David Bollier: Commons as Tool for Sharing Wealth

Economics/True Cost, P2P / Panarchy
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David Bollier

I recently spoke at a conference, “Property and Inequality in the 21st Century,” hosted by The Common Core of European Private Law, an annual gathering of legal scholars, mostly from Europe. They had asked me how the commons might be a force for reducing inequality. Below are my remarks, “The Commons as a Tool for Sharing the Wealth.” The conference was held at the University of Göteborg, Sweden, on June 12-13, 2015.

Tip of the Hat to Jean Lievens

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Stephen E. Arnold: Elsevier Threatened by Google Patent Search

IO Impotency
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Stephen E. Arnold

Google Patent Search: Wake Up Call

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Patent searches conducted on the for fee services from Thomson Reuters and Reed Elsevier can be expensive. There are also some useful “free” services such as FreePatentsOnline.com.   . . .   In short, the Google may be looking at the hundreds of millions of revenue available from those with a must have motivation and add some functions that make advertisers sit up and take notice. Maybe the USPTO would consider the Google as a source for its search technology.

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SchwartzReport: Lobbying for War — and How Cheaply US Politicians Sell For….

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society
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Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

The level of American corruption is breath-taking.

Koch, Exxon And Other Big Oil Spend $141 Million Lobbying Washington For More War

Phi Beta Iota: $141M is chump change. Beyond that are the tens of billions paid in fines for violating laws — e.g. $5B for manipulating the multi-trillion foreign exchange markets with tens of billions in illicit profit that also bankrupts the unwitting. What we have are politicians guilty of treason who sell out for chump change, while continuously legalizing high crimes against the public interest.

Berto Jongman: $1 Trillion Lawsuit over Sandy Hook False Flag Terrorism by US Government

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, IO Deeds of War
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Berto Jongman

$1 Trillion Lawsuit Filed For Sandy Hook False Flag

A filmmaker has decided to launch a $1 trillion dollar lawsuit against various big media companies over theirSandy Hook massacre coverage. 

William Brandon Shanley has said that he has compelling evidence that suggests that no children or teachers died at Sandy Hook, and that the whole operation was a staged false flag, designed to frighten the public.

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SchwartzReport: Pope Calls on Youth to Reject Global Capitalism

Cultural Intelligence
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Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Pope Francis is an amazing man. Here is what he said in Paraguay.  The only other person like him on the world stage is the Dalia Lama. They each have an integrity of thought and are fact based, yet each speaks in a spiritual context.  And they are saying much the same thing.

Pope Calls on World Youth to Rise Up Against Global Capitalism