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Millionaires Control 39% of the World’s Wealth By Robert Frank Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2011 Last year was another good year for millionaires – though their pace of growth is slowing. According to a new report by Boston Consulting Group out today, the number of millionaire households in the world grew by 12.2% in …
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Emphasis added by Penguin. Stephen S. Roach 2011-05-27 Ten Reasons Why China is Different–PLUS-CHINESE LEADERSHIP UNDERSTANDS THAT IF IT DOES NOT SERVE THE INTERESTS OF MASSES IT WILL GO DOWN. NEW HAVEN – The China doubters are back in force. They seem to come in waves – every few years, or so. Yet, year in …
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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ODNI DESCRIBES EMERGING TOOLS FOR DATA FUSION, ANALYSIS Several intelligence community initiatives to develop improved tools for data search, analysis and fusion were described in the latest report to Congress (pdf) from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on data mining. A new program called DataSphere is intended “to aid in the discovery …
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There is plenty of radio spectrum laying fallow everywhere for many reasons. One principal reason is regulatory capture by communications oligopolies/monopolies around the world (artificial scarcity), which leads to a lack of investment in alternative (competitive) infrastructure. This implies there is also vendor capture. What has changed just over the past five years is the …
MIT Home Page I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, writing my dissertation on long term planning and strategy making during times of systemic change. Large-scale participatory futures systems blog Crisis as catalyst. Risk as renewal. Classical strategic planning is based upon the assumption of a slowly …
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To the Editor: The Intelligence Community Group at LinkedIn is full of smart folks whose thinking either supports or complements the long-standing views of the Phi Beta Iota collective. Specifically, there is a general feeling that the U.S. Intelligence System is really morally and systematically broken. RW The U.S. Intelligence Community as the Land of …
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