see http://www.microtopia.org When we consider all the manifold injustices we live under we know in our bones that the present system cannot be reformed from within side. We must come up with an entirely new system. The prospect of a violent revolution makes one shudder, particularly considering how the current system has concentrated an absolute monopoly of violence. Those who own the majority of assets control the elections and control the police and armies. They have gradually increased our taxation for military prisons surveillance and armies to 1 in 8 dollars of our economy. To attempt to confront this overwhelming phalanx of security agencies, armed to the teeth, equipped with nearly unlimited legal power, as our populace has lost its ability to understand what its congress and president are doing to the basis of our freedoms enshrined in the constitution, to confront this phalanx of force with force would be nearly impossible. There is another fairly simple way. We can self organize elections using tools such as the internet for a new system of people power. Once our number of votes in a new system exceed the current system, we will have greater legitimacy. At that point it is only a matter of time for the old system to be forced to recognize the new system, if it is done intelligently. In the mean time, for we the people to regain control over our societies direction must be done using the following approach: Self organizing to impact local government, and local resource ownership and production, that is through starting businesses and organizations to compete with the current monopoly system. This means buying services and products that may cost slightly more for the sake of enlightened self interest. Since our vote is effectively worthless, which could be remedied by ratifying Article The First, we must vote with our dollars. Those who realize that we cannot defeat the system as we did in the past, see the threads of execution that could bring about true liberty and the end of economic insecurity for the people. That it must be done through creating local businesses and gradually painfully pull the equity back from the few to the many. The 1% only control half of the worlds assets, that means the rest of us control half. In this tug of war we can win. In your community, a large number of buildings, businesses, and raw land are owned by people and institutions that are not rooted there. Imagine gradually the land, buildings and businesses owned by the local people. *** If we don’t do this, the future for the average person could be quite bleak. Automation means fewer and fewer people are needed to produce the things that are needful. Presently only 25% of the adult population is needed to produce all the basic things we require: The economy was traditionally divided into 3 sectors: We now would need only 25% of the population to deliver all the major services of the modern economy. We now are absorbing more and more workers into parasitic industries. Industries, which are needed in a traditional economy. Ironically many of these parasitic industries are in what is called FIRE. Financial Services, Insurance and Real Estate. These services provide very little real value beyond a very minimal percent of the economy. The economy will indeed create services and jobs left to its own devices. But they are not things we actually need. They will be less and less relevant to people’s needs. Similarly the largest growth areas of the public sector are security forces. More and more security forces. After all it creates jobs! Perhaps the economy of the future will be social networking startups, security forces and financial services companies. But there is an existential threat to the people of the world that automation will gradually displace them, and then we will need massive security forces. • * * In short we need to make each bio-region semi autonomous – this will give roles to the people. There will be opportunity. We waste so much on speculative activities that refocusing on productive industries would allow us to be empowered. As is scenario vs the to be scenario ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgv_eKpoMX4

Statements about what has happened by all parties (Libya, the good, the bad, and the ugly: 1950: King Idris comes to Power, a hero in the war against the Italians, based in Cyrenaica. 1960: Parliament suspended. Oil discovered Military Bases provided to the Western Powers, contrary to the Arab Nationalist states by and large in the region. Concentration of the oil wealth in Cyrenaica at the expense of Tripolitania (a more urban and sophisticated area than Cyrenaica. 1969 A group of 12 young officers stage a bloodless coup. From 1969 to 1975 they vastly increase literacy housing and medicine and distribute oil revenues to the people. The Government is extremely popular 1975. A split occurs in the council of 12, with Gadaffi plus 5 others on one side and 6 of the council members on the other. The Gadaffi side prevails. The opponents are put under house arrest. The precise reason for the split is still not entirely understood. The Government continues to invest in Libyan infrastructure with the oil revenues, but the split damages the Governments popularity. It is still popular but less so. 1973. Gadaffi in order to overcome inertia attempts to inject a revolutionary zeal in the citizenry and encourages the formations of peoples commitees.. 1975 Publishes a very interesting Political Manifesto "The 3rd International Theory" Direct Democracy ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXWRwSsCmAI