The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Half a Billion Clicks Can’t Be Wrong What big data tells us about next year’s crisis zones. EXTRACTS: ….my 2011 “Culturomics 2.0” study demonstrated the unique insights gleaned from looking at how the media covers an event, rather than just what it covers. The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) project is the …
Why “news nerds” are an essential part of quality reporting Call me stupid, but I think journalism is an exciting way to change the world. But in order to do that these days, we need to favor change and promote disruptive innovation within the news and information ecosystem — and start thinking way outside the …
Points to Consider: 01 PRC Rising in Caribbean, Central & South America 02 Banking, Mining, Power, Water… 03 PRC Non-Official Rising Employer and Tax Revenue Power 04 Not Addressed: Export of Chinese Males — Demographic Majority Inevitable Source Snap-Shot: South-South ties between China and LatAm are growing beyond the well-known trade flows. Chinese corporates are …
Worth a look. Top 10 Tends of 2014 1. Rising social tensions in Middle East and Africa 2. Widening income disparities 3. Persistent structural unemployment 4. Intensifyng cyber threats 5. Inaction on climate change 6. Diminishing confidence in economic policies 7. A lack of values in leadership 8. The expanding middle class in Asia 9. …
The End of the Nation-State? By PARAG KHANNA New York Times, October 12, 2013 SINGAPORE — EVERY five years, the United States National Intelligence Council, which advises the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, publishes a report forecasting the long-term implications of global trends. Earlier this year it released its latest report, “Alternative Worlds,” which …
Continue reading “Jean Lievens: Are Cities the New Global Power Node?”
We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say What’s the number one reason we riot? The plausible, justifiable motivations of trampled-upon humanfolk to fight back are many—poverty, oppression, disenfranchisement, etc—but the big one is more primal than any of the above. It’s hunger, plain and simple. If there’s a single …
Continue reading “John Maquire: One Year Away from Global Food Riots + US Food Fraud RECAP”
Missing from all this is the OSC/M4IS2 solution. Global networks must be redesigned May 2, 2013 Our global networks have generated many benefits and new opportunities. However, they have also established highways for failure propagation, which can ultimately result in man-made disasters. For example, today’s quick spreading of emerging epidemics is largely a result of …
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Kurzweil on Global Networks Must be Redesigned”
