The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Why we should give free money to everyone “I am now convinced that the simplest approach… to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. Research shows that just giving people a few hundreds or thousands of dollars can lift them out of …
Interesting — and a useful counterpoint to the top ten threats identified by the UN in 2004.* A single word, corruption, would seem to cover all ten. Table 1: Ten Global Risks of Highest Concern in 2014 No. Global Risk 1 Fiscal crises in key economies 2 Structurally high unemployment/underemployment 3 Water crises 4 Severe …
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Is this the year in which populism defeats the two-party system, when the US stops borrowing to finance waste, and when the NSA debacle outrages the American people to the point that they call for a radical overhaul of the government? – DOC (12 Pages): Rethinking Intelligence 2.3 This post is available for complete re-posting …
A global parliament of cities *It’s hard to believe they could be more sclerotic than what we’ve got. *On the other hand, given the historical behavior of Italian city-states, man, I have to wonder. All I need is some Milanese Sforzas with catapults at the gates of Torino. It took the ultra-wealthy some real effort …
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Ervin Laszlo and Kingsley L. Dennis et al. 4.0 out of 5 stars Superb Appetizer Book — a Potpourri of Genius — Not the Main Plate, December 26, 2013 Buy and read this book for a marvelous panoramic view of the latest thinking circling around the end of the top-down scarcity model that concentrates wealth, …
Effect cause, this is. Humans may have caused world’s worst earthquakes PTI : London, Sun Dec 15 2013 Some of the world’s largest and most deadly recent earthquakes were not natural disasters at all but were caused by human activities such as mining, reservoir construction and oil and gas extraction, scientists say. A global study …
Translating Lessons Learned in Colombia and Other Wars Among the People: Confronting the Spectrum of 21st Century Conflict by Max G. Manwaring Translating Lessons Learned in Colombia and Other Wars Among the People: Confronting the Spectrum of 21st Century Conflict Small Wars Journal, 27 August 2013 Beyond Afghanistan, we must define our effort not as …
