Imagine
The Art of Loving
Pirates
Some of the founders:
Tim Berners-Lee
Rick Falkvinge
Lawrence Lessig
Richard Stallman
Linus Torvalds
Apps/Utilities:
Democracy OS
Weka
LiquidFeedback
Dissent
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Bitreserve?
Andrew Sayers new book is a reminder that social constructs are just that.
Is the dumbing down deliberate? – One thing’s for sure, we have never had so much quality “stuff” available over the net.
Open educational resources
Open Culture
Coursera
edX
Khan Academy
MIT OpenCourseWare
Massive open online course (MOOC)
MOOC List
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The Great Courses ($)
I’ve Nothing to Hide
The Eternal Value of Privacy
On Propaganda
Brainwashing
They’ve Nothing to Hide:
Reality Is Not What You Think.
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In jet another teachers strike, – is there time for reflection?
Commodities for the (not so current) job market or free and creative minds?
Rose, Jonathan, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Wilhelm Fon Humboldt
Wage slavery
Adam Smith: Gain wealth, forgetting all but self.
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Charter of the Forest
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. – Confidential Memorandum: Attack on the American Free Enterprise System.
Trilateral Commission: The Crisis of Democracy
Thomas Ferguson: Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics
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Edward Bernays (The global PR industry: $11bn rev., 75,000 EE)
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RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms
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Gold 2.0
The Bankers’ New Clothes
Controlling the Lens: (Every Fairytale Needs a Good Old Fashioned Villain)
WhoWhatWhy
Power of the narrative, what is true and what is false, controlling the world view.
Who gets to narrate: ‘terrorist’, ‘secret’, ‘national security’ ~ high priests, peeping toms or psychopaths?
“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.” ~ Yogi Berra
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Black Swan
The Art of Thinking Clearly
The Paradox of the Proof
Changing Education Paradigms
Fairies spin the yarn and pipers lead the children
Having inherited the monarchy from Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm of Glücksborg – the ‘ruling élite’ of Disney~Land has no intention of surrendering any of their power to the people.
A likely member in the next government equated his opposition to the new constitutional draft with the war on communism. Even in the land of ‘hope and change’ they have long since replaced that -ism with another.
However, the aversion towards Europe (and anything foreign) is because of their continued interference in internal affairs. – Politically connected wealth is obviously a problem we don’t have.
Networks of Power
OSCE – “structural imbalances in weight of the vote” (pdf)
GRECO – “Regarding members of parliament” (pdf)
Verfassungsexperiment ist so gut wie gescheitert
Stockholm syndrome (traumatic bonding)
The “war of the lists,” (we never got to see)
Offshore secrets (Is there still hope?)
Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
TheICIJ ~ YouTube
List of depreciation to companies in the wake of the economic collapse 2008 (is)
Kissinger Cables (jan 2009)
