The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
(clips from the synopsis about the Frontline video documentary) Five years ago, Amy Costello reported a story for FRONTLINE/World. It was about the challenges of getting water in Africa, and a promising new technology called the PlayPump. After years of covering “bad news” in Africa, she was happy to report a story that seemed to …
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The long list below is organized along the lines of the Revolutionary Prediction Matrix discussed in a short Marine Corps University paper and a longer graduate thesis, to wit: Political-Legal; Socio-Economic; Ideo-Cultural; Techno-Demographic; and Natural-Geographic. It is also available online as Chapter 20: “21st Century Counterintelligence: Evaluating the Health of the Nation” in the new …
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Starts Weak, Ends Strong, Not the Whole Picture July 21, 2010 Bill McKibben EDIT of 2 August 2010: However great the mind or the man, we all make mistakes. Paul Hawkins made his with Monsanto, I’ve made mine. ClimateGate established with clarity the fraud associated with both the fabricated science and the intended “sub-prime mortgaging” …
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Another fascinating report by Jonathan Cook, a freelance reporter based in Nazareth on the West Bank, and one of the best reporters covering the Middle East One-State Debate Explodes Myth About Zionist Left by Jonathan Cook, Antiwar.com, July 21, 2010 http://original.antiwar.com/cook/2010/07/20/one-state-debate-explodes-myth/ A version of this article originally appeared in The National, published in Abu Dhabi. A …
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“The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.” —Dr. Paul Polak, International Development Enterprises Exhibition on view National Geographic Museum, Washington, DC through September 6, …
Can Kevin Costner’s Machines Really Help the Gulf Cleanup? The oil-separating centrifuges will work, but they would have worked better months ago By Dave Levitan / July 2010 14 July 2010—After 85 days, the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is now partially contained, and relief wells to stem the flow are inching closer to completion. …
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(Mission & Mandate) ICBA’s mission is to demonstrate the value of saline water resources for the production of environmentally and economically useful plants, and to transfer its research results to national research services and communities in the Islamic world and elsewhere. ICBA will help water-scarce countries improve the productivity, social equity and environmental sustainability of …
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