Here a dozen Venn diagrams to help us figure out this most pertinent question:
Who Is The Problem? Corporations or Government?
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Categories : economy, law, poltics, power corrupts, society
Some ‘Seasteaders’ Changing Course to Form Autonomous Libertopian City-States Within Willing Countries Like Tropical Honduras
19 12 2011Patri Friedman (that’s Milton Friedman’s grandson to you), who stepped down as the chief executive of the Peter Thiel-backed Seasteading Institute in August, has resurfaced as the CEO of a new for-profit enterprise named Future Cities Development Inc., which aims to create new cities from scratch (on land this time) governed by “cutting-edge legal systems.” The startup may have found its first taker in Honduras, whose government amended its constitution in January to permit the creation of special autonomous zones exempt from local and federal laws. Future Cities has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to build a city in one such zone starting next year.
Read more: fastcoexist.com
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Tags: libertarian seasteading
Categories : economy, law, poltics, society, technology
Stephen Fry shares some jaw dropping facts about American prisons
6 12 2011The US is home to 5% of the global population, yet it also has 25% of the world’s prisoners.
Half of the nearly 3 million American prisoners are locked away for non-violent drug offenses (a great majority for pot).
1 out of 30 American men between 20 & 34 are in prison.
It’s 1 out of 9 for African American men in the same age group.
The private prison industry is massive and very powerful politically, and their business is BOOMING.
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Categories : cannabis, drug-laws / drug-politics, education, law, power corrupts, society, video
Open Science Summit Videos
17 11 2011Videos of presentations from the 2011 Open Science Summit can be viewed at Fora TV.
Wonderfully juicy topics include open source drug discovery, big data bioinformatics, ‘clinical trials 2.0′, open science education, open access science journalism, personal genomics, radical longevity, transparency in science, incentive and intellectual property: FORA.TV
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Categories : biology, brain, chemistry, cognition, cosmology, education, evolution, health, infotech, law, lecture, nanotechnology, nature, pharmaceuticals, science, singularity, society, technology
Messages from the Occupy Wall Street Protest
12 11 2011Fantastic and rousing video concerning the growing Occupy movement:
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[Trailer] We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
12 11 2011This looks like it might be really good:
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Categories : economy, infotech, law, poltics, society, video
The 9/11 Masterminds
12 11 2011Superb 15 minute summary of the many important prime and potential suspects involved in the complex and heinous crime of 9/11. This smart and well-done video is seriously recommended viewing. Please share as well.
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Categories : economy, law, poltics, power corrupts, society, video
How far will we fall?
4 11 201110 years of TSA. 10 years of unchecked abuse and misconduct, and humiliation of the defenseless, and increasing callous indignity, confiscated nail-clippers, toothpaste and water, removal of shoes… then prosthetic breasts and legs, then diaper pat-downs for both infant and wheelchair-bound elderly. Naked photos of all, not being erased nor scrambled, but stored and easily transferred or stolen. The TSA has even begun operating on mandatory railway and highway “checkpoints.”
10 years of TSA. How many terror attempts thwarted by it???
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Categories : law, poltics, power corrupts, society
Occupy Wall Street Simplified
21 10 2011MUST SEE!!! Occupy Wall Street in less than 4 minutes.
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Categories : economy, law, poltics, society, video
Complex systems analysis reveals the corporations that run the world
19 10 2011Mathematical analysis of 46,000 transnational corporations reveal hierarchical patterns of control over the economy and, by extension, geopolitics, with 147 corporations (0.3%) having total control over 40% of the entire network. Scientist suggests global anti-trust rules to limit over-connection among transnational corporations. The data is limited however, so finer details of connectivity or influence were lacking. Unfortunately, the article mistakes this lack of data for proof of non-existence and evidence against ‘conspiracy theories’ and other more deeply organized or rooted aspects of economic control, but it does very well in pointing out the fractal patterns observable in evolving societal substructures!
New Scientist: Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world
EDIT: what’s interesting is that the the top 20 in this list is almost identical to the top 20 campaign contributors to Obama (and Romney).
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Categories : economy, law, mathematics, poltics, power corrupts, science
10 Projects to Liberate the Web
7 10 2011Shareable.net describes 10 projects concerning the future of information and social/private networks that will be included at Contact Summit.
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Categories : infotech, law
Occupy The Mind – Legalize DMT.
7 10 2011DMT is chemical produced and used by the human nervous system. It can be found in almost any plant or animal species and is a psychedelic chemical that is used in shamanic healing practices of South America. DMT is also listed as a Schedule 1 substance. According to the US government, not only are nature and shamanism illegal, but so are YOU, of possession AND manufacturing of an “illegal narcotic.”
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Categories : ayahuasca, biology, botany, brain, chemistry, cognition, DMT, documentary, drug-laws / drug-politics, entheogens, law, nature, psychedelic medicine, rainforest, shamanism, society
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