The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Sample Articles: Brain’s Journey from Early Internet to Modern-Day Fiber Optics: Computer Program Shows How Brain’s Complex Fiber Tracks Mature Physicists Develop a Quantum Interface Between Light and Atoms Science struggling to track destruction of nature Tip of the Hat toLynn Wheeler at LinkedIn.
What are the web sites for meeting facilitators to learn about best practices and new resources? Well the NCDD site of course! Our main blog (www.thataway.org) keeps people updated on news & opportunities in dialogue, deliberation, public engagement, facilitation, etc. And our resource center (www.ncdd.org/rc) provides info about over 2500 resources (guidebooks, videos, articles, etc.). …
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The Petroleum Broadcast System Owes Us an Apology by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash Wednesday, October 27, 2010 Tonight, my dog Pluto and I watched the PBS ‘Frontline’ investigation of BP, “The Spill.” PBS has uncovered a real shocker: BP neglected safety! Well, no shit, Sherlock! Pluto rolled over on the rug and looked at me as if to say, Don’t we …
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As I See It — Fighting the Budget Shrug 2010/10/15 By Col. Steve Strobridge, USAF-Ret. A recent article in Christian Science Monitor on military health care costs identified, in microcosm, the battle we face in the coming years in defending the military community’s sunk investment in its future. After citing all DoD’s arguments that it’s …
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From Fire Dog Lake No Logo Available Third Party Rising? By: Nancy Bordier Friday October 15, 2010 2:25 pm Eleven-Page 1997-2003 Paginated Word Document of Entire Piece Thomas Friedman wrote in a recent New York Times article, “Third Party Rising“, that he is “astounded” by the level of disgust with Washington D.C. and the two …
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Net Positive: A Conversation with Clay Shirky in Media | October 14th, 2010 EXTRACT: My current formulation is that markets supply less accountability than democracies demand—that if you leave the presence of accountability to an entirely market-driven press corps, you get less coverage than democracies need to survive. And we’ve had all of these ways …
Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film By Maria Popova What bad writing has to do with war casualties and traffic over North America. VIDEO PAGE HERE Description of Video: Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualization techniques from computer scientists, researchers and artists. Some newsrooms are already beginning …
