The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Dear friends, Recently I’ve seen a swirl of information (mostly on the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation listserv) about participatory budgeting. Below, you’ll find a sampling of this info, in relatively raw form. I do not know enough to sort it all out, but it looks really fascinating. Most of this material is about …
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Although the question has been asked often, we did not understand it ourselves until we saw the US Government ignore the Somali pirates despite a coherent, unclassified, and very explicit report done for CENTCOM J-2 Plans in 2005. In 2007 both Special Forces and US Navy Irregular Warfare were asked why they had ignored the …
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Hezbollah-Israel: Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised address to be ready to invade northern Israel if ordered to do so, The Associated Press reported. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned the Israel Defense Forces Northern Command on 15 February that the border could explode into crisis. Nasrallah said Hezbollah should be ready to seize …
COMMUNICATIONS An App for Dissidents A startup is offering free encrypted voice and text communications to protesters in Egypt. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2011 BY ROBERT LEMOS MIT Technology Review Two new applications for Android devices, called RedPhone and TextSecure, were released last week by Whisper Systems, a startup created by security researchers Moxie Marlinspike and …
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No Labels to tackle hyper-partisanship, fiscal responsibility, election reform Ken Bingenheimer National Common Ground Examiner February 14th, 2011 1:28 pm ET After soliciting the thoughts of its members, the No Labels organization has settled upon three areas of focus for the group’s efforts: Policing partisan politics, promoting fiscal responsibility, and election reform. No Labels founding …
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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Highly Recommended: Reference: 21st Century Governance as a Complex Adaptive System Reference: Panarchy–Governance in the Network Age Reference: Panarchy is What We Make of It–Why a World State is Not Inevitable Reference: How Not to Study the World-Wide Web (WWW) Reference: The Autocatalysis of Social Systems and the Emergence of Trust See Also:
