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Relaxation Will Reveal the Road to Victory (Parts 1&2 - Why We Need ROI & Relaxation)

Posted 6th January 2011 at 23:38 by Ben Seattle (I'm here to fight)
Updated 16th January 2011 at 13:16 by Ben Seattle

Relaxation Will Reveal the Road to Victory
(Parts 1 and 2) (click to go to part 3, part 4 or part 5)
“Why, oh why
did the soul plunge
from the upmost heights
to the lowest depths?

The seed of redemption
is contained in the fall.”

—The Dybbuk, S. Ansky (trans. Golda Werman)
Hi Alex,

I consider your post to be a remarkable document. Activists need to share their experience with one another or we will remain isolated...
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Avoid icky feedback loops!

Posted 6th January 2011 at 21:14 by Kotze

People should have influence over decisions based on how much they are affected.
-The principle I find very agreeable, but how to fill it with life?

I may not have all the details, but I found something necessary if we want to avoid that massive power inequality develops: It is important that we avoid icky feedback loops. This is my ideal for new institutional designs: Any mechanism that bestows upon some people a stronger voting weight for specific decisions should not bestow...
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The 12 Decisive Principles of Victory

Posted 6th January 2011 at 04:23 by Ben Seattle (I'm here to fight)

The 12 Decisive Principles of Victory
Transforming Our Existing Dysfunctional Mess into A
Healthy and Powerful Revolutionary Mass Movement


(this is a work in progress, you can read it here)
http://z11.invisionfree.com/Kasama_T...showtopic=1131

The contents are below:


Intro--The Fundamental Way Forward
........ The Development of a Healthy and Powerful
........ Revolutionary Movement Requires An Open...
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Ben replies to Mike Ely re: Moderation on the Kasama blog

Posted 5th January 2011 at 01:58 by Ben Seattle (I'm here to fight)

Hi Folks,

As many of you may know, I have avoided posting to the Kasama blog for more than a year because of repeated threats from Mike Ely to permanently expel me from the Kasama community if I did so.

My reasoning has been that it is better for me to avoid the blog and, by so doing, at least preserve, for the time being, my ability to post to the Kasama "threads" bulletin board (ie: a part of the Kasama site that has maybe five percent of the readership of...
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Research Aids...some number!

Posted 4th January 2011 at 00:28 by JazzRemington (Jazz Remington's Holy Mountain)

Here's a bunch of search engines.

Subzin: Find Phrases in Movies and Series Got a quote from a movie or movie series, but can't remember what one exactly? Subzin's search engine allows you to search from thousands of movies and movie series'.

Movieclips.com allows one to search for movie clips.

Iconfinder.com is a search engine for finding icons and icon sets.

CCMixter Music Discovery is a service that searches for music that is licensed...
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