The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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Cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
$1.3 trillion a year or 11% of GDP in international dollars. This assumes conventional financing and conventional technologies and conventional processes.
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Political decision-making by elected representatives is far removed from those who go to the election booth once every four or five years. Liquid democracy uses the internet to reduce the distance between citizens and decision makers…
Liquid Democracy: The App That Turns Everyone into a Politician
Liquid Democracy is one of the boldest contemporary innovations in democratic decision-making. The idea uses web technology that allows users to interact in new ways.
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County Registrars Tell Political Parties to Pay for Their Own Elections
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So if party primaries are ‘private’ activities, the county registrars are now asking a simple question: Why are the taxpayers funding them? Would it be appropriate for a county clerk to fund the elections of any other private corporation?
Pope Francis Tasks World leaders On Electoral Reform
Addressing the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday afternoon, Pope Francis has called on all world leaders to ensure electoral reform in their respective countries.
The Pope said he was worried by the insensitivity of some world leaders who fail to fulfill their electoral promises during electioneering campaigns, urging them to desist from the act and always have the interest of people at heart.
He made it known that electoral reform would go a long way to solve some of the pressing problems that the world is having today.
Report: Voting machines in most states so decrepit they could affect election outcomes in 2016
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Older machines can also have serious security and reliability flaws that are unacceptable today. For example, Virginia recently decertified a voting system used in 24 percent of precincts after finding that an external party could access the machine’s wireless features to “record voting data or inject malicious data[.]” Smaller problems can also shake public confidence. Several election officials mentioned “flipped votes” on touch screen machines, where a voter touches the name of one candidate, but the machine registers it as a selection for another.
In FBI murder data, mass killings often go missing
When 26 teachers, students and administrators were shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School, it made national news for weeks. But there was one place 2012's largest mass killing was never mentioned: the FBI database that tracks all U.S. homicides.
And that isn't the only major case missing. The 12 people who were killed in an Aurora, Colo., movie watching the premier of a Batman movie aren't listed either, raising questions about the accuracy and usefulness of the federal data.
