a true real-time democracy was on the way. “One day soon,” he said, “we will be able to click a thing on our wrist to say ‘I like it’ or ‘I don’t like it,’ and that will be our vote.” Bucky’s ideas generally came about fifty years in advance of reality, which means real-time democracy should arrive by about 2020. Considering recent political events, another Bucky thought to ponder is this: “When something is broken, don’t try to fix it. Create a new model that renders the old one obsolete.” Bucky said successful global air traffic control is proof that we can cooperate despite our differences. “You may ask how we are going to resolve the ever-accelerating dangerous impasse of world-opposed politicians and ideological dogmas,” he said. “I answer, it will be resolved by the computer. While no politician or political system can afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opponents, all politicians can and will yield to the computer’s safe flight-controlling capabilities and bring all humanity in for a happy landing.” Surely there will soon be an app for that.
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Added by Michael Grove at 11:26 on December 17, 2017
War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations, according to the creator of a social model called "the Venus Project" American futurist and inventor Jacque Fresco.
g at the Telegraph -
"The banking system in the western world is a criminal ponzi scheme which has undermined both capitalism and democracy. Those who have looted our world may now wish to abandon such systems. We need to defend both capitalism and democracy whilst condemning those evil thieves in the dark corners of the banking world."…
ies and dictatorships, the right to choose who or which political party represents you. It supposedly keeps the politicians on their toes and is a means of keeping checks and balances.
This is all well and good in a sovereign nation with little or no threat from transnational corporate behemoths, criminal central bankers or treasonous trade deals that ‘cannot be refused’. Without such intrusions, elected politicians could focus on what they believe is best for the nation and her people, the vote could possibly mean something and for many years, to some degree, it did.
However, times have changed, oh and how they have changed.
http://wakeup-world.com/2015/09/25/true-direct-democracy-the-nemesis-of-the-global-cabal/…
were shadows, while Putin’s true opponents were imprisoned, exiled or dead. According to this narrative, the 87% who voted for him were mere victims of coercion, the queues of silent protesters were the stars.
Putin’s vote had nothing to do with democracy. It was a rerun of his 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, a global dressing-up, a rallying of support. As he celebrated his win to an adoring crowd in Red Square on Monday, we saw Putin as the new Ivan the Terrible against a backdrop of Ivan’s St Basil’s cathedral. He even made an offhand quip about his murdered rival Navalny. The image was of absolute power smilingly defying the enemy. Two years ago, he was supposedly crippled by western sanctions. We don’t hear that now.
Simon Jenkins • The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/22/putin-dictator-tyrant-criticism-regime…
a S. Maalouf, Co-founder & CEO, CHE-ME
The Middle East is at a pivotal time in its history, a cross roads in its evolution. Old ways no longer seem to be working and new ways have yet to fully emerge.…
e idea that the internet plays a largely emancipatory role in global politics.
Exposing some idealistic myths about freedom and technology (during Iran's 'twitter revolution' fewer than 20,000 Twitter users actually took part), Evgeny argues for some realism about the actual uses and abuses of the internet.…
oncur with the sentiment of midenglander in his posted comment to the Daily Telegraph article entitled -
Spain's sovereign thunderclap and the end of Merkel's Europe -
" Perhaps at last, nations are awakening from their intellectual slumber and are realising that closer European cooperation actually means domination by Germany. The French are an important German ally as they were through the Vichy Government in WW2. The European Union is led by a Germany, that in its whole history has yet to achieve a full hundred years of democracy. Like Russia, Germany's inclination is always dictatorial and authoritarian.
There are many perceived forms of "democracy".
The EU's and Merkel's vision is one to be avoided at all costs."…