Reading List 2009

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Here are some salient resources for appropriate technology open source information:

Online Education

Online education or e-learning is the need of the hour. Due to the advent of Internet and IT enabled services whole education system in India is undergoing a transitional phase and increasingly getting a different shape which was completely unknown to our predecessors only a few decades back. Traditional classroom based education system has taken a back-seat and has been gradually replaced by an e-learning system having no geographical barrier.

Today, artificial intelligence is one of the emerging technologies which are capable of altering every aspect of our social interactions. In education, AI has begun producing new teaching and learning solutions that are now undergoing testing in different contexts. This paper will let the stakeholders in education sector to understand the extent to which AI will be used in the education and its perceived benefits. This paper provides examples of use of AI in education, particularly in developing countries like India wherein providing education to all is seen as one of the sustainable development goals.

MME AUDREY AZOULAY, DIRECTORGENERAL, UNESCO writes “In the field of education, AI is expected to have a significant impact, transforming the way teachers work by offering new teaching aids. It could revolutionize the way in which students learn through personalised learning and through greater access to knowledge thus also potentially facilitating more inclusive education. Clearly, the possibilities are tremendous.”


Books

Theory

Homesteading

Fabrication

  • There are a wide variety of books that go beyond the average how-two available from Gingery publishing.

Political

Films

This is a list of movies on the internet about many subjects that may help in understanding what is going on. Have fun learning about the world! They're in a general order for each subject to build upon the information in the previous movies. Many of them may not be entirely truthful or tell all sides of the story, but after watching many of them you might be able to start putting things together.

Media

Spin, by Brian Springer

Outfoxed

Orwell Rolls In His Grave

Century of the Self (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)

Manufacturing Consent

Press for Truth

Behind The Big News

Food

King Corn Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

The World According to Monsanto

Soy

Education

John Taylor Gatto: Classrooms of the Heart

Interview with John Taylor Gatto

(etc.)

Freedom

The Philosophy of Liberty (flash)

Liberty: The American Revolution (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5) (Part 6)

Overview of America

Unconstitutional

Money and Debt

The Crash Course

Money As Debt

Maxed Out

David Walker - (CNN: "Economic Disaster Ahead", America's Financial Future (Part 1) (Part 2), 60 Minutes interview, Glen Beck interview, etc)- David M. Walker: Comptroller General of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO.gov), from 1998 to 2008 (Resigned after 10 years into 15 year term.)

Argentina's 2001 Economic Collapse

Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

America: Freedom to Fascism

Fiat Empire

Creature From Jekyll Island - "A Second Look at the Federal Reserve"

The Money Masters

Commanding Heights (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

Foreign Policy/War

George Tenet interviewed on 60 Minutes: April 29, 2007 (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)- George Tenet: Director of Central Intelligence, from 1997 to 2004

Paul O'Neil interviewed on 60 Minutes: Jan. 2004 (Part 1) (Part 2)- Paul O'Neill: Secretary of the Treasury, from Jan. 2001 to Dec. 2002

The War Tapes - Filmed by the soldiers themselves in Iraq

Baghdad ER

Trucking in Iraq (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

The Power of Nightmares (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

The Ground Truth

Sir! No Sir! - "The G.I. Revolt"

The Constitution in Crisis with Bill Moyers of PBS, about the National Security Council and CIA

Contractors in Iraq

Taxi to the Dark Side

The influence of AIPAC on US Foreign Policy

Occupation 101

The Iron Triangle - "The Carlyle Group"

Robert Newmans History of Oil

The Fog of War

Why We Fight

Uncovered

One Nation Under Siege

Truth and Lies

Power Structures of Society

The Roots of the UN - New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani presents the U.N. Secretary General and a short history of the United Nations and the Rockefeller family on C-SPAN

Carroll Quigley: Tragedy and Hope

The American Power Structure

The U.N.

Endgame

An Inside View of International Banking

An Overview of Our World

Corporations

Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room

Walmart: High Cost of Low Prices

The Corporation

Politicians

Trials of Henry Kissinger

Clinton Chronicles

Chinagate

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Elections

Societal Dilemmas

What to do?

An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Articles

Music

Websites

http://www.librum.us/

TrueWorldHistory.info

Wake Up course

For Liberty compilation

Engineers without Borders technical Resources Docs and media about many subjects water, energy, civil engineering, etc.

Links