The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Itamar Simonson and Emanuel Rosen Formula book, somewhat shallow, misses major opportunity, February 16, 2014 This book was a gift. The subtitle (What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information) overcame my reluctance and I gave it it a quick read, which is all it deserves. This is a formula book, and …
Amsterdam adopts new private rental policy that benefits Airbnb hosts and the sharing economy By Josh Ong, The Next Web, Thursday, 13 Feb ’14 The city of Amsterdam has approved a new set of rules that allows residents to rent out their homes on Airbnb with less red tape. Previously, Amsterdam required renters to secure permits …
War Can Be Ended Part I Of BOOK: War No More: The Case For Abolition Slavery Was Abolished In the late eighteenth century the majority of people alive on earth were held in slavery or serfdom (three-quarters of the earth’s population, in fact, according to the Encyclopedia of Human Rights from Oxford University Press). The …
WEEKEND EDITION JAN 31-FEB 02, 2014 Fanning the Fires of Chaos in the Ukraine What is the Real Price of Starting Another Cold War? by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch In the late 1980s, the leaders of the West promised Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev that they would not expand eastward if the Soviet Union pulled …
Misplaced Lessons of Tahrir CONCLUSION: The lesson I take away from The Square is that we must prevent the operation of business as usual until the institution itself, not its face, is fixed. We can put up giant posters of a black man followed by a white woman followed by some other demographic symbol, but …
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Privacy Board Urges New Criteria for Secrecy The public controversy that erupted over NSA bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records was a clear sign, if one were needed, that the boundaries of government secrecy had been drawn incorrectly, and that the public had been wrongly denied an opportunity to grant or withhold its consent in …
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Expect to Get “Mice Print” or Little or Nothing When Looking for Public Information Ralph Nader debunks a major myth about the Internet: the assumption that government and important public information is accessible or easily so. As he shows, in many cases, not so at all: “Information technology (IT), now the supplier of millions of …
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