The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
AMAZON PAGE: Fusion Economics: How Pragmatism Is Changing the World Hardcover Pre-Order Now for 21 October 2014 Delivery Phi Beta Iota: Below is Robert Steele’s jacket blurb: Laurence Brahm is one of those unsung heroes who was changing the world for the better, and influencing various governments in most positive ways, long before ecological economics …
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Enric Duran of the Catalan Integrated Cooperative has taken the time to comment on Michel Bauwens’ recent article on Open Coops, contrasting Bauwens’ proposals with the practical realities already under way in the CIC’s own forward thinking cooperativist environment. Bauwens’ summary of these proposals include four key proposals which Duran addresses below. To give some …
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IBM Buzz Equals Revenues: The Breakthrough Assumption I am no wizard of finance. I have kept track of money for my Cub Scout troop. I do understand this chart from Google Finance: The blue column shows that revenue is going nowhere, maybe even trending down. The red line shows IBM’s profit margin which is flat. …
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Think, we do. How Islamic finance and a more ethical capitalism go hand-in-hand In first place, the most-read article on the Guardian Social Enterprise Network for 2013, was Sheeza Ahmad’s thoughts on how Islamic finance and a more ethical capitalism go hand-in-hand. As the founder of social enterprise HelpingB, he argued that the Qur’an’s teachings …
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Malaysian press charges Ukraine government shot down MH 17 A Thursday article in the New Straits Times, Malaysia’s flagship English-language newspaper, charged the US- and European-backed Ukrainian regime in Kiev with shooting down Malaysian Airlines flight MH 17 in east Ukraine last month. Given the tightly controlled character of the Malaysian media, it appears that …
Machine Ethics Interfaces Melanie Swan Machine ethics is a term used in different ways. The basic use is in the sense of people attempting to instill some sort of human-centric ethics or morality in the machines we build like robots, self-driving vehicles, and artificial intelligence (Wallach 2010) so that machines do not harm humans either …
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Interview with Dr. Sally Goerner. Dr. Goerner is the director and co-founder of the Integral Science Institute, a non-profit research and educational centre. With advanced degrees and professional experience in computer science, engineering, nonlinear dynamics and psychology, Dr. Goerner’s speciality is showing how a range of major social, scientific, economic and political crises and alternatives can …
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