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This is the new short brief (4 slides) that is being circulated to those interested in having a conversation about electoral reform in 2015 and what it might mean in relation to electing an honest effective government in 2016.

PPT (4): Electoral Reform New Briefing 1.2

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2015/03/212015/03/21

Open Power: The National Conversation on Electoral Reform, Honest Government, and Our Future

Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Culture, Design, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, Transparency

Joan Blades, the brilliant human that created MoveOn and Moms Rising, is now leading a new movement and meme, Living Room Conversations. Below is the first draft of what has gone forward for possible elevation to a national conversation about THE issue of our day.

NOTE: The critical genius of Joan's concept is the conversation first focuses on building understanding and trust face to face without regard to any issues. Appreciation for one another comes first. We consider this vastly more important than any transpartisan or activist movement because it crosses all boundaries and goes directly to “root” — our shared humanity.

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2015/03/202015/03/20

Open Power: Strategy for Public Victory

Access, Culture, Design, Governance, Innovation, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, Transparency

The question has been asked: Can we really do this? Below is one answer. A national conversation should yield both many more answers, and public confidence that it can indeed restore integrity to the US electoral process, to all three branches of the federal government, and eventually to all state and local governments — while demonstrating a model that could work around the world, over time eliminating the 42 dictators that are now “best pals” of a very corrupt US merged network of crime and politics.

Below are bullets on Strategy, Principles, Money, Timing, Principals, and Outcomes.

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2015/03/202015/03/21

Open Power: A Notional Coalition Team to Force Electoral Reform in 2015 and Run for Reform in 2016

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IMAGINE a Coalition Team led by an Independent but in fact a team of equals whose sole mission in life was to restore the integrity of the electoral process in 2015 and thence of the government, economy, and society in the USA in 2016 and beyond. Below is such a team as a starting point for national Living Room Conversations about the possibilities. The point of this conversation is to talk about how an honest government might function on the basis of ethical evidence-based decision-support, where the public interest, not special interests, are central.

President: Angus King

Vice President: Jill Stein or Elizabeth Warren

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2015/03/202015/03/19

Michael Kearns: Internet Space Race

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Outernet Joins The Space Race For Internet Accessibility

The space race to launch satellites providing internet coverage to the roughly 4 billion people living in unconnected or nominally connected communities around the world is no longer just the purview of billionaire moguls and the world’s biggest Internet companies. Outernet, a small, independently-funded media company with a unique vision for distributing Internet content like a radio broadcast, is partnering with the UK Space Agency, and Scottish satellite equipment manufacturer, Clyde Space, on a cost-sharing project for manufacturing “cubesats.” Read more.

2015/03/172015/03/20

Open Power: Revolution Now! Non-Violently — for Electoral Reform Act of 2015 in Time for 2016

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Revolution Now – Non-Violently – for Electoral Reform in 2015

Want an Honest Government Of, By, and For We the 99%? Here’s How.

Robert David STEELE Vivas (Native-Born Bi-Lingual Pissed-Off Latino Activist)

I cannot stress this enough: whatever your issue, however righteous and important it might be, it will never get a fair hearing as things now stand.

The ONLY way any issue might receive a fair hearing is if we FIRST achieve Electoral Reform and restore integrity to our government.

SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Rev-USA-2015

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2015/03/152015/03/22

Open Power: Libertarian Focus

Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Cultural Intelligence, Design, Governance, Innovation, P2P / Panarchy, Politics

We are splitting Open Power in three to make it easier for the different constituencies to work with what particularly interests them.The original will remain focused on the Electoral Reform Act of 2015. Tools can be seen at http://tinyurl.com/OpenPower-Tools. Here is the Tiny URL for Libertarians: http://tinyurl.com/OpenPower-Libertarian. Home page remains http://tinyurl.com/OpenPower.

Robert Steele Short Bio

Robert David Steele, born in New York in 1952 (63) is a long-time activist for intelligence reform (he is a former spy, honorary hacker, and a top proponent for Open Source Everything). Also a former Marine Corps infantry officer he returned to the Marine Corps from the CIA to be the senior civilian responsible for creating the Marine Corps Intelligence Center. He resigned from government to lead the open source intelligence revolution from 1993-2010. In 2011 he joined Occupy and tried to get them interested in Electoral Reform. In 2012 he was accepted by the Reform Party as a candidate for their nomination, and spent six weeks creating a web site that is still online (We the People Reform Coalition) and challenging all the other presidential candidates to come together on electoral reform. What he learned is available online in his article, How I Tested the Boundaries of the Two-Party Tyranny. Recently, in consultation with selected transpartisan leaders, he has come to the conclusion that the time is right to mount a total offense that unites Independents and small parties — the Libertarian Party being the largest and best organized small party — to demand an Electoral Reform Act of 2015 that would make it possible to elect Libertarians and others across the country in 2016. His overall campaign can be viewed at http://tinyurl.com/OpenPower, he has also created a Libertarian post at http://tinyurl.com/OpenPower-Libertarian. His strongest new realization is that we are all fragmented across multiple issues, and there is only ONE THING that can bring us all together and ONE THING that we can actually win on: Electoral Reform. Once achieved, Libetarians would have a level playing field for addressing each of their vital issues — without Electoral Reform, Libertarians will remain a side show. Robert is also the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, reading in 98 categories. His new book, Open Power: Electoral Reform Act of 2015 – Open Source Activist Tool-Kit has been #1 in Civics at Amazon Kindle, and includes hundreds of book reviews on Democracy Lost.

INTERVIEW: TheDailyBell Grills Robert Steele

2010 Robert Steele Answers Nine Ron Paul Questions (Huffington Post)

Videos (Libertarian Hosts)

2015 Robert Steele with Max Kaiser (14 Minutes Start at 12:26)

2015 Robert Steele with Alex Jones (12 Minute Distillation)

2015 Robert Steele with Alex Jones (59 Minutes Commercial Free)

See Especially:

How I Tested the Boundaries of the Two-Party Tyranny

Alex Jones @ Phi Beta Iota

Libertarian @ Phi Beta Iota

Paul Ray: Cultural Creatives Updated — 80 Million Emergent Values-Based Self-Governing P2P Informed Panarchy — WHY #ElectoralReform Can Win…

Review: Unstoppable – The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State