The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
RC ENERGY TIDBIT: Leveraging the Earth for Heat/Cooling Resilient energy leverages the terrain. Resilient guerrillas/warriors leverage the terrain they are fighting on to the max. In our case, we want: plentiful, low cost (hyper efficient) energy that uses a process that’s inexpensive to maintain and is under our control (not subject global supply chain factors and …
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My ghost is here to tell Americans that we need to start tightening our belts and lowering the cost of living. The Downside of Adversarial Approaches to Conflict This is another example of how the two-party adversarial system prevents necessary change. Both parties make it impossible for the other party to talk common sense. Which …
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US lacks serious cyber intelligence Study says US government, business need to kick network security up a notch Michael Cooney Network World, 12 September 2011 There is an urgent need for businesses and our government to develop high-level cyber intelligence as a way to combat the unacceptable levels of online security threats because the current …
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Featured Article The Emerging Global Mind Noetic Now, Issue Fourteen, September 2011 by Tiffany Shlain Fifteen years ago I founded the Webby Awards. I was fascinated by how the Internet was connecting people all over the world in new and unexpected ways. I have also been struck by the many conversations about the problems of …
Accenture isn’t “top of mind” when we think of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)…for now. I recall a Senior Director at consulting firm I worked for (it’s no longer in business) tell an auditorium of about 1000 consultants “I’m not afraid of Accenture. They don’t scare me.” Ah huh. I thought: “That’s because you haven’t come up against them in the …
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Analysis: Serial shocks forcing world to “think long” By Mike Dolan LONDON, Jun | Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:44am EDT (Reuters) – Thrown by a mounting series of extreme events over the past four years, global policymakers and investors are being urged to think long and prepare more systematically for the worst. . . . …
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The Najlaa Episode Revisited By DAVID ISENBERG and NICK SCHWELLENBACH Project on Government Oversight (POGO) June 14, 2011 Documents Reveal Details of Alleged Labor Trafficking by KBR Subcontractor EXTRACT: An Estimated Quarter of a Million Victims There are no definitive numbers on the scale of labor trafficking. However, writing in Fraud magazine, supply chain compliance …
