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POPSNonviolence As Their Weapon "It was 2001. Khatib watched in horror as Israeli soldiers shot an unarmed friend at a checkpoint. Two weeks later, the militant Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade made a revenge attack on the checkpoint, killing seven soldiers. "My first reaction was 'Good for Al Aqsa!' " Khatib said. Then he realized the dead soldiers belonged to a different unit, not the one on duty when his friend was shot. "It made me wonder: This cycle of death, of violent action and reaction, how we can break it?"
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POPSNo cash? Barter for services with "dibits"
In the First Great Depression, the use of local community currencies ("script") exploded across the United States. Roosevelt sent a senior member of his Cabinet (I think it was John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of the Interior) to tour the country to find out what was going on. After a few months research, the Secetrary returned to report that the local "script" currencies were thriving and were starting to turn things around. But then he told the President that if the Federal Government lost control of the money system, it would lose control of the country. Local currencies were then outlawed and the New Deal, according to which the Federal Government borrowed and dispersed all monies, was hatched. Obama is trying the same trick in his new New Deal. If it does not succeed -- and our findings indicated that success is unlikely -- then he might be open to letting people create and trade in their own local bartar currencies, as well as give each other interest-free credits. One lesso
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POPSThe Public's Right to Know We as a people need info available in real time & be able to search it as we please. I also believe it will allow for more democratic action.
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POPSAgenda 21 and Depopulation Codex Alimentarius is planned to go into effect on December 31st, 2009. If you haven't heard of it, or of Agenda 21, you should watch these videos. Please watch the video clipped by LoPhatt too: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/40998E5B-81B4-4513-BCB6-54160CFAFD24/
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POPSOpen Money-The Next Global Currency I'm all in favor. No more federal reserve/world banks. I like the point made that it's open source. We don't need money, what we need to do is the right thing like the rest of the creation around us.
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POPSEvery City Should Provide This Service I'm involved in trying to try to do this in our city of Clearlake, CA along with mapping other things such as code violations. It's nice that there are tools that are empowering citizens.
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POPSFCC Closes a Window to an Open Internet Did you know the Japanese have internet speeds up to 30 times faster than us & cheaper? Makes you wonder if any of these decision makers spend time online? Oh,.. hold on... I just made mental contact with the guy on the far right. Yes, "Dial up". Oh, yeah,...he does understand what that is. Here are his exact thoughts, " I'm so glad we got touch tone phones instead of those old dial ups."
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POPSThe NEW Constitution of the United States of the World If you consider yourself a world citizen & desire to be a part of positive change to the planet this is an absolute read. There was too much good stuff to clip so please go to the site. There is a lot at the site that we can incorporate at here at clipmarks.
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