The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Papal Concern for Climate Change and Refugee Care
A means of concealing criminal systemic negligence?
La tuerie raciale de Charleston
Entrevue avec Robert Steele
Texte intégral en français et en anglais sous le pli
Full Text in French & English Below the Fold
Lifecycle of Emergence: Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale
By Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze
Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who discover they share a common cause and vision of what’s possible. This is good news for those of us intent on changing the world and creating a positive future. Rather than worry about critical mass, our work is to foster critical connections.
Continue reading “Kosmos: Lifecycle of Emergence — Happens FAST!”
Below is an informative presentation (in pdf format) entitled the State of the U.S. Climate Debate. It has been produced by Professor Judith Curry of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology and will shortly be presented to the House of Lords in the UK Parliament. The pdf file includes her slides with her presentation notes beneath each slide (the original PPT file can be downloaded from this link).
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: Judith Curry on Global Warming Debate and Politics Over Science”
Americans Have Lost Confidence … in Everything
It's not just Congress and the economy that have Americans concerned these days.
Whatever lies we tell ourselves about how we love our children by almost any objective social outcome measure it is screamingly obvious that while, at least in some cases, we may love our particular child children as a generality are not loved much at all. Compared to other advanced technological societies the state of children in the U.S. is an untold scandal. Is it surprising then, that the young are losing confidence in their country? Here is some real data. What becomes of a country whose young have abandoned their nation's motivating dream?
Pope Francis' Climate Change Encyclical Just Leaked. Here's What It Says.
Humans are causing climate change, and there will be “grave consequences” if we don't act fast, warns the pope.
Pope Francis will this week call for changes in lifestyles and energy consumption to avert the “unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem” before the end of this century, according to a leaked draft of a papal encyclical. In a document released by an Italian magazine on Monday, the pontiff will warn that failure to act would have “grave consequences for all of us.”
Francis also called for a new global political authority tasked with “tackling…the reduction of pollution and the development of poor countries and regions.” His appeal echoed that of his predecessor, pope Benedict XVI, who in a 2009 encyclical proposed a kind of super-UN to deal with the world's economic problems and injustices.
