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2014/03/122014/03/12

Transition Network Concept Paper: Region-Wide Resilience in New England

Reflections for Consideration This short paper offers some “grist for the mill” as we consider together what regional resilience could mean for New England. Download this document as a PDF. New England has a long tradition of radical communitarian culture. The colonists came here as congregations or communities rather than as individuals. Communities banded together …

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2014/03/102014/03/10

John Maguire: Joe Bageant, Duck Dynasty, and the American Hologram

Joe Bageant, Duck Dynasty, and the American Hologram It’s been almost three years since Joe Bageant, one of America’s most unique, populist political voices, passed away rather suddenly from cancer. During his life he kept company with American folk heroes such as Hunter S. Thompson, Timothy Leary, and Alan Ginsberg, bartended on the same Indian reservation …

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2014/03/102014/03/10

JZ: Space Radar Predicts Giant Sinkholes 30 Days Out

Space radar could predict massive sinkholes a month before they collapse The idea of the ground opening without warning and swallowing you up is nightmare fuel. As populations grow and humans invent new ways to plunder underground resources, sinkholes are only becoming more common—just look at the US sinkhole capital, Florida. But America’s space agency, …

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2014/03/092014/03/09

2014-03-09 Global Reality USA

We’re playing around. None of the RSS / curation offerings are satisfactory. As a side note: the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) is Top Secret Limited Distribution and costs roughly 219 million dollars a day and is seen by very few. This daily is free and open to all. Below is a simple Global Reality matrix. …

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2014/03/032014/03/03

Berto Jongman: Time to Reassess Goals of Humanitarian Aid

It’s time to reassess the goals of humanitarian aid Those caught in conflict and natural disasters are part of growing trend exemplified by Syria, South Sudan and the Philippines David Miliband The Guardian, 28 February 2014 For the first time the UN has declared three simultaneous crises – in South Sudan, Syria and the Philippines …

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2014/02/282014/02/28

Winslow Wheeler: Chuck Hagel on the A-10 – Without a Clue or Without Scruples?

Pierre Sprey and I have authored an analysis of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s statements this past Monday on the A-10. It follows: Chuck Hagel’s A-10 Legacy By Winslow T. Wheeler & Pierre M. Sprey When he spoke about next year’s defense budget on February 24, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel addressed his decision to …

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2014/02/222014/02/22

Owl: Epidemic of Banker Suicides — CIA Role? What Will We Learn Soon? [3 Articles]

Lots of Banker Suicides – or Bankers Suicided – Lately There has been a rash of articles coming out of the alternative Web press in the last 2-3 weeks about the untimely deaths of bankers, financiers, financial journalists and Wall Street types that smell, in most cases, very fishy, and the number and frequency of …

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