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(2 comments) SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE 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.
(6 comments) SHARE 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.
(11 comments) SHARE 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.
(9 comments) SHARE 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 Wednesday, June 2, 2010 A Culture of Bullshit
How propaganda is used to inflame Tea Party members and others to undermine their own interests.
(10 comments) SHARE 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 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.
(1 comments) SHARE 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.
(27 comments) SHARE 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.
(8 comments) SHARE 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.
(2 comments) SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE 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.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 24, 2011 Five Principles - Occupy Cincinnati
Occupy Cincinnati has established five principles to align with in our processes and projects.
(4 comments) SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE 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.
(3 comments) SHARE 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 Friday, July 8, 2016 Community Policing 101
The shootings by and of police officers but shows another example of the need for revolution,.
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 22, 2011 Birth of a Movement
Tomorrow marks the birth of World 5.0. This article notes it.
SHARE Sunday, November 19, 2017 A Nice Turn of the Wheel
Musings on the big November 2017 wins. Minorities and women carried the day.
(1 comments) SHARE 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 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.
(1 comments) SHARE 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.
(2 comments) SHARE 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 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.
(1 comments) SHARE 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 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.
(3 comments) SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.