<p>I have recommitted to local organizing that aims mainly to strengthen institutions and networks on the ground where I live, rooted in a belief that those local connections will be more important than ever in coming decades.

<p>- The Man Who Spilled the Secrets <br>- Wiki Rehab<br>- Nader: Tweeting Away the Time</p>
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When protest is successful, on those rare and remarkable and wondrous occasions when resistance is possible, it is successful not because of the pure, clear political persistence of actors who carry signs or passively protest or fight legal battles. Instead, it is successful because political protest is chained not to doors or trees but to the emergence of a new way of life.

- Why Wikileaks will be the death of big business and big government
- A Physicist Solves the City
- The Biodiversity Blunder
- Out with the old politics
- US embassy cables: Ireland grappling with climate change and energy

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- Why Bolivia Stood Alone in Opposing the Cancún Climate Agreement
- Is the Wikileaks Saga the Biggest Crypto-Environmental Story of 2010?
- Thinking Dialectically About Solidarity
- How nonprofit journalism is changing the 'news ecosystem'
- Washington Post's big story: Monitoring America: Your Local Neighborhood's 'Global War on Terror'

Events from 2010 contain the seeds of transformation. None of the following stories is enough on its own to change the momentum. But if we the people build and strengthen social movements, each of of these stories points to a piece of the solution.

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The biggest stories of 2010 were financial.

Now that global peak oil is history perhaps it’s time to work on predicting peak empire instead. If you followed the work of Joseph Tainter, he offered the theory of diminishing and eventually negative marginal return to territorial growth and complexity of societies.

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- We Don't Talk About That Kind of Thing Around Here (Transition and spirituality)
- Transition, Deep Transition and Solagaia in Maine, Colorado, California and Beyond
- The unrevolution
- Kurt Cobb's Peak Oil" novel - radio interview

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All That We Share is an exciting and exasperating book. The excitement comes from the many voices arguing to place “the commons” at the center of planning for a viable future. The exasperation comes from the volume’s failure to critique the political and economic systems that we must transcend if there is to be a future for the commons.

- George Monbiot: These astroturf libertarians are the real threat to internet democracy
- George Lakoff: Untellable Truths
- Internet Worries (data mining and shorter attention spans)

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- WikiLeaks Is the New Journalism
- Could Wikileaks change or destroy the Internet as we know it?
- NYT: Keeping Secrets WikiSafe
- Predicting the future of WikiLeaks: Follow the media!
- Pentagon scrambles to prep for 'thermonuclear' Wikileaks release
- Six Anti-Theses on WikiLeaks
- Guardian's country-by-country round-up

- A Case Study in Web Survivability
- Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net
- Massive Release of Raw WikiLeaks Files Threatened if Assange Harmed
- WikiLeaks avoids shutdown as supporters worldwide go on the offensive
- WikiLeaks, the web and the power of the people
- WikiLeaks a blueprint for things to come
- How to Think About Wikileaks

- Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government” (best explanation for why he's doing it)
- Something Wiki'ed This Way Comes
- The man who kicked the hornet's nest
- US embassy leaks: 'The data deluge is coming ...' (video)
- Assange: The Truth Will Always Win

“You say things are happening ... give me an example. Numerous organizations are doing lots of great work - permaculture, relocalization, etc. This is wonderful, and I’m involved in it. But everything measurable is going the wrong way. So whatever we’re doing is not working. ...