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So today was the start of G20 Summit in Pittsburgh. The G20 is basically the group of folks who determine monetary policy. Monetary policy determines the world.

There were protests. Some of the protestors were disruptive. Of course, we always have to ask ourselves if the disruptiveness was staged by the government to provide the pretext to silence all protestors. That's been the case too often to ignore the possibility -- indeed it is perhaps a probability.

Check the story on Prison Planet.

Meanwhile, out on Facebook, if you tried to include the words "G20 Summit" in your status update during the protests, you needed to go through a security check. The video below illustrates. Also worth noting, of course, is how the video below and me re-blogging it is a great example of all the dynamics of social media, and how stuff flows now.


Perhaps Facebook has an explanation for this. However I don't trust the company to begin with, so I'm not inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt here.

More importantly, Facebook should consider what their own virtual currency will mean for the folks at G20. Facebook has 300 million users. The United States has about 300 million people. Why can't Facebook roll out its own currency and enable transactions between its members? That's exactly what will make the G20 obsolete, what will revolutionize politics forever, and what will make it so that Facebook doesn't need to do a security check if you try to enter a status update about the G20.