What Is Change Media University?

Source – wearechange.org – CMU is an educational resource for today’s changing media landscape, a online journalism school without the burden of debt or outdated ideas and curriculum. We Are Change created a platform where aspiring journalists can achieve success and develop their careers without jumping through degrading corporate hoops. If you do not want to waste…

Why Elon Musk’s Batteries Scare the Hell Out of Electric Companies

Source – cryptogon.com – At a sagebrush-strewn industrial park outside of Reno, Nevada, bulldozers are clearing dirt for Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)’s battery factory, projected to be the world’s largest. Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk, sees the $5 billion facility as a key step toward making electric cars more affordable, while ending reliance on oil and…

Messages of love and hope encourage Colombian FARC guerillas to come out of the jungle and lay down their guns

Source – trueactivist.com – For more than fifty years, the FARC (revolutionary armed forces of Colombia) has tried to achieve its aims of a Marxist revolution through violence, kidnappings and guerilla tactics. The FARC was established in 1964 as the military wing of the Communist party in the aftermath of a period of fighting between…

The Days of Military Conquest are Over – By Steve Beckow

Source – goldenageofgaia –  Ben Fulford recently revealed an incident which apparently happened in the Black Sea this past April. A Sukhoi SU-24 Russian fighter jet buzzed an American destroyer, the U.S.S. Donald Cook, twelve times simulating a missile attack against it. The ship was unable to respond allegedly because the Russian plane carried an…

Nobel Prize Winning Economists, Federal Reserve Chair and Other Top Experts: War Is BAD for the Economy

Source – washingtonsblog.com – Debunking the Stubborn Myth that War Is Good for the Economy About.com notes: One of the more enduring myths in Western society is that wars are somehow good for the economy. It is vital for policy-makers, economists and the public to have access to a definitive analysis to determine once and…

‘World’s Poorest President’ Explains Why We Should Kick Rich People Out Of Politics

Source – huffingtonpost.com – People who like money too much ought to be kicked out of politics, Uruguayan President José Mujica told CNN en Español in an interview posted online Wednesday. “We invented this thing called representative democracy, where we say the majority is who decides,” Mujica said in the interview. “So it seems to…

This Publicly-Owned Bank Is Outperforming Wall Street

Source – rinf.com – The Wall Street Journal reports on the impressive record of the Bank of North Dakota While 49 state treasuries were submerged in red ink after the 2008 financial crash, one state’s bank outperformed all others and actually launched an economy-shifting new industry.  So reports the Wall Street Journal this week, discussing…

Netherlands Is The 1st Country To Open A Solar Road For Public Use

Source  – collective-evolution.com – The world’s first solar bike lane is soon to be available for use in the Netherlands! The bike path that connects the Amsterdam suburbs of Krommenie and Wormerveer is a 70-meter stretch of solar-powered roadway set to open for the public on November 12th, 2014. The new solar road, which costs…

The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

Source – takepart.com – The Internet’s Own Boy follows the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz’s help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz’s groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing…

John Perkins: From Economic Hitman to Shaman

Source – newdawnmagazine.com – I remember John Perkins. He was a real jerk. A gold-plated, super-slick lying little butthole shill for corporate gangsters; a snake-oil salesman with a movie-star grin, shiny loafers, a crooked calculator and a tooled leather briefcase full of high-blown bullshit. – Greg Palast (www.gregpalast.com), Despite Greg Palast’s spleenish dismissal from an…

105 Israeli ex-generals, spy chiefs call on Netanyahu to make peace with Palestinians, withdraw to 1967 borders

Source – rt.com – The largest-ever protest by Israeli top brass has taken place, with at least 105 retired generals and intelligence chiefs writing a letter to premier Benjamin Netanyahu, urging him to “initiate a diplomatic process” for peace with Palestine. “We, the undersigned, reserve IDF commanders and retired police officers, who have fought in…

Mendocino County, CA. Makes History and Passes Law Establishing Local Self-Governance

Source – tabublog.com – “The sacred rights of mankind, are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records.  They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.”   ~ Alexander Hamilton Mendocino County, Ca…

Conscious Capitalism: How Millennials are Shaping the New Economic Paradigm

Source – themindunleashed.org – Capitalism has become a dirty word in our culture, synonymous with cronyism and greed, not consciousness. Since the 2008 financial collapse in the US, we have been inundated with stories of poverty, injustice, corrupt banking institutions and companies that have lied, cheated and stolen to meet their bottom line, often scamming…

This Blazing Fast Electric Car is Powered by Saltwater!

Source – inhabitat.com – Nanoflowcell has developed the world’s first saltwater-powered electric car – the Quant e-Sportlimousine – it just received approval for testing in Europe! The futuristic gull-winged vehicle runs on a special type of gasoline that is made from salt water, and it’s now street-legal on public roads in Germany. According to Nanoflowcell,…

The $27 Trillion Dollar Man – Who is Leo Wanta?

Source – aci.net/kalliste – Meet Leo Emil Wanta. At one point Wanta had bank accounts at Metishe Bank in Moscow, Avenue Bank on the Champs-Elysee in Paris, Credito Italiano in Milan, Anker Bank in Geneva, Swiss Bank Corporation in Geneva, the Algemeine Spaar in Brussels, the Zentralsparkasse und Kommerzialbank in Vienna, Creditanstalt Bankverein in Vienna, and–the perennial favorite of money launderers–Citibank in Milan, New York, and Los Angeles.…

Desmond Tutu: My Plea to the People of Israel – “Liberate Yourselves by Liberating Palestine”

Source – goldenageofgaia.com – By Desmond Tutu, Haaretz, August 14, 2014, The past weeks have witnessed unprecedented action by members of civil society across the world against the injustice of Israel’s disproportionately brutal response to the firing of missiles from Palestine. If you add together all the people who gathered over the past weekend to…