The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Edward Slingerland Paradigm shifting look at Csikszenmihaly’s concept of flow, March 23, 2014 By Just Me When I discovered Mihaly Csikszentmihaly’s book Flow, about 10 years ago, I recognized that he was talking about a concept that I had experienced many times, that was important in my life, and that I craved. Learning about flow …
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NEO – USA in Mid East – Going, Going, Gone [Veteran’s Today Editor’s note: Alexander brings us more analysis from the Russian perspective at this critical time. The US seems to be rolling the dice in a desperate game to create instability on Russia’s border, establish an offensive base in the Ukraine, threaten Russia gas …
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The United States is careening toward a New Cold War in its conflict with Russia over the crisis in Ukraine. But a recent poll showed that most Americans can not even locate Ukraine on a map, much less understand the history behind the issues at stake. Moreover, the same poll found that the less they …
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Small Analytics Firms Reaping the Benefit of Investment Cycle Small time analytics isn’t really as startup-y as people may think anymore. These companies are in high demand and are pulling in some serious cash. We discovered just how much and how serious from a recent Cambridge Science Park article, “Cambridge Text Analytics Linguamatics Hits $10m …
This email continues the theme I introduced with How Obama’s Rhetoric Reinforces America’s Grand Strategic Pathway to Catastrophe. Attached beneath my introduction is an brilliant essay, The Dangerous Neocon-R2P Alliance, written by Robert Parry of Consortium News. Parry describes how propaganda produced by this domestic alliance of convenience among a non-representative minority of unelected influence peddlers …
A new way of capturing and storing energy from sunlight. Photoswitches are not ready for prime time yet, but the principle has been demonstrated. Scientists Discover How to Generate Solar Power in the Dark Meet ‘photoswitches,’ a breakthrough set of materials that act as their own batteries, absorbing energy and releasing it on demand. The …
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2014 Refuge and Resilience: Promoting Resilience and Mental Health among Resettled Refugees and Forced Migrants Taking an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on the social and psychological resources that promote resilience among forced migrants, this book presents theory and evidence about what keeps refugees healthy during resettlement. The book draws on contributions from cultural psychiatry, anthropology, …
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