The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Dear friends, According to articles in the links below (and elsewhere) Iceland * crowdsourced its new constitution with mass participation and elected delegates to a Constituent Assembly * made investors and bankers – not taxpayers – pay for the economic crash (it didn’t bail out the banks) * took legal action against individuals responsible for …
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How to address corruption in the U.S. government and elections NOW There’s a flash of hope here: A remarkable U.S. transpartisan group called Represent.Us is promoting a brilliantly designed Anti-Corruption Act. Check it out! The proposed law pulls together a number of anti-corruption and money-out-of-politics approaches into one piece of national legislation. It exposes …
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Dear friends, In anticipation of challenges to my assertion that our political dichotomies – especially the liberal/conservative, blue-red divide – are illusions, I offer the following references: 1. The “Purple USA” map – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_America 2. My writeup of my first transpartisan experience – “A Personally Transformational Encounter of Left and Right” http://co-intelligence.org/polarization-Fetzer.html 3. The story …
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Post-election: A collective shift from divided to wise Dear friends, President Obama said in his 2012 victory speech that “we are not as divided as our politics suggests”. He also argued that we are more united than our politics makes us think we are. Finally, he hinted that we are more diverse than our politics …
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Sandy notes 1: Systems and the language of causation Dear friends, It’s so tempting to say “Global warming caused superstorm Sandy.” And it is so easy to counter with “Storms like Sandy happen. You can’t say that global warming caused a particular storm!” Much human folly nowadays comes from believing that identifying a direct cause …
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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THE BOOK Tom Atlee: Empowering Public Wisdom – A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics THE LINKS Tom Atlee: Public Wisdom Practical Links OTHER BOOKS (LINKED) Tom Atlee: Public Wisdom Suggested Reading See Also: Tom Atlee at Phi Beta Iota
