Joe Costello has decades experience in politics, energy, environment, and communications. Traveled and worked across the planet. Long a student of democracy, its demise, possible revitalization.
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“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Beyond Vietnam, 4/4/1967 Subscribe now At a young age, I was greatly influenced by
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Subscribe now (Continued from CBDC (I)) This idea of “executable objects” best illustrates what's happening. The history of money includes currency in the form of everything from shells, to specie, to paper. The BIS advocates currency as “executable objects,” a term derived from database programming – code as a
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Subscribe now The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) released their Annual Economic Report. The BIS was founded in 1930 to handle payments of German World War I reparations. It was the third attempt at squeezing the Germans in retribution for the war, one of the high points of Western civilization.
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Subscribe now This is a short well worth watching conversation with Bobby Seale, one of the original organizers of the Black Panthers. The Panthers rose out of the Civil Rights Movement in the mid-1960s. What’s most interesting about Seale is how much in the American democratic tradition his politics
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Subscribe now Presley covers Berry, well. A century from now, this might be the definitive song defining the rock and roll era — 2Oth century, early electric, American folk music, created for the first time in history a small musician aristocracy that for better and worse was culturally influential. Buses, trains,
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Subscribe now Nec vitia nostra nec remedia pati possumus.* – Titus Livius Civilization is memory, social memory. If each human generation began with no societal memory, there would be no civilization. We would still, maybe, inhabit a small bit of land somewhere on the African savanna. Civilization comprises the knowledge, practices,
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They got Charles Darwin trapped out there on Highway Five Judge says to the High Sheriff, “I want him dead or alive Either one, I don’t care” High water everywhere Subscribe now My news intake has shrunk in the last few years. I once considered closely following the news
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Subscribe now They said, I should learn to speak a little bit of English Don’t be scared of a suit and tie Learn to walk in the dreams of the foreigner I am a third world child In the US, awareness of India is always on the periphery, unless
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Subscribe now (Continued from I) Can we devise complex social systems, better reflecting both the complexity of nature and our rapidly developing contemporary technologies? Most specifically, can we evolve governance? This is a question mostly ignored for the past century, outside brief flirtations with a sort of neo-Incan, industrial communism.
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Subscribe now “The great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like a rioting invasion of soundless life, a rolling wave of plants, piled up, crested, ready to topple over the creek, to sweep every little man of
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Subscribe now It has been our misfortune the information technology revolution, it is nothing short of a revolution, has to this point been overwhelmingly measured by the values of industrialism. For example, it is no coincidence the major revenue source for Google, Facebook, and Twitter is advertising. The value of
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Subscribe now The politics of debt have changed extraordinarily over the last century. In the 1930s, when the new national industrial economies collapsed in unison, the unorthodox idea of deficit spending to counter the collapse emerged. In the US, the New Deal Coalition adopted the practice to counter the Depression’