The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Metagovernment Active Projects
Over-Arching Starting Point:
Half of U.S. nuclear reactors over 30 years old
By Steve Hargreaves, senior writerMarch 15, 2011: 3:37 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Half of the nation's 104 nuclear reactors are over 30 years old, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Most of the remaining reactors are at least 20 years old.
Originally granted licenses to operate for 40 years, most of the country's reactors have applied for a 20-year extension. Sixty-two extensions have been granted so far, and 20 are still pending, according to the industry group the Nuclear Energy Institute.
Phi Beta Iota: From the First Earth Battalion. Totally righteous.
U.S. Army prepares to invade U.S. Absolutely worth a full viewing. Cut the conspiracy meme by half, and then add back in the civil detention centers built by Halliburton and still active under Obama; the FEMA plans to federalize state and local police; the handful of “secret” allegedly UN bases full of men without a country; the triage of US Army personnel on the basis of whether they answer yes or no to a question about disarming US citizens on US soil….
Phi Beta Iota: Assigning a brigade to NORTHCOM is not grounds for assuming that the brigade will be used against US citizens, but it is a reasonable basis for carefully contemplating all that has happened and all that could happen in the near term.
(2009/2010) Anil Gupta is on the hunt for the developing world's unsung inventors — indigenous entrepreneurs whose ingenuity, hidden by poverty, could change many people's lives. He shows how the Honey Bee Network helps them build the connections they need — and gain the recognition they deserve. See video here.
Anil Gupta created the Honey Bee Network to support grassroots innovators who are rich in knowledge, but not in resources. Full bio and more links
Comment: Anil Gupta's “database” was mentioned in the book “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid.”
A few interesting pieces mentioned in the video:
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(2009) At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop.” In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.
Pranav Mistry is the inventor of SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data. Full bio and more links
If it's stats you want, this is an interesting insight. A wide variety of sources from around the Web were used to put this post together and Pingdom.com also did some additional calculations to get even more numbers to chew on – this is as at January 12, 2011. It's a good kind of information overload!
* 107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.
* 294 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
* 1.88 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
* 480 million – New email users since the year before.
* 89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.
* 262 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).
* 2.9 billion – The number of email accounts worldwide.
* 25% – Share of email accounts that are corporate.
