Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Yoda: Dynamic Causation vs. Systemic Causation

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STARTING POINT:  Tom Atlee: Systemic Causation & Sandy

IDEN A:  I like the distinction between direct causation and systemic causation.  However, I would prefer a general conception of causation.  I would say that ideas about causes assume a stable world.  We assume that what happened in the past will happen in the future.  But if the world is changing (i.e., global warming, sea level rise), causation changes (i.e., frequency or severity of storms).  To plan for the future requires knowing how the world is changing, which is difficult when our actions are changing the world.  We will live in a world we have not experienced previously.  We can imagine how change will proceed, but we can be certain that we will not be 100% correct.  I very much agree with Tom's emphasis on the importance of language and, in this case, systems thinking.

IDEN B:  It sounds like we must be master mariners in a great sea, understanding the theory of change, knowing that it can change at difference paces across different functions, and always being sensitive to the implications of weather patterns, recognizing there is only so much we can do BUT also recognizing that the more prepared we are the easier our path…..building smaller homes that are hurricane proof, having self-contained water and energy systems, etcetera.

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Owl: Dewey Clarridge of Iran-Contra in Benghazi — Part of the Stanley Inc. Set Up or Just Crummy Business as Usual?

Ethics, Government, Ineptitude, Military
Who? Who?

Here Raimondo inserts a few more pieces into the jigsaw puzzle picture of what happened at Benghazi. His most notable observations are on the fly-by-night “Blue Mountain” security firm guarding the doomed diplomatic staff there and on Duanne Clarridge, former CIA case office and an alumnus of the covert Contra war, and who leads his own private version of the CIA with a presence in Libya:

The Mystery Behind the Benghazi Attack

Were the Obama administration and Ambassador Stevens set up?

by

Anti-War.com, November 05, 2012

EXTRACT:

The security arrangements for the Benghazi consulate, and indeed for all our operations in Libya, are under scrutiny, and one detail is being seized on: the hiring of a small and little-known outfit, Blue Mountain Security, based in the UK, to guard the Benghazi consulate.

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Blue Mountain, described by UPI as “leading the way” for foreign mercenaries in Libya, found such a partner: the Eclipse Group, according to several news accounts. However, Eclipse isn’t “local,” not by any stretch of the imagination: the Eclipse Group is Duane Clarridge’s “private CIA,” which up until recently had a $6 million DoD contract — withdrawn after Eclipse embarked on a campaign to prove Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s drug addiction. After the cut-off of Pentagon funds, Clarridge — one of the Iran-Contra defendants, indicted and later pardoned — found undisclosed “private donors” to run his gang of international cowboys.

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Anthony Judge: Multiverse through Poetic Musing

04 Education, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence
Anthony Judge

Being a Poem in the Making Engendering a Multiverse through Musing

Summary

Contents:
Insights from the crisis of science and belief
Questionably exclusive framing of multiverse by science
Imaginative engagement with multiverse through poetry
Poetic insights into becoming a poem and being one
Transcending both scientific and poetic comprehension of multiverse
Explanation vs. Inplanation: multiversal embodiment through the Ouroboros

It has an annex which develops the arguments of Rupert Sheldrake's presentation in the form of:

Knowledge Processes Neglected by Science:  insights from the crisis of science and belief

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Gold Transformer: Romney Wins, Financial Melt-Down, and 2016

03 Economy, Civil Society, Commerce, Ethics, Government
Gold Transformer

James Quinn is one of my favorite writers of what is going on in America today.  I particularly like today’s write up.  It is thought provoking.  One can find similarities of Quinn’s message in the material of Jim Sinclair, Martin Armstrong and Bud Kress (died this year).

He makes an interesting projection that we will see a Romney win tomorrow…    While that is likely, it is equally likely that the major change comes in Martin Armstrong’s prediction with the election of 2016…

Will a Prophet Assume Command?

By James Quinn

Financial Sense, 5 November 2012

Strauss & Howe wrote these words in 1997. They had predicted the arrival of another Crisis in this time frame in their previous book Generations, written in 1990. This wasn’t guesswork on their part. They understood the dynamics of how generations interact and how the mood of the country shifts every twenty or so years based upon the generational alignment that occurs as predictably as the turning of the seasons. The last generation that lived through the entire previous Crisis from 1929 through 1946 has virtually died off. This always signals the onset of the next Fourth Turning. The housing bubble and its ultimate implosion created the spark for the current Crisis that began in September 2008, with the near meltdown of the worldwide financial system. Just as the stock market crash of 1929, the election of Lincoln in 1860, and the Boston Tea Party in 1773 catalyzed a dramatic mood change in the country, the Wall Street created financial collapse in 2008 has ushered in a twenty year period of agony, suffering, war and ultimately the annihilation of the existing social order.

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James A. Lyons: Admiral, Former PACFLT, Calls for Obama to “Come Clean” on Benghazi

Ethics, Government, Ineptitude, Military
Admiral James Lyons, USN (Ret.)

Retired Pacific Fleet commander calls for Obama to “come clean” on Benghazi

John Hayward

Human Events, 30 October 2012

Retired Admiral James A. Lyons, former commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, published a tough editorial in the Washington Times on Sunday, calling for President Obama to “come clean on what happened in Benghazi.”  Lyons describes the situation in stunned disbelief:

There is an urgent need for full disclosure of what has become the “Benghazi Betrayal and Cover-up.” The Obama national security team, including CIA, DNI and the Pentagon, apparently watched and listened to the assault on the U.S. consulate and cries for help but did nothing. If someone had described a fictional situation with a similar scenario and described our leadership ignoring the pleas for help, I would have said it was not realistic—not in my America – but I would have been proven wrong.

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Lou Dobbs: Bloomberg “Talk to the Hand” and Obama/Panetta Fail to Perform — Where are the GP Tents with Heaters, the Field Kitchens, the Medical Triage?

07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, DoD
Lou Dobbs

Speaking on Fox News today Lou Dobbs blasted the Obama Administration and Mayor “Talk to the Hand” Bloomberg.  While he exaggerates in relation to Katrina and Bush being blasted (Sandy is 40,000 displaced persons, Katrina was 700,000), he does make the obvious point upon which we elaborate–where is the US military with General Purpose (GP) tents, cots, oil stoves, field kitchens, medical triage, and Internet cafes (many of the displaced have no power for their cell phones and their home phones are gone).

If Leon Panetta wanted to be useful today, both to the public and to the President facing defeat tomorrow, he could order the service chiefs to put every single displaced person under a warm GP tent before nightfall.  If he and they cannot do that, we will have taken the measure of DoD here at home, and found it wanting.

We are waiting for a Situation Report from Col GI Wilson, USMC (Ret) and Team Rubicon, which received on demand mapping support from our network, instantly.

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