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2010/05/152010/05/15

Review (Guest): Gusher of Lies–The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence

Author Robert Bryce 25 of 26 people found the following review helpful: Energy Independence, Alchemy and Perpetual Motion, September 23, 2008 By Scrutinizing Consumer (Los Angeles, CA) – See all my reviews “A Gusher of Lies” is a must-read for those wanting the cold, hard facts on the current state and future prospects of …

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2010/03/282010/05/08

EVENT REPORT: State of the Planet 2010, Columbia Univ, New York City

Panels and keynotes program schedule I was told via email from someone involved in the event that a video will be posted online.I will be posting this over a the Earth Institute blog (especially since it has zero comments for the March 25 event) as a challenge to improve the overall framework of the “State …

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2010/02/252010/02/25

NIGHTWATCH: Pakistani Education as Weapon Against USA–The Failure of US Militarization

Pakistan: Special note. The second part of yesterday’s PBS show Frontline concerned the condition of the public school system in Pakistan. It has collapsed in nearly every respect. The video report noted that nearly half of the 65 million school age kids in Pakistan do not attend public schools. It did not follow-up that datum …

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2010/02/212011/10/22

Review: Wiki Government–How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful

Almost a Five–Making Wrong Things Righter February 21, 2010 Beth Simone Noveck I sat down intending to make this a five, but the two fluff reviews have to be off-set. Robert Ackoff would say this is a spectacular book about making the wrong things righter instead of the right things righter–too many lawyers and focused …

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2010/02/202010/02/20

Review: The Myth of Digital Democracy

Righteous New Knowledge, Rock Solid Achievement February 20, 2010 Matthew Hindman I read in threes and fours, this book is part of the set that includes SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa and Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful. This book educated me. It challenged and soundly …

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2010/02/102010/02/10

Journal: Haiti Update of 10 February 2010

Good intentions gone wrong Too many aid organizations and an inept government have created a chaotic relief effort in Haiti “The aid machinery currently at work in Haiti keeps too much for overhead for its operations, and still relies overmuch on NGOs or contractors who do not observe the ground rules we would need to …

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2010/02/08

MILNET Headlines, 8 February 2010

American Commentary: America Rides off Into the Sunset American Commentary: Mr. President, Words Matter Big Dumb Government: Recession chugs on, except in government Big Dumb Government: U.S. to Form Climate-Change Agency Cyber-Security: Open Security Foundation – State of the Union 2010 Cyber-Security: Zeus Attack Spoofs NSA, Targets .gov and .mil Foreign Affairs: China Growls At …

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