The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Key point: financial lords use media lords to manufacture deliberate constant confusion and incoherence in order to prevent organized citizens from perceiving the truth or manufacturing their own coherent narrative that attracts and mobilizes masses in favor of the larger public interest. YouTube (5:09) Below the Line
Old analogue TV frequencies should turned into free ‘super WiFi’, scientists say Old television frequencies are sold off by governments due to the change over from analogue to digital broadcasting, often to whoever is prepared to pay the most for them. They should instead be used to create a new range of free Wi-Fi, say …
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Top Ten P2P Trends of 2014 1. Reaching of the tipping point for (distributed) renewable energy 2. The rise of open cooperatives and ethical enterpreneurial coalitions 3. The emergence of cryptoledger applications and a crypto-currency for the commons 4. Cities and Countries of the Commons
Open Cooperativism for the P2P Age Our recommendations for the new era of open cooperativism are: 1. That coops need to be statutorily (internally) oriented towards the common good 2. That coops need to have governance models including all stakeholders
Four scenarios for the inevitable P2P Future P2P and networked technologies are here to stay, are expanding, and will become the dominant technological format. Yet, that doesn’t mean at all that the future is a foregone conclusion. Around these technologies we will see political and social struggles that will involve ownership and governance (control), and …
Research: 3D printing, the Arts and Crafts Movement and the Democratization of Art * Master’s Thesis: “The Art and Craft of the Machine”: 3D printing, the Arts and Crafts Movement and the democratization of art. Patokorpi, Lassi. 2014. University of Tampere. I discuss the machine’s two-sided role as, on the one hand, the destroyer of …
“In this paper we look at how information in societies is organized and how power relationships arise as a consequence of this organization. We argue that many of the observed information asymmetries are not happenstance and, drawing from a wealth of scholarship from the economics and finance literature, we posit that outcomes are inevitably detrimental. …
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