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Penguin: Military Suicides in 2012 – 1 a Day Active, 18 a Day Veterans

Extreme Cognitive Dissonance or ECD? Active Force The Invisible Wounds of War: Number of Soldiers Committing Suicide Reaches Record High U.S. military facing ‘epidemic’ of suicides U.S. military averaging a suicide a day in 2012 U.S. Army suicides reached record monthly high in July U.S. Military Suicides in 2012: 155 Days, 154 Dead Veterans 18 …

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John Steiner: Bottom-Up Distributed Resilient / Sustainable Communities

Email Extract: The movement is stronger than ever – and hundreds of these sites are now over 20 years old, and are the primary shapers of local/regional policy. Hope you are well. Left you a VM re convergence last eve. • A distributed non-centralized movement of thousands of “healthy / livable / sustainable community” initiatives …

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Richard Stallman: Free Software Issue 54 September 2012

Free Software Supporter Issue 54, September 2012 Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation’s monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 61,769 other activists. That’s 1,189 more than last month! Encourage your friends to subscribe and help us build an audience by adding our subscriber widget to …

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Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Mark Lombardi

Wikipedia Snap-Shot Mark Lombardi (March 23, 1951 – March 22, 2000) was an American Neo-Conceptualist and an abstract artist who specialized in drawings attempting to document financial and political frauds by power brokers, and in general “the uses and abuses of power. Lombardi called his diagrams Narrative Structures.. They are structurally similar to sociograms – …

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Michel Bauwens: Sustainable Societies, True Cost Economics, and Appropriate Governance

“The “Principled Societies” concept outlined in the book Creating Sustainable Societies is a blueprint for sustainable financial, economic, and governance systems, intended for local implementation. The book starts by pinpointing the central problems within our financial, economic, and governance systems that have lead to high unemployment, massive debt, environmental degradation, mistrust of Congress and big …

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Michel Bauwens: P2P Mode of Production – An Indiano Manifesto

Published under the Public Domain, freely downloadable in HTML, epub or PDF, “The P2P Mode of Production: An Indiano Manifesto” is the first collective Indiano work translated into English. This document is a call to action, based on Las Indias’ analysis that the reduction of the optimal scale of production is the root of the …

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David Issenberg: Toxic Contractor Activities DoD Turns Blind Eye – Who’s Accountable? Fast Forward to Fukushima Approaching on a Tsunami of Official Lies and Misdirection

Burn, Baby, Burn Huffington Post, 4 Sep 2012 Remember when rioters in Watts, Calif., began shouting “Burn, Baby! BURN!” in the turmoil of 1965? I’m sure they didn’t have the following future in mind. That would be the various lawsuits against KBR for operating burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. But we should all be …

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