The power of peace….. A Gandhi Model Galvanizes India Fasting, White-Clothed Hazare Was Tapped by Anticorruption Activists Looking for an Icon to Put Spirit Back in Fight By AMOL SHARMA And KRISHNA POKHAREL Wall Street Journal, 23 August 2011 NEW DELHI—Last fall, a group of leading anticorruption activists in India had reached a dead end. …
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Below the line….alpha list of all graphics [in English] with embedded links. For Spanish-language graphics see AA Lista de Graficas (1) and [in reverse order as posted] AA Espanol (55). Updated 2 Aug 2013. Click on the Link Above the Image to Reach Full Size Image, Comments, & Source Link
THE BITCOIN BUBBLE If you haven’t already heard about bitcoin, the first popular cypto-currency, you soon will. The idea for the currency is simple. It’s a software system that makes it possible to manufacture and trade (P2P), in a public and decentralized way, a limited digital resource. That’s it. So why the interest in bitcoin? …
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John Marke is writer/consultant, formerly the senior risk expert at Deloitte’s Federal Practice and an advisor to a Presidential candidate on terrorism. He is one of the country’s leading authorities on risk, complexity and resilience, and also contributes on asymmetrical warfare and transnational threats. His clients include The White House, DHS, USJFORCOM, USC’s Center for Risk & …
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Some random items of interest: Digital Black Market: The Silk Road. Uses bitcoins (the decentralized, but not anonymous, crypto-currency that’s useful for transactions — see wiki for more) and eBay style reputation rating to grease the wheels of unrestricted e-commerce. Requires TOR (the anonymizing network) to connect to the site. “Right now you can …
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Updated 1 June 2017 Below in two columns are righteous sites and professional sites of note. RIGHTEOUS SITES OF NOTE 9/11 Archive.org AbundanceHub.com Academic Earth Adblock Plus (add-on) A Force More Powerful AfricanFossils.org Afrigadget A Human Right (Internet Access) Aid Data Akshaya Trust (feeding & housing) ALEC Exposed Alliance for Separation of School & State …
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