Robert Steele: ISOC Future of the Internet – My Take
ISOC Future of the Internet – My Take For questions 6-10, please describe the greatest forces of change that you believe will affect the future of the Internet over the coming five to seven years.
Owl: GMO Bio-War Against Chipotle?
This article’s author, Mike Adams, admits to speculating, as he has no proof the GMO industry is sabotaging Chipotle, but I think it is very plausible speculation. The e. coli outbreaks entail a rare strain of e coli, which make this theory even more compelling. For those who like connecting the dots, the Chipotle incidents, …
Yoda: Death of the Butterfly – A Metaphor for Human Greed and Ignorance
Butterfly. God is… Monarch Butterflies Take Flight in Migration to Mexico as Population Plummets Unfortunately, though, the monarch butterfly is suffering from climate change, monoculture, and insecticides. More specifically, the lack of milkweed, which is what the butterfly feeds on, has greatly impacted number. In fact, it’s estimated that since 1997, numbers have decreased from …
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Reflections on Peter Drucker from the Grave
#bigideas I do miss Peter Drucker. I also think often of him, and Frank Lloyd Wright and many others, such as Russell Ackoff (“stop doing the wrong things righter, do the right things”). I use them to remind myself that it takes a quarter-century or more — and generally some cataclysmic failure — before the …
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SchwartzReport: John Alexander on Bean-Counting ISIS — Another Folly
ISIS: The Latest Bean Counter’s Folly That problem is establishing self-reporting systems that only encourage and reward reports that indicate progress is being made and fit the established politically correct scenario. . . . The analytic problem is the models used for predicting outcomes of conflicts are woefully inadequate at best.
Robert Steele: Visa & MasterCard Begin Moral Policing — Time to Shut Them Down
From PayPal to Amazon to Visa & MasterCard, we now know that it is time to end our reliance on intermediaries. This moral policing by Visa and MasterCard is horribly ignorant, wrong, and should be a basis for public boycott of both of these card services — what’s next: not letting you use payment cards …
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Nikola K. Gvosdev: National Interest on China, Russia, India
China’s Master Plan to Thwart American Dominance in Asia Nikola K. Gvosdev The Ukraine crisis has permanently ruptured Russia’s ties to the West and pulled Moscow into a closer relationship with Beijing. … As much as Washington likes to trumpet its good relationship with India, the reality is that Xi has made cultivation of India …
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