The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
What do the MICC, the Collapse of the Berlin Wall, and the Financial Meltdown Have in Common? I strongly recommend that readers study carefully the attached article by Janine Wedel. She analyzes the emergence of self-organizing government – industry networks in the post communist states and then compares these structures to the very similar emergence of …
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Berto Jongman Recommends: Impacts of Climate Change: A System Vulnerability Approach (2007) By Nils Gilman, Peter Schwartz, Doug Randall Over the past two decades, and especially in the last few years, climate change has become one of the most heavily researched subjects in science. Yet climate change impact studies remain at the low end of …
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Albert J. (Berto) Jongman (1955) majored in western sociology at the University of Groningen in 1981. During his studies he gained practical experience as a research assistant at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in Sweden. From 1982 to 1987 he worked as a researcher at the Polemological Institute of the University of Groningen …
DARPA to hold Internet competition Challenge features 10 red balloons By Doug Beizer Nov 04, 2009 A contest planned by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will challenge contestants to use the Internet to locate the 10 large red weather balloons the agency will place across the continental United States, DARPA officials announced last week. …
This interview is part of the Institute’s “Conversations with History” series, and uses Internet technology to share with the public Berkeley’s distinction as a global forum for ideas. In this landmark work, the culmination of thirty years of systematic, comprehensive comparison of nineteen rich democracies, Wilensky answers two basic questions: What is distinctly modern about …
I am saddened to report that John Guenther began guarding heaven’s gates at 2030 on Oct 29, 2009. His wife Gerrie Guenther told me to pass the word and that ceremonies and services were still in the planning stages. John will be cremated and his remains interred at Arlington, but as many know there is …
Giant Crack in Africa Will Create a New Ocean A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm. The crack, 20 feet wide in spots, opened in 2005 and some geologists believed then that it would spawn a new ocean. But that view was controversial, and …
