Before you judge others or claim any absolute truth, consider that you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 kilometeres per second across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you”. The atoms in your body are 99.99999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all have originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato. The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it. This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colours you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.

http://www.piratenpartei.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/parteiprogramm-englisch.pdf

Pretty awesome, this really gives us a better look into what PPCA can look into as our future.

Thank you for voting me to the board of Pirate Parties International. Here was my candidacy video. 

Seriously, an amazing event. I was very excited to do this, there were things I could have done better but hindsights always 20/20

We’ve only just begun… to live.

I really love this footage, the music gives it drama, the mans voice while he describes the events that happened. I don’t know what more you could want in news coverage.

http://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2012/03/22/the-100-mile-dollar/

Hundreds of communities around the world have created new currencies over the last few decades, trading millions of dollars’ worth each year. In Canada, at least Calgary, Toronto, and BC’s Salt Spring Island are taking part. While only the Bank of Canada can print paper to serve as legal tender, it’s perfectly lawful for any Canadian community to make its own alternative currency as long as it records transactions and files taxes — which means this currency needs to be exchangeable with the national dollar.

By their design, community currencies force people to spend locally, and usually quickly. They often stand as pillars of community-led attempts to rejuvenate depressed economies, such as  Totnes and Brixton Pounds in the UK’s Transition Towns, and Argentina’s wide adoption of the Crédito during its 1999 economic crisis. Most are managed by nonprofit organizations, who sell them in exchange for legal tender (one Canadian dollar buys one Calgary Dollar, for instance). The managing NPOs frequently have a surplus of funds (often from business participation fees or expired non-redeemed notes) that are funnelled into community projects or customer discounts. For example, 10 percent of all spent Toronto Dollars is donated to local charities, while the German chiemgauer, which started as a school project, has raised €100,000 for charities.

via “The 100-Mile Dollar” by Alina Konevski | The Walrus Blog.