Jean Lievens: 10 Digital Social Innovators to Watch

Ten digital social innovators to watch Many innovations tackling societal problems have developed online. Jon Kingsbury and Peter Baeck highlight rising stars What is digital social innovation? The internet is playing an ever-increasing role in how we work, play and relate to each other. As a natural result of this, many of the most exciting …

Jean Lievens: Can the Internet Democratize Capitalism?

Can the Internet Democratize Capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis International Policy Digest, February 22, 2014 Technological fixes to time-honoured problems are all the rage these days. Bitcoin is meant to fix money, social media are seen as an antidote to Rupert Murdoch and assorted tyrants, networked robots are to help countries like Japan deal with demographic declines …

Tom Atlee: Strategic Climate Activism: Resist – and build a cooperative, democratic economy

Strategic Climate Activism: Resist – and build a cooperative, democratic economy The climate crisis is far more than an environmental issue. Adequately ramping up efforts to address it will require prioritizing a climate-justice movement which taps the potent activism of struggling peoples for whom social change is and has always been a matter of survival. …

Mini-Me: Israeli Cover Company Zim Shipping Knew Six Months in Advance 9/11 Was Coming…Here Is the Proof.

Huh? Zim Shipping: New Evidence suggests Six Months Foreknowledge of the September 11th Attack Keith Maart Veterans Today, 21 February 2014 Zim American-Israeli Shipping (“Zim”) was the predecessor company of the present Zim Integrated Shipping Services and was 49 percent owned by the Israeli government on 9/11. In 2004, the Israeli government sold their interest to …

BUCKY 2.0: Cosmic Definitions (Cultural Shorthand)

CA “SHORTHAND” WORDS/PHRASES (38 total) 5/30/12 As with all our pursuits, this document intends to help peel back layers of specific cultural misinformation conditioning/distortion/manipulation that has essentially forced our culture into behaviors quite opposite of natural/healthy choices that would otherwise be made, spontaneously. These phrases are sort of our “jargon” to simplify communication, understanding, and …