Bob Gates, Chief Maintenance Clerk, Talks Crap — and the Wall Street Journal Goes Along…

The Gates Farewell Warning America can be a superpower or a welfare state, but not both. Phi Beta Iota Sidenote: BOTH of the above “choices” are corruption incarnate.  The correct choice was articulated by Thomas Jefferson: “A Nation’s best defense is an educated citizenry.” EXTRACT: In a series of farewell speeches, Mr. Gates has warned …

Review (Guest): Juggernaut — Why the System Crushes the Only People Who Can Save It

5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary, Compelling Piece of Outside-the-box Thinking and Analysis, February 17, 2011 By Robert Donovan “Author: Blueprint for Prosperity” (California) – See all my reviews Mister Morse has done an exemplary job here. First, Juggernaut is a well thought out, level-headed, and refreshingly non-partisan look at the evolution of western political-economic …

Reflections on Tyranny versus Crowd Power

Sacrificial Crowds and Radical Power: A Meditation by Justin Rogers-Cooper, 19 May 2011 Advocate (CUNY Graduate Center) In early Jan­u­ary the BBC reported that Moham­mad Bouazazi, a Tunisian col­lege grad­u­ate who ille­gally sold fruits and veg­eta­bles in Sidi Bouzid, had died from his self-inflicted burns. He had set him­self on fire by dous­ing his body with petrol …

Defense Science Board: Need Another Intel Czar

Unbelievable–either these guys have no clue what happened in the past, or they’re all going senile and repeating history.  This is 1992 all over again–remember the LIC Intelligence Working Group that never was? DefenseAlert DOD Advisory Panel Calls For Creation Of National Intel Manager For COIN Ops Posted on InsideDefense.com: May 20, 2011 A new …

MUST READ CAPSTONE WORK: Noosphere — The Next Stage in the Evolution of Human Consciousness, A Testimony by Jose Arguelles

Phi Beta Iota: We reproduce the excerpt in order to add links to all of the books and individuals mentioned.  Tip of the Hat to Reality Sandwich for this offering, and to Evolver Editions (North Atlantic/Random House) for their new Manifesto series in support of human consciousness and planetary synthesis. Noosphere: The Next Stage in …