The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: The world is in an interregnum, between “rule by secrecy” and lies from power as the norm, and a very ugly baby Web 4.0 in which bottom-up truth struggles to emerge. We will have a great deal of baby poop to deal with, but over time, public intelligence in the public interest …
Gold rising further except for profit taking bursts. China is buying all the gold it can get, and unloading all the paper dollars it can dump.. Other countries, including Russia are buying gold. I can see the Yuan or RMB playing a larger role as a global currency, but most people are too ignorant of …
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ROLLING UPDATE from Beginning of Crisis SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/PBI-Japan-Update 16 May 2011 ALL: Study: Seaports unready for climate change CANADA: Climate change threatens arctic coastlines CHINA: China’s Nuclear Arsenal: Status and Evolution EUROPE-SPAIN: Spanish Quake Jolts European Nuclear Debate GERMANY-JAPAN-USA: Nuclear Nations Turn To Natural Gas And Renewables INDIA: Manmohan Singh takes stock of country’s …
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The Right Livelihood Award Foundation Newsletter April 2011 Call for Global Nuclear Phase Out In the aftermath of Fukushima, 50 Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award and members of the World Future Council demanded in a joint statement a global nuclear phase out. “Nuclear power is neither the answer to modern energy problems nor a …
The below report in the Guardian makes three general points regarding the Tokyo Electric’s management operations at the Fukushima Daiichi reactor site: 1. Cost-cutting degraded safety procedures. 2. Collusion between industry and regulators. 3. Deferring decisions on how to permanently store nuclear waste. Thank god these problems do not occur in Amerika (sic). Chuck Spinney …
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Poverty to Dictate Future Power Play Geoffrey T. Smith, Wall Street Journal March 17, 2011 Those who believe that economics, rather than individuals or events, is the driving force behind history are going to have their faith sorely tested in the coming weeks. Emotion and experience say the revival of nuclear power can not and …
