Graphic: USA Worker’s Income Collapse
Source Tip of the Hat to John Robb.
Koko: CIA 9/11 Cover-Up? Business As Usual
A CIA 9/11 Cover-Up? Did the CIA keep mum about two 9/11 hijackers because it tried and failed to recruit them? Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, authors of ‘The Eleventh Day,’ on whether there’s any truth behind ex-Bush official Richard Clarke’s claim. Daily Beast, 12 April 2011 EXTRACT At the heart of the suggestion that …
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UN + Start-Up Seek to Get Poor Online with Cell Numbers
Startup Aims to Get the Poor Online With Phone Numbers By Stephen Lawson, IDG News U.K. startup Movirtu plans to help 3 million or more people in poor countries use mobile services by giving them personal phone numbers, not phones. Working with a U.N.-affiliated initiative called Business Call to Action (BCtA), Movirtu will offer the …
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$250 Device Global Maps & Text Messages
$250 for the unit, communications plans from $9.95 The DeLorme inReach continues our effort to keep people connected when they travel outside of cell phone range. With the inReach, you can send AND RECEIVE text messages with true pole-to-pole global coverage. The inReach can be used by itself, with the DeLorme Earthmate PN-60w GPS, or …
Review (Guest): Global Risks 2011 – Governance Failures & Economic Disparity (World Economic Forum)
Phi Beta Iota: The interactive edition is well worth going through. Below are highlights from our own review. Six Risks Stand Out: Fiscal crisis, Geopolitical Conflict, Climate Change, Extreme Energy Price Volatility, Economic Disparity, Global Governance Failure. Risk Interconnectivity Map: Central to the map are Economic Disparity and Global Governance Failures. Three clusters add depth …
Koko: Aqua-Culture is Rocking….
1 MILLION pounds of Food on 3 acres. 10,000 fish 500 yards compost Growing power seem to have a winning combo going. I underestimated what they are doing. If the information in these videos is true then on 3 acres they are producing 1,000,000 pounds of food each year! How are they doing this? 10,000 …
Open Source Insurgency = System Disruption
Thursday, 30 June 2011 WAR NERD: How the IRA used Systems Disruption I’ve enjoyed The War Nerd for years. Great, colorful writing. The author of the column, “Gary Brecher,” was never on the same page as me when it came to warfare. However, that’s changed. He now thinks, and makes an excellent case for global guerrilla …
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