There is a movement to take the government and your personal records into the virtual world. There is some really awesome talks, and a very beautiful beginning on starting the conversation. These video’s talk about TED and try and show what they are doing. It is billed as part of Government v2.0 – which includes a lot of kind of wildly historically private information, as well as some wild ideas for the future. Check these out.

So here is a playlist, and you can view this on YouTube, and see other talks. But provided here as a service to you. So you know.

In the interest ensuring good clean fun for all we have created “The Way” as a set of guidelines for us and our guests to follow. Basically the Ten Commandments of the FPR podcast. But our commandments are not carved into stone tablets.*

1. Listen and Hear
2. Be yourself, and think out loud
3. Share Constructively
4. Be positive, and have fun.
5. No personal attacks or slander.
6. Focus on the issue, not the person.
7. This is not just story time, have a point.
8. Reference facts when possible.
9. Be solution focused.
10. Always seek actionable engagement of others.

* – Subject to change by Webmaster, The Gods, Executive Order, Decree from on High, Whim, Psychiatric Prescription, & Magic Spells.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ”indoctrination,” we might say – exercised through the mass media. ~ Noam Chomsky

The Free Person’s Roundtable is a virtual community forum and podcast available on iTunes that aims to affect real-world change through dialogue and discussion.  The FPR podcast is a platform for public opinion that features free-thinking and progressive-minded people defining and commenting on the issues that they see as relevant in their lives and their very own visions for a better future. The topics discussed will include anything that has impact on our daily lives from education, religion, environment, technology, to health care, media, society, or art — the basic “A to Z’s” of life. We will also throw in some entertainment and fun because in the end we need to laugh along the way.

By discussing issues close to our hearts and daily lives, we hope to uncover the real sources that are negatively impacting our lives and discover alternatives.  When we try to come to solutions through unfiltered and uncensored dialogues, we open the door for new ideas.  By featuring the free persons of our podcast thinking freely for themselves, we hope to get people engaged, first in dialogue, and ultimately in actively improving their communities.

Media for the Rest of Us – Joining the New Paradigm

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There’s really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It’s not healthy. ~ Ted Turner

Recently, major media news has become increasingly political, corporate, destructive, and divisive.  Too often, big media censors our radical ideas labeling them as too outrageous for the mainstream.  Yet, some of those very same radical ideas, the truly original and innovative ones, can vastly change and help heal society.  In the current media system, we are reduced to being taxpayers, voters, viewers, workers, or just commodities. Rarely are we ever considered to be an intelligent, independent, and free thinking people with solutions.

FPR believes, we are all very able individuals capable of examining problems in our communities and acting independently to solve those issues at a grass roots level.  The FPR podcast is designed to create that forum for: we, the creative, self-aware, and independent people to partake in constructive, informative, and enlightening discourse.

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We promise to always work completely independent of any mainstream major media market, without the help of any politicians, or be controlled by any big corporate investments. Come and join the new paradigm of democratized media. ~ The FPR Hosts

Dru: Describes himself as an Anarcho-Syndicalist with Georgistic tendencies. Dru is a resident of the Midwest by way of an upbringing on the East coast. He was taught at a young age that having a stand is better than having your opinion made for you, and that it is your responsibility to hold the powers that be to the light.

TBA: Looking for a new host… if you are interested, contact Dru.