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2015/04/242015/04/23

Mongoose: 0.01% Own US Government — But 99% Could Easily Out-Spend, Not Just Out-Vote That Plutocratic Minority…

The Richest 0.01 Percent of Americans Gave 42 Percent of Political Donations in 2012

It should come as no surprise that policymakers look after the ultra-wealthy instead of the rest of us.

EXTRACT

Candidates devote 80 percent of their time to begging rich people for money. Any extremist Republican can get a billionaire sugar daddy. The world's eighth richest man can summon the entire Republican primary field to kiss his ring. Millionaires are now complaining about being ignored in favor of billionaires. The average member of Congress is a millionaire.

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2015/04/232015/04/22

Yoda: Canada Thinks About Electoral Reform

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Good, this is.

Mechanism and structure of voting process should be open for revision

Opposition is something that should be encouraged, whatever party sits in power. Electoral reform could also help turn the tides against voter apathy.

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2015/04/222015/04/22

Kosmos: Double Enclosure — the shut down of democratic accountability, participation and transparency

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Access, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Culture, Design, Earth Intelligence, Economics/True Cost

‘Double Enclosure’- the shut down of democratic accountability, participation and transparency

What’s going on is a double-enclosure: a massive privatization and commodification of the physical world – the atmosphere, land, forests, genes, life forms, and more – and a massive privatization and commodification of economic decision making and democracy themselves.

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2015/04/192015/04/17

Michael Maxsenti: Commission on Presidential Debates is not impartial – lawsuit to compel inclusiveness

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Gary Johnson takes on one aspect of electoral reform.

FairDebates.com

What is ALL of the qualified Candidates were allowed to participate in the Presidential Debates?

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2015/04/182015/04/16

Jean Lievens: Access is the New Ownership

Access, Economics/True Cost

The Sharing Economy: Access Is The New Ownership

A report from PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that revenue in five key sectors of the sharing economy could reach $335 billion by 2025.

PwC identifies five main sectors affected by the sharing movement: Travel, car-sharing, finance, staffing, and audio/video streaming.

2015/04/172015/04/17

Robert Steele: Looking for a Good Conversation about a Non-Partisan Non-Violent Revolution? Like & Join Coffee Party — Engage with Joan — … Please!

Access, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics

I have finally found two places where intelligent people can come together across all moral and intellectual boundaries — one of them is the Coffee Party, the other is Joan Blades' new initiative, Living Room Conversations. Below are some links — I encourage anyone who believes in America the Beautiful and the US Constitution to treat the Coffee Party as a non-partisan second home, and to engage as deeply as possible in Joan's new offering.

Like this Page: https://www.facebook.com/coffeeparty
Join Here: http://www.coffeepartyusa.com/join
Engage Here: http://www.livingroomconversations.org/

2015/04/172015/04/17

Mini-Me: CODE RED Called for US Lack of Electoral Integrity — Jonathan Simon on Computerized Election Theft

09 Justice, 11 Society, Access, Corruption, Government

Huh?

CODE RED: Jonathan Simon's Hail-Mary for Democracy

I have been witness to and participant in more than a decade of strenuous but essentially fruitless efforts to challenge the passivity with which America has collectively accepted an “upgrade” that gave us a concealed, computerized, privatized vote counting process–a Trojan Horse which the forensic evidence we have painstakingly gathered links inextricably to a bewildering political sea change tantamount to a rolling coup.

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