Public Intelligence Blog – Page 1747 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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NEW:

http://www.robertdavidsteele.com

Robert is re-emerging into public life as well as private practice. This is the one URL to remember. If you share Robert's passion for getting it right, restoring intelligence with integrity to governance, creating a prosperous world at peace, a world that works for all, please share this url with others as you think best.

Interviews across all forms of media are particularly sought.

CEO's in agony over their present course, seeking low-cost sustainable solutions centered on ethical evidence-based decision-support, are encouraged to communicate directly with Robert.

On the non-profit and academic front, Robert is working toward the creating of an Open Source Everything Innovation Hub. Get in touch if you have something to offer. Bubbles, CATALYST, and World Brain Cloud — all open source.

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Jean Lievens: Build Your Own Micro-Factory — Freedom Through Inexpensive Open Source Everything

Manufacturing

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Build Your Own Micro-Factory (It’s Cheaper Than You Think)

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At the root of Gershenfeld’s course is a list of machines. These are not exotic, multi-million dollar machines, although you can certainly spend a pretty penny on the top end models in each category. Rather, these devices, with the possible exception of the 3d printer are all fairly well known quantities. Gershenfeld’s Fabrication Laboratory (Fab-Lab, for short), networks these various machines and makes them work together. He does that in a space about the size of a two-car garage.

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Mini-Me: WHO Now Says Ebola Has 42 Day Incubation Period — 1 in 8 to 1 in 20 go longer….

02 Infectious Disease

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Shock WHO report: Ebola has 42-day incubation period, not 21 days!

The WHO's “Ebola situation assessment” report, found here, explains that only 95% of Ebola infections experience incubation within the widely-reported 21-day period. Here's the actual language from the report: Read full article.

Is 21 Days Long Enough For Ebola Quarantine?

Charles N. Haas, an environmental engineer who models human risk of illness at Drexel University .. has .. published a paper last week in the journal PLOS Currents reporting that as many as one in eight people who get Ebola don’t get sick until after 21 days. In the current outbreak, the number is one in 20, according to a report published by WHO researchers last week. Read full article.

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William Colby: Security in an Open Society — Address on Secrecy Given at NSA in 1973

Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government

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Security in an Open Society

The following is an edited version of the address given in the NSA Auditorium in November as the feature of Security Week 1973.

PDF (4 Pages): Colby on Secrecy at NSA in 1973

EXTRACT

“We are all also aware of Gresham's law in economics, which says that bad money drives out good. If we overclassify, we develop in people's minds a contempt for the classification rules, for if some items that really are not secret at all are classified, it means the whole system is nonsense.”

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Review: Fusion Economics – How Pragmatism is Changing the World

5 Star, Best Practices in Management, Capitalism (Good & Bad), Change & Innovation, Complexity & Resilience, Culture, Research, Environment (Solutions), Future, Leadership, Nature, Diet, Memetics, Design, Peace, Poverty, & Middle Class, Politics, Public Administration, Stabilization & Reconstruction, Survival & Sustainment, Technology (Bio-Mimicry, Clean), Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution

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Laurence Brahm

5.0 out of 5 stars Common Sense Community-Based Economics, October 25, 2014

Laurence Brahm is one of those unsung heroes who was changing the world for the better, and influencing various governments in most positive ways, long before ecological economics and social enterprise became fashionable turns of phrase. I regard him as the anti-thesis to the predatory capitalism mantras and methods of our time. His proven focus on community development and evolutionary blends of state planning and market incentives is precisely what we need now that everyone understands that Western governments have been corrupted and Western economies destroyed by financial interests devoted to extracting value instead of creating value. This is a practical book, a spiritual book, and one that should be required reading among those intent on creating collaborative economies and social enterprises.

His recommended gradualist evolutionary approach is ethical and focused on stable transformation, not rapid looting by foreign bankers.

Quote (41): The fundamental failure of ivory tower cookie-cutter models, for all of their theoretical perfection, is that they ignore local conditions, culture, mindset, and historical burdens.”

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Mongoose: Russia Stops Europe’s Gas Over Ukraine — Power Grid Sabotage Next?

04 Inter-State Conflict, 06 Russia, 08 Wild Cards, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call

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Playtime is over. Serves Europe right for being an ignorant unethical pawn to US lies… As for John Kerry, he is, if anything, even more worthless than Hillary Clinton ever was.

Europe plunged into energy crisis as Russia cuts off gas supply via Ukraine

Russia cut gas exports to Europe by 60 per cent today, plunging the continent into an energy crisis ‘within hours' as a dispute with Ukraine escalated. This morning, gas companies in Ukraine said that Russia had completely cut off their supply. Six countries reported a complete shut-off of Russian gas shipped via Ukraine today, in a sharp escalation of a struggle over energy that threatens Europe as winter sets in.

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