Review: Still Ours to Lead – America, Rising Powers, and the Tension Between Rivalry and Restraint

Bruce Jones 4.0 out of 5 stars One Third Provocative, One Third Delusional, One Third Ignorant, March 22, 2014 I was given this book as a gift, by someone who knew I can recite from memory the ten high level threats to humanity (as identified and prioritized by the UN High Level Panel on Threats, …

Berto Jongman: 2014 State of the Future

The “State of the Future” is a comprehensive annual overview of the present global situation and prospects for humanity. It integrates forecasts, trends, and judgments of thought leaders and scholars from around the world, sharing important future possibilities to improve strategies today. Led by Jerome Glenn, the Millenium Project sponsors this collective intelligence endeavor. Good …

2014 Robert Steele: Beyond the Open Source Agency – School of Future-Oriented Hybrid Governance, World Brain Institute, PhD in Comprehensive Architecture

DOC (11 Pages): FIVE-R-Brief-School-World-Brain-OSE-2.3R LEVEL ONE BRIEFING I have three ideas that can rapidly enhance your: • Rank among all universities • Research power among faculty • Relevance as evaluated by alumni, students, and prospects • Revenue in terms of endowments, grants, contracts, and fees • Real Estate value.

Jon Rappaport: Does the government want us to know it’s spying on us?

Does the government want us to know it’s spying on us? The President’s own task force concluded that NSA spying in the US hadn’t prevented a single act of terrorism (e.g.,Washington Post, 12/23/13). The spying is really about gathering information on everybody. Innocent citizens. But if citizens didn’t know the NSA was engaged in such …

David Swanson: Do We Blame Sociopaths — or a Society Become Pathologically Dysfunctional?

Can We Really Blame Sociopaths? I’ve been hearing increasingly from multiple quarters that the root of our problems is psychopaths and sociopaths and other loosely defined but definitely different beings from ourselves.  Rob Kall has produced a quite interesting series of articles and interviews on the subject. I want to offer some words of caution …

Eagle: Food Costs Soar – Revolution in the Air

Food Costs Soar Following Severe Worldwide Drought Food prices are expected to see their biggest annual increase in the past three years thanks mostly to devastating drought conditions all over the world. Dry conditions mean poor crop production; poor crop production means fewer livestock; and fewer livestock means higher prices for meats and dairy at …