Pierre Cloutier: Etienne Chouard and Citizen’s Constitution

This guy, professor Étienne Chouard, from France is fantastic. His site is very interesting. It’s talk about the citizen’s constitution,and draw instead of election, because election = corruption. Let the governed build the government: Etienne Chouard @ TEDxRepubliqueSquare [in French with English sub-titles] If those who could govern best don’t want power, then who’s winning …

John Steiner: Genetic Foods – Transparency, Truth, & Trust versus Tyranny, Toxicity, & Theft

Genetic Engineers Explain Why GE Food Is Dangerous Nation of Change, Sunday 24 June 2012 One of the report¹s authors, Dr. Michael Antoniou of King¹s College London School of Medicine in the UK, uses genetic engineering for medical applications but warns against its use in developing crops for human food and animal feed. Aren¹t critics …

David Swanson: NATO, Sardinia, Contamination, & The Truth

ADVANCE EXTRACT Demands of the people ·       Transparency and truth – reveal what chemicals and metals have been used. ·       Close all of the bases and radar facilities – completely de-militarize the island. ·       Clean and decontaminate the bases and land, aquifers and sea around them. ·       Provide health care to all people affected by …

Chuck Spinney: Progressives Argue Over Defeating Obama – a Conversation on Email

Most of my liberal friends reluctantly support President Obama’s re-election, because the alternative is so much worse.  Invariably, they invoke the effects of a Romney presidency on judicial appointments, especially those to the Supreme Court (ironically, Obama’s two appointees just voted with the majority to decline to hear the Guantanamo case, if effect, putting another …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 5 Integrity, Lies, and Panarchy Extract III

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 5 Integrity, Lies, and Panarchy Extract III All the kum-ba-ya in the world and all the micro-issue think tanks and advocacy groups are ineffective because they lack a strategic analytic model, a process for doing intelligence so as to do informed activist democracy, and a call to arms that …

Marcus Aurelius: Toxic Leadership in the US Army

“Toxic Leadership–What Are We Talking About?,” by Lieutenant General (Retired) Walter F. Ulmer, Jr.  Article appears in June 2012 issue of Army Magazine, the Army’s professional journal published by the Association of the United States Army.< Toxic Leadership LtGen Ulmer Jr. (Ret)< I think LTG(R) Ulmer generally captured the situation accurately: we know at least generally what toxic leaders are and …