The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
“Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political, or economic changes. In this sense power is not only desirable but necessary in order to implement the demands of love and justice. One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love …
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Online promo flyer with graphics from Cognito Who: Author Stephen Kinzer, Grand Theft Auto Director Navid Khonsari, Newscaster Amy Goodman, Emmy-nominated Mike de Seve, Columbia University Chair of Iran Studies Hamid Dabashi Where: 2 West 64th St. & Central Park West, NYC, (New York Society for Ethical Culture) When: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 7 p.m. …
People power goes techie, ousts Tunisian dictator Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 01:25:00 01/16/2011 Seeds of protest The antigovernment protests began a month ago when a college-educated street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi in the small town of Sidi Bouzid burned himself to death in despair at the frustration and joblessness confronting many educated young people …
Posted By Elizabeth Dickinson Thursday, January 13, 2011 – 6:17 PM Foreign Policy EXTRACT: As in the recent so-called “Twitter Revolutions” in Moldova and Iran, there was clearly lots wrong with Tunisia before Julian Assange ever got hold of the diplomatic cables. Rather, WikiLeaks acted as a catalyst: both a trigger and a tool for …
M-Paisa: Ending Afghan Corruption, one Text at a Time Monty Munford Oct 17, 2010 Afghanistan supplies 92% of the world’s opiates. According to the latest available figures, the country produced 8,200 tons of heroin in 2008, more than double the the amount three years earlier. But even being the heroin capital of the world, bringing …
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Did you know that Raleigh, N.C. had the highest rate of population growth in the last decade of any large metropolitan area? Metropolitan population growth is just one of more than a thousand topics addressed in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2011. The Abstract is perennially the federal government’s best-selling …
On January 11 at 9 a.m. EST, Google will host a live event on its brand new Science Fair YouTube Channel. More details about the fair will be announced then; we’re assuming the site will be fleshed out at that time, as well. The global science competition is being hosted in partnership with CERN (the …
