The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Case study. Turning a parking lot into a garden. Too big to fail. Five banks account for 96% of $250 trillion in derivatives. Cyberwar fact check. “Nearly all SCADA systems are online.” and “747’s are big flying Unix hosts.” NGO leader looks at the rise of ‘mafia governance.’ See Also: Paradigms of Failure Legitimate Grievances (US Internal) Legitimate …
I’ve been driving the 1964 MGB (my last remaining possession, it needs $5,000 of underbody work to survive the winter) around New England and am in New York now. I’ve been following the US Day of Rage plans (they were also announced here) but have been surprised to find a number of normally intelligent middle-class …
Global Groundswell: Mad as Hell Eric Best, Truthout, 9 September 2011 EXTRACT: These are just a few examples of grassroots reactions around the world to governments that appear out of touch with or indifferent to the lives of the people – and the people are not standing for it anymore. They are standing up. And …
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Item 1 is an insightful essay by Patrick Seale outlining the common characteristics of the political instabilities and revolutionary pressures now sweeping Europe and the Middle East. Although Seale uses the term Global Intifada to describe these instabilities, the term Intifada evolved out of the Palestinian struggle against occupation. He suggests the instabilities may be …
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Actual results in reverse chronological order: 21st Century Human-selected best in class in alphabetical order below the line.
Search produces Review: Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements which at the very bottom has: 1976 thesis on revolution (Lehigh University) 1992 paper on revolution (Marine Corps University) 1976 graphic on the preconditions of revolution To that we would add as supplementary material:
True Cost is called by some a triple-bottom line (physical cost, ecological cost, social cost). Others talk about true cost to own (including all related fuels or batteries, toxic side effects etc), others talk about cradle to grave accounting to include complete recycling. Technically, true cost accounting prohibits negative external costs from being ignored. A …
