The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Egypt. Extract: Generally, the Arab monarchies support the new Egyptian government. Elected Muslim governments, including Iran and Malaysia, are hostile. Indonesia, a secular government in a Muslim country, is supportive. What is curious is the hostility or ambivalence of mainstream news outlets and the stated opposition of most Western governments. Attitudes towards the US are …
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“In this chapter, we investigate the maker subculture and its manifestation in fabbing ecosystem. In other words, how the love of making things, hacking, tinkering, circuit bending and doing/making everything so-called DIY is a significant peculiarity of Fab Labs. We first look at the meaning and the emergence of the maker subculture and the development …
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Huh? Global protest grows as citizens lose faith in politics and the state The myriad protests from Istanbul to São Paulo have one thing in common – growing dissent among the young, educated and better-off protesting against the very system that once enriched them. And therein lies the danger for governments Peter Beaumont The Observer, …
The “China Dream” is a slogan that can be interpreted at multiple levels. Here is one pretty good analysis: What does Xi Jinping’s China Dream mean? (BBC, 5 June 2013) In my writing and lecturing I like to say that the Chinese leadership is trying to answer “4 basic questions”– 1. How to rule a …
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Lord Martin Rees on New Technological Threats By Benjamin Wittes Lawfare, Thursday, April 18, 2013 In this short video, Lord Martin Rees—the British astrophysicist and cosmologist–gives a brief and elegant statement of the problem Gabriella Blum and I have been writing a book about: the dissemination of radically-empowering technologies to small groups and individuals. Highly …
Paul Strassmann 5.0 out of 5 stars Deserves careful study–a powerful message about technology March 4, 1999 By Lou Agosta (lagosta@21stcentury.net) The main targets for Paul Strassmann’s unmasking of misconceptions about the business use of computers include the Gartner Group, advocates of Best Practices, and that mouth piece of computing vendors, the computing trade press …
An Evolving Systems Analysis of Sandy Hook Sandy Hook in a New Light: Lately I find myself attempting to fit both personal experience and global events into a General Systems framework. General Systems Theory is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry pioneered by biologist Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy. It seeks to expound principles that are applicable to …
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