Worth a Look: Community Commons
From all walks of life, we are united in one purpose: To create healthy, livable, sustainable communities. Let’s revitalize our great nation. Community by community. Visit Site Tip of the Hat to John Steiner.
Stephen E. Arnold: Search Wizards Speak 2008-2011
Search Wizards Speak Conference presentations about search and retrieval, text mining, and content processing are often little more than sales pitches. In the last 30 years, I’ve met a number of people who have made significant contributions to information retrieval. What I want to do is periodically interview some of the more interesting “search wizards”. …
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Karl Marx, Libertarians, & OWS: End STATE Power RECAP
Phi Beta Iota: Keep an open mind. This is deeply serious and directly relevant to understanding the convergence of the honest right, the honest left, and OccupyWallStreet. Don DeBar (aligned with Cynthia McKinney) sends: Zinoviev on Lenin and the (1905) Petrograd Soviet What Lenin meant to convey was that the Soviets were not the ordinary …
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#OWS: List of Senators Up for Re-Election in 2012
These specific individuals are the starting point for a nation-wide move to demand the Electoral Reform Act of 2012. ARIZONA: Jon Kyl, Republican CALIFORNIA: Dianne Feinstein, Democratic CONNECTICUT: Joseph Lieberman, Independent DELAWARE: Thomas Carper, Democratic FLORIDA: Bill Nelson, Democratic HAWAII: Daniel Akaka, Democratic INDIANA: Richard Lugar, Republican MAINE: Olympia Snowe, Republican MARYLAND: Benjamin Cardin, Democratic …
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Review: What Comes After Money?
Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan (eds.) 5.0 out of 5 stars Forward-Thinking, Relevant to #OWS, Brilliant Sparks, October 22, 2011 This book is one of at least four that I would suggest are essential reading for any citizen in the aftermath of #OccupyWallStreet (now shortened to #OWS). The other three are: Extreme Democracy The Innovator’s …
Directory (List) About #OWS Occupy Wall Street
This is a selective directory of items from the Rolling Update. Day to day stories are not included. Use the Rolling Update for current snap-shot, use this Directory to think about OWS in deeper terms. Updated 9 Nov 2011 0900 EST Hottest New Items Revised Statement of Demand (3.4) and Revised Electoral Reform Act of …
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Review (Guest): The Conquest of Violence – The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict
Joan Valerie Bondurant 5.0 out of 5 stars Every One on Earth Should Read This Book!,August 12, 2009 By B. Tweed DeLions “B.T.” (USA) – See all my reviews This could quite well be the best book ever written about Gandhi’s philosophy of conflict: satyagraha. Bondruant’s book is systematic and thorough. She lived in India …
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