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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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2012/07/022012/07/02

Michel Bauwens: Interview on Empowering Citizens with ICT

Book: RedVolution: El poder del ciudadano conectado. Empodera.org This book contains both Spanish and English-language essays and interviews. This is the text we contributed, based on an email interview. Interview with Michel Bauwens Tell us a little about you I’m the founder of the P2P Foundation, a global research collaborative on the collaborative economy and …

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2012/06/302012/06/30

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 …

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2012/06/142012/10/21

2012 Reality Sandwich: The Open Source Everything Manifesto

The Open Source Everything Manifesto Robert David Steele Reality Sandwich, 13 June 2012 The following is excerpted from The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, & Trust published by Evolver Editions, an imprint of North Atlantic Books. The circumstances underlying this manifesto are stark and compelling: We are at the end of a five-thousand-year-plus historical process …

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2012/06/082012/06/11

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 3 Manifesto Extract II

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 3 Manifesto Extract II History is a narrative we construct and a tool we can shape. Our model of history has been corrupted by “information pathologies” that include weapons of distortion and deception; suppression of alternatives and repression of inconvenient knowledge; and manufactured consent, propaganda, secrecy, and outright ideologically …

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2012/05/102012/05/10

Theophillis Goodyear: US Propaganda Disaster? Officers Taught They Must “Nuke” Islam? + RECAP

According to Wired Magazine: U.S. Military Officers Taught: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam EXTRACT: For the better part of the last decade, a small cabal of self-anointed counterterrorism experts has been working its way through the U.S. military, intelligence and law enforcement communities, trying to convince whoever it could that America’s real …

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2012/05/03

Event: 12 May + Online Extraterrestrials, the Secret Government, and You… an invitation — $90

Two Worlds in Collision: Extraterrestrials, the Secret Government, and You Host: Richard Dolan In the wake of an ever-growing police state, it seems the secret of human contact with other intelligences present on the Earth has been hidden. Who is keeping the secret hidden? What and who are these intelligences operating behind the scenes, and …

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