The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Introduction to Cooperation Theory A six week course using asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter to introduce the fundamentals of an interdisciplinary study of cooperation: social dilemmas, institutions for collective action, the commons, evolution of cooperation, technologies of cooperation, and cooperative arrangements in biology from cells to ecosystems. …
From a brave but frustrated front-line infantry leader. Shades of SLA Marshall! as the Army stands down from conflict life will get very dull…… Yeah I am dreading that and honestly I LOVE the Army. It’s always the politics. Just like the article I read on MSNBC talking about the new strategy is to do …
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General Patraeus, one of the four generals featured in the book, The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army is easily one of the best and brightest of our generation. I was surprised to read about his opening the door to torture. Worst-case scenario NY Daily …
Judith Innes, David Booher Excellent but Not Perfect, June 25, 2011 The authors claim to be addressing a new theory of collaborative rationality. The Native Americans called this “seventh generation thinking.” It is neither new nor rational alone, but rather holistic. I bought and read this book along with Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity …
Xavier N. De Souza Briggs 5 for Academics, 4 for Isolation from Corruption, June 25, 2011 I am stunned to not see a review of this book published in 2008. It certainly merits attention and inclusion in any dialog about democracy. The author caught my attention immediately in the preface, observing that US democracy “looks …
Primary Source (USG) Back-Up Source (OSS) Phi Beta Iota: This is an extraordinarily good contribution–a virtual compendium of every side of the secret world. Amusingly it acknowledges that 90% of what we need to know comes from open sources of intelligence without noting the irony that we spend $80 billion on everything other than open …
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UPDATED 26 Oct 2011 to add YouTube overview Seven Promises to America – Raising the Bar for 2012 UPDATED 20 June 2011 after talking to Cynthia McKinney. Changes 7th promise to subsume End of Empire to Start of Green Non-Zero World that works for all. Over the course of the past decade, as I have …
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