Public Intelligence Blog – Page 1643 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Fracking is on the Way OUT

The millions of dollars spent on those TV commercials gushing out – like an out-of-control oil well – fracking industry propaganda promoting the industry's environment-destroying, water-poisoning and earthquake-making radical gas extraction practices will be all for naught if this article is correct – which strikes me as very convincing – in stating that added oil storage capability will disappear by this summer. The price of gasoline will drop like a Florida sinkhole and one wonders if they will be even able to give gas away free:

The Perfect Storm For Oil Hits In Two Months: US Crude Production To Soar Just As Storage Runs Out

2015/03/232015/03/23

Review (Guest): The Utopia of Rules – on Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

5 Star, Capitalism (Good & Bad), Civil Society, Complexity & Catastrophe, Corruption, Culture, Research, Economics, Executive (Partisan Failure, Reform), Information Society, Misinformation & Propaganda, Nature, Diet, Memetics, Design, Peace, Poverty, & Middle Class, Politics, Power (Pathologies & Utilization), True Cost & Toxicity, Voices Lost (Indigenous, Gender, Poor, Marginalized)

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David Gaeber

A Fresh Take on Bureaucracy

By Peter Richardson on March 19, 2015

What intense pleasure this book gave me, despite the dull topic: bureaucracy. Anthropologist David Graeber is perhaps best known for Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), which became required reading for the Occupy Wall Street movement. In that book, Graeber showed that the standard explanation for the origins of money, rehearsed in dozens of economics textbooks, was a fairy tale.

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2015/03/232015/03/22

Who Is Vitalik Buterin?

Design, Economics/True Cost, Innovation, P2P / Panarchy, Resilience, Software

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Vitalik Buterin is a programmer, writer, founder of Ethereum, the decentralized web 3.0 publishing platform and co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine, a website and print magazine that covers Bitcoin-related topics.^[1]^[2]^[3] In 2014, Buterin won the World Technology Award for the co-creation and invention of Ethereum.^[4] Buterin was born in Russia, grew up in Canada, and currently resides in Toronto, Ontario.

WIkipedia / Vitalik Buterin

Author at BitCoin Magazine

Vitalik Buterin has beaten Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to win the World Technology Network (WTN) award for IT software

2015/03/232015/03/22

Jean Lievens: Anarchist David Graeber on Bullshit Jobs, Rule-Bound Lives, and Importance of Play

Access, Culture, Design, Economics/True Cost, P2P / Panarchy, Politics

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He coined the phrase, “We are the 99%.”

David Graeber: ‘So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary’

I found myself asking: is this what ordinary life, for most people, is really like?” writes the 53-year-old professor of anthropology in his new book The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy. “Running around feeling like an idiot all day? Being somehow put in a position where one actually does end up acting like an idiot?”

2015/03/232015/03/22

SchwartzReport: Undamming Rivers…

03 Environmental Degradation, 12 Water, Civil Society, Ethics, Government

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Depaving Cities, Undamming Rivers: How We're Undoing the Damage

The largest dam-removal project in history reached completion last fall, when excavators dredged the final tons of pulverized concrete from the Elwha River channel in Western Washington. Native fish, banished for 100 years from their historic spawning habitat, already were rediscovering the Elwha's newly accessible upper stretches. Within weeks of the final explosion in August, threatened bull trout and chinook salmon were spotted migrating beyond the rubble.

2015/03/222015/03/24

Robert Steele: We Mourn Lee Kuan Yew Update 2

Ethics, Government, Officers Call

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Modern Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, dies at 91

By Saeed Azhar

SINGAPORE Sun Mar 22, 2015 6:06pm EDT

Read full obituary — very well done.

Lee Kuan Yew: Life in pictures

Lee Kuan Yew: Why Singapore's Extraordinary Leader Will Be Missed

Teary Mourners in Singapore Remember Lee Kuan Yew

“He is my idol, and not a day passes without my saying it,” Mr. Thirupathi said. “Security, law and order, truth, honesty — all of this requires vision and boils down to leadership.”

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2015/03/222015/03/22

IVN Steele on Electoral Reform Part 16: The Statement of Demand

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IVN Steele on Electoral Reform Part 16: The Statement of Demand

Independent Voter Network, 20 April 2012

I am neither wealthy nor influential. All I have is intelligence and integrity. Neither of these appear to be in demand at this time. As I look at all of the candidates running for President — without exception — I see stunted human beings who are self-centered and not at all able to play well with others.

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