The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
“THE CLOTHESLINE PARADOX” A Conversation with Tim O Reilly Edge, [10.4.12] If we’re going to get science policy right, it’s really important for us to study the economic benefit of open access and not accept the arguments of incumbents. Existing media companies claim that they need ever stronger and longer copyright protection and new, draconian …
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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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The New World Frank Jacobs and Parag Khanna The New York Times Sunday Review, September 22, 2012 IT has been just over 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the last great additions to the world’s list of independent nations. As Russia’s satellite republics staggered onto the global stage, one could be …
Bitterness dances with Hope Dear friends, I like this article by Rebecca Solnit (who’s writing I’m coming to love more and more) not because it comes from “the left” but because it calls for sanity and decency. It acknowledges the overriding fact that our quasi-democratic system is itself deeply flawed in its design and corrupted …
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QE For the People: What Else Could We Buy With $29 Trillion? (September 24, 2012) Central banks could be helping communities instead of enriching predatory, parasitic “too big to fail” banks and financial feudalism. In a system that depends on lies and the credulity of the citizenry, the greatest lie is that the Federal …
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Robert David Steele: The Open Source Everything Manifesto A few months ago we were approached by Robert David Steele, pitching his book “The Open Source Everything Manifesto”. He came to us because our name, Open Spectrum. Apparently it resonated with the message he has spent the last decade putting forward. At first, I wasn’t sure what to …
Hedrick Smith 5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling Narrative–Could the Book Tour Spark a Revolution?, September 11, 2012 EDIT of 12 Sep 2012: I spent the night thinking about this book. Directly below [and now also loaded as a graphic to this Amazon page] are a graphic showing the preconditions of revolution in the USA, …
