The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
How Twitter saved Kenya’s election Thu Aug 5, 2010 New York – Once again, social media has played a central role in a national election. During Kenya’s recent ballot initiative to adopt a new constitution, citizens used Twitter, along with Facebook and a new breed of monitoring technology, to help eliminate the voter intimidation, bombings, and deadly …
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A two-part exhibition of water technologies and artwork from developing countries where Denver-based IDE works to cultivate prosperity. Part I (August 6 – 31) of the exhibition features photographs of the people IDE works with every day, along with displays of the innovative water technologies IDE has developed as part of its Bill and Melinda …
(clips from the synopsis about the Frontline video documentary) Five years ago, Amy Costello reported a story for FRONTLINE/World. It was about the challenges of getting water in Africa, and a promising new technology called the PlayPump. After years of covering “bad news” in Africa, she was happy to report a story that seemed to …
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Phi Beta Iota: The book is recommended, and below are details on an event tomorrow in Washington, D.C. Campaign for Liberty will host a debate between Bruce and Jeff Kuhner, talk radio host on AM 570 and a columnist and media commentator at The Washington Times. Daniel McCarthy, editor at The American Conservative, will moderate the debate. …
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The Next Apollo Project in 140 Characters Innovators are being asked to friend Uncle Sam as the next good ideas for the government are being sought through social networks. By Emily Badger Anil Dash sums up the power of crowdsourcing with a simple question he put to his Twitter feed a few months back. It …
Conversation Starting Point: Afghan Self-stabilization from Below – and Above Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Lee Felsenstein Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Dave Warner Monday 12 July 2010 (Read from Bottom Up)
Beyond Six Stars: Superb Foundation Work–Should Be Translated, May 5, 2010 Seumas Miller, Peter Roberts, Edward Spence Corruption is the pervasive, pernicious, pathological, preemptory, and predatory commonality within the ten high level threats to humanity as identified by the United Nations High-Level Threat Panel and published in 2004 in A More Secure World: Our Shared …
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