The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Horse and Buggy Representation in the Space Age The representation aspect of our democracy is structured the way it is, primarily due to practical considerations: the unwieldiness of pure democracy. But since computer technology is changing that, the same philosophical arguments that were made for representative democracy can now legitimately be used for emergent democracy. …
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What If Government Were More Like an iPod? Dilbert’s Scott Adams on bringing democracy out of the age of wax candles and into the age of touch screens Scott Adams Wall Street Journal, 5 November 2011 If Congress had a 9% approval rating while George Washington was still alive, he would have shoved his wooden …
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The two documents presented to the working group can be seen and downloaded at http://tinyurl.com/OWS-ER-HO Additional background on electoral reform in relation to Occupy at http://tinyurl.com/ER-DIY If you agree this is needed, please contribute what you can at http://tinyurl.com/ER-RoadTrip Below the Line: Replay Elsewhere and See Also
After four years constructive unemployment, largely due to the illegal and abusive practices of DIA and DOHA that are being taken to court–I feel called to focus on Electoral Reform. Here is the short URL for a campaign to raise $10,000 to take Electoral Reform hand-outs and stimulate electoral reform dialog across America, visiting each …
Mitch Ratcliffe, Jon Lebkowsky 5.0 out of 5 stars SIX STAR #OWS Primer Wow Wow Wow,October 20, 2011 I bought this book in October 2010 because I was getting to know both Mitch Ratcliff and Jon Lebkowsky better, but at first pass through it did not really draw me in. Then OccupyWallStreet happened. I read …
George: Re the article below: This is terrible. It is bad enough on its face, but to realize that MIT’s Malone is at the heart of this breaks my heart, devastates my soul and outrages my professional sensibilities. Now I am sorry that we didn’t do a paper on pubic wisdom for his conference next …
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Dawning realizations re Occupy Wall Street It is slowly dawning on me that I’ve seen events very similar to Occupy Wall Street. The first time was on the Great Peace March in 1986 which started out from Los Angeles as a hierarchical mega-PR event with 1200 people and tons of equipment. It suddenly and traumatically …
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