Open Power: The National Conversation on Electoral Reform, Honest Government, and Our Future

Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Culture, Design, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, Transparency
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Joan Blades, the brilliant human that created MoveOn and Moms Rising, is now leading a new movement and meme,  Living Room Conversations. Below is the first draft of what has gone forward for possible elevation to a national conversation about THE issue of our day.

NOTE: The critical genius of Joan's concept is the conversation first focuses on building understanding and trust face to face without regard to any issues. Appreciation for one another comes first. We consider this vastly more important than any transpartisan or activist movement because it crosses all boundaries and goes directly to “root” — our shared humanity.

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Antechinus: This Will Change Your Life

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Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, is one of India's most ancient techniques of meditation. It was rediscovered by Gotama Buddha more than 2500 years ago and was taught by him as a universal remedy for universal ills, i.e., an Art Of Living. This non-sectarian technique aims for the total eradication of mental impurities and the resultant highest happiness of full liberation. The technique is taught at ten-day residential courses during which participants follow a prescribed Code of Discipline, learn the basics of the method, and practice sufficiently to experience its beneficial results. http://www.dhamma.org/en/index

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Donate to Put This Book Into Kindle, Smash, & Nook — Get Inscribed Hard Copy and Golden Candle Pin

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We are converting this book so it can be loaded to Kindle, Smash, and Nook as an electronic book with all links active (hundreds of links!).

We'd like to raise at least $250. Each donor receives an inscribed hard copy of the book as well as a Golden Candle pin….and of course a free ePub via email.

NOTE: Book cost $5, Pin cost $1, Priority Mail cost $5, total $11, so recommended donation is $20-25 and thank you in advance.

Donors will receive book and pin as donations received (this is not a contingent offer), with ePub via email as soon as done.

Open Power: Strategy for Public Victory

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The question has been asked: Can we really do this? Below is one answer. A national conversation should yield both many more answers, and public confidence that it can indeed restore integrity to the US electoral process, to all three branches of the federal government, and eventually to all state and local governments — while demonstrating a model that could work around the world, over time eliminating the 42 dictators that are now “best pals” of a very corrupt US merged network of crime and politics.

Below are bullets on Strategy, Principles, Money, Timing, Principals, and Outcomes.

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Open Power: A Notional Coalition Team to Force Electoral Reform in 2015 and Run for Reform in 2016

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IMAGINE a Coalition Team led by an Independent but in fact a team of equals whose sole mission in life was to restore the integrity of the electoral process in 2015 and thence of the government, economy, and society in the USA in 2016 and beyond. Below is such a team as a starting point for national Living Room Conversations about the possibilities. The point of this conversation is to talk about how an honest government might function on the basis of ethical evidence-based decision-support, where the public interest, not special interests, are central.

President: Angus King

Vice President: Jill Stein or Elizabeth Warren

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Owl: Putin’s Absence — Putting Down a Coup or Preparing for WWIII?

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Who? Who?

While so much useless media noise occurred around Netanyahu's election in Israel, it seems to me that, at the same time, the absence of Vladimir Putin for 10-11 days until recently is peculiar and unsettling, and possibly much more significant in ways the media could or would not openly speculate on.

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DEFCON Warning System Announced ‘Encounter With Russian Actors' And ‘US Base Placed On Alert For Possible Incoming' Last Night As WW3 Heats Up!