The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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 …
How to organize a retreat (actually, to steal a phrase from Alan and Bill, an advance. Retreat is too negative). There’s a tremendous opportunity to create events where people connect. Unfortunately, it’s also easy to turn these events into school-like conferences, not the emotional connections that are desired. You can create an advance with a …
Let the word go out, indeed. “Those are OUR streets, and we will always be there to demonstrate… people learned a lot… we are no longer that post ideological generation, we are no longer that generation that doesn’t care… we are now the generation that will stand with everyone who’s fighting back…” They’re mad as …
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Not many know that GroupOn, Andrew Mason‘s initiative funded by Eric Lefkofsky, started as Policy Tree “Taking People Out of Politics”. Citizens were not interested in Policy Tree back then for two reasons: the outrage at mortgage fraud, Wall Street derivatives fraud, and Federal Reserve fraud had not peaked yet, and the power of GroupOn …
Personal Democracy Forum’s flash summit on Wikileaks Video archive of Saturday’s Wikileaks discussion, which was quite compelling… quite a bit about the new world of journalism and Wikileaks’ place in it. These are truly chaotic and “interesting” times. Mark Pesce on Wikileaks: “Everything feels more authentic.” Wikileaks is a big deal; Mark Pesce’s written the …
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“The answer is simple” …is always more effective a response than, “well, it’s complicated.” One challenge analysts face is that their answers are often a lot more complicated than the simplistic (and wrong) fables that are peddled by those that would mislead and deceive. Same thing is true for many non-profits doing important work. We’re …
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You will be misunderstood If you want to drive yourself crazy, read the live twitter comments of an audience after you give a talk, even if it’s just to ten people. You didn’t say what they said you said. You didn’t mean what they said you meant. Or read the comments on just about any …
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