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2013/05/292013/05/29

John Maquire: One Year Away from Global Food Riots + US Food Fraud RECAP

We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say What’s the number one reason we riot? The plausible, justifiable motivations of trampled-upon humanfolk to fight back are many—poverty, oppression, disenfranchisement, etc—but the big one is more primal than any of the above. It’s hunger, plain and simple. If there’s a single …

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2013/05/252013/05/25

Berto Jongman: McKinsey 12 Technologies Driving the Future — With Comment from Robert Steele

These 12 technologies will drive our economic future Neil Irwin Washington Post, 24 May 2013 As the chart shows, the McKinsey folks believe that the most economically significant technologies over the next decade-plus will be those already well underway in their development — the mobile Internet, largely in place in the adv Indeed, maybe the …

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2013/05/23

SchwartzReport: Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto GMO Greed

I take this to be good news about bad news. Finally, the reality of Monsanto is beginning to be understood. There is nothing new here; it will all be familiar to regular SR readers. (See: The Great Experiment: Genetically Modified Organisms, Scientific Integrity, and National Wellness. But this essay puts it all into one …

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2013/05/222013/05/22

Sepp Hasslberger: Compressing Air Into Earth for Energy Storage

Not just blowing in the wind: Compressing air for renewable energy storage Study IDs 2 compressed air energy storage methods, sites for the Northwest RICHLAND, Wash. – Enough Northwest wind energy to power about 85,000 homes each month could be stored in porous rocks deep underground for later use, according to a new, comprehensive study. …

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2013/05/192013/05/19

Poor Richard: PeerPoint – Open P2P Proposal

PeerPoint An Open P2P Requirements Definition and Design Specification Proposal Google Doc created June 6, 2012 Last updated October 19, 2012 PeerPoint shares a vision of “Sovereign Computing”: “To be the true owner of your information and of your computer’s hardware resources, as well as to share these things in any way you want and …

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2013/05/152013/05/15

Marcus Aurelius: SECDEF on Furloughs — and No Answer to Question Why Not Contractors First….

Latest info from SECDEF on furloughs: a. BLUF: 11 days, 1 day per week, starting 08 Jul and continuing through end FY13. b. Appeared to waffle by providing non-answer to employee’s question as to whether mandated savings could be obtained by cutting contractors rather than direct-hire civil servants. c. Never pinned blame where it belongs: …

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2013/05/042013/05/04

Marcus Aurelius: Manifesto on Behalf of the Second Amendment

Provided by a retired Marine colonel and apparently written by a former Servicemember and/or law enforcement officer, following is among very best articles on Second Amendment issue that I’ve ever read.) Snell: Waking the dragon — How Feinstein fiddled while America burned By Barry Snell, barry.snell@iowastatedaily.com | Posted: Friday, May 3, 2013 12:00 am Along with …

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