The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
‘Occupy’ as a business model: The emerging open-source civilisation Aljazeera – Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:24 GST Chiang Mai, Thailand – Last week I discussed the value crisis of contemporary capitalism: the broken feedback loop between the productive publics who create exponentially increasing use value, and those who capture this value through social media – …
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Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs The New York Times, 14 March 2012 TODAY is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I have worked here …
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The brain science behind economics Paul Zak, a pioneer in the field of neuroeconomics, talks about the genes that can make or break a Wall Street trader, and about the chemical that helps us all get along. Eryn Brown Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2012 Neuroscience might seem to have little to do with economics, …
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NSA whistle-blower: Obama “worse than Bush” Thomas Drake on life inside the National Security Agency and the price of truth telling Matthew Harwood Salon, 7 March 2012 Thomas Drake, the whistle-blower whom the Obama administration tried and failed to prosecute for leaking information about waste, fraud and abuse at the National Security Agency, now works …
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Salaries: Dim Light, Long Tunnel by Gary North Recently by Gary North: C.S. Lewis Warned Against the New World Order MarketWatch ran an article on the lack of optimism for the American job market. It offered no analysis of why the market is bad, but it made it clear that it is not likely to …
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When War is Promoted as a Remedy for Terror by Anthony J. Hall The You Tube of my San Francisco presentation on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 is being presented to the public here for the first time in early March of 2012. Anthony J. Hall is Professor of Globalization Studies. His recent book, Earth …
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Are you working in peacebuilding, international development or human rights? Would you like to improve the strategic impact, quality and effectiveness of your operations? Would you like to ensure effective monitoring and evaluation for your projects? World renowned expert Kai Brand Jacobsen will be in London this April to run two programmes for practitioners working in peacebuilding, international development, violence …
