The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Economic imbalances and social inequality risk reversing the gains of globalization, warns the World Economic Forum in its report Global Risks 2012. These are the findings of a survey of 469 experts and industry leaders who worry that the world’s institutions are ill-equipped to cope with today’s interconnected, rapidly evolving risks. The findings of the …
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Is There a Difference Between Critical Thinking and Information Literacy? John M Weiner Abstract This paper investigates the similarities and differences between two important ideas in information processing and knowledge utilisation. Those ideas are [critical thinking] and [information literacy]. The two phrases are shown in brackets to indicate that the two words involved in each …
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Warning: This Site Contains Conspiracy Theories Does Google have a responsibility to help stop the spread of 9/11 denialism, anti-vaccine activism, and other fringe beliefs? By Evgeny Morozov|Posted Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, at 7:43 AM ET In its early days, the Web was often imagined as a global clearinghouse—a new type of library, with the …
Twitter acquisition confirms that curation is the future Mathew Ingram Gigaom, 21 January 2012 Twitter made an interesting acquisition on Thursday, when it bought a young Canadian startup called Summify, a company whose service (as its name implies) was designed to cut through the noise of all those social-media streams and summarize the content that …
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Must-read article on approaches to money in politics The debate over corporate power and money in politics is beginning to generate some significant light – good analysis, integral thinking, creativity – as well as heat – passion, slogans, quick response. If both of these forces of nature can synergize we might get some seriously transformational …
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Gabriel Kolko 5.0 out of 5 stars Simplify, Simplify, Simplify,June 22, 2009< By Tracy McLellan (Chicago) – See all my reviews One could almost condense the whole of Kolko thought into a single sentence: “Political problems have political and social, not military solution.” He says this at least four or five times in the current …
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Kissinger vows to China: “Jeb Bush Will Be Next President” Sorcha Faal WhatDoesThisMean.com, 18 January 2012 A shocking report prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Prime Minister Putin on the just completed meeting between China’s Vice Premier Li Keqiang and former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger states that the Chinese were told …
