SchwartzReport: Singapore and the Arctic Council + Solution + Water Flood Meta-RECAP

Here is what climate change and the melting of the Arctic looks like from Malaysia. It is a very sensible assessment, of a depth one rarely sees in the Western media. Polar Politics and the Melting Arctic JOSEPH CHINYONG LIOW, professor of comparative and international politics – The Malay Mail (Malaysia) Singapore’s recent accession to …

Stephen E. Arnold: Search Hits the “Big O” – Robert Steele Comments on IT’s Three Sucking Chest Wounds

Big O Explained: Why Systems Are Alike? Posted: 27 Jul 2013 04:30 AM PDT In several of my recent lectures, I pointed out that most end users cannot differentiate among search systems. The comment made about these systems is often, “Why can’t these systems be like Google?” I concluded that the similarity of requests suggests …

Sepp Hasslberger: Electronically Mediated Seawater Desalination — Low Energy Low Cost Portable Potentially Massive Scale

It needs further development, but when scaled up it could provide desalinated sea water at a fraction of the cost of today’s membrane based reverse osmosis systems… New Invention Makes Ocean Water Drinkable Susanne Posel Occupy Corporatism, July 2, 2013 Chemists with the University of Texas and the University of Marburg have devised a method …

Sepp Hasslberger: Renewable Source Electricity To Exceed Gas and Nuclear by 2016

It is good to see there’s progress towards getting off fossil fuels, but we still have a ways to go … and there are new free energy technologies being developed that may bring us there even faster. Energy Revolution Mark Dansie Revolution-Green.com, 28 June 2013 Electricity generation from renewable sources worldwide will exceed that from …

INTERVIEW: Open Everything – with Robert David STEELE Vivas UPDATED to Add Parts V and VI

Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas David Balaban Privacy PC, April 2-8, 2013 PART I  Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas This section open with Mr. Steele’s thoughts on CIA and CIA IT. PART II:  Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas. Part 2 This section of …

Ho Ho Ho: Unhappy Neighbors — South China Sea as Flash Point, Indonesia and Viet-Nam Seek Solutions — China’s U-Shaped Line and String of Pearls

Unhappy Neighbors Ngo Vinh Long The Cairo Review of Foreign Affairs, February 10, 2013 Speaking to diplomats, businessmen and journalists at the British Foreign Office in November, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia emphasized the need for “norms and principles” in resolving disputes in the South China Sea. Why did President Yudhoyono, who was spending …