The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Zombie System: How Capitalism Has Gone Off the Rails The data expose a dangerous malfunction in capitalism’s engine room. Banks, mutual funds and investment firms used to ensure that citizens’ savings were transformed into technical advances, growth and new jobs. Today they organize the redistribution of social wealth from the bottom to the top. …
(Manufactured) Ebola Crisis is the Biological 9-11 for the Whole World – a Gift from the .01% Internet radio financial pundit Richard Martin recently stated: “”In 1915 there were 15 million horses in the US. By 1950, even though the human population had expanded exponentially, there were only 1 million horses, a result of the …
Professor Vladimir Golstein’s opinion piece (below) in Russia Insider presents a very interesting point of view, especially when one thinks about it in light of a recent poll by the German Marshall Fund portraying a sharp decline in positive attitudes in Germany toward America and President Obama. According this report (in German), the poll found that only 58% of …
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At last, NYT gets something right. Scotland’s Independence Vote Shows a Global Crisis of the Elites Neil Irwin New York Times, 18 September 2014 When you get past the details of the Scottish independence referendum Thursday, there is a broader story underway, one that is also playing out in other advanced nations. It is a …
Tip of the Saber to Charles Yaker. The Open Source Identity Crisis As the diversity in tech movement gains traction, open source faces an identity crisis. EXTRACT The first story we must look at is: who exactly is an open source contributor? The answer to this seems obvious enough. Open source contributors are hackers. The …
Crowdsourced Crisis Map of UAV/Aerial Videos for Disaster Response The first version of the Humanitarian UAV Network’s Crisis Map of UAV/aerial videos is now live on the Network’s website. The crowdsourced map features dozens of aerial videos of recent disasters. Like social media, this new medium—user-generated (aerial) content—can be used by humanitarian organizations to complement their damage assessments and thus …
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27 maps that explain the crisis in Iraq by Zack Beauchamp, Max Fisher and Dylan Matthews on June 23, 2014 The current Iraq crisis began in early June, when the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which already controls parts of Syria, seized much of northern Iraq, including the major city …
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