The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: The interactive edition is well worth going through. Below are highlights from our own review. Six Risks Stand Out: Fiscal crisis, Geopolitical Conflict, Climate Change, Extreme Energy Price Volatility, Economic Disparity, Global Governance Failure. Risk Interconnectivity Map: Central to the map are Economic Disparity and Global Governance Failures. Three clusters add depth …
Palestinians fear for ancient West Bank water source By Tom Perry, Reuters RASHAYIDA, West Bank | Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:43am EDT (Reuters) – – Hewn from rock, the cavernous cisterns which dot the desert beyond Bethlehem have for centuries harvested winter rain to provide shepherds and their flocks with water through summer. Under a …
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Early Warning is nice. Honest politicians willing to listen and learn is even nicer. We conclude that early warning must be very public and very understandable to the public at large. The challenge for Early Warning is to achieve coherence–no one cares about single issue early warning. The acme of skill is to achieve M4IS2 …
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The times they are a’ changing. I was asked to comment on the recently published Reference: Protecting Sensitive “Open” Information and do so gladly. The author of that work means well, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the substance of what he expouses. It is simply not reasonable nor feasible in context. I know …
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices… 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country 545 vs. 300,000,000 People -By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then …
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True Cost is called by some a triple-bottom line (physical cost, ecological cost, social cost). Others talk about true cost to own (including all related fuels or batteries, toxic side effects etc), others talk about cradle to grave accounting to include complete recycling. Technically, true cost accounting prohibits negative external costs from being ignored. A …
RESILIENT PRODUCTION: Close The Loop! Reslient, local production can reach amazing levels of capacity and efficiency by obsessively closing loops. How do you close loops? Simply: Turn the waste of one production process into the fuel/input required to operate another. Do that again and again and again until there is nothing left to reuse. All …
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