Global Economic Outlook 2012: Developing countries should prepare for further downside risks, as Euro Area debt problems and weakening growth in several big emerging economies are dimming global growth prospects, says the World Bank in the newly-released Global Economic Prospects (GEP) 2012… http://www.worldbank.org/globaloutlook
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Protest US “anti-piracy” moves
The US Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa) are proposed to be debated by Congress in a week. The legislation would allow the Justice Department and content owners to seek court orders requiring search engines to block results associated with piracy. The bill is too broad and so badly written …
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LibreOffice, OpenOffice and Oracle
Once upon a time OpenOffice, or Ooo (OpenOffice.Org) as it became known was the leader in open source office productivity software. I loved it. It was loved. Then one day a cunning suitor, Oracle, offered to give gold to the very attractive, but not rich, Ooo. Ooo agreed to become part of Oracle. But Oracle …
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How To Write A Story
This is a great guide to story writing from WikiHow: How to write a good story. Everyone has a story to tell. There are many factors that can inspire a good story. You need to make sure you are always keeping your audience intrigued and then you know you have a good story. Here are …
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Facebook has joined Microsoft and Google: ogres of the internet
A couple of months ago the Austrian law student Max Schrems asked Facebook to send him all their data stored about him. All Europeans have a right to do this because Facebook is based in the EU in Dublin, Ireland. It took a while and then Facebook sent Max a CD with 1222 PDF files. What …
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Infographics – the world in a picture.
Excellent graphics from Princeton that pull together the drivers of major issues like the arms trade, government bureaucracy, transport, food, … (Note the date of the data.) INFOGRAPHICS eg: GLASS HALF EMPTY THE COMING WATER WARS
The New Paradigm
Chatting with a friend, Jerry, recently reminded me of the table sketched out during Be The Change with Chopra and friends. It is reproduced below. The full newsletter August 2006 is here. With the help of science, we are shifting into a new paradigm, not only of the human body-mind, but of our very interpretation …
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We love factory food.
Factory farming is bad. The new movie Contagion, based on the book Viral Storm, dramatises the kind of risk we nurture with intensive farming techniques. The kind of techniques that deliver the variety and volume of food at such low prices that we demand. From The Ecologist: Viral storm: why factory farming is bad for …
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Cosmic Bounce
28 October 2011 is when the cosmic bounce occurs. I like the idea of a cosmic rhythm, a universal pulse. Something like your heartbeat, of the regular spinning of earth or earth circling the sun every year. But bigger and more complex in the unseen dimensions, the world of gravity and emotion. On a universal …
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Victory! Or shame?
Gaddafi is gone. That’s good. And right. Gaddafi is dead. Maybe that’s not right. Almost inevitable in this world. But it was not the best we could have done. The evidence streamed around the world of a battered, bloodied old man, interspersed with rejoicing is an embarrassing show of primitive instinct. All male. Guns. Blood. …
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