The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Towards a grand coalition for the commons I believe there is a historic opporunity to reconstruct a progressive majority around enabling the commons, which would be based on the following political and sociological complementarity between political forces and parties. Though the fortunes of the new player in politics are down from the moment I wrote …
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Yes, the collaborative economy is destroying jobs. So what’s next? OuShare, 16 October 2012 by Stanislas Jourdan Let’s not be blind: yes, the collaborative economy is destroying a massive number of jobs. Is that a disaster though? It is, if we don’t redefine what ‘job’ and ‘work’ means, and how they relate to income. However, …
Right now, people in the USA are essentially getting picked off one or two at a time by social trends, like lack of good health care and lack of good jobs or a basic income leading to stress and various consequences including death (like possibly the recent tragedy down the road from us involving a …
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Always remember Howard Zinn’s remarks: “In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison to what is done by those who have power, how do I manage to stay involved and seemingly happy? I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give …
Just from the topics, it seems like a more coherent version of this stuff I wrote in 2004: Achieving the Star Trek Society. “This essay shows how a total of $14000 billion up front and at least another $2085 billion per year can be made available for creative investment in the USA by adopting a …
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Five Interwoven Economies: Subsistence, Gift, Exchange, Planned, and Theft (or Conquest) This video presents a simplified education model about socioeconomics and technological change. It discusses five interwove economies (subsistence, gift, exchange, planned, and theft) and how the balance will shift with cultural changes and technological changes. It suggests that things like a basic income, better …
EXTRACTS from A Book Review by Richard C. Cook (FREE VERMONT MEDIA) It’s too late for anyone to pretend that the U.S. government, whether under President Barack Obama or anyone else, can divert our nation from long-term economic decline. The U.S. is increasingly in a state of political, economic, and moral paralysis, caught as it …
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