The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
What Google’s Quiet Failure Says About Its Innovation Health 11:39 AM Friday July 8, 2011 EXTRACT Rarely do the post-industrial stars align so well for an entrepreneurial enterprise hellbent on market revolution. Between the ongoing digitalization, consumerization, and personalization of health care delivery, Google was supremely well-positioned to have as big an innovative impact on …
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Part I Internet prime mover Vint Cerf echoes what I’ve been hearing from other architects of the TCP/IP network: we should focus on building much fatter pipes, and get away from the enforced/legacy scarcity and build gigabit broadband networks. Nothing here about the cost of providing gigabit access, nothing here about the fact that much …
The Libyan War, American Power and the Decline of the Petrodollar System by Prof. Peter Dale Scott Centre for Research on Globalization, 29 April 2011 EXTRACT: As Ellen Brown has pointed out, first Iraq and then Libya decided to challenge the petrodollar system and stop selling all their oil for dollars, shortly before each country …
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Ignorance Today Massimo Pigliucci 2011-04-22 NEW YORK – Ignorance is the root of all evil, according to Plato, who also famously gave us a still-current definition of its opposite: knowledge. For Plato, knowledge is “justified true belief.” That definition is worthy of consideration as we reflect on the perils of ignorance in the twenty-first century. …
This is a follow up to that 13 February Spinney piece on predicting the future, DARPA as Poster Child for Out of Control Budget. It belongs to the category of “we don’t make this stuff up.” Speaking of this category, I think this latest incident in Pakistan (CIA contractor shoots two Pakistanis in broad daylight, …
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A note about “network neutrality” by jonl on January 10, 2011 This is something I posted in the “state of the world” conversation with Bruce Sterling on the WELL… I give talks on the history and future of media, and on the history, evolution, and history of the Internet. I gave the talk this week …
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