Category Archive for 'Empowerment'

Tell Them About the Dream — TODAY!

Tell Them About the Dream
Please do it TODAY!
A terrific music video by Laura Vecchione (Veck-ee-oh-nee)
She writes:
Dear Friends,
This is a song and video that came together in a week, in three different cities, because of people’s belief in Sen. Obama and his message of renewal and the historic nature of this election. We got it […]

Upstarts’ startling demolition debut

Author: Dr. Farooq Hassan
September 20, 2008 like March 9, 2007, is amongst the defining moments in Pakistan’s contemporary history. It would also ranks amongst its bleakest. Future destiny of this nation could well be determined by facts as they happened on this day. The attack outside the five-star Marriott Hotel - not far from key […]

Election 2008: Lipstick on the [dead] Pig

Posted by: Jock Gill
Robert David Steele has posted a free book: Election 2008: Lipstick on the Pig.
Author’s Preface
The financial fraud now capturing the attention of all who focus on the pathologies of both Wall Street and Washington is NOT our Nation’s greatest threat. While the proposed bail‐out is both unconstitutional (seeking to negate […]

A Post Broadcast Convention?

Much has been written about post-broadcast politics, networked politics, or any other number of phrases about the political process moving beyond the thirty second soundbite on the evening news. Obama’s use of the Internet has been compared to JFK’s use of television. JFK understood the new medium of television and used it to […]

The Trap

Could a President Obama set us free?
What is the “The Trap“?
It is a three part film by Adam Curtis, broadcast by the BBC in March 2007.
Curtis’s narration concludes with the observation that the game theory/free market model is now undergoing interrogation by economists who suspect a more irrational model of behaviour is appropriate and useful. […]

We have lost our humanity

By: George Kamburoff
Author’s preface:

After 40 years of retrospection, I decided it was time to question the hero worship we give most recently to those who join the military, so I started writing, driven by my own experiences in the war of my generation.
No newspaper would print the letter below, unless it was substantially changed. […]

Dick Cheney was never a “grown-up”

A hard look at how one man changed the face of neoconservatism.

By Sidney Blumenthal
Apr. 14, 2008 | After Dick Cheney shot a friend in the face on a Texas hunting trip in February 2006, the national press corps began to speculate about him as one of the great mysteries of Washington, the Sphinx of the […]

The Transpartisan Narrative - a third way

Transpartisanship Defined
Transpartisanship represents an emerging field in political thought distinct from bipartisanship, which aims to negotiate between “right” and “left,” resulting in a dualistic perspective, and nonpartisanship, which tends to avoid political affiliation altogether. Rather, transpartisanship acknowledges the validity of truths across a range of political perspectives and seeks to synthesize them into an […]

www.dipdive.com

I suspect this is the company that made the VERY polished and professional pro Obama video at DipDive.com
The Black Eyed Peas, former Kerry supporters, get credit for the music and the idea. See Will.i.am’s blog entry here.
It is VERY well done. And seemingly not covered by campaign finance laws as it was apparently […]

The Power of the Peer-to-Peer Future

Author: Jock Gill
As we consider our choices for a better tomorrow, at least a livable tomorrow, it is clear that one requirement is that we take a fresh look at how we use our resources. Are we making the best possible use of them such that they can best serve the greatest number of […]

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