Koko: US Government Changes It Story — BearGate

29 July Koko: US Government Suspends Scientist For Integrity Inquiry – Who Suspends the USG? 2 August  Scientist suspension is about project’s management The government’s new new story: ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. government suspended an Arctic biologist over how he awarded a polar bear research project to the University of Alberta and its …

Koko: Books on Complexity and Resilience

There is a convergence among literatures, with complexity and resilience now bringing forth Ecological Economics, concepts of agile social response, and our favorite, Engineering Resilience, a multi-disciplinary mind-set most engineers are simply not up to (nor politicians, bureaucrats, etcetera). Adapting Institutions: Governance, Complexity and Social-Ecological Resilience (Emily Boyd, Carl Folke (eds), 2011) Viability and Resilience …

Koko: US Government Suspends Scientist For Integrity Inquiry – Who Suspends the USG?

Arctic scientist who exposed climate threat to polar bear is suspended US government conducts ‘integrity inquiry’ on federal biologist amid lobbying by oil firms for Arctic permits Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday 28 July 2011 It was seen as one of the most distressing effects of climate change ever recorded: polar bears dying …

Koko: Politicians, Taxes, Lies, and Corruption

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices… 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country 545 vs. 300,000,000 People -By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then …