BUFFALO, NY---I am taking a course called Technicity online that covers how technology can be used to improve communities.  There is such a wealth of information from the course and it is astounding what can be done now to engage citizens compared to 10 years ago.  Here is what I am working on and would like to know if small districts like Elmwood would like to initiate an alternative digital currency.  If you care to comment, please use #BuffaloChips and Twitter me at @WNYPlanner to let me know what you think so that I can measure the results.  I am going to write an open source manual how-to for communities to implement a digital system using QR Codes. Or you can also comment here. Here is the info:

Richard Florida & Earthquake Shifts

BUFFALO, NY---Richard Florida has drilled it down and hit the jackpot on the current tipping point we are at with our capitalist economy. This is a great read if you are an expert economist or someone who is asking all the right questions and can't figure out the answers.  He gives an explanation that is easily understood in context.  This is a must read: http://bit.ly/14xBp6L

On Vengeance

Buffalo, NY---Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make any sense.

–Rumi

The Fog of Obama 2012

Buffalo, NY---Barack Obama ran on a platform that differentiated him from Romney/Ryan on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Apparently the President is suffering from brain fog regarding his statement that, "We are not in the business of always getting what we want in Washington."

Anyone remember this as late as October 2012 right before the election? http://bit.ly/10GcslR

Power Concedes Nothing

Buffalo, NY---At a time when we have record deficits and an unsustainable $16.3 trillion national debt, we cannot continue to provide tax loopholes that allow about one out of every four large and profitable corporations in America to pay nothing in federal income taxes.

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

Frederick Douglass
(American Abolitionist, Lecturer, Author and Slave, 1817-1895)

http://bit.ly/vz83Cv

Minting the Elusive Platinum Coin

Buffalo, NY---"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

---Henry Ford

Tipping Points

BUFFALO, NY---At a time when we have record deficits and an unsustainable $16.3 trillion national debt, we cannot continue to provide tax loopholes that allow one out of every four multinational corporations in America to pay zero, zilch, nothing in federal income taxes while the rest of us pick up the slack.

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

Frederick Douglass
(American Abolitionist, Lecturer, Author and Slave, 1817-1895)

The We're Not Broke movie (http://werenotbrokemovie.com/) is a must see and will be streamed live on Hulu on January 15, 2013.

This is a wake up call. It is the tipping point whose time has come.