The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Will Egypt Revolutionize Democracy Itself? by Tom Atlee Thomas Friedman suggests that the special strength of Egypt’s youth-led revolutionary movement has been “the fact that it represented every political strain, every segment and class in Egyptian society.” But then he turns around and says that diversity “is also its weakness. It still has no accepted …
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Two different things. This entire website is about OSINT and its follow-on, M4IS2. On OSINT as a first stop: OSINT Starting Point See Also: Original BASIC Table and Original COMMUNITIES Table Both of the latter have been superceded by this web site, which is the new portal for OSINT and M4IS2. On Clarity as a …
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“We are the ones who’ve been waiting for us.” ~Tom Atlee Front page http://opengov.localsummits.org
Dear friends, There is need for bright news on the democracy front — and, luckily, there is some. (I’m also working to create some in the background, but I’ve got nothing to announce yet. Cross your fingers.) So I thought I’d share a bit of it the good stuff I’ve seen. The first article is …
Phi Beta Iota: The announcement of the Egyptian Army that it recognizes the “legitimate grievances” of the public and that it will not use force is in fact a recognition of both the substance of the public grievances, and the fact that force would backfire–there are not enough guns on the planet to repress the …
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