Eagle: Charles Hugh Smith – Freedom Via Extreme Frugality

The Only Leverage We Have Is Extreme Frugality  Charles Hugh Smith Debt is serfdom, capital in all its forms is freedom. The only leverage available to all is extreme frugality in service of accumulating productive capital. There are only three ways to better oneself financially: marry someone with money, inherit money or accumulate capital/savings and …

Jean Lievens: The New Social Leadership – Moving from Fear to Freedom

The New Social Leadership – Moving from Fear to Freedom Christine Comaford Forbes, 28 October 2012 When driven by fear, human beings generally go to one of three places: 1)      They get stuck. 2)      They solve problems that don’t exist. 3)      They focus on the wrong problem—which is low leverage and doesn’t deliver the result they …

Review: Theodore and Woodrow – How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom

Andrew P. Napolitano 7 Stars — Documents Presidential Perfidy – Life Transformative for This Reason I broke with the Republican Party over Iran-Contra and belatedly, the one trillion a year that Reagan started shamelessly borrowing to fund the dual welfare system — a dysfunctional military-espionage-industrial complex for the right, and a dysfunctional regulatory myopic and …

David Swanson: [17] European Parliamentarians Call for Bradley Manning’s Freedom, Condemn Equating Revelation of War Crimes with “Aiding the Enemy”

European Parliamentarians Call for Bradley Manning’s Freedom Seventeen Members of European Parliament have written a letter calling on U.S. President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to free WikiLeaks whistle-blower Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. The MEPs laud Manning for exposing “evidence of human rights abuses and apparent war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan” in accordance with …

Review: Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategy for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism

Ion Mihai Pacepa and Ronald J. Rychlak 3.0 out of 5 stars Walks, Talks, and Smells Like a CIA Publication, July 13, 2013 This book is being touted by Radio Liberty, a CIA subsidiary, and everything about it reeks of a CIA disinformation operation. First, though, an acknowledgement. The Soviets, working largely through their more …

Owl: Top Violators of Religious Freedom

Top Violators of Religious Freedom “For its own safety’s sake, America should give much higher priority to promoting global religious freedom. Whenever governments in unstable places persecute believers, that policy is not merely bad in itself but dangerous because it has the perverse effect of weakening moderate people of faith and empowering extremism. Those were …

Berto Jongman: Wireless Mesh Networking — Design for Freedom

DIY Tech Explored In Free The Network The Creators Project Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies At the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City, Motherboard TV uncovered an unlikely hero in the thicket of the protest’s confusion. Meet Issac Wilder, the founder of The Free Network Foundation, a mesh networking …