The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Global report: Obesity bigger health crisis than hunger By Danielle Dellorto, CNN updated 5:41 AM EST, Fri December 14, 2012 Obesity is a bigger health crisis globally than hunger, and the leading cause of disabilities around the world, according to a new report published Thursday in the British medical journal The Lancet. Nearly 500 researchers …
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I regret that the considerable efforts of Jacqueline Nebel and Nadia McLaren are not mentioned — without them the volumes would not have emerged. Still, this is a wonderful article, I can only hope that it attracts some funding to continue the effort. WSJ.com – Encyclopedia of World Problems Has a Big One of Its Own …
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Here is an excellent analysis of an important aspect of the Great Schism Trend: the move to localism, and regionalism. This “Chapter Fourteen” is part eighteen of Truthout’s continuing series of excerpts from Gar Alperovitz’s “America beyond Capitalism.” The Regional Restructuring of the American Continent By Gar Alperovitz, Democracy Collaborative Press | Serialized Book …
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Mary Meeker releases stunning data on the state of the Internet Dylan Tweney VentureBeat, 3 December 2012 Mary Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, has just published her latest huge deck of amazingly useful data, the “2012 Internet Trends Year-End Update.” Meeker is delivering her report to a group of Students at Stanford …
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UPDATE: 1 January 2013 from Spanish Dancer: What is most striking to me, and to a few others I have spoken to recently, is the SECDEF quote early in the paper. If we follow its premise it puts anyone who opposes our projection of power in the cross hairs. It is this doctrinal fluff that …
Post-US world born in Phnom Penh By Spengler Asia Times, Nov 27, 2012 It is symptomatic of the national condition of the United States that the worst humiliation ever suffered by it as a nation, and by a US president personally, passed almost without comment last week. I refer to the November 20 announcement at …
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Open Internet, Force Is…. Digital Communications Revolution The importance of a revolution in digital and communications technology has risen in importance since 2011. Interestingly, the most significant proportion of respondents came from Latin America, who particularly emphasised explosions in social media and mobile phones. Respondents from this region had a particularly higher focus on this …
