Search Results for “21st Century” – Page 119

2012/03/042012/03/04

Reference: Ken Bausch on Third Phase Science and Dialogic Design Science

FREE BLEEDING EDGE THINKING — ADVANCES IN ACHIEVING INTELLIGENCE WITH INTEGRITY Memorable Short-Cut: http://tinyurl.com/GWU-3rdOrder 2012-03-04 Ken Bausch on Third Phase Science (Handout) 2012-03-04 Ken Bausch Third Phase Science (Slides) The George Washington University University Seminar on Reflexive Systems Friday, March 2, 2012 from 10:00 am-12:00 pm Funger Hall, Room 320, 2201 G Street NW A …

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2012/03/03

John Robb: USA – One More Step Toward Neo-Feudalism

HR 341: One more step towards Neo-Feudalism Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:54 AM PST In feudal times, you could be put to death if you didn’t kneel when the carriages of the nobility passed by. This is a step in that direction (although very few people care). ‘ I’m not that excited to write about …

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2012/03/02

Paul Craig Roberts: US Government Riddles & Issues

Why Can’t Americans Have Democracy? Syria has a secular government as did Iraq prior to the american invasion. Secular governments are important in Arab lands in which there is division between Sunni and Shi’ite. Secular governments keep the divided population from murdering one another. When the american invasion, a war crime under the Nuremberg standard …

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2012/02/252012/02/25

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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2012/02/24

Reference: World Development Reform 2011 – Conflict, Security, & Development

More than 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by violent conflict. The World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security, and Developmentexamines the changing nature of violence in the 21st century, and underlines the negative impact of repeated cycles of violence on a country or region’s development prospects. Preventing violence and building peaceful states that respond …

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2012/02/212012/02/21

Chuck Spinney: Without Intelligence or Integrity, Incestuous Amplication of Self-Referencing (Corrupt Idiocy) Assures Eventual Implosion

Sun Tzu or Bismarck: Who will Prevail in the 21st Century? [Note: this first appeared in Time’s Battleland Blog (here)], The first three chapters in Sun Tzu’s timeless classic “The Art of War” describe how to make net assessments by comparing your strengths and weaknesses and those of your adversary and how to formulate strategy. Near …

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2012/02/202012/02/21

Michel Bauwens: Life of the Internet or Internet as Our Life?

Below by Nick Mendoza is recommended! Up front extract: With the decline of state capitalism, capitalist governments and corporations now dream of the internet as the tool for corporate growth through ontological colonialism, free to expand within the mind and the planet, exploiting everyone alike. Metal, code, flesh: Why we need a ‘Rights of the …

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