Pierre Cloutier: Etienne Chouard and Citizen’s Constitution

This guy, professor Étienne Chouard, from France is fantastic. His site is very interesting. It’s talk about the citizen’s constitution,and draw instead of election, because election = corruption. Let the governed build the government: Etienne Chouard @ TEDxRepubliqueSquare [in French with English sub-titles] If those who could govern best don’t want power, then who’s winning …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 7 Public Intelligence and the Citizen Extract III

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 7 Public Intelligence and the Citizen Extract III [In combination with free OpenBTS mobile telephony for the five billion poor] I see cities, countries, nations, regions recognizing that the relatively minor cost of a call center is well worth its benefits–capable of all necessary languages and able to handle …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 7 Public Intelligence and the Citizen Extract II

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 7 Public Intelligence and the Citizen Extract II The U.S. Government has been controlled by a two-party tyranny that has always been corrupt, but this corruption went nuclear in the 1990’s when both parties conspired to start borrowing one trillion dollars a year–one third of the federal budget–so as …

Tom Atlee: Derivatives as Fatal Cancer Discussion and Links

http://tom-atlee.posterous.com/derivatives-challenge-citizenship-and-economi Short URL: http://post.ly/83Ojt Dear friends, I’m interested in derivatives as a symbol of an economic system that’s NOT based on productivity that satisfies real human needs.  Derivatives are contracts that shift risk from players who are risk averse (and want insurance against loss) to players who have an appetite for risk (and want a …