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Event: AM 31 Mar Washington Panel on Complexity & Reflexivity, Washington Academy of Sciences + Meta-RECAP

Complexity and Reflexivity Papers presented at the Washington Academy of Sciences Washington, DC, March 31-April 1, 2012 UPDATED 24 Feb to post all links Conceptions of Complexity and Implications for Economics Stuart Umpleby, The George Washington University, Washington, DC Experiments in Reflexive Inquiry Kent Myers, Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton Conceptual Difficulties and Pragmatic Responses to …

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Robert Steele: Transportation Security Agency as Poster Child for Doing Wrong Thing Righter

I travel enough to have a solid view of the Transportation Security Agency (TSA).  They are good people trapped in a bad system.  The article below is completely wrong in pressing forward with the meme of TSA as molestors of children and old people.  TSA has a good heart, it just lacks a brain.  TSA …

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Owl: Gulag Wealth Fund – Tracking Predatory Capitalism

Gulag Wealth Fund In a recent and very interesting interview with author Cory Doctorow, he mentions Max Keiser’s “Gulag Wealth Fund”. Doctorow says: “And there’s this symbiotic relationship between criminalization or prohibition, and the people who benefit from enforcement, right? There’s a rogue economist named Max Keiser who has a notional fund, just a fund …

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Review: Too Big to Know – Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room

David Weinberger 5.0 out of 5 stars Simple Enough to Shake the Most Obtuse Leaders, February 10, 2012 First the disclosures. I asked for a copy of this book to review, David Weinberger being one of my heroes and I being unemployed at this time. They gave it to me and now that I have …

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Theophillis Goodyear: 1% Continue to Press for Billion Dollar Stadium at Taxpayer Expense, in Minnesota

According to the following article, this is the fifth time that the Minnesota Vikings have tried to shove a new $1 billion stadium down the throats of Minnesota taxpayers. Minnesota Vikings Stadium Plan: Saddle Taxpayers With $1 Billion Field Ron Dicker Huffington Post, 7 February 2012 EXTRACT: A fifth plan for a $1 billion stadium …

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NIGHTWATCH: Syria, Russia, US, Iran, Israel, Lies, & Truth + RECAP

Syria: Special comment. Readers are rightly perplexed about conditions in Syria. Syrian press restrictions inhibit any neutral or balanced coverage. Everything reported from opposition sources and activists is biased and some reports of massacres include manufactured images, according to eyewitnesses. International news descriptions of a worsening crisis receive no offsetting coverage of testimony from non-Sunni …

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