The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
March 25, 2011 Info and Perspective on the Budget Crisis Dear friends, So much is happening under the guise of “the budget crisis” that I thought it might be useful to deconstruct this issue a bit. Phi Beta Iota: Tom has produced a relatively long and meticulously documented essay PART A: PRIMARY SOURCES OF THE …
OCHA, UNOSAT and NetHope have been collaborating with the Volunteer Technical Community (VTC) specifically CrisisMappers, Crisis Commons, Open Street Map, and the Google Crisis Response Team over the past week. The CrisisMappers Standby Task Force has been undertaking a mapping of social media, news reports and official situation reports from within Libya and along the …
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Crisis Mapping Libya: This is No Haiti Patrick Meier March 4, 2011 at 8:14 am We activated the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) on March 1st and quickly launched a Crisis Map of Libya to support humanitarian preparedness opera-tions. This is the largest deployment of the Task Force since it was formed at the 2010 International …
Recommended: see http://p2pfoundation.net/Crisis_Mapping, part of http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Geography and updated via http://delicious.com/mbauwens/P2P-Mapping See Also: Autonomous [Free, Distributed] Internet
CrisisWatch N°91, 1 March 2011 (pdf) Anti-government protests also took place in Oman and Djibouti. In Afghanistan, the standoff continued between President Hamid Karzai and the opposition over the flawed September parliamentary election. A controversial special tribunal set up by Karzai – which the opposition condemns as unconstitutional – has started recounting votes in several …
The next Fourth Turning is due to begin shortly after the new millennium, midway through the Oh-Oh decade. Around the year 2005, a sudden spark will catalyze a Crisis mood. Remnants of the old social order will disintegrate. Political and economic trust will implode. Real hardship will beset the land, with severe distress that could …
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Underground world hints at China’s coming crisis To understand how far ordinary Chinese have been priced out of their country’s property market, you need to look not upwards at the Beijing’s shimmering high-rise skyline, but down, far below the bustling streets where nearly 20m people live and work. There, in the city’s vast network of …
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