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2015/03/202015/03/20

Open Power: Strategy for Public Victory

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 …

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2014/04/122014/04/12

Owl: Nevada Land Fight About Fracking Over Cattle? Senator Harry Reid Making a Bundle Sponsoring Chinese Solar Power Plant on Public Land Tea Party Calls This Our Tiananmen Square Showdown — Snipers and Blackwater Deployed

The futurist lets it rip: Gerald Celente: Bundy Range War a Fascist Dream The real reason they are going after Bundy, making way for the frackers? Mike Adams lays out the case in detail for frackers behind federal persecution of Bundy: “This document from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology(1) shows significant exploratory drilling …

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2013/04/182013/04/18

Berto Jongman: Lord Martin Rees on New Technological Threats — Heaven Forbid, Elites Are Losing Power to the Public and Individuals

Lord Martin Rees on New Technological Threats By Benjamin Wittes Lawfare, Thursday, April 18, 2013 In this short video, Lord Martin Rees—the British astrophysicist and cosmologist–gives a brief and elegant statement of the problem Gabriella Blum and I have been writing a book about: the dissemination of radically-empowering technologies to small groups and individuals. Highly …

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2012/10/16

Tom Atlee: Webinar on Empowering Public Wisdom

Empowering Public Wisdom with Tom Atlee Tom Atlee, author of The Tao of Democracy, is on a mission to bring the citizen back into democracy through a simple and practical method. The co-director of The Co-Intelligence Institute in Eugene, Oregon, calls for the introduction of citizen councils that offer a platform for “collective intelligence.” This …

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2012/10/102012/10/10

Review: Empowering Public Wisdom – A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics

Tom Atlee 5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Tom Paine of Our Generation,October 10, 2012 I first met Tom when I sought him out after discovering his first book The Tao of Democracy: Using co-intelligence to create a world that works for all and invited him to speak to an international gathering of information …

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2012/07/222012/07/22

Tom Atlee: Empowering Public Wisdom – A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics

Dear friends, A year ago Doug Reil, the associate publisher of North Atlantic Books, explored with me the possibility of writing a manifesto to clarify my vision of a wise democracy. The culmination of that conversation is my new book EMPOWERING PUBLIC WISDOM: A PRACTICAL VISION OF CITIZEN-LED POLITICS to be released August 7 as …

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2011/02/062011/02/06

Tom Atlee on Congress 2.0: Empower the Public

YOU, TOO, CAN BE A CONGRESSPERSON by Tom Atlee Why would you want to become one? Here are four very enticing reasons: Read full posting…. The alternative approach: * You might have to advocate policies that would be hard on yourself, your constituents or your supporters — even temporarily. You might become unpopular. You might …

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