As a result of the shareholder revolution, the money that once went to expansion and new ventures has gone instead into shareholders’ pockets.
Robert Steele: Vimeo (15:12) Open Source Activist Tool-Kit
09 Justice, 11 Society, Access, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Design, Ethics, Governance, PoliticsAs presented to the workshop on Open Power, Economics of Happiness Conference, Portland OR, on 28 February 2015.
Learn more: OPEN POWER Home Page (Blog, Book, Docs, Videos)
Robert Steele: Vimeo (14:13) Electoral Reform 101
09 Justice, 11 Society, Access, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Design, Ethics, Governance, PoliticsAs presented to the workshop on Open Power, Economics of Happiness Conference, Portland OR, on 28 February 2015.
Learn more: OPEN POWER Home Page (Blog, Book, Docs, Videos)
Jefferey Jaxen: Medical Informed Consent Gone
07 Health, Commerce, Ethics, Government
Western Medicine In Trouble: The Death of Informed Consent
A monumental ethical issue is hovering over the entire medical establishment in the United States that threatens its integrity and trust. The human element is being removed from the equation, replaced by computers to give us our options, and legislation to remove our choice. Somewhere in the shuffle, the individual’s informed consent was broken down, lost in the paperwork, and made irrelevant.
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Russia Today: 33% of US 16 & Up Not Working
03 Economy, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government
33% of Americans out of workforce, highest rate since 1978
The number of Americans aged 16 and older not participating in the labor force hit 92,898,000 in February, tying December’s record, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
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CounterPunch: Deep Green Resistance – Confronting Industrialism
03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Ethics
If You Can't Clean It Up, Don't Make It
Confronting Industrialism
by DERRICK JENSEN
Q: What do you call someone who puts poison in the subways of Tokyo? A: A terrorist. Q: What do you call someone who puts poison (cyanide) into groundwater? A: A capitalist: CEO of a gold mining corporation. Read full article.
Robert Steele: Electoral Reform Before Supreme Court (One Tiny Piece)
09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Officers Call
Election reform is on the line at the Supreme Court
SUPREME COURT observers focused on the Affordable Care Act case this week. But the justices heard arguments Monday in another case with potentially major implications for the country’s proper functioning: a dispute over whether voters can break the self-serving system in which state politicians manipulate voting districts to their own and their party’s benefit.
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