The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
David Brooks: “Social Animal” by jonl on February 17, 2011 David Brooks’ article “Social Animal,” in the New Yorker, piled on more insights about human essence and consciousness: “Our perceptions…are fantasies we construct that correlate with reality.” “I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The …
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Rachel Botsman (Author), Roo Rogers (Author) 5.0 out of 5 stars Ways to Share That Benefit You and Others September 17, 2010 ByKare Anderson “Kare Anderson” (Sausalito, CA) – See all my reviews One Saturday a friend who lives on Nob Hill in S.F. drove a zipcar over to visit me in Sausalito. He was …
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Twitter Can Predict the Stock Market By Lisa Grossman October 19, 2010 The emotional roller coaster captured on Twitter can predict the ups and downs of the stock market, a new study finds. Measuring how calm the Twitterverse is on a given day can foretell the direction of changes to the Dow Jones Industrial Average …
Jim Turner, #2 to Ralph Nader in the day, is co-author of VOICE OF THE PEOPLE–The Transpartisan Imperative in American Life. This is his contribution to the current dialog. My view is that Krugman’s article — Paul Krugman / We fundamentally disagree America is divided by two very different views of government Saturday, January 15, …
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Dear friends, Most people — at least in the US — think of wealth as a source of happiness. Rich people can, seemingly, get what they want, secure themselves from suffering, and improve the lives of others through their philanthropy. While this story true in many ways, it is also very incomplete. The lives of …
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2011: A Brave New Dystopia truthdig, Posted on Dec 27, 2010 By Chris Hedges The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was right. Would we be, as Orwell wrote, dominated by a repressive …
PART I: The Only Way to Fix the Deficit–Multiply Jobs (William Drayton) PART II: Nice Ideas But So Is Icing Cover Feces (Robert Steele) PART III: Create Jobs? As an End In Themselves? To Do What? Why? (Alexander Carpenter) PART IV: Related Recommended Reading (Robert Steele) The core take-away (from PART III) Beyond its inherent …
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