The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: This started as a short list for the various college and university engineering students that have dialed in, but as we got into it, it became more of a “situational awareness” inventory pulling together both technical “solutions” none of which have been integrated yet, and analytic “requirements” none of which have been …
Revised formula puts 1 in 6 Americans in poverty Revised formula puts number of poor people at 47.4 million — 7 million more than official rate A revised formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations show that approximately 47.4 million Americans last year lived in poverty, 7 million more than the government’s official figure. …
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The Real Reason for More Troops in Afghanistan Michael Gaddy LouRockwell.com October 20, 2009Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of our quest for empire over the past six decades realizes that Obama’s contemplation of whether to send additional troops to Afghanistan is simply those who control him providing Obama with the opportunity to look “presidential.” The decision …
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Deforestation and the true cost of Europe’s cheap meat Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence. From the Ecologist, part of the Guardian Environment Network Phi Beta …
FIXED Big File Problem. Three Separate Files, each at Their Respectuve Thumbnails. EVENT REPORT: Have you been wondered just how we are going to implement M4IS2* and add to it Real-Time-Processing (RTP) and Near-Real-Time Processing (NRTP)? This event introduced to the Washington, D.C. environment, for the first time, the concept of operations and related technologies …
Important Essays, Left Me Blase October 13, 2009 Thomas Pogge and Keith Horton, Editors The three best things I can say about this volume: 1) A heroic work that carefully selected important essays on global ethics from the past 40 years (the book itself, Australian in origin, is published for the first time in 2008). …
We pay careful attention to the search terms used by those who visit us, and have noticed a very healthy focus on strategy and on secrecy. The two are incompatible. Strategy, by its inherent nature, must be holistic, transparent, and sustainable. It demands broad collaboration and the broadest possible information-sharing and sense-making. Secrecy, by its …
