The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Andrew Boyd and Dave Oswald Mitchell (editors) 5.0 out of 5 stars Common Sense Of, By, For the Community, October 5, 2014 From a second reading after attending The New Story Summit at Findhorn Foundation in Scotland. QUOTE Stephan Duncombe (104): “”Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” But waiting …
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“Worth a look.” Naomi Klein to Degrowth Conference: Climate Change Can Deliver ‘People’s Shock’ Status quo is not an option if we are to rein in runaway emissions, This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. the Climate author says in address to conference “You’re having the core conversation of our time.” That was the message delivered on …
I’ve known for decades that plants can see and hear and sense and communicate feelings — the 1970’s experiment with plants witnessing an individual “murdering” on of their own, and then the plants reacting on a polygraph machine when the one individual out of a line of many individuals came back into the room, was …
Andrew Boyd and Dave Oswald Mitchell et al 5.0 out of 5 stars Common Sense Of, By, For the Community, July 23, 2014 EDIT of 5 October 2014 to add bullets (highlights) from a second reading after attending The New Story Summit at Findhorn Foundation in Scotland. QUOTE Stephan Duncombe (104): “”Ye shall know the …
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A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse David Graeber [from The Baffler No. 22, 2013] What is a revolution? We used to think we knew. Revolutions were seizures of power by popular forces aiming to transform the very nature of the political, social, and economic system in the country in which the revolution took …
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John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge 4.0 out of 5 stars Trying to Do the Wrong Thing Righter — It’s Not the State, Stupid!, June 2, 2014 I am reading Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better, a gift from a former naval officer who shares my outrage over the US Government …
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The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach to Solving our Most Complex Challenges The following is an excerpt from the introduction of the book, “What Are Social Laboratories?” Zaid Hassan Stanford Social Innovation Review, 19 May 2014 The Social Labs Revolution reports and builds on a decade of practical experiments in addressing social challenges that …
