John Steiner: Declaration of Occupation of NYC + Revolution USA RECAP

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City Posted on September 30, 2011 by NYCGA This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on september 29, 2011As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all …

Howard Rheingold: News Filters for the Future – Technical Services or Human Networks?

Everyone wants to be a news filter now Mathew Ingram Gigaom.com, 21 September 2011 As the avalanche of information coming through social networks and real-time tools like Twitter continues to grow, the need for filters to make sense of that tsunami of data also increases, and it seems as though everyone has a different way of …

Robert Steele: US Day of Rage = Electoral Reform & Integrity Plus General RECAP on Purple Public & Third Party Rising

I’ve been driving the 1964 MGB (my last remaining possession, it needs $5,000 of underbody work to survive the winter) around New England and am in New York now.  I’ve been following the US Day of Rage plans (they were also announced here) but have been surprised to find a number of normally intelligent middle-class …

Review: Whole Earth Discipline – An Ecopragmatist Manifesto

Stewart Brand Surprising, Challenges, Perhaps Wrong on Some Points,September 13, 2011 This book is an absorbing read, and several of the top reviews are very useful to anyone considering buying the book (also available in paperback, Amazon is now NOT crossing reviews over from different forms, a mistake in my view, but perhaps motivated by …