The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Bay of Pigs’ unfinished battle By George F. Will, Published: September 13 At 4 a.m. on Jan. 1, 1959, an hour when there were never commercial flights from Havana, David Atlee Phillips was lounging in a lawn chair there, sipping champagne after a New Year’s Eve party, when a commercial aircraft flew low over …
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This superb piece by Andrew Bacevich (Colonel US Army Ret.) is one the best portraits of what is wrong with self-important warmongering commentariat in the mainstream media: Track records count for nothing in the cozy salons of Versailles on the Potomac. SUNDAY, SEP 15, 2013 3:30 PM UTC David Brooks is constantly wrong Takes a …
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Here is yet another report showing us that if we could emerge from our carbon energy trance there is an entire world of non-polluting energy available to us, as well as a potential freshwater source, which is equally important. Water is destiny. In this, and the next story on Germany, you can see what the …
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Big Data, Disaster Resilience and Lord of the Rings The Shire is a local community of Hobbits seemingly disconnected from the systemic changes taking place in Middle Earth. They are a quiet, self-sufficient community with high levels of social capital. Hobbits are not interested in “Big Data”; their world is populated by “Small Data” and gentle …
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Sustainia100 Free Online Read of PDF Download One Person’s Top Ten from the Sustainia 100 Our favorite: (9) The Savory Institute is working with sheep producers in Argentina to restore 40 million acres of grassland, so helping to deal with the world’s serious desertification crisis (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/16/desertification-climate-change?INTCMP=SRCH). They do this by putting animals on the land and …
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Swarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World. Chapter Six. Swarm Management: The swarm must have mechanisms for conflict resolution, for decision making, and for reward culture. There are many ways to accomplish this. A traditional voting democracy is one of the worst. Swarmwise chapters – one chapter per month 1. Understanding The Swarm …
The Strange Case of Barrett Brown Amid the outrage over the NSA’s spying program, the jailing of journalist Barrett Brown points to a deeper and very troubling problem. Peter Ludlow The Nation, 18 June 2013 In early 2010, journalist and satirist Barrett Brown was working on a book on political pundits, when the hacktivist collective …
