Marcus Aurelius: DoD Tries to Rip 3/4 Billion Out of Health Care – Panetta Caught and Challenged by Congress on Integrity & Intelligence

Looks like Congress has caught DoD in a credibility and integrity breach: For years, DoD — including the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Service Chiefs, have been crying poormouth on military health care and trying to use military beneficiaries as cash cows to fund what should be 100% taxpayer-funded, …

Worth a Look: Top Books on Integrity at Amazon

2009 Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality For Cloud, an author, clinical psychologist and corporate consultant, integrity is more than just a person’s ethics and morals. The French and Latin meanings of the word hint at its origins, “that the whole thing is working well, undivided, integrated, intact and uncorrupted.” Achieving this …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 5 Integrity, Lies, and Panarchy Extract III

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 5 Integrity, Lies, and Panarchy Extract III All the kum-ba-ya in the world and all the micro-issue think tanks and advocacy groups are ineffective because they lack a strategic analytic model, a process for doing intelligence so as to do informed activist democracy, and a call to arms that …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 5 Integrity, Lies, and Panarchy Extract II

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 5 Integrity, Lies, and Panarchy Extract II Every major segment of our society–academia, civil society [including labor unions and religions], commerce, government, law enforcement, media, military, and non-government/non-profit–is currently suffering from epidemic lack of integrity, which only gets worse at large scales of operation, leading to implosion from corruption …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 5 Integrity, Lies, and Panarchy Extract I

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 5 Extract I In the twenty-first century, intelligence, design, and integrity comprise the triad that matters most.  The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is the non-negotiable starting position for getting it right, and this is crucially important with respect to the sustainability of the Earth …

Chuck Spinney: Why Doesn’t Spain Understand that Integrity is Priceless?

One of core component’s of the neoliberal agenda is privatization of state assets.  Attached is one countries reaction to the inequalities and economic distortions privatization introduces. CS Afloat in the Mediterranean Piracy as good policy by Serge Halimi Le Monde Diplomatique, 1 May, 2012 The head of state, confident after electoral victory, tells the governor …