Search Results for “Smart Planet” – Page 20

2013/05/092013/05/09

John Steiner: Fukushima Update — Worse, Uglier, Worry More…. + Fukushima & US Nuclear RECAP

Subject: Fukushima update http://www.change.org/petitions/west-coast-senators-investigate-the-ongoing-danger-from-the-fukushima-nuclear-reactors Dear Friends, Bad news continues to pour out of Fukushima-Daiichi. The first article below discusses the impact of F-D radiation on Canadian flora and fauna. The second details the involvement of the Japanese Mafia, the Yakuza, in the containment/cleanup process. The third describes TEPCO’s mounting financial losses, as they struggle to …

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2013/03/272021/01/27

21 Graphic Depictions of US Health Costs Compared to Other Nations + Health Fraud RECAP

21 graphs that show America’s health-care prices are ludicrous Every year, the International Federation of Health Plans — a global insurance trade association that includes more than 100 insurers in 25 countries — releases survey data showing the prices that insurers are actually paying for different drugs, devices, and medical services in different countries. And every …

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2011/10/052011/10/06

IBM: proceed with caution (WWII to the present)

3 examples: IBM is working with DARPA IBM Testing Biometric Technology for Retail Advertising How IBM Tech Helped Jump Start the Holocaust Comment: I would be cautious+keen of the “smart planet” vision of those running IBM, they have made the brand popular for spreading to all cities. Keep an eye on them (biometric pun, sorry) …

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2010/09/052010/09/05

Journal: Femicide, Educating Women, Saving Earth

Tens of millions of ‘missing’ girls (CNN) — Discrimination against women and girls takes a staggering toll around the world, says author Sheryl WuDunn. It leads to as many as 100 million fewer females than males in the world. Ending the oppression of women is the great moral challenge of the 21st Century, a cause …

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2009/10/302009/10/30

Journal: NOT Real-Time Intelligence

Grupo Hemas Taps Savi Networks to Monitor the Security and Status of Cargo Shipments in Real Time Reuters, 28 October 2009 …has contracted with Savi Networks for its real-time intelligence service that automatically monitors the location, security and condition of shipment… A Revolution Once More: Unmanned Systems and the Middle East (Brookings, November 2009) … …

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2021/02/202021/02/20

Charles Hugh Smith: Fatal Synergies, Benign Synergies, Steele Comment

Answering the question, why does one system survive crises and another does not? The answer lies in what author Geoffrey Parker termed Fatal Synergies and Benign Synergies in his book Global Crisis. I think we can distill the difference between Fatal Synergies and Benign Synergies into two questions:

2021/02/13

J. C. Cole: American Gray Swans – February 2021

American Gray Swans – February 2021 Report Card! Around two years ago in January of 2019 I started writing articles called the American Gray Swans to warn Americans of the dangerous position we are in. In them I identified a series of events that could shut down America’s “Just in Time” delivery system (our supply …

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