The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Americans Are Being Told There are Only Two Approaches to Problem-Solving: The Left way or the Right way In fact, both the Right and the Left have become parodies of themselves. This is what happens through the process of polarization. Each side becomes more extreme in order to balance what they see as extremism on …
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The Internet Gets Physical STEVE LOHR The New York Times, December 17, 2011 EXTRACT: Low-cost sensors, clever software and advancing computer firepower are opening the door to new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health care and food distribution. The consumer Internet can be seen as the warm-up act for these technologies. The concept has been …
Connecting the Dots: Finding Patterns in Large Piles of Numbers Atlantic, 16 December 2011 A new program can find and compare relationships in complicated data without having to be asked specific queries Are there subtle patterns lurking in data that can foretell of a coming financial-system crash? What can explain the variations in sports-star salaries? …
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UPDATE 11 December 2012: The report is now out. The below commentary was posted 12 December 2011, one year prior to the final report. Global Trends 2030: Full Copy (166 Pages) Here, Review by Robert Steele — Report Lauds Fracking as Energy Solution, Disappoints on Multiple Fronts Although Global Trends 2030 will not be released …
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The Real History of ‘Corporate Personhood’: Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You The real history of today’s excessive corporate power starts with a tobacco lawyer appointed to the Supreme Court. By Jeffrey Clements, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, AlterNet The following is an excerpt of Jeffrey Clement’s Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have …
Three-Quarters of Climate Change Is Man-Made An independent study quantifies the human and natural contributions, with solar radiation contributing only minimally Quinn Schiermeier and Nature Magazine Scientific American, 5 december 2011 Natural climate variability is extremely unlikely to have contributed more than about one-quarter of the temperature rise observed in the past 60 years, reports …
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Crowdsourcing vs Putin: “Mapping Dots is a Disease on the Map of Russia” 4 December 2011 I chose to focus my dissertation research on the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) during elections in repressive states. Why? Because the contentious relationship between state and society during elections is accentuated and the stakes are generally higher than periods in-between …
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