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April 9, 2014 0

Introducing "The Spark"

By News Desk

Links Introducing "The Spark" April 9, 2014 ( Tony Cartalucci – LocalOrg ) – " The Spark "( Facebook / Vimeo ) is an interesting and ongoing grassroots project that fits in well with an older article featured on LocalOrg titled, " Decentralizing Big-Retail ." The article illustrated the waste, disparity, and exploitation promoted by the current "big-retail" monopolies and the consumerist paradigm modern society is dependent on, and suggests as an alternative the leveraging of technology to replace entirely this paradigm with local solutions. It featured a combination of projects from urban farming to technological havens called "makerspaces" or "hackerspaces" working in tandem to turn a city block into a sustainable, self-sufficient economic unit driven by open source collaboration, technology, and local entrepreneurship.

Egypt Vs. The Muslim Brotherhood – Preventing the Next Syria
April 1, 2014 0

Egypt Vs. The Muslim Brotherhood – Preventing the Next Syria

By News Desk

How Egypt Got Here    Egypt’s current turmoil is a direct result of the 2011 so-called “Arab Spring.†While nations like Libya lie in ruins with the “revolution†a “success†and the Libyan people now subjugated by pro-Western proxies, and Syria as it continues to fight on in a costly 3 year conflict that has cost tens of thousands of lives, Egypt has taken a different path.  When violent mobs began inching Egypt toward violence of Libyan and Syrian proportions, the Egyptian military, who has been the primary brokers of power in Egypt for decades, bent with the winds of change. Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power and the military tolerated the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood itself into power.