The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Saving The tide has clearly turned against the techno-financial paradigm that disregards natural capital costs and exploits the 99% in favor of the 1%. Even a few billionaires have figured this out. Time, however, is not on our side, nor is truth easy to find in today’s severely corrupt information environment where all …
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Top 10 P2P Trends of 2015 Perhaps the main negative development in the field of p2p, and the commons, was the abandoning of the transformative change program by Syriza, which highlights the failure of the traditional Left to believe in its own promise for transition. This points to a strong need for a renewal of politics around …
Electoral Reform: Converging the Tribes to Achieve Extreme Democracy This proposal is rooted in both practical experience as a member of the Occupy Working Group on Electoral Reform followed by a brief run for the US presidency, accepted by the Reform Party at a candidate, both in 2011; and in broad reading as the top …
Open Source GIS for Everyone: A QGIS-based program at Langara College Vancouver Until now the learning of GIS has not spread as widely as it could, in large part because of the high cost of GIS software. The benefits of GIS have been limited to large organizations, governments, and academia. Where is the GIS for …
ROBERT STEELE: There are iron curtains between the tribes; wooden walls between industries and organizations, and plastic sheets between individuals in the same organization. Micah Sifry’s book, The Big Disconnect, and Stephen E. Arnold’s book CyberOSINT: Next Generation Information Access, capture my concerns perfectly. The IT industry has been corrupt (selling out to NSA), criminal …
Doing more together, together: seeding a Collaborative Technology Alliance From the beginning. Last month, a group of 35 designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs from all over the world gathered in Oakland, California. Together, we are working on the creation of tools, strategies, and networks to build a new collaborative commons. Our group consisted of founders and …
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The trust machine The technology behind bitcoin could transform how the economy works To understand the power of blockchain systems, and the things they can do, it is important to distinguish between three things that are commonly muddled up, namely the bitcoin currency, the specific blockchain that underpins it and the idea of blockchains in …
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