The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
‘Jobs Created or Saved’ Is White House Fantasy: Caroline Baum Commentary by Caroline Baum Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) Heresy, thy name is Christina Romer. Last week, the chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers — a position that carried the title “chief economist” until Larry Summers took up residence in the White House — …
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Cloud Analytics: Dataflow versus Databases Realtime analytics drives a migration away from databases to more scalable parallel dataflow architectures. Bill McColl, 29 October 2009 Over the past year or so, a new movement, the “NoSQL” movement has emerged promoting the advantages of doing a variety of kinds of analytics without using any relational database technologies …
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Grupo Hemas Taps Savi Networks to Monitor the Security and Status of Cargo Shipments in Real Time Reuters, 28 October 2009 …has contracted with Savi Networks for its real-time intelligence service that automatically monitors the location, security and condition of shipment… A Revolution Once More: Unmanned Systems and the Middle East (Brookings, November 2009) … …
Intriguing and illuminating. Thank you. Harold Laski: Problems of Democracy, the Sovereign State, and International Society Laski’s concerns turn out to have much in common with those of present-day social democratic commentators – in particular the capacity of a state to effect social justice in conditions of global interdependence. Peter Lamb’s study of this overly …
Explaining Research – How much do drugs really cost to develop? Although this does not seem like a fact that most people would commit to memory, somehow the average American has come to know that, not only is it insanely expensive to create a new drug and bring it to market, but it is expensive …
Hot Topics AA: Uruguay #1 for Prosperity in South America; Venezuela and Bolivia the Worst 10/26/09 CL: Chile president proposes limiting military courts 10/27/09 CO: Uribe requests repatriation of Colombians murdered in Venezuela 10/26/09 DO: Lucrative charcoal spurs Dominican- Haitian crime cartels 10/26/09 HN: Honduran forces blast recordings of sound effects outside Brazilian embassy 10/22/09 …
Great Airport Book, Really Substantive October 26, 2009 Martin L. Gross The publisher has failed to use the tools that Amazon provides, so “Look Inside the Book” and especially the Table of Contents, are not available. Shame on the publisher. I would normally take away one star for this lack of due diligence. This author …
