The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: Google is now seriously evil. If you thought the blue screen of death was bad under Microsoft, just wait for the multi-colored cloud of death from Google, with toll gates everywhere, and of course you only see search results that someone else has paid to put in front of you. Microsoft is …
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The Original Surveyor of Distance Education and Virtual Learning January 23, 2010 G. Parker Rossman My original review of this book seems to have vanished into thin air here at Amazon. G. Parker Rossman and his book came into my life just after I started the international conference on “National Security & National Competitiveness: Open …
An Utterly Superb Intellectual Contribution–a Major New Reference January 10, 2010 David Cortright This book is a gift to humanity, a foundational reference of such extraorindary value that I earnestly believe it should be required reading for every single liberal arts program in the world, and used as a core book in all graduate international …
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UN-SPIDER (“United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response”) aims at providing universal access to all types of space-based information and services relevant to disaster management by: being a gateway to space information for disaster management support; serving as a bridge to connect the disaster management and space communities; and being …
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Phi Beta Iota: ClimateGate has demonstrated once again the wisdom of the Brahimi Report and the urgency of creating a World Intelligence Center such as Quincy Wright suggested in 1957. The Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c3, was formed in 2006 and accredited as a Public Charity in January 2007. Below are a few documents that …
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Beyond 6 Stars–Could Help Destroy Strong, Gore, & IPCC December 4, 2009 This is a preliminary review as there are no others. I will spend the week-end creating a timeline, sorting out the good guys and the bad guys, and charting the costs real and projected. Short version: bad science, bad media, bad politics, bad …
The Ushahidi Engine is a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline. Our goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response. This is a huge development, one that could lead to …
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