The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Reinventing Organizations Key Points
Reinventing Organizations by Frédéric Laloux comes highly recommended by Buffer’s, co-founder & CEO, Joel Gascoigne, so much so that it’s a prerequisite read for new hires at the startup.
Selected points out of 16:
2. The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence. It is to act with yesterday’s logic.
15. You can measure an organization by the number of lies you must tell to be a part of it.
Cincinnati’s experiment with an economy that works for everyone
The 1worker1vote network has developed and is beginning to implement a “union co-op” model, which calls for a business structure that combines worker, and sometimes community, ownership with union representation. With the model, 1worker1vote hopes to demonstrate the viability of a democratic economy, both in terms of ownership and management, capable of eventually replacing the corporate-managed economy that generates astounding wealth for those at the top while leaving nearly a quarter of the country living in poverty and half the population stuck in a debt trap with zero net assets.
Propaganda Lessons From an Old – a Very Old – Master
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Among more serious examples, Portnykh noted some arguments that are still used today, albeit in a very different context. “Fighting in a Crusade gave a full pardon of all sins,” Portnykh said. “And sometimes the priests used phrases that are close to modern advertising slogans like ‘Sale! Special price!' Humbert of Romans and other preachers would say, ‘Hurry while the Kingdom of Heaven is cheap. Very few people get this chance! You just have to make one effort, albeit a big one, and if you sincerely repent you'll be fully pardoned and go to the Kingdom of Heaven.”
“Humbert and the other priests were telling them, ‘Dying is a bargain!'”
Do half of Americans stand on the right and the other half on the left with a no-man’s-land between them? Hardly. Forty percent of all American voters are Independents who occupy the ample political and ideological space in the center. These Americans are anything but divided, and they’re being ignored. These Independents make up the largest voting bloc in the nation and have determined the outcome of every election since World War II. Every year their numbers grow, as does the unconscionable disconnect between them and the officials who are supposed to represent them.
Killian paints a vivid portrait of the swing voters around the country and presents a new model that reveals who they are and what they want from their government and elected officials. She also offers a way forward, including solutions for fixing our broken political system. This is not only a timely shot across the bows of both parties but an impassioned call to Independents to bring America back into balance.
New Report Explores Community Land Trusts and the Commons
In a new report, Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty, authors of the book The Resilience Imperative: Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy, explore the connection between community land trusts and the Commons.
Community Land Trusts, Urban Land Reform and the Commons is broken into three articles that cover different aspects of the connection and provide a “crash course” in community land trusts, cooperative land banks, and how “practical land reform can be systematically implemented to return land to the Commons.”
Tip of the Hat to Ed Dursky at Facebook
Trump’s Triumph: Billionaire Blowhard Exposes Fake Political System
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Moneybags capitalist loudmouth explains to 80 million dumbfounded Americans watching prime time TV, that the system is a total fraud, that the big money runs everything, and that even he thinks the system is broken.
How do you beat that? Seriously, my wife and I were laughing and high-fiving and like we just won the lottery.
Thanks for that, Don. We owe you one.
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