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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Herewith for the information of the group, the text
of a 1 August letter to CEO CISCO.</FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-no-proof: yes">Mr. John Chambers<?xml:namespace
prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
/><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-no-proof: yes">Chief Executive
Officer<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Cisco Systems, Inc. <BR><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns
= "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:address
w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">170 West Tasman Dr.</st1:Street> <BR><st1:City
w:st="on">San Jose</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">CA</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">95134</st1:PostalCode> <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:address><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Dear Mr. Chambers,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">It
has been my privilege to be a pioneer of sorts, exploring for the past twenty
years the reality that most capitals are operating on two percent of the
relevant information, and the emerging possibilities of what happens when every
person can have access to all information in all languages all the
time.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I
have the deepest admiration for CISCO AON and for Bill Ruh, who was the person
responsible for creating the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Marine</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Corps</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Intelligence</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> (today a Command) systems, when I
was the senior civilian and deputy director.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>CISCO AON is inspiring, and the purpose
of this letter to articulate for your consideration an idea you may already be
pursuing, but which I wish to accelerate if that is the
case.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">In
my view, and I have deep information and a direct source for you if you wish,
Google is predatory and their data centers will collapse the minute you
introduce recyclable individual routers that give CISCO AON capabilities to
every single individual, while also offering 10 GB of elective visible storage,
and a secure means of sharing excess or available CPUs with what I think of as
the World Brain.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">My
lecture to Amazon, standing room only with VPs and PMs coming in—I drew twice as
many as the Microsoft and IBM speakers, almost 300—is enclosed in DVD form for
your convenience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I also enclose a
copy of my planned Gnomedex presentation on 10 August 2007 in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Seattle</st1:place></st1:City>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Finally, I enclose for your private
information a one-page memorandum invited from me by the Director of National
Intelligence (DNI).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am on the
verge of winning a twenty-year battle to keep open source information and
multinational information sharing “outside the wire” as a civil affairs
function.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As a former spy, I know
the pathologies of the secret world.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">If
you were to buy Grub, the distributed search service, and also <A
href="http://www.telelanguage.com/">www.telelanguage.com</A>, and perhaps, in
partnership with Sun Microsystems (a<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Google purchase target that should be denied them), also <A
href="http://www.silobreaker.com/">www.silobreaker.com</A>, then the way will be
open to offering the world both privacy and security and infinite sharing with
embedded all language translation by humans at very low cost, and a suite of
Open Analytic and Collaboration Tools.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Add all Amazon content available for micro-cash, recruit all authors and
artists directly into Amazon, and we have the World Brain.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-no-proof: yes"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 2.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-no-proof: yes">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 2.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-no-proof: yes"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 2.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-no-proof: yes"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 2.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-no-proof: yes">Robert D. Steele
(Vivas)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-no-proof: yes"><SPAN
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</SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN>Chief Executive Officer<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>