Joe Costello has decades experience in politics, energy, environment, and communications. Traveled and worked across the planet. Long a student of democracy, its demise, possible revitalization.
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Subscribe now I am a son of the proletariat. My father’s occupation on my birth certificate is “machine operator.” For over a quarter of a century, James Costello worked in a non-union factory on the South Side of Chicago until being unceremoniously laid-off. The plant was first operated by
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Subscribe now The 2008 white paper introducing bitcoin, authored supposedly by one Satoshi Nakamoto, amusingly and tragically states, "Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments. While the system works well enough for most transactions,
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Subscribe now Winter is coming for the natural gas addicted global North. Now some warned for decades not to trade one fossil fuel addiction for another, doing that was no way to make money, but then whoever made money on shale natural gas, until this criminally stupid war in Europe
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Subscribe now US' politics putrefies in an era of two minority political parties, more accurate to contemporarily label them political brands. Today, in regards to control of Washington, both parties have difficulty gaining majorities. With the presidency, the unfortunate touchstone of today’s established politics, the last eight elections
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Subscribe now Keith Levene died a couple days. He's one of those influential figures who few ever heard of, though greatly appreciated by those who did. He was a magnificent guitarist who put out beautiful sounds in the last days of rock and roll. He founded The Clash
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Subscribe now The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the
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Subscribe now "This is not like the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ,” Gensler (SEC Chair) said. "There's just a handful of lending platforms and a handful of so-called exchanges which commingle. It's [a] toxic combination where they take people's money, they
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Subscribe now Delphi was the most sacred city of Ancient Greece. The Greeks considered Delphi the center of the earth. It is spectacularly situated half-way up a mountain, looking down a narrow valley widening into the Gulf of Corinth. Directly behind, rising a thousand feet, tower steep granite cliffs colored
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Subscribe now Massive amounts of money, resources, and blood circle the drain in Ukraine. It would serve well to understand the Russia of today, most importantly how Putin rose to the top. It's always fraught with problems to begin history at a specific point, but to in anyway
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Subscribe now Mycenae is a historic and legendary city of Greece. Inhabited since 5000 BC, its glory years spanned 1600 to 1100 BC. This late Bronze Age Mycenaean civilization stretched across the Greek mainland. It's influence on the Greek civilization that followed, between 800 and 400 BC, mostly
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Subscribe now Last year, Caleb Scharf authored a book, The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm, perfectly illustrating an important contemporary conundrum: specialized technologies quickly derived from new scientific insights lack much of the underlying science's larger understandings. This creates significant
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Subscribe now You hear a lot about financial market volatility, but not enough about political volatility. Take for example the UK, who are about to have their third Prime Minister in two months, add financial volatility to the middle of the mix. Good thing new PM Sunak is ex-Goldman and