The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Ignorance Today Massimo Pigliucci 2011-04-22 NEW YORK – Ignorance is the root of all evil, according to Plato, who also famously gave us a still-current definition of its opposite: knowledge. For Plato, knowledge is “justified true belief.” That definition is worthy of consideration as we reflect on the perils of ignorance in the twenty-first century. …
Ayn Rand is back. Between my persistent search for a home for the Open Source Agency and the related Multinational Decision-Support Centre and World Brain Institute (with Global Game), I read and visit with smart people. As most know, the global fight that I have led since 1988 for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) has evolved …
Why Facebook Town Hall Shows Obama is Missing the Point on Innovation Haydn Shaughnessy Re:thinking Innovation Yesterday’s Town Hall meeting at Facebook produced one big surprise – the tepid questioning fired at President Obama from America’s tech elite. . . . . . . . [Instead of Obama and Facebook look to Don Tapscott and …
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Shaping the conditions to build a healthy society, a healthy nation consisting of healthy people who are motivated to look ahead.. To shape such conditions the international community should create a comprehensive approach. It would be beneficial for the country, in this case South-Sudan (GoSS), if the UN / EU would deploy civil servants from …
The Future in Review (FIRE) Conference May 24-27, 2011 Montage Laguna Beach Laguna Beach, California About Future in Review (FIRE) .. Confirmed Thought Leaders .. 2010 Firestarters .. 2011 Firestarters .. FIRE Home Page .. Register for FiRe 2011 This year’s over-arcing FiRe theme is Technology-Driving Global-Economics. Discussions will include: Annual FiRe CTO Design …
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88+ Projects & Standards for Data Ownership, Identity, & A Federated Social Web emergent by design, April 11, 2011 by Venessa Miemis As we become more comfortable with sharing ourselves on the ‘social web,’ we’re revealing a lot of valuable information about our interests, preferences and social connections, and it’s strewn across the web in many …
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Phi Beta Iota: The announcement of the Egyptian Army that it recognizes the “legitimate grievances” of the public and that it will not use force is in fact a recognition of both the substance of the public grievances, and the fact that force would backfire–there are not enough guns on the planet to repress the …
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