Robert Garigue: The New Information Security Agenda–Managing the Emerging Semantic Risks
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Journal: Globalization and the Middle Class
Phi Beta Iota: Penguin is a new Contributing Editor who is still learning the system and also undecided about having a bio, even a relatively anonymous one. This Week on The Globalist December 18-24, 2010 Middle Class and Globalization: A Big Power Comparison (Part I) In this time of economic strife, which nation stands to …
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Journal: A Glimpse Into Emergent Populist Intelligence
Tags Activist Altruist Centrist Coffee Party Communitarian Globalist Green Humanist Organizer Patriot Peacemaker Programmer Progressive Spiritual Theorist Transpartisan Universalist Volunteer Worker Writer Issues Balanced judgment Church and state Citizen participation and engagement Cooperation Corporate power Fragmented or disjointed thinking Grassroots mobilization Inclusion Media Mistrust Money in politics National unity Partisanship in politics Spin and distortion …
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Worth a Look: From France, in English, Symbiotic Man
The Symbiotic Man: A New Understanding of the Organization of Life and a Vision of the Future Joel De Rosnay (Author) In this Future Shock for the new millennium, de Rosnay, director for strategy for the Science and Industry Complex in Paris, predicts the coming of what he calls the “Cybiont”: a global “macroorganism” that …
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Reference (2): Income Inequality in the USA
It is becoming increasingly clear that the United States passed through some kind of fork in the economic road in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and has now landed on onto an evolutionary pathway toward some kind of decline. The questions of what interplay of chance and necessity created the turning movement in the …
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Reference: On WikiLeaks and Government Secrecy + RECAP on Secrecy as Fraud, Waste, & Abuse
People are more likely to lie, exaggerate and distort when they know they won’t be held accountable for what they said, and people like to say what their interlocutors want to hear, says Jordan Stancil. Jordan Stancil Jordan Stancil is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of …
Review: Harry Brown
Actors: Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, David Bradley, Charlie Creed-Miles, Iain Glen Directors: Daniel Barber Writers: Gary Young Surprising–Did Not Disappoint December 4, 2010 I got this on a whim because Michael Caine is one of my top three serious actors along with Alec Guinness and Anthony Hopkins, and my assumption was that he would not …
