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Undersea volcano may collapse, cause devastatin...

(http://news.blogs.cnn.com) - scanned by: Accel Rose over 2 years ago
A destructive, but not unrealistic wild-card. More>>>
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The Age of Micronations - 7 Predictions by Thom...

(http://www.futuristspeaker.com) - scanned by: Alvis Brigis over 3 years ago
There has always been profit to be made and lost in coastal real estate. But these innovations in the creation of land could lead to the creation of real estate that is unattached and unaffiliated with any existing nationstate or indigenous group ... More>>>
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Latvia Could Be Filing Bankruptcy in 6 Months

(http://www.google.com) - scanned by: Alvis Brigis over 3 years ago
Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis has warned that Latvia may face bankruptcy if it fails to obtain the next round of IMF bailout funds by June. To hit the IMF targets necessary to release the funds, Latvia must cut an additional 40% of public sec... More>>>
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Government
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Possible IMF trajectory (Thomas P.M. Barnett ::...

(http://thomaspmbarnett.com) - scanned by: Alvis Brigis over 3 years ago
"A fascinating glimpse at how the IMF may be reborn through this crisis into a financial equivalent of the UN or the WTO, just not with the same punitive powers of either (which are always weaker than they appear to be). The big thing is, we'... More>>>
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Environment

NASA: How Will Global Peak Oil Impact Climate?

(http://www.dailygalaxy.com) - scanned by: Alvis Brigis over 3 years ago
NASA researchers have identified feasible emission scenarios -which have accounted for about 80 percent of the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide since the pre-industrial era- that could keep carbon dioxide below levels that some scientists have ... More>>>
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Facebook En Route to Cloning FriendFeed

(http://www.techcrunch.com) - scanned by: Alvis Brigis over 3 years ago
"Facebook is trying to show you an up-to-date look at what your friends are doing both on Facebook and around the web. But it’s not actually live — it’s static. You need to refresh the feed to get more information. FriendFeed, on the other ha... More>>>
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Initiating linked names

(http://chrisglasier.blogspot.com) - scanned by: chrisglasier over 3 years ago
An open letter to Google suggesting their interest-based ads initiative should be extended to be even more pertinent and purposeful with a new way of linking based on common name associations. More>>>
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Watching the Income Tax System Implode

(http://www.futuristspeaker.com) - scanned by: Alvis Brigis over 3 years ago
Thomas Frey: In 2003, I wrote a paper titled “The Coming Collapse of Income Tax” in which I predicted that our current income tax system would collapse within 10 years. My prediction stands, even as the clock is running out of time. I am still fir... More>>>
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Security

What if Russia or China Cut Off Your Electricity?

(http://abcnews.go.com) - scanned by: Alvis Brigis over 3 years ago
the Wall Street Journal reports that Chinese and Russian spies have penetrated America's electric power grid, planting software bugs that could all but shut down the system in a crisis. Richard Clarke, a former White House cybersecurity adviser... More>>>
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Guinness' Pub of the Future (JPEG)

(http://www.futuresavvy.net) - scanned by: Alvis Brigis over 3 years ago
So this is what the pub experience will look like in the near-future? More>>>
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World Population Devastated if Predicted 9 Degr...

(http://www.dailygalaxy.com) - scanned by: Alvis Brigis over 3 years ago
On the closing day of the Congress on Climate Change held last week in Copenhagen, one of the world's leading experts, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said that if the buildu... More>>>
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The Last Bastion of Scarcity

(http://www.futuristspeaker.com) - scanned by: Alvis Brigis over 3 years ago
Science fiction has long dreamed of a post-scarcity society, and it’s become quite common to hear discussions about transitioning from a world of scarcity to a world of abundance. But, for all the good intentions and creative thinking, our limitat... More>>>
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