The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The butterfly of citizen deliberative democracy is emerging around the world… Powerful elite think tanks and mainstream media are beginning to favorably notice citizen deliberative initiatives that continue to rapidly emerge and evolve under the clouded mainstream radar. Here’s an intro this remarkable phenomenon, followed by a LOT of resources to swim around in….
‘What killed American public discourse?’ New report, survey examines civility and evangelicals America’s public square is a toxic place, experts say, but one evangelical Christian organization is trying to figure out how to change that. “We hate our politicians, and we hate each other,” a new report examining the state of civility in the U.S. explains. The …
Democracy of Citizens, Democracy of Stakeholders Some people think that democratic decisions should be made by everyone in the community or country – or their representatives. Others think that democratic decisions should be made by the people who will be affected by the decisions (stakeholders) – or their representatives. Both versions of democracy have important …
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Silicon Valley Is Destroying American Democracy by Playing Political Favorites Authored by Robert Bridge via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Perhaps it was expecting too much that the tech giants would check their political allegiances at the door to ensure fairness. Instead, they have let their political affinities disrupt the process every step of the way …
CNN & MSNBC Caught Meddling In US Democracy Authored by Joe Giambrone via Off-Guardian.org The bias is clearly to attack Bernie Sanders, the actual front runner, and prop up establishment hawk (and hack) Joe “Creepy Uncle” Biden. CNN rigged a poll to censor out nearly everyone under 45 years of age. Based on this nonsensical false …
Improving Democracy: Ranked Choice Voting By Carl Petersen Under Ranked Choice, each voter selects up to three candidates on the ballot and notes their order of preference. When the votes are first counted, only the first choice is noted. If no candidate wins more than 50% of the vote, then the lowest vote-getter is eliminated. …
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A new wise democracy pattern language I am immersed in work co-creating version 2.0 of the wise democracy pattern language that we anticipate will be available by mid-April – free online as well as offered in a beautiful boxed set of cards for sale. The new set has most of version 1.0 patterns plus more …
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