The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Here is a wonderful story of how a single couple has been able to take on a destructive industry and win. The Real Secret to Beating the Koch Brothers: How Our Broken Political System Can Still be Won LINDSAY ABRAMS, Assistant Editor – Salon You probably haven’t heard of Helen Slottje, or, for that matter, …
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TransparencyCamp 2014: Friday May 30– Saturday May 31 at George Mason University Arlington Campus TransparencyCamp is an “unconference” for opengov, an event where, every year hundreds of people gather to share their knowledge about how to use new technologies and policies to make our government really work for the people—and to help people work smarter …
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Gregory Sams 4.0 out of 5 stars Double-Spaced Essay of Value, April 30, 2014 This is an excellent double-spaced essay without notes or index, on how the state is a pathological encumberance on society, enabling all manner of waste in large part because it is incapable of dealing with the nuances of complexity. I quite …
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Watch for Flying Pigs as Microsoft Embraces Open Source Microsoft is getting its open source on. Ars Technica reports, “Microsoft Open Sources a Big Chunk of .NET.” It seems the tech giant is softening its stance on open source resources; perhaps they now see they have little choice if the company wants to remain relevant. …
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The right to infrastructure: a prototype for open source urbanism Alberto Corsín Jiménez Abstract. This paper develops an analytical framework to place the rise of open source urbanism in context, and develops the concept of the ‘right to infrastructure’ as expressive of new ecologies of urban relations that have come into being. It describes, first, …
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Phi Beta Iota: As cited by Peter Linebaugh, STOP, THIEF! The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance (PM Press, 2014) DECLARATION OF RIGHTS 01 GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only …
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Technology Training Corporation has announced their spring 2014 symposium on: “Next Generation Intelligence Surveillance & Reconnaissance” Dates: June 24-25, 2014 at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn at Key Bridge in Arlington, VA, 1900 North Fort Myer Drive, Arlington, VA 22209 (703-807-2000)
