Category: Writing
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Scattered Showers of Interest
The establishment, at least a very small subset of it, discovered my work the second week of October. It wasn’t a thunderstorm of interest — more like scattered showers — but when you’ve been in the desert for a while, a little rain can go a long way. First stop on my tour was Washington…
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Five Ways to Fight ISIS Without Killing People
Like many Americans with a memory, I’m stunned how easily this country can be convinced to support another undeclared war in the Middle East. All the media has to do is run a week of programming alluding to nice folks getting their heads chopped off, then do a big poll that establishes the “fact” that…
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Tools of the New Economy: Cryptocurrency, Games and POS Systems
The last five years have transformed conventional and alternative economics. During this time period, the Federal Reserve Bank has created created more US dollars than it had in its entire history before 2008 – and it’s still creating around $85 billion/month through its “quantitative easing” program. Many economists, especially those from the Austrian school, are…
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FLO Disaster Relief Software – Recommendations for NVOAD
Three and a half months ago, I attended the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (NVOAD) Convening in Elizabeth, NJ. It was a fantastic event in which people from over 50 nonprofit, mostly religious, organizations came together to network, troubleshoot the ways they were providing…The post FLO Disaster Relief Software – Recommendations for NVOAD appeared…