The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
JOHO: Messages from the Dark At “JOHO the Blog,” David Weinberger has a simple and very cool summary of the meaning of yesterday’s SOPA-induced blackout. “This is our Internet. We built it. We built it for us, not for you. We get to turn off the lights, not you.” Yes, indeed. It took a long …
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Daniel Goleman Relevance, Content, Price–Solid Five,December 29, 2011 I chose this book over Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature and seeing the author’s note about this other book “by a physician, Jungian analyst, and poet” am certain I made the right choice. The author’s “big idea” is called “Radical Transparency,” what the rest of us …
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MOVED TO USA 2012 Third Party Rolling Update + RECAP
The core of neoliberalism is a political-economic theory masquerading as a scientifically pure economic theory. The central claim is that efficiency and economic growth is the means to maximize individual welfare, and in so doing, neoliberal policies maximize the collective welfare. In theory, Neoliberalism’s key tenets — the supremacy of the market, globalization of capital …
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Human evolution: Who are we becoming? By Steve McDonald On December 8, 2011 A map for the Archaic Revival This article appeared in Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) Journal 3 – 2011/2012 (December 2011) Introduction In 1974, American professor of psychology Dr Clare W Graves wrote an article for The Futurist magazine titled Human Nature Prepares for …
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On those rare occasions when two of our contributing editors hold diametrically opposite views, I am asked to come back and blend them. Here are my premises, followed by a selection of articles that represent both sides of the argument. 1. Neither Barack Obama nor Leon Panetta have a clue. They are posturing on the …
Introduction to P2P and the Commons as the new paradigm of change When: Sat, December 10, 10am – 11am To succeed in social change, I believe we need 3 things. * a genuine mass movement. As the first native movement and great hope of the digital age that is what #ows is all about. * …
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