20120704 Open Source Everything Highlights
Open Source Everything 20120629 Open Source Everything Highlights Open Source — Open Access The IBZ Online Database Now Features [1,323] Open Access Journals
Patrick Meier: Evolution in Live Mapping: The 2012 Egyptian Presidential Elections
Evolution in Live Mapping: The 2012 Egyptian Presidential Elections My doctoral dissertation compared the use of live mapping technology in Egypt and the Sudan during 2010. That year was the first time that Ushahidi was deployed in those two countries. So it is particularly interesting to see the technology used again in both countries in 2012. …
Chuck Spinney: Progressives Argue Over Defeating Obama – a Conversation on Email
Most of my liberal friends reluctantly support President Obama’s re-election, because the alternative is so much worse. Invariably, they invoke the effects of a Romney presidency on judicial appointments, especially those to the Supreme Court (ironically, Obama’s two appointees just voted with the majority to decline to hear the Guantanamo case, if effect, putting another …
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Paul Craig Roberts: Collapse at Hand – and ONE THING an Honest Government Could Do To Make It All Right
Collapse At Hand Ever since the beginning of the financial crisis and quantitative easing, the question has been before us: How can the Federal Reserve maintain zero interest rates for banks and negative real interest rates for savers and bond holders when the US government is adding $1.5 trillion to the national debt every year …
John Steiner: Joseph Stiglitz on 1% Problem and 1% Solution
The 1 Percent’s Problem Why won’t America’s 1 percent—such as the six Walmart heirs, whose wealth equals that of the entire bottom 30 percent—be a bit more . . . selfish? As the widening financial divide cripples the U.S. economy, even those at the top will pay a steep price. By Joseph E. Stiglitz, Vanity …
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Mini-Me: JFK Assassination Cover-Up Unravels Further + RECAP
Huh? Photographic Evidence of Bullet Hole in JFK Limousine Windshield ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ by Douglas P. Horne LouRockwell.com, June 4, 2012 In 2009, I believed I had discovered new evidence in the JFK assassination never reported by anyone else: convincing photography of the through-and-through bullet hole in the windshield of the JFK limousine that …
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Marcus Aurelius: For the Record – DoD Eats Entire US Government
The Amazing Expanding Pentagon After a decade of ‘mission creep’–into diplomacy, agriculture, even energy policy–the Department of Defense has become America’s default tool for dealing with the world. Where does this leave the next president? By Thanassis Cambanis Boston Globe, May 27, 2012 When President Obama and Mitt Romney cross swords on defense policy, it …
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