Michel Bauwens: P2P, the Commons, and Civil Renewal

Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
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Michel Bauwens

Video Interview in Eleven Parts

01 – genesis of the P2P Foundation
02 – what are the commons?
03 – Old Vs New
04 – constitutionalism from below
05 – civil renewal
06 – why can't we work together?
07 – democratization of culture & education
08 – Us and them vs mutualization
09 – localised production and the future of community
10 – from disintermediation to reintermediation
11 – mindfulness and the commons

Ellen Brown: Hillary Clinton’s Libyan Agenda — It’s the Gold, Stupid!

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Ellen Brown

Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary's Emails

Before 2011, Libya had achieved economic independence, with its own water, its own food, its own oil, its own money, and its own state-owned bank. It had arisen under Qaddafi from one of the poorest of countries to the richest in Africa. Education and medical treatment were free; having a home was considered a human right; and Libyans participated in an original system of local democracy. The country boasted the world's largest irrigation system, the Great Man-made River project, which brought water from the desert to the cities and coastal areas; and Qaddafi was embarking on a program to spread this model throughout Africa.

Among the emails to Clinton from Sidney Blumenthal:

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Berto Jongman: Japanese Citizen-Scientists Measure Food Radiation

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Berto Jongman

The mothers who set up a radiation lab

They saved and collected $600 (Ā£420) to buy their first Geiger counter online, but when it arrived the instructions were written in English, which none of them understood. But they persevered and with the help of experts and university professors, organised training workshops. Soon they knew all about becquerels, a unit used to measure radiation, and sieverts, a measure of radiation dose. They would meet at restaurants and cafes to compare readings.

CounterPunch: The Imperial Bernie Sanders

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counterpunch squareNo Bern Notice: the Imperial Myopia of Candidate Sanders

But the reticence to attack Clinton on the substance — and the essence and the goals — of American foreign policy is very much a hallmark of the Sanders campaign. For example,his only word about the American-backed campaign of slaughter, ruin and starvation being conducted by the Saudis against Yemen has been a lament that the Saudis are wasting good ammo in Yemen when they should be ā€œgetting their hands dirtyā€ against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Yes, apparently the proper ā€œdemocratic socialistā€ position is that the world needs more violent intervention by the greatest purveyors of Islamic extremism in the world. We need more killing — and more military expansion — by one of the most repressive regimes on the face of the planet. This is where the ā€œprogressive leftā€ is at these days.