

18 November 2005 - Discussion led by Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation), Bruce Perens (SourceLabs), Rober Kramer (CompTIA), Shane Wall (Intel), Louis-Dominique Ouedraogo (UN Joint Inspection Unit) and Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu Foundation). The discussion was moderated by Kenneth Cukier (Economist).
John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. He spent 13 years in the agency. He gives a short history of CIA covert operations. He is a very compelling speaker and the highest level CIA officer to testify to the Congress about his actions. He estimates that over 6 million people have died in CIA covert actions, and this was in the late 1980's.
It could be Noam Chomsky's most influential endorsement yet. Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, recommends his "Hegemony or Survival" to a bemused UN. Didn't he know the UK's New Statesman were giving it away free with an annual subscription in 2004?
Squeak being used by school kids: See the Quicktime Streaming movie that we presented to Alan Kay, Seymour Papert and a large number of school board officials about our class work.