The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
NOTES:
Industrial era institutions have failed — need a new way of organizing.
Liquid demoracy, liquid feedback delegates trust.
Politics about decision-making but no software captures how decisions are made and carried forward.
AGENCY is the deinstituionalization (disintermediation) os as to move agency back to the people.
Institutions cannot currently interact with networks (e.g. “outreach” stinks)
GOAL is to replace institutions with P2P protocols.
First Perturbations of Resistance to the Encroaching Police State?
This short Youtube video shows some cop cars nearby a club at night, and the cops in the cars are apparently monitoring those entering or emerging from the club, all of whom are peaceful and causing no trouble. Some men decide to approach the cop cars and issue the kinds of threatening questions innocent motorists stopped by the police routinely receive, “Is there anything illegal you in your vehicle, can I search your vehicle?”, etc. After a short time of this treatment, the cops leave. Some of the comments on this video urge watchers of it to spread the word and organize similar types of such incidents against other cops. This make me wonder: is this incident an early warning signal of mass citizen resistance to government-corporate tyranny? If this kind of action catches on, it may well be.
10 Groups That Are Building a Movement for Economic Justice from the Grassroots Up
With more than 46 million people living below the poverty line, struggling to survive on $19,530 or less for a family of three, and with more than one in three Americans living on less than twice that amount, scrimping to pay for basics, this country will require a broad-based movement to reverse the decades of failed national imagination.
The groups listed below are all worth watching as they do just that: galvanize communities, arm activists with information, and fight for living-wage jobs, stable housing and a strong safety net that catches people when they fall.
Sysadmins of the world, unite! a call to resistance
Finally, the world is aware of the threat of mass surveillance and control, but we still have a fight on our hands, and that fight is both technical and political. Global democracy is not going to protect itself. There has never been a higher demand for a politically-engaged hackerdom. Jacob Appelbaum and Julian Assange discuss what needs to be done if we are going to win. The first part of this talk will discuss the WHAT? and the WHY?: the historical challenge we face, and how we are called to resistance. We are living in a defining historical moment.
Phi Beta Iota: Activist organizations have grown by 30% — we are at the end of the second era of national “intelligence” as covert action and sustained idiocy. We are at the beginning of ethical citizen activism empowered by digital access superior to that of the retarded industrial-era governments and corporations. Below is 31:38 – a primer on how this generation of digital literati is thinking about non-violent revolution.
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For America, Denial Is a River in Iraq
by JP Sottile, Antiwar.com, January 18, 2014
Americans don’t know much about geography.
In 2006, three years into the bloody War on Iraq, 63% of Americans aged 18-24 couldn’t find the “target-rich” nation on a map.
To be fair, only half could find New York State on a map, so it is unsurprising that, in spite of its then-dominance of the news cycle, they couldn’t locate the principal fixation of American foreign policy on a map that still brims with U.S. military bases and deployments.
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: Denial & Ignorance in America”
Why are Christie and the Kochs in my driveway?
It’s time to subpoena the Committee for Our Children’s Future
By Greg Palast for Truthout
Thursday, 16. January 2014
Far more insidious, more corrosive and dangerous than the Governor of New Jersey playing traffic warden is the story of Gov. Chris Christie's secret meetings with a gaggle of billionaires –– and the legality of the spending by the front organization set up following these hidden hugger-muggers.
Rush & crush, this is.
Teen Dies Saving Classmates From Suicide Bomber
ABC, ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Jan. 10, 2014
He was an average student from Hangu, a remote town in North Western Pakistan, but he has become a national hero.
Aitzaz Hasan, 14, stopped a suicide bomber from entering his school Monday and sacrificed his life to protect his fellow students.
“I saw Aitzaz trying to get hold of a guy and then there was a big explosion,” said Habib Ali, who is a senior teacher at the school.
The target of the bomber was the morning assembly of approximately 450 students, Ali said.
“He was an average student, but was a bold child,” the teacher said.
Continue reading “Yoda: Schoolboy Stops Terrorist – A Perfect Example of Bottom-Up Security”
