The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Joseph Stiglitz: Thomas Piketty gets income inequality wrong
The famed economist reveals the real reason the rich are getting richer — and what it means for the rest of us
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Archaemicrobes are much better than trying to “dissolve” oil with toxic chemical solutions as was done in the Gulf of Mexico. It won’t be pushed by the oil companies (it’s not an oil-based chemical) but it can be imposed by government agencies.
YouTube (8:02) Megaborg Oil Spill
YouTube (2:32) Fox News 7 and Oppenheimer Biotechnology
YouTube (7:63) Gulf Oil Spill-Gutsy Solution Restores Environment in Just Six Weeks
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The deep changes necessary to accelerate progress against society's most intractable problems require a unique type of leader—the system leader, a person who catalyzes collective leadership.
At no time in history have we needed such system leaders more. We face a host of systemic challenges beyond the reach of existing institutions and their hierarchical authority structures. Problems like climate change, destruction of ecosystems, growing scarcity of water, youth unemployment, and embedded poverty and inequity require unprecedented collaboration among different organizations, sectors, and even countries. Sensing this need, countless collaborative initiatives have arisen in the past decade—locally, regionally, and even globally. Yet more often than not they have floundered—in part because they failed to foster collective leadership within and across the collaborating organizations.
As we begin 2015 the need for citizen involvement in support of wellness at every level from the individual to the planetary has never been greater. The system of democracy itself is at risk throughout the world. This essay makes the case very well. No one is going to save us but we ourselves.
Thomas J. Scott, TruthOut, 1 Jan 15
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We provide free assistance and technical advisement to develop Ceramic Water Filter (CWF) production facilities around the world. These low cost clay water filters allow families to be able to produce their own potable water and has a significant impact on their health.
Tip of the Hat to JZ Liskiewicz
Academic blogging gets your work and research out to a potentially massive audience at very, very low cost and relative amount of effort.
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Syriza can transform the EU from within – if Europe will let it
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Syriza promises first to achieve a substantial write-off of Greek debt and, second, to lift austerity by aiming for balanced budgets, instead of the surpluses demanded by the troika. It will reconnect families to the electricity network, provide food relief and shelter the homeless. It will take immediate action to reduce unemployment through public programmes. It is committed to lowering the enormous tax burden and to boosting public investment in an effort to accelerate growth.
