The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Tuesday, 06 September 2011 HOLLOW STATES and a CRISIS OF CAPITALISM Had fun with this post. Working on getting the thinking on this right. Tough to do. ________________________ Hollow, bankrupt states and crisis of capitalism is not a “dystopian future” if it is actually happening now. With almost hourly updates. I coined the term, “hollow …
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Why Software Is Eating The World Wall Street Journal, 20 August 2011 EN ESPANOL DOCUMENTO 5 PAJINAS This week, Hewlett-Packard (where I am on the board) announced that it is exploring jettisoning its struggling PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software, where it sees better potential for growth. Meanwhile, Google plans to …
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Crisis Mapping Somalia with the Diaspora Posted on August 4, 2011 by Patrick Meier| Leave a comment The state of Minnesota is home to the largest population of Somalis in North America. Like any Diaspora, the estimated 25,000 Somalis who live there ar closely linked to family members back home. They make thousands of phone calls …
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Audio of Bill Black featured on “Le Show” with Harry Shearer “Bill Black fraud” at DuckDuckGo Bill Black is an expert on white-collar crime. Audio of Yves Smith featured on “Le Show” with Harry Shearer Yves Smith’s (author of ECONned) Naked Capitalism Review (Guest): ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism
Analyzing the Libya Crisis Map Data in 3D (Video) Posted on June 1, 2011 by Patrick Meier| I first blogged about GeoTime exactly two years ago in a blog post entitled “GeoTime: Crisis Mapping in 3D.” The rationale for visualizing geospatial data in 3D very much resonates with me and in my opinion becomes particularly compelling …
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Sleepwalking through America’s Unemployment Crisis Mohamed A. El-Erian Mohamed A. El-Erian is CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO, and author of When Markets Collide. NEWPORT BEACH – It was relegated to the Q&A session, rather than featured prominently in the opening statement, at last week’s first-ever press conference of US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke. …
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Crisis Mapping Meets Check-in New features could make a Web tool that has helped track events in Japan and the Middle East even more useful. Monday, March 28, 2011, By David Talbot MIT Technology Review EXTRACT: The new feature is known as “check-in,” also used by social sites like Foursquare—in that case as a way …
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