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Fwd: infographics animation - perspective - debt and spending comparisons
by Michel Bauwens 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:52 AM Subject: infographics animation - perspective - debt and spending comparisons To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Cc: econowmix(a)googlegroups.com, hc_ecology(a)yahoogroups.com, sustainable_solidarity(a)yahoogroups.com Impressive ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Pahd2X-eE via http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/debtris/ http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/ also UK version http://infosthetics.com/archives/2011/01/debtris_playing_tetris_with_expend… * * *thanks to Gael for the link !* -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: January 13: New Year's Event
by Michel Bauwens 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Announcements of the Free Knowledge Institute < fki-announce(a)freeknowledge.eu> Date: Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:25 PM Subject: January 13: New Year's Event To: fki-announce(a)freeknowledge.eu * * * New Year's Event * * * The Free Knowledge Institute celebrates the new year with the 2011 New Year's Event on January 13th, together with over twenty local and international Internet related organisations, such as RIPE NCC, Internet Society, Gridforum, Bendeburgers, NLnet, Bits of Freedom, Open Domein and SIDN! This year, the event will be held the Science Park in Amsterdam and is hosted by the University of Amsterdam. You are sure to run into old friends, acquaintances and new interesting people working on areas of the Internet that you've not yet encountered. From grids and clouds to accessibility, from hackers to hosters, from civil rights to registries - everyone will be attending. We start with a dinner buffet at 18.30h, so you can join us straight from work. We have the main space reserved for drinks, food and conversation only, so you can meet up with people you know or would like to meet. In a dedicated part you can continue talking and drinking, find recruiters to see if there are any new career challenges you should consider and get some information and nice giveaways from the various organisations. In the lecture hall we have a lot of interesting 'lightning talks' for you, so you can get a quick update on what is happening or about to happen. Speakers include Daniel Karrenberg, Alex Band (RIPE NCC), Carl Lens (Bendeburgers), Matthijs Mekking (NLnet Labs), Mark Overmeer (NLUUG), Rick van Rein (OpenFortress), Eric Velleman (Accessibility.nl) and Steven Pemberton (CWI). And of course in the same lecture hall we will have the traditional Chairman's debate at 20h. The address is: Universiteit van Amsterdam Science Park 904 Amsterdam http://www.science.uva.nl/sciencepark904 Please register online for this event here: http://isoc.nl/registratie The participating organisations are: Accessibility.nl - making ICT available to people with disabilities AMS-ix - the largest internet exchange on the planet Bendeburgers - e-participation platform Bits of Freedom - protecting online civil rights Dutch Hosting Provider Association - association of hosting companies Eth0 - hacker association Free Knowledge Institute - promotes free knowledge and software Fronteers - association of front end developers Gridforum.nl - association for grid and cloud professionals Het Nieuwe Stemmen - making society open with open data Holland Open - open source software, open standards, open content Hxx - hacker association ISPconnect - association of Internet Service Providers Internet Society Nederland - to promote the free, robust and reliable internet NLnet - charity that invests in open technologies NLnet Labs - R&D on core internet technology OpenDoc Society - knowledge platform around open document formats RIPE NCC - Regional Internet Registry (RIR) SIDN - the organisation behind .nl and ENUM in the Netherlands SURFnet - national research and education network Terena - Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association Vereniging Open Domein - promotes public domain on the internet Vrijschrift - striving for free information and protection of privacy W3C Benelux - the Benelux office of the webstandards organisation _______________________________________________ FKI-announce mailing list http://mail.freeknowledge.eu/mailman/listinfo/fki-announce To unsubscribe send a message to: fki-announce-leave(a)freeknowledge.eu For more info: http://freeknowledge.eu -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: [Commoning] Fwd: Watch a free online streaming of "At Home in Utopia"!
by Michel Bauwens 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

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mesh telephony
by Michel Bauwens 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

Hi Sepp, something to look into: http://www.shareable.net/blog/peep-wireless-proposes-a-peer-to-peer-cell-ne… -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: Etude SAW-B 2010 : "Initiatives citoyennes, l'économie sociale de demain ?"
by Michel Bauwens 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: 2011/1/7 Subject: Fwd: Etude SAW-B 2010 : "Initiatives citoyennes, l'économie sociale de demain ?" To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>, sustainable_solidarity(a)yahoogroups.com, hc_ecology(a)yahoogroups.com, econowmix(a)googlegroups.com nice pdf for vulgarisation, in french ( belgium ) - rather broad , related to new forms of ( local alternative economics ) emerging... *http://www.saw-b.be/EP/2010/Etude2010_Web.pdf* ------ Message transféré *De : *Frédérique Konstantatos <f.konstantatos(a)saw-b.be> *Date : *Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:02:55 +0100 *À : *<undisclosed-recipients:;> *Objet : *Etude SAW-B 2010 : "Initiatives citoyennes, l'économie sociale de demain ?" *Madame, Monsieur, SAW-B* a le plaisir de vous annoncer la publication de l'étude "*Initiatives citoyennes, l’économie sociale de demain ? < http://www.saw-b.be/EP/2010/Etude2010_Web.pdf> * ". Un travail exploratoire de projets, portés par la société civile, qui pourraient s’intégrer au mouvement social de l’économie alternative. Ces dernières années, de nombreuses initiatives économiques sont nées autour de petits projets associatifs. Portées par des individus dont ce n’est, *a priori,* pas la spécialité, elles reposent quasi-exclusivement sur une logique domestique. Actions collectives actrices de changement social, ces initiatives attirent immanquablement l’attention de l’économie sociale. Peut-on y voir les contours de « l'économie sociale de demain » ? *Quelle est leur capacité à « faire économie » ?* Portées par des bénévoles, quel est le « potentiel de pérennité » de ces structures ? Cette étude, menée en collaboration notamment avec Sybille Mertens (Ulg, Centre d’économie sociale) et Bernard Bayot (Réseau Financement Alternatif), se penche sur trois initiatives en particulier : *les groupes d’achats collectifs ou solidaires, les coopératives éoliennes et les systèmes d’échange locaux*. Le secteur, son histoire et ses enjeux sont présentés pour chacune des initiatives. Devant les diversités de pratiques se pose la question de l’existence ou non d’un modèle économique. Y a-t-il une capacité, ou une volonté, à essaimer ce modèle ? Quelle est sa rentabilité éventuelle ? Est-elle recherchée ? Quelle est la dimension politique de l'activité, la capacité des acteurs à faire réseau ? *L’étude est téléchargeable gratuitement ici < http://www.saw-b.be/EP/2010/Etude2010_Web.pdf> .* Vous trouverez également sur notre site toutes les analyses réalisées par SAW-B dans le cadre de ses activités d’éducation permanente. L'étude et les analyses sont réalisées grâce au soutien de la Communauté française de Belgique. *Nous sommes à votre disposition* pour tout renseignement complémentaire. Les analyses et études que nous produisons sont là pour susciter la réflexion, alimenter le débat et être enrichies. Vos avis et commentaires sont donc les bienvenus. Nous sommes également disponibles pour vous aider à mettre en place ou animer des débats que vous souhaiteriez mener au sein de vos structures. Pour en discuter, n’hésitez pas à nous contacter au 071/53 28 30 ou par e-mail : info(a)saw-b.be Bien cordialement, *Frédérique KONSTANTATOS *Education permanente Chargée de projets *SAW-B *42/6 rue Monceau-Fontaine 6031 Monceau-sur-Sambre T : 071/53 28 30 - F 071/53 28 31 Skype : frederiquesaw-b -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Re: [P2P-F] www.vitalissues.info -- 18 info-sheets, all stressing populist activism
by Michel Bauwens 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

thank you mike, forwarding to our p2p list, Michel On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:57 PM, mike stagman <artemesium(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > Hello Michel, > > This is Mike Stagman, friend of Markus Petz. > > My new (campaigning) website is finished. Perhaps you might take a look at > it, and if by chance you like something there, you might pass the url and > info on to others. > > Here's my presentation: > > > This is an announcement of a new FreeThinkers website, > www.vitalissues.info. It presents 18 information-sheets on vital issues, > all stressing populist activism. > > The website information was written especially for college/university > students and all persons of political/social conscience who wish to make a > better world out of the worsening one that we unfortunately have. > > Subject info includes the predatory Banking Cartel's gigantic > theft&swindle, further victimizing the populace through Austerity public > service cuts; > the corporate cartel Oligarchy's methods for domination; > 9/11 and Foreign policy; > The European Union Empire; > Food Safety and Dangerous Medicine; > Drastic Climate Change; > GMO Disease Epidemics (publicity about almost totally suppressed by the > mass media Thought Control apparatus), > the Direct Democracy alternative to the corrupt corporate-political System > -- > > -- specific advice on creating a GRASSROOTS MASS MEDIA and alternative > political institutions, and on educating & politically activating the > largely ignorant, misguided and passive General Public [which is > crucial!!]. > > Note: The two attachments are info-sheets from the FreeThinkers website, > to give an idea of what www.vitalissues is about. > > > Best Wishes, > > Myron (Mike) Stagman > Doctor of English Literature > research scholar > author of books on Shakespeare & Classical Greece > > > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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must read reportage on community resilience in Detroit
by Michel Bauwens 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

http://www.shareable.net/blog/detroit-community-resilience-and-the-american… -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Re: [P2P-F] Regarding P2P Foundation mailing list getting the Wikileaks treatment...
by Michel Bauwens 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

Thanks Paul for the suggestions, as for the archive, my understanding it will remain active, but Kevin or Franco can confirm, I agree with you it is important, for the other issues, in a voluntary organisation, it all boils down to implementation .. this means that someone has to volunteer and say, "I will do it" and the community can then experiment with a particular new option, Michel On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Paul D. Fernhout < pdfernhout(a)kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote: > I just saw the post here and the notes about the list moving: > > > http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/p2p-foundation-mailing-list-getting-the-wikil… > > Sorry to see the problems. > > I can wonder if this could be a good time to re-examine some of the p2p > objectives and how people are going about pursuing them? > > Some comments on that from a few different directions -- like the social > semantic desktop, what could be built on email, tools for nutritional > sensemaking and p2p health care, and the issue of living archives, and a > plea for explicit licensing of contributions to the new list. > > === Breaking links? > > I point people to stuff I posted at p2presearch all the time; examples: > > "[p2p-research] College Daze links (was Re: : FlossedBk, "Free/Libre and > Open Source Solutions for Education")" > > http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-October… > > Referenced for example here: > "On moving beyond money (Score:4, Interesting)" > http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1512608&cid=30785106 > > Or: > > "[p2p-research] FOSS modeling tools (was Re: Earth's carrying capacity and > Catton)" > > http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-August/… > > Referenced for example here: > > http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2010/08/06/makes-you-think-in-america-we-rea… > > It will be sad to see all those links broken. > > === A possibility for better systems > > I've talked about the possibility for better p2p tools beyond email in the > past. :-) > > Just one example: > "[p2p-research] P2P platforms for wide ranging discussions beyond email? > (was Re: The psychopath as peer?)" > > http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-Novembe… > "In any case, what we may need is a better stigmergic platform than wikis > or emails or web forums or Google Wave for creating public interlinked > knowledge covering a wide variety of interrelated topics from a wide > variety of perspectives, especially one that is interlinked with things > like real time data acquisition, simulations, and digitized historical > records." > > Someone copied that here for if/when that link becomes broken: > http://postbiota.org/pipermail/tt/2009-November/006494.html > > A similar post on the open manufacturing list (by me) in the context of > problems the leader of the RepRap project was having with a mailing list > (one I was posting to :-): > "The need for better communication tools & a semantic web (was Re > reprap-dev)" > > http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/msg/576771df555e729f?hl=en > "You may well be right in practice with email, but none-the-less I think > this once again suggests the need for much better tools for communications > than plain email. If we were using something like a social semantic desktop > (or whatever) to create these open manufacturing systems, people could post > whatever they wanted to a cloud of ideas and semantic tagging done by the > community (including how hardware oriented some post was) would let items > that Adrian was interested bubble up to some semantic-related queue he set > up for himself, essentially as a form of topical moderation (but, where > there was an infinite number of topics). At least, that's the hope. :-) > For example, someone makes a post about ball bearings. That gets tagged > later as "hardware" related. Or even more specifically, as about "bearings". > Someone else posts about how some company or other does not get some aspect > of a purported open source ethic. That post gets tagged as "social" or > "business" or "ethics" or maybe all of those. Adrian sets up a filter so > that only things tagged "hardware" come to his attention (although maybe > once in a while he might look at a broader stream, from which he might > decide to add some new tags). " > > It's certainly thinkable to have better p2p systems, whatever they look > like, and for practitioners to consider using them. :-) > > And there are examples from the past like Groove or to some extent Google > Wave. But ultimately, the future is some kind of social semantic desktop > (perhaps with an email gateway just for some surface discussions to bring > people to the desktop). I might like to see each post to a P2P community as > an RDF document or a Pointrel transaction (or several perhaps, as they got > moved around) that could potentially contain all sorts of content. > > I tried, a little, aspiring to raise the bar to a p2p "Social Semantic > Desktop" with a lot of tools for collective thinking. :-) > > > http://groups.google.com/group/diaspora-dev/browse_thread/thread/4cd369bdf1… > http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/msg/2846ca1b6bee64e1 > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pointrel/ > > But that is kind of back burner for a lot of reasons at the moment (time, > money, focus, peers). I'd like to do this full-time, but my wife is the one > working full-time now, and it would entail switching roles and bringing in > something to support my work on that so we could continue to homeschool. > > I may not be part of such a future effort for whatever reasons of > priorities (including my own), but others have invested a bunch of time in > that direction in the past, and certainly, ideally, they would be able to > provide better tools at some point. Example: > http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/ > > At the very least, one could ask, what sort of communications system should > a P2P Research Foundation ideally have? Just thinking through that might be > an interesting exercise and come up with some interesting ideas. There might > well be a system out there that already meets those ideals or which could be > easily modified to do so. > > Anyway, I feel the potential must be there, just barely, for someone to > really make a great p2p system and to use it to continue to move forward. > Something beyond diaspora and beyond email and beyond Wave and beyond > Groove. It's amazing how quickly Diaspora got funded, but also in some ways > it was sad how low the bar was that they set for themselves. Something like > Diaspora or Facebook could just be an application on top of something much > bigger and deeper. > > The p2presearch mailing list as a choke point for p2p research based on the > arbitrary decision of one commercial provider is of course pretty ironic. > :-) > > Still, email is p2p itself. The web archives or server may be going, but > people have their own copies of stuff. So, a central server is really is not > a choke point so much as an inconvenience. Email itself is not a bad choice > in many ways for communications, excepting, as I say at the post above, it > really does not (yet) have support for a lot of flexibility in having tools > above it or dealing with a wide variety of content in a way that does not > cause objections (given the social convention of "staying on topic" just to > try to fit a mechanical limitation related to filtering and categorizing). > > The obvious thing that bothers me most about the change (not being on the > list at the moment, in part just to keep myself from spending a lot of time > posting more stuff when I'm supposed to be doing other things :-) is > potentially broken links to old content. But this bigger picture issue I > raised, of wanting better tools for p2p research, remains, even at a new > host. Anyway, that's just kibitzing from the sidelines at his point, > granted. :-) > > === Email does have good p2p features > > There remain good things about mailing lists. Redundancy is why I prefer to > post stuff to lists that to, say, my own blog -- even if they are long, for > distributed copies. So, the centralized web pages are presumably going down > soon, but people still have their copies. However, because, I'll admit, > email is not well suited as a social medium to long posts, that did cause > problems and complaints. Also, email is not well suited to complex > interwoven discussions. > > Still, it might be possible to use email as a sort of carrier for anything, > although email has other problems (spam) that it's a toss up if one would > build better tools on it or just have a new infrastructure. Still, I have > thought, for example, that one could just send emails with attachments that > were RDF files or Pointrel transactions, and then people's email clients (a > Thunderbird add on?) would then use these attachments to update some kind of > dynamic local database of shared P2P content (with structured arguments, > complex interwoven threads, revision histories of shared documents, long > documents that are essentially hidden except for summaries, posts that are > modded up and down after they are sent, fixes sent for typos to previous > documents that appear merged into the original, and so forth). > > And it could include eventually general aspects of Doug Englebart's (and > others) visions: > http://www.dougengelbart.org/about/vision-highlights.html > "My hypothesis is that ever-more effective "Dynamic Knowledge Repositories" > (DKRs) will be central to improving a community's Collective IQ – > essentially the capability, in dealing with a complex problem, for providing > the best, up-to-date understanding of the current state of both the problem > and of its solution efforts. Our Tool Systems would be endowed with Open > Hyper Tools specifically designed to rapidly improve our collective process, > and especially the ongoing organic emergence and utility of comprehensive > DKRs out of that process. Specially trained teams will be involved, for > instance to ingest the ongoing dialog, help in adapting to the relevant > ontological shifts, help monitor and solidify the "argument structures" > involved in seeking coherence and plausibility, etc. And also for providing > correctly associated "views" of the knowledge structure to facilitate > learning – probably different such viewing forms for different categories of > learners." > > === Other applications > > Here is an example of someone's (an ex-CIA person's) attempt to build a > "public intelligence blog" and involve a lot of people in it. > http://www.phibetaiota.net/ > > But, what kind of "choke point" is that to do it as a web site? I've though > of contacting them about some of the things I'm interested in with Pointrel > and FOSS tools for intelligence systems, but so far have not. > > I'm doing things like researching for myself about iodine and health at the > moment (also I've been thinking about cholesterol and health, vitamin D and > health, the "pleasure trap", the sociology of peer pressure to eat poorly, > etc.). I have been posting to a members-only forum at Dr. Fuhrman's site. > Unfortunately, it's not open (or distributed), and I'm sad about that. I'm > sad that all my posts there on topics for future wellness research areas are > essentially lost to the public or at least I can't reference them in other > settings, and I'm hoping to put them elsewhere at some point. I don't know > how much longer I'll continue all that specific health exploration (or > posting there) -- excepting that I'd like better tools for doing nutritional > research in general, too. :-) Related, from one post I made there and put in > a public place: > "Open tools for nutritional research example (Score:2)" > http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1897006&cid=34459370<http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1897006&cid=34459370> > > So, better P2P tools with layers of analysis tools have all sorts of > potential applications in different areas, especially I feel, research about > P2P (meta), nutrition, economics, politics, community infrastructure design, > open manufacturing, and in general the softer sciences where there is a lot > of controversy or there are a lot of complex interwoven factors that need to > be discussed. And ideally people should be able to pick their level of > openness, with the default being fairly open. > > Two posts by me with links on how fundamentally broken profit-driven > hierarchical "science" is right now: > "More links on research problems (Score:2)" > http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1932134&cid=34740048 > "Links on problems with peer review (Score:3)" > http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1932134&cid=34740098 > > So, this is another broad issue for p2p. > > === An example from p2presearch history about living archives > > Or, for another example from a different direction, I just found out about > this idea: > http://www.bullies2buddies.com/ > > > http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psychological-solution-bullying/201011/… > > which really validates what Stan Rhodes and Andy Robinson (why I CC'd them) > said in this thread I started: > > "[p2p-research] The psychopath as peer?" > > > http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-Novembe… > > Andy's insightful reply: > > > http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-Novembe… > > And one of Stan's informative comments: > > > http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-Novembe… > > Izzy Kalman's point at Bullies to Buddies, echoing Andy's and Stan's > points, is how situational aspects as well as individual responses lead to > cycles of teasing escalating into bullying and what can be done about it > fairly easily (rather than more laws which he says makes things worse). And > then institutional labeling of someone as a "bully" or a "victim" adds > another layer of a problem to all that. > > I can wonder how our p2p or other technical systems might potentially > encourage psychopathic or sociopathic seeming behavior somehow? :-) I know > people have talked about some of the general issues of anonymity, > pseudonimity, group think effects (Shirky), and so on (and pros and cons of > various approaches). > > In any case, given how we normally use email or email archives, we don't > commonly use the kind of p2p systems where it would be easy to interlink new > information into discussions from more than a year ago. I could post a link > about it to the list, sure, but I can't make it easy to be sure someone > looking at the old discussion could find it. So, I found that link a month > or so ago, but did not have something easy to do with it. We also don't > commonly use systems where it would be easy to summarize or rewrite key > points to have new documents emerge (either technical systems or legal > systems). > > Yes, there is also the P2P Foundation wiki, but that's not really a > discussion system, even if you can have discussions on it, and then we have > two different systems maintained in different ways. And you need permissions > to work on the wiki in any case, so another choke point. > > Anyway, so there is a whole big issue about archives, what they are for, > and even if they are "archives" if they continue to motivate us to find new > information that we want to link back to the old information to help it grow > in interesting and informative and useful ways. > > === Dealing with content from different perspectives and assumptions > > Also, because people have different perspectives, there is the problem of > content disappearing from systems when people with various perspectives want > to just vanish the old stuff. That happened with me and Wikipedia, when all > the stuff I added to the Jobless Recovery article got deleted. I since put > it up here: > http://knol.google.com/k/paul-d-fernhout/beyond-a-jobless-recovery > > But dealing with multiple perspectives is not really something Wikipedia > was set up to do, again suggesting a need for better tools and better ways > to archive things than wikis. > > My wife's (free) attempt in that direction in the past (we spend much of > our home equity a year or so ago on funding her time for that. :-) > http://www.rakontu.org/ > > But, like anything, now she sees how it could be better, as she wrote here: > http://www.storycoloredglasses.com/2010/08/steal-these-ideas.html > > === P2P Health Care Research > > Thanks to all the great health information peers have put up on the web, > after some rough starts, and also with Ryan's helpful pointers, I've been > able to learn a lot about health and how to avoid most doctors and sick care > with better diet. It's been suggested that 70% or more of health > interventions are eating related to eating refined and processed foods and > excessive animal products. Related: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPiR9VcuVWw > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46_GInjBeQU > http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/foodpyramid.aspx > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A62FuxV8PY > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=830wtUvyOC0 > http://www.ravediet.com/preview.html > http://www.seriouseats.com/2007/11/the-subsidized-food-pyramid.html > > > http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/diet-myths-the-food-pyramid-of-the-ins… > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--NqqB2nhBE > http://www.iodine4health.com/ > > So, the "Google Health Plan" has really helped me, in the end, but it is > more than Google, it is search plus essentially p2p provided content: > > > http://www.ginside.com/2007/830/comics-dilbert-to-provide-google-health-pla… > > (I'm not saying an informed doctor ordering various blood tests etc. would > not be a good partner for all that, but they are hard to find. > Unfortunately, when my wife and I moved to New York to help take care of my > elderly parents, who were covered by four different sick care plans, we > could no longer afford to pay for sick care insurance as the rates doubled, > and rates just went up from there as we worked to pay back what we had > borrowed to finish our free garden simulator.) > > But it took years to get pointed towards better health, mistakes along the > way (even some deficiencies like maybe iodine from not supplementing or > eating enough seaweed) and I still have a lot to learn. And it would help to > have better open tools would help with all that. This is an area that may > save trillions of dollars a year in expenses and ideally should get a lot of > support for people developing better p2p systems that relate to health and > nutrition, as well as broader wellness areas. Broader aspects: > http://www.bluezones.com/ > http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1692444&cid=32644166 > http://www.healthpromoting.com/Articles/articles/PleasureTrap.htm > > So, while mainstream medicine and sick care insurance companies basically > tortured to death both my parents and one of my sisters at a hefty profit, I > can credit p2p research and a long period of little access to sick care for > hopefully saving me from a similar fate. :-) That said, yes, mainstream > medicine is good at some things (that 30% or whatever of the time where it > really does work miracles, like dealing with car accidents and so on). > > And I can hope p2p research through DIY-Bio enthusiasts will build on this > work to make regular nutritional-related testing essentially free for > everyone so people have an easier time at figuring out where they are or > what might be a problem with their diet: > "George Whitesides: A lab the size of a postage stamp" > > > http://www.ted.com/talks/george_whitesides_a_lab_the_size_of_a_postage_stam… > > So, I'm expecting p2p to become more-and-more the dominant force for > wellness in our often otherwise dysfunctional global society. Although, one > can ask how we can improve on that, where Google does not know someone's > every health issue? Also, for most people, having someone to hold their hand > going through that is a great thing, so, we may well see new links between > p2p and professional practices (include new professional to professional > networks, too). So, I'd suggest a focus on tools for p2p health care might > yield a lot of low-hanging fruit... > > === Moving beyond collateral damage; p2presearch on a p2p platform? > > When I saw the p2presearch list was down, because links I was posting to it > were not working, I was immediately thinking, oh, Wikileaks collateral > damage... Then the archives went back up in a day or so. But, the damage > still is ongoing in creating a hassle and breaking all the old links. > > Anyway, we've had this conversation before, about whether the P2P > Foundation would want to privilege or endorse one p2p system that it blessed > or invested in (especially a bleeding edge system that might well fail to > deliver, given "Software is Hard"). > http://gamearchitect.net/Articles/SoftwareIsHard.html > "Scott Rosenberg coins this as Rosenberg's Law: Software is easy to make, > except when you want it to do something new. The corollary is, The only > software that's worth making is software that does something new." > > I can see the argument for the P2P Foundation to stay "platform neutral" in > that sense. Of course, the P2P Foundation is privileging email and mailman > in a sense... And of course, the foundation is separate from the list itself > it seems. So, there are at least a couple of interwoven or overlapping > communities. > > === A plea for some explicit licensing > > I don't have any immediate plans to work with the previous p2presearch > content, but I have mused about that in the past, and I can wonder if there > would likely be substantial objections if in the future I was to take the > contents of the old list and put it in some new distributed form (like on > top of the Pointrel system)? But, it's not clear who would even approve of > that. The way copyright works, if the situation is unclear, I really should > get the explicit permission of each contributor to the list to put their > posts into any new format, which, while theoretically possible, generally > seems impractical (especially as people may change emails or not respond to > requests that get lost in spam). > > I guess it's not completely clear to me what license the list content is > under. If there is one thing I would suggest about the new list, it is to > make clear from the start that everything posted is under some free license > of some sort. Doesn't even have to allow modification of the text -- just > allowing ability to put it in new contexts as is would be a great thing, > although a Creative Commons license similar to Wikipedia would be a good > thing -- with the notion that anything copied into post was "fair use" and > future users of the material would have to make their own judgments about > that. > > Anyway, at the very least, reexamining the licensing status of information > and what people consider to be reasonable norms for its reuse would be good. > With the Pointrel system, I had hoped to integrate licensing permission > granting seamlessly into how it was used to promote sharing and reduce > chilling effects. > > === Thanks for reading this far > > In any case, it would be great if the old archive links stayed up, but I > presume they will be going away? > > Anyway, even with all the above, I'll still once again restate Manuel De > Landa's point: > http://www.t0.or.at/delanda/meshwork.htm > "Indeed, one must resist the temptation to make hierarchies into villains > and meshworks into heroes, not only because, as I said, they are constantly > turning into one another, but because in real life we find only mixtures and > hybrids, and the properties of these cannot be established through theory > alone but demand concrete experimentation." > > So, the P2P Foundation and other overlapping communities need to find > whatever mix of technologies and approaches work well for them, and they > indeed may not be pure "p2p". So, the mailing list approach indeed may well > be "good enough" even with some central choke point that is inconvenient, > but not impossible, to work around when problems come up. Archives can get > remade, who looks at old posts, web pages with links can get update, there > is archive.org to find old content, and so on. So, I don't want to sound > too alarmist, even if I think we could have better tools. We do have tools, > they work, we try to use them and often succeed and have productive > interactions. So, that's all good progress. Can it be better? One can hope, > and one would hope that comes out of "p2p research" at some point. > > (Feel free to forward to interested parties. And consider this under a CC > 3.0 BY-SA Unported license.) > > --Paul Fernhout > http://www.pdfernhout.net/ > ==== > The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of > abundance in the hands of those thinking in terms of scarcity. > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: Let Fury Have the Hour: Online, Angry Youth Sweep Away Old Structures of Dissent
by Michel Bauwens 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

I hadn't, thanks chris! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: chris(a)cataspanglish.com <chris(a)cataspanglish.com> Date: Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:19 AM Subject: Let Fury Have the Hour: Online, Angry Youth Sweep Away Old Structures of Dissent To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Hey Michel, did you see this? [image: star]ReadWriteWeb 6 de enero de 2011 00:00 by Curt Hopkins Let Fury Have the Hour: Online, Angry Youth Sweep Away Old Structures of Dissent<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/readwriteweb/%7E3/b1fGveI43V0/let_fury_hav…> [image: gybo.jpg]Two recent groups of cheesed-off kids have used online tools to circumvent both those who put them down and the creaky old activists who they believe no less authoritarian. Gaza Youth Breaks Out<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gaza-Youth-Breaks-Out-GYBO/118914244840679?v=…>, from Palestine, and the *fenqing*, or "angry youth<http://www.brookings.edu/events/2009/0429_china_youth.aspx>" movement in China have rejected the whole lot of old farts who they believe are responsible for stranding them in the present. And they're not being nice about it. Gaza Youth are a group from the strip who have taken Facebook by storm, printing a manifesto that is so uncompromising and so full of rejection not just for Israeli occupiers but the bullies and schnorrers in their own communities that reading it is like coming up for air. *Sponsor* <http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=24001&cb=24001> [image: gaza.jpg] GYBO Here's an excerpt from their manifesto. If you're of a sensitive disposition, well, you could probably insert your name in there somewhere. "Fuck Hamas. Fuck Israel. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA! We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international community! We want to scream and break this wall of silence, injustice and indifference like the Israeli F16's breaking the wall of sound; scream with all the power in our souls in order to release this immense frustration that consumes us because of this fucking situation we live in; we are like lice between two nails living a nightmare inside a nightmare, no room for hope, no space for freedom. We are sick of being caught in this political struggle; sick of coal dark nights with airplanes circling above our homes; sick of innocent farmers getting shot in the buffer zone because they are taking care of their lands; sick of bearded guys walking around with their guns abusing their power, beating up or incarcerating young people demonstrating for what they believe in; sick of the wall of shame that separates us from the rest of our country and keeps us imprisoned in a stamp-sized piece of land; sick of being portrayed as terrorists, homemade fanatics with explosives in our pockets and evil in our eyes; sick of the indifference we meet from the international community, the so-called experts in expressing concerns and drafting resolutions but cowards in enforcing anything they agree on; we are sick and tired of living a shitty life, being kept in jail by Israel, beaten up by Hamas and completely ignored by the rest of the world." These aren't witless stone-throwers or kids who just want to rage. "We do not want to hate," they say, "we do not want to feel all of this feelings, we do not want to be victims anymore. We want three things. We want to be free. We want to be able to live a normal life. We want peace. Is that too much to ask? " They're also smart about how they use social media to get their message out. (*Their *message, not the creaking, self-defeating message of their bankrupt elders.) Although they also have a blog <http://gazaybo.wordpress.com/>, their primary online presence is their Facebook page<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gaza-Youth-Breaks-Out-GYBO/118914244840679?v=…>, which is "liked" by almost 12,000 people so far. As of today, however, Facebook has blocked them<http://gazaybo.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/new-facebook-pages-policy-why-we-ca…>from uploading anything more! (Anyone who thinks social media is free by its very nature needs to have their head examined.) "Pls consider supporting us by taking one or more of the following actions: 1) Promoting our manifesto by sharing it on your profile on Facebook 2) Sending an email to your friends asking them to like our page FB 3) Translating the manifesto to your language and sending it to us (we have it in Arabic, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Greek, Chinese, Russian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Estonian) 4) Sending the manifesto to journalists in your country 5) Making organizations in your countries that are concerned with the Palestinian issue and/or youth rights know about our existence 6) Posting links about violation of youth's rights in Gaza on our wall 7) Suggesting us ideas for reaching out to a greater number of people" [image: chinese students.jpg] Angry Youth The Brookings Institution<http://www.brookings.edu/events/2009/0429_china_youth.aspx>describes this group. "These young men and women often use the Internet and other channels of political discourse to publicly express their critical views. Their hyper-nationalistic and often anti-American sentiments, which first emerged in the late 1990s and are widely disseminated today, stand in sharp contrast to a generation of Chinese youth just 20 years ago." In his keynote<http://www.brookings.edu/%7E/media/Files/events/2009/0429_china_youth/20090…>to a Brookings conference on this topic, Kai-Fu Lee, founder of Microsoft Research Asia and founding president of Google China, described them much more completely. He has reservations about the term "angry" (as in "enraged") and prefers to highlight their passionate engagement and impatience; he also credits them with patriotism but disagrees with characterizing them as "nationalistic." "(W)hen we talk about angry youth, I think we're talking about post- 80's, people born after 1980, that they had access to the internet, and that they often use it to vent their frustrations and that frustration often comes from either their patriotism or their desire to seek which is righteous, fair, true, and transparent. They care about social issues. They're concerned, and they feel they need to be outspoken to have their voices heard, and they often use the internet to gain knowledge and to have their voice heard." What have angry youth done? - Descried plagiarism among academics and set up a website to battle it - Created a help-and-resource platform to assist people and communities crushed by the Chengdu earthquake - Created a site to list earthquake donor levels among China's rich - Banded together against the high-powered manager of a multinational who abused his young secretary and got him fired These were not all positive, as any anonymous group can do things that no sensible person would do in the light of day. They set up a website to help others harass a husband whose wife committed suicide, as well as his lover and their families. They also promoted the rumor that a chain of foreign stores, Carrefour<http://www.carrefour.com/cdc/group/our-business/our-stores/>, supported Tibetan independence. People boycotted and protested and the store had to shut down countrywide until the furor died down. [image: Armenia.jpg] Compare and Contrast Although China is huge and Palestine small and the *fenqing *less coherent as a group than GYBO, both share a number of things in common. Although they love their people and their country, they're fed up with what's been done to it. They're not just at their wits' end with "the enemy" but with those who have set themselves up as "the opposition." They're suspicious of authority in general. They're devoted to the truth: finding it, embracing it and sharing it, largely online. They're technically literate and impatient with common wisdom. They're young, energetic and growing. Anyone who ignores or minimizes these groups does so at their peril. These kids are going to either rule the world or wind up in a host of unmarked graves. Anyone who believes in their right "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" will want to step up and get their backs. But the members of these groups also have a part to play in ensuring they go forward in a way that ensures they don't self-destruct. The American writer Delmore Schwartz <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1117/> famously said, "in dreams begin responsibilities." The responsibilities of the youth in these groups is to carry the reason, empathy and desire for truth forward, even as they are powered by their anger and impatience, to translate their vision to those who aren't part of the digital world even as they acknowledge the social web's help in defining those ideas. (Lord, I'm André Gide<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_retour_de_l%27enfant_prodigue>over here.) These aren't the only groups like this, of course. Nor are Palestine and China the only countries with such groups. So, if you're a part of one, or know of one, in another place, speak up in the comments. *Gaza photo by Free Gaza <http://www.flickr.com/photos/freegaza/> | China photo by Irish Typepad<http://www.flickr.com/photos/irisheyes/22315565/sizes/l/>| Armendian photo from Wikimedia Commons | other sources: Barking Robot<http://www.debaird.net/blendededunet/2011/01/trend-watch-china-angry-youth-…> * *Discuss<http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/let_fury_have_the_hour_angry_youth_rej…> * <http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/%7Eat/BeiY1ELkFOxv5S5Oo30mueBvE0Y/0/da> <http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/%7Eat/BeiY1ELkFOxv5S5Oo30mueBvE0Y/1/da> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/readwriteweb?a=b1fGveI43V0:bJZw9ofdvUo:FF…> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/readwriteweb?a=b1fGveI43V0:bJZw9ofdvUo:Ij…> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/readwriteweb?a=b1fGveI43V0:bJZw9ofdvUo:C2…> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/readwriteweb?a=b1fGveI43V0:bJZw9ofdvUo:yI…> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/readwriteweb?a=b1fGveI43V0:bJZw9ofdvUo:V_…> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/readwriteweb?a=b1fGveI43V0:bJZw9ofdvUo:gI…> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/readwriteweb?a=b1fGveI43V0:bJZw9ofdvUo:F7…> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/readwriteweb?a=b1fGveI43V0:bJZw9ofdvUo:Oq…> Government sent from my mobile device -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: Business Shamanism, Food on Drugs, verzola's essay on abundance, and epa and the bees
by Michel Bauwens 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

Expendable Bees<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> By Chris Kaplan Wikileaks reveals that the EPA allowed for the extermination of honey bees. (more) Read it here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/expendable_bees<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Reality Sandwich <news(a)realitysandwich.com> Date: Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 5:47 AM Subject: Business Shamanism, Food on Drugs, 2011 Astrology To: "michelsub2004(a)gmail.com" <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> [image: RealitySandwich.com]<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *Psyche*<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *Eco*<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *Life*<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *Tech*<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *Commons*<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *Arts*<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> Join bestselling author Jeremy Narby for "Awakening the Cosmic Serpent: Shamanism and Plant Teachers in this Transformative Time,"<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…>a pathbreaking 6-part online course that explores the mysteries at the heart of ancient shamanic practices and the visionary states they entail. This Evolver Intensives web seminar includes live video conversations with four of the world's leading experts on the shamanic use of mind-altering plants: Stanislav Grof, Wade Davis, Kat Harrison and Luis Eduardo Luna. It all starts on January 23. Throughout the Western world, people increasingly participate in indigenous shamanic ceremonies using psychedelic plants to open a path to deep personal insights and high spiritual truths. These plants -- including mushrooms, peyote, ayahuasca, and salvia divinorum -- are revered by ancient tribal societies as potent teachers capable of healing the body, expanding the mind, and strengthening community. This course gives you the tools you need to integrate the shamanic knowledge offered by teacher plants into your life, so you can fully embrace the change called for by this time of global transformation. 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Discount for E+SM members.<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> To learn more, visit http://www.evolverintensives.com<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> EVENTS Iraq Veterans Against the War and Evolver.net present <http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…>Evolver Spores: Wars and Peace,<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…>Wed, January 19 Recent figures place the total casualties of the United StatesÕ military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan at nearly one million people, with a toll of human suffering (including thousands of neglected US veterans) that is impossible to measure. Vast resources are spent to keep the war machine humming, with government, corporate, and media interests alike inextricably tied to a military-industrial complex that makes its fortunes on death and destruction. 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January 6th: Maui, Hawaii, Temple of Peace, 575 Haiku Rd. January 23: Evolver Boulder, CO, Westview House 942 Westview Dr. January 30th: Auckland, New Zealand February 13th: Byron Bay, Australia http://www.realitysandwich.com/crossing_event_horizon <http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *** "2012: Time for Change" Film Premieres <http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> Directed by Emmy Award nominee Joao Amorim, the film follows RS editorial director Daniel Pinchbeck, on a quest for a new paradigm that integrates the archaic wisdom of tribal cultures with the scientific method. Featuring: Dean Radin, Barbara Marx Hubbard, John Todd and Paul Stamets and celebrities such as Sting, Ellen Page and Gilberto Gil. Watch the trailer at www.2012timeforchange.com January 19th: Collingwod, Ontario, Canada; 6:30 PM, $7 (Students Free) February 6th: Rye, NY; 3:30 Pm film, 5:00 Q&A, $10 http://www.realitysandwich.com/upcoming_2012_screenings<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *** Media Sponsorships The Manifestation Celebration in Dallas, May 7, 2011<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> A night of music, art, and the exploration of human consciousness with Alex and Allyson Grey, Rick Strassman, Mitch Schultz, Jamie Janover, Rose Hahn, & Michael Garfield. Dallas Museum of Nature & Science, 1318 S. 2nd Ave, 7p. Tiered ticketing. http://www.evolver.net/event/2011/05/07/manifestation_celebration_dallas<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> ============Sponsorship============== WAKE UP: Inspiration for the New Year!<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> Jonas Elrod was leading an ordinary life until he woke up one day to a totally new reality. He suddenly could see and hear angels, demons, auras and ghosts. The documentary film WAKE UP follows his fascinating journey into the world of the phenomenal and spiritual and has become an inspiration to audiences across the world. Rent the film online for $5, buy it on DVD or go to a screening in your area. Watch the trailer and find out more at: http://wakeupthefilm.com<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> ===================================== MULTIMEDIA Dr. Dennis McKenna in Cultivating a Cure<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> By Sarah Hutt Can we afford to let undiscovered and underutilized medicinal plants go unnoticed -- and possibly disappear forever? Watch it here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/video/dr_dennis_mckenna_cultivating_cure<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> <http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *** <http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…>Scenes from Wake Up<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> by Amy Slotnick The documentary, Wake Up follows “average guy” Jonas on his strange and wonderful journey to discover why one day out of nowhere he began to see angels, spirits, demons, ghosts, and auras. Watch it here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/video/scenes_wake<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> ===================================== NEW ARTICLES We publish new articles on Reality Sandwich daily, M-F. Below are teasers for recent highlights. We hope you will enjoy these stories and share them with your compatriots: *** Be Love Now<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> By Ram Daas As we begin to awaken, experiences lead to reflection and contemplation. Then as we become more aware, experiences become a fire of purification, a burning ground of the ego, grist for the mill of developing consciousness, food enabling the emerging soul to break free of its bonds. Read it here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/be_love_now<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *** Business Shamanism<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> By Daniel Pinchbeck For the next phase of our evolutionary unfolding, the spiritual and artistic counterculture must define the desired alternative, co-opt the propaganda tools and financial instruments of the dominant culture, and redirect or reverse the momentum of the system as a whole. Read it here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/business_shamanism<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *** Elephants: Please Don't Go<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> By Charles Eisenstein If the elephants go extinct, there will be nuclear war. A few elephants in zoos and game reserves won't be enough - we need the society of the elephant walking this earth. It is as if, through some shamanic magic, they are preventing us from forgetting history (or forgetting ourselves) and unleashing holocaust. Are we ready to listen? Read it here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/elephants_please_dont_go<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> <http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *** Food on Drugs<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> By Rachel Boers For the first time ever the FDA has exposed the large amount of antibiotics used in factory farm animals. Read it here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/food_drugs<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *** The Incorruptibles: A Requiem for Civilization<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> By Tony V >From the oil shocks of the 1970s to the savings & loan crisis of the 1980s, the dotcom bubble of the 1990s, and today's mortgage meltdown, systemic crises are larger, more devastating, longer lasting, and closer together, and our so-called leaders are in denial. Read it here:http://www.realitysandwich.com/incorruptibles_requiem_civilization<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *** Spiritual Bypassing<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> By Robert Augustus Masters The use of spiritual practices and beliefs to avoid dealing with our painful feelings, unresolved wounds, and developmental needs is much more common than we might think and, in fact, is so pervasive as to go largely unnoticed, except in its more obvious extremes. Read it here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/spiritual_bypassing<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *** The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> By Paul Levy For thousands of years a psychological disease has been informing human self-destructive behavior. A psychosis in the true sense of the word as a "sickness of the soul," this illness is at the root of humanity's inhumanity to itself. 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His real crime was broadcasting that no one had the right to prevent others from altering their consciousness. Read it here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/no_more_secrets<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *** Abundance and the Generative Logic of the Commons<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> By Roberto Verzola The growth of the information economy has made it imperative to deal with the phenomenon of abundance. Unlike the long history of commons research, studies of abundance are few; thus, we are just starting to build theories about it. Read it here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/abundance_and_generative_logic_commons<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *** Exile Nation: Chapter Four, "Protest" (Pt. 20)<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> By Charles Shaw BOOK I of Exile Nation concludes its year long run on Reality Sandwich with this final installment which wraps the first story up, taking us back to the day on which the book opened. Read it here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/exile_nation_ch4_pt20<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> <http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *** Fight for a Free Internet<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> By Eliot Edge During the last few days a sneak-mission on Capitol Hill passed "fake net neutrality"--a significantly compromised version of actual net neutrality. Read it here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/keep_internet_free<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> <http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *** Remembering John Jay Harper<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> By Chris Kaplan Transformational thinker John Jay Harper passes on but his legacy remains. Read it here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/remembering_harper<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *** 2011 Astrology Preview<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> By VerDarLuz 2011 promises to be a very active year with strong surges of change and evolutionary potential, due to Jupiter's inspiring acceleration through Aries, and the year's four Solar Eclipses. We haven't had this many solar eclipses in a year since 1917. 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Check out all the latest at www.nightlightastrology.com<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> ===================================== Assessing a Quest to Heal HIV with Ayahuasca Shamanism<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> By Robert Tindall In my eyes, Rolf came to represent a now rarely practiced, but time-honored approach to healing: that of the vision quest, where the "goal is to get back inside nature to hear her original medical voice." Read it here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/heal_hiv_shamanism<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *** Rethinking Veganism<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> Amy Ritchie The problem with being at the top of the food chain, and having the frontal cortex that allows analyzation and self-consciousness, is that we are cursed with the emotional framework of the life/death cycle. Read it here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/rethinking_veganism<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *** The Astrological Revolution<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> By Kevin Dann Rudolf Steiner said that when a person dies, the configuration of stars at that moment remains as an imprint causing the soul to try to enter into the same configuration upon reincarnation. This idea became a Rosetta Stone for research into the mysteries of karma and reincarnation as revealed by a study of the stars. Read it here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/astrological_revolution<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> *** Expendable Bees<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modul…> By Chris Kaplan Wikileaks reveals that the EPA allowed for the extermination of honey bees. 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