Jean Lievens: We Are All Greeks — And We Should All Oppose the IMF and EU “Jackboots” on Individual Economies

03 Economy, 08 Wild Cards, 11 Society
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

We Are All Greeks Now

The referendum is the opportunity for Greeks to reject EU-IMF-German bullying. Greeks must stand firm against EU-IMF-German bullying, and the rest of Europe must stand with them.   . . . . .   EU, is a Big Business lobby group, nothing more. Common standards, open borders, free trade, common currency, trans-European highways, are all there to benefit Big Business.

Stephen E. Arnold: Technology Can Be Toxic

#OSE Open Source Everything, 03 Economy, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Technology Takes It on the Nose

I put this passage in my quote file:

But technology is not neutral – and neither is code nor numbers. There are human, subjective judgments lurking behind the apparent objectivity offered by algorithms and the “user-friendly” operating systems. These technologies perform almost magically, while at the same time enabling all sorts of organizations to easily collect information about us, something that makes it that bit easier to usher in new forms of surveillance and control.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Water Splitter = Hydrogen Energy

05 Energy
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Yes, we should learn how to use hydrogen as a clean fuel…

Water splitter produces clean-burning hydrogen fuel 24/7

An inexpensive renewable source of clean-burning hydrogen fuel for transportation and industry

EXTRACT

“We have developed a low-voltage, single-catalyst water splitter that continuously generates hydrogen and oxygen for more than 200 hours, an exciting world-record performance,” said study co-author Yi Cui, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford and of photon science at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

SchwartzReport: Global Warming Is Now a “Medical Emergency” That Could Wipe Out 50 Years of Global Health Gains

03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, Earth Intelligence
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

I have reached a point where I just wonder: what is it going to take to wake us up? How many alarms have to go off before we awaken from the profit trance and begin to make decisions based on creating wellness? Will we survive?

Global Warming Is Now a “Medical Emergency” That Could Wipe Out 50 Years of Global Health Gains

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