Idiocy & corruption are expensive.
Three Key Lessons From São Paulo's Water Crisis
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Yoda: Sao Paulo Out of Water — Lessons?
12 WaterMichael Maxsenti: End Regulation Without Representation
Corruption, Government
Two parties feeling the pressure.
You may be familiar with the proposed “REINS” Act proposed by some Members of Congress, which would, if enacted, require Congressional approval of major federal regulations. Of course, the chances of getting 60 Senate votes and a Presidential signature for such legislation are speculative at the current time. However, given the more skeptical attitude of many state legislators towards federal power, there is a potential strategy for empowering state legislators to force Congress to propose such a measure.
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Jean Lievens: Access is the New Ownership
Access, Economics/True Cost
The Sharing Economy: Access Is The New Ownership
A report from PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that revenue in five key sectors of the sharing economy could reach $335 billion by 2025.
PwC identifies five main sectors affected by the sharing movement: Travel, car-sharing, finance, staffing, and audio/video streaming.
Robert Parry: Syrian Rebels Caught Doing False-Flag Kidnappings to Discredit Syrian Government
07 Other Atrocities, IO Deeds of War
Exclusive: In August 2013, when the U.S. government almost went to war in Syria over a Sarin attack, suspicions that it was a rebel “false-flag” were ridiculed. But new disclosures about a rebel role in kidnapping NBC’s Richard Engel several months earlier show the rebels knew such propaganda tricks, says Robert Parry.
Robert Steele: Looking for a Good Conversation about a Non-Partisan Non-Violent Revolution? Like & Join Coffee Party — Engage with Joan — … Please!
Access, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics
I have finally found two places where intelligent people can come together across all moral and intellectual boundaries — one of them is the Coffee Party, the other is Joan Blades' new initiative, Living Room Conversations. Below are some links — I encourage anyone who believes in America the Beautiful and the US Constitution to treat the Coffee Party as a non-partisan second home, and to engage as deeply as possible in Joan's new offering.
Like this Page: https://www.facebook.com/coffeeparty
Join Here: http://www.coffeepartyusa.com/join
Engage Here: http://www.livingroomconversations.org/
Yoda: Gyrocopters & Drones As Non-Violent Civil Disobedience
Cultural IntelligenceGood this is — armed, they might be.
Flying a drone can be an act of civil disobedience
It was political protest, but also a confrontation between two technologies, one old and one new.
Mini-Me: CODE RED Called for US Lack of Electoral Integrity — Jonathan Simon on Computerized Election Theft
09 Justice, 11 Society, Access, Corruption, Government
Huh?
CODE RED: Jonathan Simon's Hail-Mary for Democracy
I have been witness to and participant in more than a decade of strenuous but essentially fruitless efforts to challenge the passivity with which America has collectively accepted an “upgrade” that gave us a concealed, computerized, privatized vote counting process–a Trojan Horse which the forensic evidence we have painstakingly gathered links inextricably to a bewildering political sea change tantamount to a rolling coup.
