Dolphin: Chinese Congress Puts Environment on the Table — Major Revolt within Congress, More Reforms Anticipated

China People’s Congress environment surprise TIM PALMER: In China the fallout is still being felt from an open rebellion over air pollution at the country’s annual session of parliament. It was a dramatic shift for a Congress that’s normally seen as no more than a rubber stamp. Sensing a growing environmental crisis, a third of …

Open Power: Democracy Lost & Found Essay, Book Review Blurbs and Links [Updated 3 MAR 2015]

NEW: Kindle Book Open Power ($2.99) OLD: Core Documents for Both Initiatives (Free) OLD: the foundation book The Open Source Everything Manifesto ROBERT STEELE: There are two schools of thought on effecting political (and hence economic and social) reform. One school is the school of love — this school emphasizes trust building and doing no …

INTELLIGENCE with INTEGRITY Chapter 3: The Human Factor

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Reflections on the US Military — Redirection Essential — and a Prerequisite to Creating a 450-Ship Navy, a Long-Haul Air Force, and an Air-Liftable Army + Sanity RECAP

Telling the truth to those who have replaced intelligence with ideology and integrity with loyalty to something other than their Republic is most difficult and more often than not will get you fired, because those without integrity tend to be promoted in corrupt systems, and they see clearly the threat to their world-view — and …

2012 Reality Sandwich: How I Tested the Boundaries of the Two-Party Tyranny

How I Tested the Boundaries of the Two-Party Tyranny Robert David Steele Vivas Reality Sandwich, 24 May 2012 For six weeks in early 2012 I ran for the office of President of the United States of America.  I was accepted by the Reform Party (one of six accredited national parties completely shut out of the …

Michel Bauwens: Evolving Toward a Partner State in an Ethical Economy

Evolving Towards a Partner State in an Ethical Economy Reality Sandwich, 4 April 2012 In the  emerging institutional model of peer production, most visibly in the free software industry, we can distinguish an interplay between three partners, i.e. 1) a community of contributors that create a commons of knowledge, software or design; 2) an enterpreneurial …