Mini-Me: Smart Young People See Government as Corrupt and Ineffective — World On the Edge of a Sweeping Revolution

Huh? Global protest grows as citizens lose faith in politics and the state The myriad protests from Istanbul to São Paulo have one thing in common – growing dissent among the young, educated and better-off protesting against the very system that once enriched them. And therein lies the danger for governments Peter Beaumont The Observer, …

SchwartzReport: China Breeding “Enhanced” People [While Exporting Surplus Males], Stupid Humans a Western Cancer, Willful Ignorance of the US Progressives–Only the Quakers Get It Right

This is the latest in the Homo Superiorus Trend. I predict this is going to become a major issue very quickly. Chinese Eugenics Factory Collects ‘Genius” DNA To Breed ‘Enhanced” People JURRIAAN MAESSEN – Blacklisted News Here is why movements like the Tea Baggers, the modern version of the Know Nothings who plagued America in …

Michel Bauwens: Open Peer to allow direct peer-to-peer signaling to initiate connection between people, using browsers

Open Peer to allow direct peer-to-peer signaling to initiate connection between people, using browsers From openpeer.org – Today, 7:27 AM While WebRTC is a protocol that allows direct communication between individuals on the internet, using their browser, there is a bottleneck that needs to be resolved.  WebRTC does not have a “signaling protocol”, which allows …

Rickard Falkvinge: Wendy Cockcroft on The Next Big Battles – Secret Trade Agreements Bad for People

The Next Big Battles Posted: 27 Oct 2012 11:26 AM PDT Activism – Wendy Cockcroft:  Since ACTA was decisively beaten on 4th July 2012, the first time a free trade agreement had been scuppered by the people of EU member nations, the big business lobbyists have taken heed and resolved to change in order to …

Review: The Leaderless Revolution – How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century

Carne Ross 4.0 out of 5 stars 5 for Superficial Overview, 3 for Pretense, May 13, 2012 It is unfortunate that Amazon’s superb “Look Inside the Book” has been limited by the publisher to only the introduction, as I would like the potential buyer to have a much greater feel for the book that the …

Marcus Aurelius: State Department Moves to Fire Peter Van Buren Author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People

For those of you with experience or interest in such things, State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS, long ago SY), has developed for itself a very negative reputation in personnel security arena. Through AFSA, American Foreign Service Association (I am not a member having never been a FSO), I have read numerous accounts of horror …

John Steiner: Mark Bitman on People Power – Beyond Elections

  Beyond Elections: People Power By MARK BITTMAN New York Times, 3 January 2012 The presidential election may be grabbing headlines, but the true rallying cry for 2012 is to struggle and organize around those issues that a president might take seriously, to stake out positions that would benefit what used to be called the …