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2012/07/062012/07/06

John Steiner: From Israel, Call for Politics of Heroism versus Hope

Phi Beta Iota: The full combination of pieces is strongly recommended as a total read. The contributing author whose work has been forwarded by Brother John makes a fundamental ethical and intellectual mistake, assuming that there is a significant difference between the Democratic and Republican parties. Not so. This is not an either/or choice between …

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2012/07/022012/07/02

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 7 Public Intelligence and the Citizen Extract II

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 7 Public Intelligence and the Citizen Extract II The U.S. Government has been controlled by a two-party tyranny that has always been corrupt, but this corruption went nuclear in the 1990’s when both parties conspired to start borrowing one trillion dollars a year–one third of the federal budget–so as …

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2012/07/012012/07/01

Review: Homeland Earth

Edgar Morin and Anne Brigitte Kern 5.0 out of 5 stars Six Star Keeper – Joins Durant, Fuller, Ackoff,July 1, 2012 This is a PHENOMENAL book, a joint effort by Edgar Moron, whose life’s work includes Method: Towards a Study of Humankind, Vol. 1: The Nature of Nature (American University Studies Series, No. 5, Philosophy, …

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2012/06/302012/06/30

Tom Atlee: Derivatives as Fatal Cancer Discussion and Links

http://tom-atlee.posterous.com/derivatives-challenge-citizenship-and-economi Short URL: http://post.ly/83Ojt Dear friends, I’m interested in derivatives as a symbol of an economic system that’s NOT based on productivity that satisfies real human needs. Derivatives are contracts that shift risk from players who are risk averse (and want insurance against loss) to players who have an appetite for risk (and want a …

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2012/06/242012/06/24

Josh Kilbourn: Injection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us

Injection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, 21 June 2012 Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth, using broad expanses of the nation’s geology as an invisible dumping ground. No company would be allowed to pour such dangerous chemicals …

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2012/06/212016/03/25

Chuck Spinney: Progressives Argue Over Defeating Obama – a Conversation on Email

Most of my liberal friends reluctantly support President Obama’s re-election, because the alternative is so much worse. Invariably, they invoke the effects of a Romney presidency on judicial appointments, especially those to the Supreme Court (ironically, Obama’s two appointees just voted with the majority to decline to hear the Guantanamo case, if effect, putting another …

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2012/06/142012/06/14

David Isenberg: SPIEGEL – The President of Disappointments

Worth reading. SPIEGEL 06/14/2012 05:49 PM The President of Disappointments How Obama Has Failed to Deliver By Ullrich Fichtner, Marc Hujer and Gregor Peter Schmitz Barack Obama entered the White House as a savior. But he hasn’t delivered. The ideological chasms in the US are as deep as they have ever been, with Republicans blocking the …

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