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Paul Fernhout: Comments on Integrity at Scale

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Blog Wisdom, Budgets & Funding, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Key Players, Policies, Serious Games, Threats
Paul Fernhout

Just from the topics, it seems like a more coherent version of this stuff I wrote in 2004:  Achieving the Star Trek Society.

“This essay shows how a total of $14000 billion up front and at least another $2085 billion per year can be made available for creative investment in the USA by adopting a post-scarcity worldview. This money can help further fund a virtuous cycle of more creative and more cost saving efforts, as well as better education. It calls for the non-profit sector to help shape a new mythology of wealth and to take the lead in getting the average person as well as decision makers to make the shift in worldview to their own long term benefit. … Let us consider ways to free up money for the non-profit sector (or
reducing working hours) by cutting wasteful government and consumer
spending in these areas with (annual estimate of easy savings):

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Michael Ostrolenk: Public Voting on Federal Budget

Advanced Cyber/IO, Budgets & Funding, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Office of Management and Budget, Policies, Threats
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Two public voting  options have emerged.  Their results will be ignored, but it is a start.

FEDERAL BUDGET
PREFERENCE POLL

Let your voice be heard
in the federal budget debate!

Click here to vote.

And here the same idea but different network….

Let your voice be heard in the federal budget debate!

Three very different federal budget choices are being proposed for fiscal year 2012:

  • President Obama's Budget Framework
  • The “People's Budget” proposed by the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC)
  • The GOP Budget proposed by House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI)

Click here to vote.

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Koko: Aqua-Culture is Rocking….

01 Agriculture, Earth Intelligence, YouTube
Koko the Reflexive

1 MILLION pounds of Food on 3 acres. 10,000 fish 500 yards compost

Growing power seem to have a winning combo going. I underestimated what they are doing. If the information in these videos is true then on 3 acres they are producing 1,000,000 pounds of food each year! How are they doing this?

10,000 fish
300-500 yards worm compost
3 acres of land in green houses
Grow all year using heat from compost piles.
Using vertical space
Simple 1 pump aquaponics

A packed greenhouse produces a crop value of $5 Square Foot! ($200,000/acre). That is if the whole acre was under greenhouse.

Phi Beta Iota:  Just under six minutes of REALITY that industrialized mega-agriculture has sought to bury.

See Also:

John Robb: Signals for the Future (Urban Farmer's Box)

All Agriculture Entries

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Koko: US EPA & Ford Commit Massive Atrocity

03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, IO Sense-Making, Movies
Koko the Reflexive

Robert Redford's Son Exposes US Toxic Disaster

The Associated Press  –  Jul 15, 2011

Robert Redford's son Jamie and film co-director Micah Fink on their documentary, premiering July 18 on HBO, about one of the largest toxic-waste cases in U.S. history. (July 15)

Phi Beta Iota:  This is complete documentation of a massive atrocity to which the US Government is a co-conspirator.  There is absolutely no question but that Ford Motor Company executives–including the Board of Directors–should be indicted and investigated.    There is also no question but that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “leadership” then and now should be investigated.  Sadly, Congress is itself impeachable.  The US Government (and the two parties that front for Wall Street) are NOT the public's friend–they are bought and paid for–CORRUPT.  We are long overdue for “The Virgin Truth” as a brand able to provide intelligence with integrity in the public interest.

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DefDog: US Mass Psychosis? $14 Billion on Antipsychotics

03 Economy, 06 Family, 07 Health, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence
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Mass psychosis in the US

How Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti-psychotic drugs.

James Ridgeway, 12 July 2011

Al Jazeera

Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux.

Read rest of story…

Phi Beta Iota:  The industrialization of agriculture, and the industrialization of “medicine,” have poisoned the Western population, the USA most of all.  The degree to which toxins and other poisons are allowed by law is now criminally insane.

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Koko: Oil Prices & Human Ingenuity

03 Economy, Advanced Cyber/IO, Blog Wisdom, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Koko the Reflexive

Published 23 August 2005, the Ludwig von Mises Institute article by Pierre Lemieux discusses the actual decline of resource prices–including “scarce” resources–and the reason: advances in human ingenuity.  This supports our basic proposition on this web site, that the single best investment that could be made to create a prosperous world at peace is to give the five billion poor free access to the Internet so as to nurture and harvest their brainpower.

The Oil Price Mirage

Mises Daily: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 by

EXTRACT

Until his death in 1997, economist Julian Simon predicted a continuous decline in resource prices. In 1980, he made a famous bet with environmentalist Paul Ehrlich. Simon’s bet was that a $1,000 basket of any five metals chosen by Ehrlich would be worth less (in constant dollars) 10 years later. Ehrlich lost. In 1990, the value of the basket at current market prices was down more than 50%. Ehrlich had to send a $576.07 check to Simon, representing the drop in the basket value. In fact, the prices of all the metals chosen by Ehrlich had fallen.[5]

In his challenging 1981 book The Ultimate Resource, Simon showed that resource prices had generally decreased over time. The relative price of oil (in terms of other goods) has fallen by perhaps as much as two-thirds between the 1860s and today. During the same period, the price of oil in terms of salaries has decreased by more than 90%.