CounterPunch: Dawn of the Dead – Why US Politics Cannot Be Reformed

Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government

Tip of the Hat to Berto Jongman

Dawn of the Dead: Why American Politics Can’t be Reformed

The dominant political parties in the U.S. have assumed absolute control over electoral processes at a time when the power of concentrated wealth has been solidified. The result is an all or nothing political process where who it is that perpetuates this system of upward distribution is the only open question.

Tom Atlee: Anarchy + Wholeness = Panarchy

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government
Tom Atlee

Where anarchy meets wholeness – a new vision of “panarchy”

Whereas anarchy refers to no one in charge, panarchy can refer to everyone and everything in charge – a kind of self-organized order that arises out of the whole taking care of the whole. There are a number of ways that can happen. Exploring them can help clarify the strengths and weaknesses of traditional views of anarchy and the resources we have available for healthy participation in healthy living systems.

Transpartisan Alliance: Why and How to Bring the Environmental and Peace Movements Together

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics

Why and How to Bring Environmental and Peace Movements Together

Tiny fractions of U.S. military spending could end hunger, the lack of clean water, and various diseases globally. While converting to clean energy could pay for itself in healthcare savings, the funds with which to do it are there, many times over, in the U.S. military budget. One airplane program, the F-35, could be canceled and the funds used to convert every home in the United States to clean energy.

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Caitlin Johnson: Together, The Left And Right Can Kill The Establishment Propaganda Machine

#UNRIG, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Peace Intelligence
Caitlin Johnstone

Together, The Left And Right Can Kill The Establishment Propaganda Machine

Reading some of the criticism my fellow leftists have leveled against my article “Lefties Need To Stop Being Shy About Working With The Anti-Establishment Right” you’d think I was saying we should all just abandon social progress and go work on political campaigns for neo-Nazis, but all I’m actually talking about is winning the media war, which I insist is the single best way to bring down America’s unelected power establishment.

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Yoda: Gun Control is Not About Safety — It is About the Deep State Fascists Controlling the Dumbed-Down Public

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Law Enforcement, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence

Alert reader points out that gun control death percentage is off by a 4 zeros. It should be 0.009%

Gun Control

There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. U.S. population 324,059,091 as of Wednesday, June 22, 2016. Do the math: 0.000000925% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant! What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death:

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Yoda: 21st Century Education — the Netflix Option….

04 Education, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence

In the knowledge economy, we need a Netflix of education

With 4.6 billion pieces of content produced daily, it might seem that our hunger for knowledge should be satisfied — but information production and distribution is not the same as consumption and it’s not as simple as just putting information out there.

The problem is that we are drowning in content — but are starving for knowledge and insights that can help us truly be more productive, collaborative and innovative. When we want to acquire useful knowledge, we have to search the web broadly, find experts by word-of-mouth and troll through various poorly designed internal document sharing systems.

Zili Danto: Catholic Pedophilia, Drugs, & Gay Sex

06 Family, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption
Ezili Danto

Vatican Cardinal Charged W/ Sexual Assault-Pell highest-ranking Vatican official ever charged

Australia’s most senior member of the Catholic Church, Cardinal George Pell, was charged with multiple counts of sexual assault on Wednesday, making him the highest-ranking Vatican official to ever incur the charges.

Sex and Drug Ring Raided at Apartment of High-Ranking Vatican Cardinal

During the raid, police allegedly walked in on a massive ‘drug-fueled gay orgy’ taking place, according to the report.