The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Selected links: Libyan rebels rounding up black Africans. Watch Kiva’s “Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance” blow out across the world. Report analyzing illicit financial transactions using P2P and digital currencies(PDF).
LINKS: August, 31 2011 Some items of interest: Biocurious is a biohackerspace opening in Sunnyvale. Local software, hardware, and bio labs that connect to a global, R&D effort via online networks. A neighborhood location where professionals (formally educated) and amateurs (in the best sense of the word) can work together on building new things and …
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The below article includes an interactive chart of the beneficiaries of the Federal Reserve’s largesse–a graph of corruption on a scale not equaled in history. The Fed’s Secret Liquidity Lifelines Bloomberg, undated Phi Beta Iota: Top ten (first three over $100 billion each): 01 Morgan Stanley … 02 Citigroup Inc. … 03 Bank of America …
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JOURNAL: Open Source Education A couple of years back I asked (in the article “Industrial Education” which is worth a read): “An Ivy League Education for less than $20 a month. Why not?” At the time there were only a smattering of course materials online. That’s changing. It’s coming. Here’s an example of a class that …
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Nouriel “Dr. Doom” Roubini is slamming the run up in the gold market: it’s the new subprime bubble only worse. It’s leveraged 25-40x not just 5-10x. It’s just another example of the global market’s central planning directorate in action. Another massive/bad investment by those with all the decision making power. It may also be a good …
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Status check on Brazil’s specialized police units trying to supplant illicit drug governance in the favelas. Per an upcoming law, these units will be in place for 25 years. “Many communities previously relied on the drug gangs for services from water to wireless internet, and critics have pointed out that the state has been slow to replace …
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Village Base Station project. A 20watt, OpenBTS based, voice and low-bandwidth node. Building Your Own GSM Network: A Demonstration of the Village Base Station Project Posted by AnneryanHeatwole on Jul 15, 2011 MoblleActive.org recently had the opportunity to test an off-the-grid GSM base station. Kurtis Heimerl presented The Village Base Station (VBTS), (link is a …
