The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Look to nature for lessons in building resiliency Mary Catherine O’Connor | July 18, 2013 The Earth is changing at a climatic level, and we humans, in the wake of a growing list of extreme weather events and years-long trends, are scrambling to react. Within the built environment (which includes everything from utility grids to …
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China invests $1.1 billion in Nigerian infrastructure Less than two weeks ago, U.S. President Barack Obama traveled to Africa where he announced a $7 billion energy plan and welcomed development competition on the continent. “I want everybody playing in Africa,” he said. And it didn’t take long for China to show that it’s playing, and winning. …
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Should bus fares be free? By Tyler Falk | June 20, 2013 As bus fare hikes in Brazil helped spark the largest protests that the country has seen in 20 years (those fare hikes have since been reversed in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), The Economist has a provocative proposition: make buses free. They come …
Russia to emerging countries: We’ll build, operate your nuclear reactors Do you run a developing country where you’d like to build and operate nuclear reactors, but you just don’t have the expertise or the money? Then you could turn to Russia for an all-in-one 60-year bargain. State nuclear power company Rosatom “is offering a special …
Startup New Energy Technologies says that it has made a significant advancement toward large-scale production of “spray on” solar power generating windows. New Energy debuted a prototype of its “SolarWindow” technology in 2010. It has been gradually moving toward commercialization ever since, and today announced improvements that it says will bring it closer to manufacturing …
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Cabal purge starts in the UK, what about the US? By Benjamin Fulford 9 May 2013 One of the world’s leading terrorists, the mass murderer Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has been summoned to China where he will be confronted with evidence of his involvement in the March 11, 2011 nuclear and tsunami terror attack against …
Solar power produced 100% of new energy on U.S. grid in March Solar power added twice as much to the grid in the first quarter of 2013 as it did in all of 2012. Solar power accounted for 100 percent of new energy on the U.S.’ power grid in March 2013 – an energy matrix …
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