Public Intelligence Blog – Page 1604 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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As I have predicted for some years, the first large corporations to change their policies on carbon investments will be insurance companies. Since they pay out claims brought on by disasters, they are exquisitely attuned to what causes disasters and carbon energy is at the top of their list. Insurance companies understand what Republicans will not admit — climate change is a game changer unlike anything ever seen before by the human species. So I take AXA's action as good news.

Huge Insurance Company Cites Climate Change As Reason For Divesting From Coal

2015/05/232015/05/31

Event: Dec 2015 NYC OSE-21 – Open Source Everything

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Pre-announcement, for early adopters wishing to shape the event.

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2015/05/232015/05/22

Sepp Hasslberger: MacroFab – The Open Source Hardware Factory

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This factory is collecting together and testing all the technologies needed for future widespread local manufacturing of … everything.

Making Hardware Is a Total Pain. But Not in This Factory

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What Church really wanted was for manufacturing to work more like cloud computing, where you can simply request the resources you need through the web. He wanted to be able to upload his designs to a manufacturer, get a quote automatically, and, when the time comes, order a batch of prototypes with a push of a button, instead of having to spend hours and hours going over spreadsheets with sales reps. That didn’t exist, so, along with electrical engineer Parker Dillmann, he started a factory called MacroFab that lets hardware designers do just that.

2015/05/232015/05/22

Jean Lievens: How Open Source Disrupted CMS

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How open source disrupted the CMS market

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Although a lot of business people still intuitively think of Linux when it comes to open source software, content management systems played a pivotal role in changing the mindset within corporations. Why? Because the CMS industry was one of the first to largely adopt open source products. Nowadays, the most corporations use open source content management systems for their web platforms. Some of them may not even realize it.

2015/05/232015/05/22

Stephen E. Arnold: Is Human Collaboration Key to Big Data Progress and Future of Internet?

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Is (Human) Collaboration the Key to Big Data Progress?

The article titled Big Data Must Haves: Capacity, Compute, Collaboration on GCN offers insights into the best areas of focus for big data researchers. The Internet2 Global Summit is in D.C. this year with many exciting panelists who support the emphasis on collaboration in particular. The article mentions the work being presented by several people including Clemson professor Alex Feltus,

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2015/05/232015/05/22

SchwartzReport: Brid Flu Slams Factorys, Not Home Flocks — This is IMPORTANT!

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The die-off of commercially raised chickens hasn't received much attention, even though tens of millions of birds have died, so many that disposing of them has become a logistical nightmare. But media silence does not mean lack of substance. This situation is telling us something very important about the inherent vulnerability of the industrial-pharmaceutical animal husbandry model. The most interesting part of this story to my mind is the fact that birds that are raised in a wellness as opposed to profit model are NOT succumbing. It took me a while to find a story that described this aspect, since the coverage of this entire event barely rates a yawn in corporate media, but this is a good account. We are being told something very important about our food system; it's a shame we aren't listening.

Bird Flu Is Slamming Factory Farms But Sparing Backyard Flocks. Why?

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Worth a Look: Beyond Data Monitoring – Achieving the Sustainability Development Goals Through Intelligence (Decision-Support)

5 Star, Decision-Making & Decision-Support

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A bargain at 99 cents, with live links. 42 pages representing a lifetime of reflection and contributions from hundreds of other subject matter experts devoted to the idea that we can create a prosperous world at peace, a world that works for all.

As the United Nations (UN) contemplates its most important new economic and social initiative, the seventeen new Sustainability Development Goals (SDG), to be manifest in the Global Sustainable Development Report and related UN System activities, it is essential that the Secretary-General be afforded an opportunity to recognize the radical changes that are taking place in the external environment – and how the UN can capitalize on them to accelerate achievement of the SDGs.

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