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2010/12/20

Journal: A Glimpse Into Emergent Populist Intelligence

Tags Activist Altruist Centrist Coffee Party Communitarian Globalist Green Humanist Organizer Patriot Peacemaker Programmer Progressive Spiritual Theorist Transpartisan Universalist Volunteer Worker Writer Issues Balanced judgment Church and state Citizen participation and engagement Cooperation Corporate power Fragmented or disjointed thinking Grassroots mobilization Inclusion Media Mistrust Money in politics National unity Partisanship in politics Spin and distortion …

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2010/12/192010/12/19

Reference: Remembering Laos and the Hmong

Phi Beta Iota: Laos was both an inspiring success story at the operational and tactical levels, and a massive strategic failure in context. On the one hand, a handful of CIA officers and a very modest amount of money kept entire divisions pinned down or occupied or distracted. On the other hand, in the words …

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2010/12/16

Reference: Citizenship Versus Transpartisanship

TRANSPARTISANSHIP AND MOVING BEYOND PARTISANSHIP by Tom Atlee What is “transpartisanship”? In its most common usage, “transpartisan” seems to refer to partisans from across the political spectrum coming together in civil conversation. I love the term, but find myself thinking of it as a transitional phenomenon. A partisan is a strong (even militant) supporter of …

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2010/12/16

Reference: Arianna Huffington–Wikileaks About Trust in Government–Or Not

Arianna Huffington Posted: December 15, 2010 09:19 PM The Media Gets It Wrong on WikiLeaks: It’s About Broken Trust, Not Broken Condoms EXTRACT: It’s notable that the latest leaks came out the same week President Obama went to Afghanistan for his surprise visit to the troops — and made a speech about how we are …

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2010/12/16

Reference: The Fraud-Based US Economy

The attached blog, “Failing to Prosecute Wall Street Fraud Is Extending Our Economic Problems,” is a cut-and-paste accumulation of a variety of outlooks. Most are based on analyses or accumulated wisdom, but some appear based on hunches, ideologies, etc. Taken together, however, they paint a horrifying picture of the American political economy and our prospects for …

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2010/12/16

NIGHTWATCH Extract on Afghanistan-Pakistan

The NATO command’s statement implies that the fighting is waged mostly by anti-government groups that are based in Pakistan. That is simply not true, is grossly misleading to the American public and whoever came up with that nonsense should be dismissed. The anti-government forces in Afghanistan are not foreign ers, but are supported from Pakstan. …

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2010/12/152010/12/15

Worth a Look: Steel on Wheels–The Dylan Ratigan Show (MSNBC)

For the past few years, in response to the topics I speak about on my television show and write about on The Huffington Post, people have asked me how they could contribute to help fight for what I call “Truth to Power.” Previously there has been no mechanism to allow people to participate in this, …

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