why Germany was winning WII because of their enigma machine until the <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Americans cracked the code and could intercept.</span> (corrected by &#8216;mouse driver&#8217; below, it was the BRITS.. M4 Project)<span style="text-decoration: line-through;"><br />
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<p>THE INTERNET MUST REMAIN FREE FROM GOVERNMENTS HANDS. IT MUST BE A NEUTRAL GROUND WHERE INFORMATION CAN BE TRANSFERRED FREELY WITHOUT MANIPULATION</p>
<p><a href="http://livingtrends.blogspot.com/2009/06/one-blood-one-people-one-voice.html ">read more from my friend + business partner @kevinleversee </a></p>
<div id="attachment_51" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 473px"><img class="size-full wp-image-51" title="Iran Election Protect LIVE" src="http://ericmalloy.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/picture008.gif" alt="Iran Election Protect LIVE" width="463" height="684" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Iran Election Protect LIVE</p></div>
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