The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I consider the corruption of the American judicial system to actually be worse that the corruption of the legislative branch of government. And the fact that a sitting Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, was present and contributed to this movement to skew the judiciary to reflect the views of the corporatist Theocratic Right, in my view, ought to be grounds for impeachment.
The JCN Story: How to Build a Secretive, Right-Wing Judicial Machine
8 Reforms to Fix Politics in the United States
Three of the eight elements are now in public consciousness – our task is to nurture a public conversation about all eight – together – and now, in 2015.
Independent Voter Network, 24 March 2015
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6 More States Consider Adopting Independent Redistricting Groups
Independent Voter Network, 23 February 2015
Redistricting has been a contentious process since the early 1800s, when Governor Elbridge Gerry signed a bill that reshaped electoral districts in Massachusetts to benefit the Democratic-Republicans. This manipulation of the redistricting process was nicknamed a Gerry-Mander, partially after Governor Gerry, and partially after the shape of one of the Boston districts, which resembled a salamander.
The practice, now commonly referred to as gerrymandering, presents a challenge to the U.S.’s republican system, where representatives are supposed to represent all of the voters in a given district. In an attempt to curb the practice, 9 states have already implemented independent redistricting commissions designed to make the redistricting process fairer and more representative of a population. Additionally,13 states use a hybrid method involving more than one government branch or agency working together to draw district lines.
Continue reading “Shawn Griffiths: 6 More States Consider Independent Redistricting”
You Can Be a Trusted Guide To The Most Relevant Information Online: Not Google
Matt Rosoff writes on Business Insider UK: “A lot of people think Google Search is like a map: An objective guide to the best and most important material on the internet. It's not. Google Search is the most important product of a very wealthy and successful for-profit company. And Google will use this product to further its own commercial ends.” (Not to help people find the most relevant info to their own learning needs.)
Continue reading “Robin Good: Google is Neither Trusted Nor Relevant –Human Curation Still the Best”
As you read this think about what has happened to the United States from the time of the Marshall Plan when people around the world looked to the U.S. as an exemplar of what a modern society should be, until today when we are the most feared nation in the world, the number one threat to peace. This didn't happen to us, we did it to ourselves, and only we can undo it.
The #1 threat to peace in the world? World polling suggests it’s the United States
In early 2014, Gallup International/WIN released its annual global survey based on research conducted the previous year. The most striking statistic was that 24 percent of people around the world believe that the U.S. poses the greatest threat to peace. The runners-up were far behind: eight percent of respondents thought Pakistan was the greatest threat, while six percent thought it was China. And only five percent of those surveyed thought Iran was a threat to world peace. The numbers are based on interviews with 1,000 people in 65 different nations. (The survey published this year did not contain the same question.)
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