The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Community Supported Everything! By John Robb How do you build resilient infrastructure in the 21st Century? One good answer: make it opt-in. It’s already happening. Farmers are doing it with CSA programs. Businesses and artists are doing it with Kickstarter. We’re finding that once you cut out the middleman (Wall Street and Big Box Retail) …
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National Intelligence Council, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI/NIC) 3.0 out of 5 stars $75 Billion a Year and This is the Poster Child for the Public, March 26, 2013 Certainly worth reading, along with other and generally better reports linked below, but a huge disappointment. There is nothing here actually useful to …
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GOOD: Solar Power to Hit Cost Parity Next Year RP SIEGEL – Triple Pundit BAD: Amanpour on Iraq: Where Were the Journalists? DAVID FERGUSON – The Raw Story UGLY: The Last Letter: A Message to George Bush and Dick Cheney From a Dying Veteran TOMAS YOUNG – Truthdig REALLY UGLY: America’s Dirtiest Coal Company[Deliberate Bankrupcy …
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The $10 cell phone has arrived – and with it, economic opportunity By Channtal Fleischfresser | March 18, 2013, 3:10 AM PDT On a recent trip to Shenzhen, China, a group of MIT students discovered that you can buy a cell phone there for as little as $10. While the cost of mobile phones has …
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2012 Global Water Security, US IC 2 February Assumptions: We assume that water management technologies will mature along present rates andthat no far-reaching improvements will develop and be deployed over the next 30 years. In addition, for several states, we assume that present water policies—pricing and investments in infrastructure—are unlikely to change significantly. Cultural norms …
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China People’s Congress environment surprise TIM PALMER: In China the fallout is still being felt from an open rebellion over air pollution at the country’s annual session of parliament. It was a dramatic shift for a Congress that’s normally seen as no more than a rubber stamp. Sensing a growing environmental crisis, a third of …
Documento (ocho paginas): Sanando a las Américas con una Agencia de fuentes abiertas de información 2.0 En Ingles: 2013 Healing the Americas with an Open Source Agency AAIntelligencia Marzo 2013: AAIMARZO2013 Sanando a las Américas con una Agencia de Fuente Abierta ¿Puede Chile llevar a las Américas hacia un sistema total de Todo Abierto (Open …
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