The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The scientific discoveries and technological innovations produced by Bell System research and engineering were critical not only to the evolution of global telecommunications but, more widely, they had a considerable impact on the technological base of the global economy and, indeed, on our daily lives. Bell Labs is the source of many significant contributions, of …
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DATES: Thursday, November 4, 2010 8:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. ADDRESSES: St. Regis Hotel 923 16th Street and K Street, NW Washington, DC Telephone: (202) 638-2626 [6450-01-P] DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, Disposal Subcommittee AGENCY: Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy ACTION: Notice of Open Meeting SUMMARY: This notice …
… and destroy the Pentagon’s dream of finding a new peer competitor to replace the Soviet Union. Can you give my son a job? Slavoj Žižek The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor Allen Lane, 302 pp, £25.00, June 2010, ISBN 978 1 84614 173 7 . . . . . . . What we have …
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Click on Image to Enlarge Read Source Article, Science 2.0 (2008-07-03) Phi Beta Iota: Eugene Garfield gave us citation analysis via the Institute for Scientific Information, and Dick Klavans and company have given us the (fragmented) web of knowledge. Top commercial intelligence practitioners have long known that published experts can lead to unpublished experts without …
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Saturday 16 Oct 2010 Concerns about Utility-Scale Wind on Vermont’s Ridgelines Commentary by: Jock Gill How are we going to reduce Vermont’s carbon footprint and at the same time protect Vermont’s agricultural heritage and family farms, create local jobs, and stimulate small business formation? Is utility-scale wind part of the solution? I would suggest the answer …
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From Fire Dog Lake No Logo Available Third Party Rising? By: Nancy Bordier Friday October 15, 2010 2:25 pm Eleven-Page 1997-2003 Paginated Word Document of Entire Piece Thomas Friedman wrote in a recent New York Times article, “Third Party Rising“, that he is “astounded” by the level of disgust with Washington D.C. and the two …
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Net Positive: A Conversation with Clay Shirky in Media | October 14th, 2010 EXTRACT: My current formulation is that markets supply less accountability than democracies demand—that if you leave the presence of accountability to an entirely market-driven press corps, you get less coverage than democracies need to survive. And we’ve had all of these ways …
