The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Occupy Movement: Next Step Convergence The US Occupy movement is at a critical point. To succeed it must develop a message of specific solutions to fix our broken system. People are seeing the next step as advocacy for constitutional amendments proposed through an Article V convention. by Joel S. Hirschhorn (libertarian) Monday, November 28, 2011 …
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When the World Outlawed War: An Interview with David Swanson For those who know war only through television, criminalizing it sounds like proposing to criminalize government. But there was a time when the masses made war illegal. Bruce E. Levine Alternet, November 21, 2011 David Swanson’s recently released book, When the World Outlawed War, tells the …
“Dropout Economy” meets “Twilight of Elites” in OWS Dear friends, A number of commentators have noted the unusual gathering of liberal/green folks and conservative/libertarian folks that constitute the Occupy Wall Street movement. While admitting the movement has a long way to go to actually represent “the 99%” (e.g., From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy the …
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What is the one thing? L. Shaw Mitchell, Occupy South Carolina Source Direct Full text below the line for ease of online translation.
The below link goes to Matt Ridley’s excellent lecture analyzing the importance of heresy in science; and by extension, the danger to science posed by an Authority that dictates what is acceptable and what is unacceptable. The oppression of authority is a subject Galileo learned to his chagrin, and a central theme of Jacob Bronoski’s …
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I spent the day getting to and from a two and a half hour meeting of the NYC General Assembly working group on Politics and Electoral Reform (P&ER). The skeleton minutes of that meeting are online. With respect to Electoral Reform, first the group considered Summary of NYC GA Working Group on Politics and Electoral …
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Below is an excellent interview with Anthony DiMaggio in Counterpunch. DiMaggio author of The Rise of the Tea Party, due out in November 2011. He uses the “propaganda model” developed by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in their book Manufacturing Consent to document and explain the Tea Party’s organizational dynamics for manufacturing dissent, and he …
