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"SYRIZA's crash landing exposed broken promises, lost opportunities and a bitter divorce with the movements. The future now lies with the commons."

"The Republican presidential candidate leading every poll, Donald Trump, recently unveiled his plan to forcibly deport all 11 million human beings residing in the U.S. without proper documentation, roughly half of whom have children born in the U.S. (and who are thus American citizens). As George Will noted last week, "Trump's roundup would be about 94 times larger than the wartime internment of 117,000 persons of Japanese descent." It would require a massive expansion of the most tyrannical police state powers far beyond their already immense post-9/11 explosion. And that's to say nothing of the incomparably ugly sentiments that Trump's advocacy of this plan, far before its implementation, is predictably unleashing."

"THE ROBOTS HAVEN'T just landed in the workplace-they're expanding skills, moving up the corporate ladder, showing awesome productivity and retention rates, and increasingly shoving aside their human counterparts. One multi-tasker bot, from Momentum Machines, can make (and flip) a gourmet hamburger in 10 seconds and could soon replace an entire McDonalds crew. A manufacturing device from Universal Robots doesn't just solder, paint, screw, glue, and grasp-it builds new parts for itself on the fly when they wear out or bust. And just this week, Google won a patent to start building worker robots with personalities."

"This book fills a unique void in economics. It's a textbook for activists. It provides a comprehensive description (and critique) of free-market economics. But it's fully understandable to average, non-specialist readers. Like trade union members. Activists. Neighbours."

Presentation about post industrial Nomadic Ecovillages

"Creative Resource Center The SUPERMARKT team is currently converting a former supermarket and four retail studios into a creative resource center for freelancers, artists and start-ups in the heart of Berlin. We offer spaces for various professional needs: desks, offices, presentation-and workshop facilities as well as bigger venues for conferences and other large scale events. Located just a few subway stops from Alexanderplatz, SUPERMARKT also provides access to an exciting network of people and services from all walks of cultural, creative and business life. The SUPERMARKT STUDIOS are spatially & conceptually closely connected to the SUPERMARKT."

Visual novel explaining about distributed social networks

Cognitive Policy Works (blog) is a consultancy

October 12th, 2011 - In a ground-breaking opinion on Net neutrality, the European Data Protection Supervisor stresses that restrictions to Internet access inevitably harm privacy. As the European Parliament enters in the final stage of the negotiations on its resolution on Net neutrality, this opinion underlines that the EU Commission's "wait and see" approach is bound to fail and is unjustifiable. Members of the EU Parliament - who will soon hold a crucial vote on the matter - must preserve citizens' privacy by requiring strong regulatory measures to ban discrimination of online communications.

The preliminary results show that economic loss caused by environmental pollution reaches 511.8 billion yuan, accounting for 3.05% of national GDP in 2004 while imputed treatment cost is 287.4 billion yuan, accounting for 1.80% of that.