Tom Atlee: Emerging EcoNomics #4: Community revolution growing with food

  Emerging EcoNomics #4: Community revolution growing with food Dear friends, The remarkable article below speaks for itself and, since it is long, I won’t add much except strong encouragement for you to read it and a note that you can productively and enjoyably jump around in it (as I did) if you’d rather not …

Winslow Wheeler: CBO Truth, DoD Lies, Political Theater

An important and informative Tony Capaccio article (from Bloomberg; shown below) came out today.  It summarizes (accurately) CBO’s analysis of the budget effects of sequester: if sequester were to occur, the Pentagon’s “base” (non-war) budget would be $469 billion for 2013.  This is slightly above what was spent in 2006, and it is “larger than the …

NO LABELS Tries Again — Still Corrupt, Still Clueless

Phi Beta Iota:  they have been scorned out of existing twice now, but evidently Mike Bloomberg and his friends have not given up kludging together three failures to try to make lemonade, all three corrupt to the bone: Independent Voters / Jackie Salit, well-funded stalking horse for Bloomberg, does not play well with others and …

Mati Nissani: Strategic Lessons from the Rand Paul Fiasco

Strategic Lessons from the Rand Paul Fiasco “Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.”—Lenin  …by  Moti Nissani, Ph.D. Prof. Emeritus, Wayne State University Rand Paul Summary: For many years, the liberty movement’s aspirations and actions have been focused on the presidential candidacy of Congressman Ron Paul. In Early June, this strategy backfired, following …

20120706 Open Source Everything Highlights

Open Source Everything From Tech to Toilet Paper, Berliner Tries to Live Completely Open Source for One Year Radical Openness: 5 Things I Learned at TEDGlobal Open Source UK teachers are free to choose open source curriculum The Open Source Balance at Banks Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FOSS, FLOSS, F/OSS) FLOSS Manuals’ Fee-based Online Books Complement …

Yoda: Top Ten Technology News Trend Setters

Algorithm identifies top ten technology news trend setters Kurzweil Accelerating News, July 5, 2012 Berlin Institute of Technology researchers studied the problem of trend-setting among news sites to determine which websites lead the news coverage and which ones merely follow, Technology Review Physics arXiv Blog reports. They took a snapshot of the words generated by 96 technology …