The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: Peer to Peer (P2P) is the foundation for Panarchy, and Open Source Everything is the method. P2P includes one to many and many to one as well as ever-changing mixtures of grids of interest and influence. Above all it is about the primacy of the individual over the institution. As of 2 …
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Free Software Supporter Issue 51, June 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS URGENT: Kill ACTA Stop software patents in Europe Two job openings on the FSF campaigns team FSF recommendations for free operating system distributions considering Secure Boot GNU GPLv3 turns 5 Dear Microsoft: fsf.org is not a “gambling site” FSF’s new operations assistant Emacs Reference mugs …
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At a time when pressures to punish Iran with more sanctions or perhaps even war (I still consider the latter unlikely), it might pay to try to understand things from the Iranian point view. Attached below is an excellent essay in the London Review of Books analyzing Iran’s recent history. It puts the CIA/MI6 overthrow …
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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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Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) 9 Home Page Friday Plenary Presentation: Testing the Two-Party Tyranny and Open Source Everything: The Battle for the Soul of the Republic Day/Time: Friday, July 13, 2012 – 1200 Location: Sassaman (18th floor) Steele 1.3 Two-Party Tyranny & Battle for the Soul of the Republic Robert David Steele, opening speaker …
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Lies and Consequences in Our Past 15 Wars By David Swanson “Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their peoples in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was their object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame …
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30 Minutes: Robert Steele: How I Tested the Boundaries of the Two-Party Tyranny – Last Call for Occupy/* Not to be outdone by Jello Biafra, Robert Steele ran for President in 2012. Accepted by the Reform Party as a candidate, he tested the boundaries for six weeks, created a world-class presidential platform, a coalition cabinet, …
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