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Cognizant Transmutation

Homelessness becomes an OWS issue

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Protesters are discovering just how difficult the government makes life for its most downtrodden citizens…Show original

What If We Paid Off The National Debt? : NPR

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation It sounds ridiculous today. But not so long ago, the prospect of a debt-free U.S. was seen as a real possibility with the potential to upset the global financial system.Show original

WIPO’s secret, corporate-run trademark enforcement meeting – Boing Boing

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationThe World Intellectual Property Organization is hosting an off-the-books meeting in the Philippines on trademark enforcement, with speakers from Louis Vuitton, Chanel, the Swiss Watch Federation. The meeting wasn’t announced on WIPO’s website, and it exclusively features speakers who support greater enforcement, with no one speaking for moderation and balance.Show original

Densely-linked cluster of 147 companies control 40% of world’s total wealth – Boing Boing

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation…it found much of it tracked back to a “super-entity” of 147 even more tightly knit companies – all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity – that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. “In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to…