The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Extraordinary Collection, Unique, Timely, No Notes December 16, 2009 Dacher Keltner, Jason March, Jeremy Adam Smith This is a truly extraordinary collection of essays from the magazine Greater Good, a magazine I had no idea existed. The editors have done a tremendous job in selecting 35 essays (click on the cover above to see the …
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Hot Topics AA: Hamas: Shalit won’t be freed until Israel accepts our demands 12/14/09 AA: USA, Russia Join Forces in the Fight Against Cyber Crime 12/15/09 AL: Berisha re-elected as Democratic Party leader 12/15/09 DK: Danish Police Arrest Hundreds in Climate Protests 12/16/09 IL: Israel protests threat of UK war crime prosecution 12/15/09 IL: Israel …
Struggling Spy Satellite Agency Tries to Right Itself National Defense January 2010 SAN ANTONIO, Texas – The National Reconnaissance Office, the agency responsible for developing and launching the U.S. fleet of spy satellites, is embarking on an ambitious plan to right itself after years of cost overruns and program cancellations. But two powerful senators have …
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Well-Intentioned, Disconnected, Over-Priced, Wrong Focus December 11, 2009 Selma Tekir While encouraging from a multinational point of view, this offering is so disconnected from the twenty one years of effort by thousands of other multinational pioneers, and so terribly over-priced (84 pages for $54? Get real) that we must caution potential purchasers.For a review of …
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Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts A psychologist probes how altruism, Darwinism and neurobiology mean that we can succeed by not being cutthroat. Dacher Keltner, director of the Berkeley Social Interaction Laboratory, investigates these questions from multiple angles, and often generates results that are both surprising and challenging. In his new …
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Hot Topics AA: Iranian Crackdown Goes Global 12/03/09 AA: Report: 2600 bodies found in Kashmir graves 12/02/09 AF: Afghan Expert Says Obama Plan For Security Transfer May Work 12/02/09 AF: Body of second missing soldier found in Afghanistan 11/30/09 IQ: Iraq’s civilian death toll in November is lowest since war began 12/01/09 IR: Iran’s fist …
Hot Topics AA: EU says Bosnia almost ready, but trouble still looms 11/29/09 AA: EU Set To Lift Visas For Three Balkan States 11/30/09 AA: Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah announces new manifesto 11/30/09 BG: Berbatov flees Bulgaria following kidnap threat 12/01/09 CZ: Czech Intelligence Reveals Iraqi Plot To Attack RFE/RL 11/30/09 IT: No Mafia links …
