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2014/04/102014/04/10

Rickard Falkvinge: EU Court Trashes Mass Surveillance

Pirate Party Vindicated By Highest EU Court, Killing Mass Surveillance Law Yesterday, the European Court of Justice ruled the detested Data Retention Directive invalid. Retroactively invalid, even: the court ruled that it had never existed. The directive (a directive is sort of a federal law covering the EU) mandated all EU states to log all …

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2014/03/122014/03/12

Transition Network Concept Paper: Region-Wide Resilience in New England

Reflections for Consideration This short paper offers some “grist for the mill” as we consider together what regional resilience could mean for New England. Download this document as a PDF. New England has a long tradition of radical communitarian culture. The colonists came here as congregations or communities rather than as individuals. Communities banded together …

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2014/03/10

2014-03-10 Global Reality Daily

We’re playing around. None of the RSS / curation offerings are satisfactory. As a side note: the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) is Top Secret Limited Distribution and costs roughly 219 million dollars a day and is seen by very few. This daily is free and open to all. Below is a simple Global Reality matrix. …

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2014/02/112014/02/12

Worth a Look: Recent Books on All the Opens 1.3

2014/02/112014/02/11

David Swanson: A People’s Movement to End All War

A People’s Movement to End All War When people sign the declaration of peace at WorldBeyondWar.org they have the opportunity to type in a brief statement in their own words. Thousands have done so, including those pasted below. (And a few great quotes from the past have been added here in graphic form.) “I support …

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2014/02/092014/02/12

Ecuador Initiative: Going Open Source Everything

ECUADOR INITIATIVE: Transition Proposals Toward a Commons-Oriented Economy and Society Sponsored by the National Institute of Advanced Studies of Ecuador, carried out by the Free/Libre Open Knowledge (FLOK) Society. John Restakis and Michel Bauwens on the FLOK Society Transition Project in Ecuador My talk for the democracy conference in Amsterdam, Crosstalk 2013 | Borders to …

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2014/02/082014/02/08

David Swanson: War Can Be Ended — And No, the US Civil War Was Not About Slavery and Not Worth the Human and Other Enduring True Costs

War Can Be Ended Part I Of BOOK: War No More: The Case For Abolition Slavery Was Abolished In the late eighteenth century the majority of people alive on earth were held in slavery or serfdom (three-quarters of the earth’s population, in fact, according to the Encyclopedia of Human Rights from Oxford University Press). The …

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