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Review: Gods of Money – Wall Street and the Death of the American Century

William Engdahl 5.0 out of 5 stars Before Griftopia, There Was Liar’s Poker and Gods of Money,November 1, 2011 This book deserves a much more detailed review that illuminates the author’s early connection of Wall Street fraud and Washington neo-conservative lust for looting the world….a bi-partisan (never mind the 63 parties that don’t get to …

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Review: A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilisation – And How to Save it

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed 5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond 5 Stars – Superb Individual Effort, October 25, 2011 In its own way this book is every bit as good as such classics as The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) or The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters …

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Jon Lebkowsky: Steve Jobs on Convergent Multi-Media

Apple’s convergent television: “I finally cracked it!” We’ve been hearing for two decades now about television/computer/Internet convergence. Televisions sets today are advanced digital products, and we connect computers and specialized set-top boxes to ‘em, but they’re still primarily display devices. In his biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson writes that Jobs ““very much wanted to …

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Vatican, Ethics, & Truth II (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

Full Text: Note on financial reform from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace 2011-10-24 Vatican Radio Please find, below, an unofficial translation of the Note on the reform of the international financial and monetary systems in the context of global public authority, released Monday by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. ****************** Pontifical …

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