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Italian official calls Haiti earthquake relief effort ‘pathetic’ (Examiner USA) The head of Italy’s Civil Protection Agency, Guido Bertolaso, criticized the United States’ efforts in helping earthquake stricken Haiti. After witnessing the devastation firsthand, the top disaster official in Italy said efforts were a “vanity parade.” In an interview with Italy’s RAI television, Bertolaso offered …
Some journalists are observing that the US response to Haiti is starkly representative of the modest change in US emergency Preparedness since Katrina. Here are a few lessons from Haiti: 1. Get eyes on the ground immediately. Do not rely on the media for situational awareness (or the CIA or the Embassy, they are holed …
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Phi Beta Iota: Following up on Zbigniew Brzezinski’s articulate expression of concern on CNN, we asked around and here’s what we got back, put as bluntly as we heard it: 1. Not my job. 2. SOUITHCOM has the lead. 3. Brazil who? 4. UN what? There are three million people in desperate straits including dehydration, …
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Hans Swegen 5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary Book, January 23, 2010 By Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States) This book is available immediately from WHSmith. I recommend it without reservation, it is in my top dozen books on the World Brain – Global Brain -Global Mind – Collective Intellgence reading area. Amazon seems …
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Extraordinary Book January 23, 2010 Hans Swegan This book is available immediately from WHSmith. I recommend it without reservation, it is in my top dozen books on the World Brain – Global Brain -Global Mind – Collective Intellgence reading area. Amazon seems to be deleting a lot of reviews from top reviewers, which I find …
1937 World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia H.G. Wells The whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made accessible to every individual. And what is also of very great importance in this uncertain world where destruction becomes continually more frequent and unpredictable, is this, that photography …
The Original Surveyor of Distance Education and Virtual Learning January 23, 2010 G. Parker Rossman My original review of this book seems to have vanished into thin air here at Amazon. G. Parker Rossman and his book came into my life just after I started the international conference on “National Security & National Competitiveness: Open …
