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Jim Prues is the Founder of World 5.0 and President of Panoptic Media. He understands that 'democracy is not a spectator sport.'

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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 14, 2006
The Principle of Universality The principle of universality must be a cornerstone to any serious effort to reform our government and culture.
life and love Cher, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Occupy Life Article ties in the occupation movement with the natural process of living, and highlights the propaganda effort that serves to keep us unaware.
Hemp, From ImagesAttr
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 27, 2010
In Praise of Hemp Hemp was the first cultivated plant, a natural medicinal, and widely used around the world until the profit motive caused its demonization a hundred years ago. What a transformation its re-introduction could portend.
Jill Stein, From ImagesAttr
(24 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 1, 2016
Sorry Bernie, No Hillary - We Are Revolutionaries! Our revolution does not depend on one person or a single goal. We see true awakening where truth, peace and love rule the day.
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(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 24, 2013
The GOP and the ACA Jim's take on why the Republicans are freaking out so badly about the Affordable Care Act. Surprise, it's about power.
Occupy Cincinnati March, From ImagesAttr
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 23, 2011
Occupy World 5.0 This article focuses on the linkages between Occupy and World 5.0. Both seek a new cultural operating system, ridding ourselves of corporate domination. World 5.0 provides the yin to Occupy's yang.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 2, 2010
A Culture of Bullshit How propaganda is used to inflame Tea Party members and others to undermine their own interests.
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(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 10, 2012
12.21.12 - The Birth of World 5.0 This article discusses the impending date of December 21,2012 and what it may mean for us. More importantly, it suggests peace and love as our guide.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 31, 2010
An Uneducated Electorate An offering that described the corrupt state of learning in this country and the lack of awareness of our reality.
Bernie Sanders Jill Stein, From ImagesAttr
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 9, 2016
Go Green, Bernie - Or Be Left Behind The Revolution is not ending. It's only Bernie's role up for question.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, February 6, 2012
Occupy: New Wine and Old Skins There is a famous biblical parable where Jesus speaks of his new way of thinking as something that cannot be contained in the existing Jewish culture. The idea is that if you put new wine into a used skin, the skin will burst as the new wine ferments, having already been stretched once from its first use. It's an apt metaphor for where we are with Occupy these days.
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(27 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 6, 2012
Healing Racism: Trayvon and the Broken System This article focuses on the need for all of us to realize that we allow the George Zimmermans of the world to act out due to our indifference.
Hemp, From FlickrPhotos
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 28, 2019
The Vast Impact of Legalizing Hemp Legalizing hemp will have vast consequences for our culture. And yet since the passage of the Farm Bill in December, no one is talking about it.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 8, 2012
The Drums of War: Iran Edition The article describes how the Drums of War beat over and over again for this U.S. led Imperial Empire. It is hope that in this landscape of 2012, such efforts will be met with far more citizen resistance.
New 115th Congress, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 21, 2018
We're Waving Blue A bit of a summary of the Midterm Elections, with Democrats winning the House of Representatives and nearly 60 million of us voting.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 24, 2011
Five Principles - Occupy Cincinnati Occupy Cincinnati has established five principles to align with in our processes and projects.
Betsy Ross Flag (13 Star Flag), From FlickrPhotos
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 2, 2016
This Independence Day - 2016 We're facing today a situation similar to that our forefathers' faced in deciding on revolution. It's time we do the same.
World 5.0 Rally in Cincinnati Poster, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 7, 2011
A New Beginning | World 5.0 This article describes our emerging operating system, World 5.0. It is intended to restore community and ecology by reconstituting government.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 22, 2010
A Disturbance in The Force BP's oil disaster and their handling of it provide another example of the excesses of the corporate nation-state. The remedy is World 5.0.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 8, 2016
Community Policing 101 The shootings by and of police officers but shows another example of the need for revolution,.
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(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 22, 2011
Birth of a Movement Tomorrow marks the birth of World 5.0. This article notes it.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 19, 2017
A Nice Turn of the Wheel Musings on the big November 2017 wins. Minorities and women carried the day.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Clearing The Fog This article speaks to the misguided and dysfunctional culture we live in, and where we might look to find something a bit healthier - and more entertaining.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, May 1, 2010
THE DECLARATION OF WORLD 5.0 World 5.0 uses the idea of an operating system to describe the need for our species to migrate to new, more aware and integrated level. There is no time outside this Moment, and it's time we started living from this perspective.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 6, 2011
Occupy - Finding Our Core This article focuses on the emerging operating system of the occupy movement. It stands in complete opposition to the old system. This is a system based on the Power of Love instead of the power of money.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 14, 2013
An Occupier for Congress I describe the reasons I'm running for congress and the World 5.0 Platform.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 14, 2010
The World Is A Ghetto How we've been involved in the same damn struggle for centuries, but with the scope of global corporations the problem becomes exacerbated.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 6, 2014
A New Way Forward | The World Five Platform The World Five Platform provides a context for restoring our lives and planet through five simple areas of focus that we can all leverage.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Oil and The Gulf The oil mess in the Gulf of Mexico highlights the complete inability of our federal government to govern.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, February 27, 2012
The Trouble With Occupy The Trouble With Occupy points out several issues with this young movement, mostly around the divisiveness and lack of a positive vision with their/our message.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 21, 2012
A Spring that Can't Wait This article discusses the bizarre weather much of the country is facing as Spring begins. It makes the analogies that this country could be facing more than abnormal weather this year.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 2, 2006
TAKING BACK OUR AMERICAN FLAG Politicians and Neocons have taken over our flag, turning the ideas it stands for upside down. Now it's our time to redress the issue.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 5, 2006
THE WINDS OF CHANGE Some notes on the sea change occurring in these times, and where we may be headed.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, May 12, 2006
The Good, The Bad and The Duped We start by discriminating between "the bad guys" and "The Duped" and consider how to influence The Duped into a progressive vote in November.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Top Ten Ways to Evolve: Top Ten Ways to Evolve: from an Economic to an Ecological (read sustainable) Culture
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 16, 2006
THE END TIMES: And What's to Come The disregard for the future and planetary health are the marks of "rapture-based fundamentalism." Unsurprisingly, this thinking is used as a tool by BushCo to ignore the real solution, sustainability thinking.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 31, 2006
HOSTILE TAKEOVER: An Unauthorized Review Hostile Takeover describes the situation we have in the U.S. government today, where blatant corporatism has usurped the true function of government.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 29, 2006
The Delicious Taste of Senseless Fear Based on a Jon Stewart comment, this article further explores the media's constant fear mongering and how we might escape it.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 31, 2006
The Power of Transformation A variation on a theme: Tom Paine's astonishing statement, "We have the power to remake the world anew."
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 2, 2006
The Crisis of Our Time
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Bush's "Integrity" - Never Again This Internet thing is the elephant in the room. Its constant transmutation and young age make predicting the Web's impact almost impossible. But already we see greater transparency being forced on our political and economic leaders, though it comes with them kicking and screaming.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 22, 2006
Ascent from the War on Terror/Terrorism Seeing past the fear-mongering that fosters the abuses by government at the behest of their corporate constituents.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 7, 2006
Jobs Americans Won't Do - Blaming the Victim How politicians and pundits use inaccurate statements to blame the victims in our current immigration issue.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Flailing Dinosaurs This age is coming to an end, and we are witnessing its collapse. The pre-eminent question is when.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 28, 2006
The Circus and The Horserace The media's focus on the 2008 Presidential Election even before the 2006 Congress is sworn in is telling - but not comforting.

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