The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A 2008 paper by Arindrajit Dube, Ethan Kaplan, and Suresh Naidu found evidence that the CIA and/or members of the Executive branch either disclosed or acted on information about top-secret authorizations of coups. Stocks in “highly exposed” firms rose more in the pre-coup authorization phase than they did when the coup was actually launched.
Continue reading “Antechinus: Spy agencies use metadata for market advantage”
If we cannot tell ourselves the truth, corrective choices are not possible. Here is the truth about the integrity of America's electoral process. We come in 26th in the world, one step above Mexico. Nothing to be proud of.
America’s election nightmare: How voter ID, gerrymandering & fundraising made us a laughingstock
Here's what happens when you suppress votes, draw districts to favor incumbents and allow the rich to buy elections
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This is my first Kindle book, published in conjunction with my briefing it to the Economics of Happiness Conference in Portland, Oregon on 28 February 2015. Below is the full description of the book. Amazon provides Look Inside including the Table of Contents.
Micah Sifry says it best in his new book, The Big Disconnect, when he outlines how all activists are as fragmented and ineffective today as they were in the 1960's. — the two-party duopology and the 42 billionaires behind that two-party duopology have successfully “channeled” all activist groups — including MoveOn and IndependentVoting.org and the Libertarians and the Greens. Everyone is obsessed with “their” hashtag, “their” micro-issues. However well-intentioned they might be, the fact is that we are hanging separately for failure to come together on the ONE THING that we can both all support, and also win: #ElectoralReform.
Continue reading “OPEN POWER: Electoral Reform Act of 2015 – Open Source Activist Tool Kit”
This article aims to be a summary of the very basic orientation that I propose for social change.
I start from the classic division of human society in three basic aspects: civil society, the private sector, and the state.
1. The transformation of civil society
Brian Jacob Church spent the better part of a day shackled inside Chicago's Homan Square, denied access to an attorney, before police finally sent him to be booked and charged. Lawyers say the facility is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.
• The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site'
• Homan Square ‘black site': surveillance, military-style vehicles and a metal cage
Video from The Guardian below the fold.
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The Greek Tragedy: Some things not to forget, which the new Greek leaders have not.
American historian D.F. Fleming, writing of the post-World War II period in his eminent history of the Cold War, stated that “Greece was the first of the liberated states to be openly and forcibly compelled to accept the political system of the occupying Great Power. It was Churchill who acted first and Stalin who followed his example, in Bulgaria and then in Rumania, though with less bloodshed.”
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Naive Acquisition of Dual-use Surveillance Technology
Progressive market-driven transformation of personal appliances into spyware?
