Rickard Falkvinge: EU & Banks Confiscate Operating Capital in Cypruss

Death of the Small Eurobusiness, In a Bank Screenshot With banks opening on Cyprus, many entrepreneurs realized they had been wrecked overnight by their government’s dishonesty. The so-called bank bailout was in reality a death sentence for many small businesses, who saw their operating capital confiscated to save the government’s face. This move will create …

Yoda: Pirate Leader Understanding of Why US Invaded Iraq – Over the End of the Dollar as Global Reserve Currency

Good, reality is. Rick is the founder of the first Pirate Party and is a political evangelist, traveling around Europe and the world to talk and write about ideas of a sensible information policy. He has a tech entrepreneur background and loves whisky. While the US invasion of Iraq about a decade ago was based …

Tom Atlee: Occupy Adopts Open Everything Meme

Occupy Rio+20 Publishes Open Source Imperative The following statement will be presented by the Earth Summit WG to the United Nations as a participating group in the Rio+20 conference in Brasil. The Open Source Imperative Hello World, We Who Occupy The Earth thank the UN for supporting civil society through granting us “interested party” status …

Review: The Open Source Everything Manifesto – Transparency, Truth & Trust

Robert David Steele 5.0 out of 5 stars End Result of Quarter Century Walk-About,June 5, 2012 Updated 27 June: Why on earth is this book in top 100 for Espionage? I can only speculate that because I am a former spy, trained over 7,500 intelligence professionals, and have been an arch critic of secret intelligence …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 2 Open-Source Everything Extract III

On Sale from 5 June 2012 Chapter 2 Open-Source Everything Extract III On the next few pages I list a wide range of “opens” within each of the layers illustrated in the Open-Source Pyramid (Figure 1), strictly to illuminate the wide-ranging, near-universal nature of this meme. This is not a complete list! The order below …

Michel Bauwens: Life of the Internet or Internet as Our Life?

Below by Nick Mendoza is recommended! Up front extract: With the decline of state capitalism, capitalist governments and corporations now dream of the internet as the tool for corporate growth through ontological colonialism, free to expand within the mind and the planet, exploiting everyone alike. Metal, code, flesh: Why we need a ‘Rights of the …