Our next DC event offers a high-level briefing and discussion of questions of profound significance to both policymakers and corporate America. Join us on Wednesday August 7 at our G Street offices – from 2:15 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Register here. The roundtable will end with a reception.
Key panelists will include:
Daniel Caprio (McKenna Long & Aldridge; formerly Department of Commerce)
Michael Nelson (Bloomberg Government; formerly IBM, FCC)
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This from a recent McKinsey report sets out one perspective:
FIRST LOOK – THE STRONG-ON-DEFENSE PLAYBOOK: A leading national-security think tank is releasing the latest edition of its annual briefing book, which has become a kind of playbook for strong-on-defense Democrats. The Truman National Security Project, which spent more than $90,000 during the 2012 presidential campaign to help defeat Republican Mitt Romney, has been working to build a coalition of center-left members of Congress with strong records on defense – and its briefing book offers messaging strategies for countering Republican defense hawks.
The book, an advance copy of which was provided to Morning D, urges an increased emphasis on diplomacy and alliance-building and says the U.S. should remain committed to the international community as it withdraws from Afghanistan and cuts its defense budget. The group is scheduled to hold a launch event this evening in Washington attended by Doug Wilson, former assistant secretary of Defense for public affairs, who recently joined the think tank as a senior fellow. We've got the rundown, for Pros: http://politico.pro/1c226p4. And here's a first look at the full briefing book: http://bit.ly/18yag6a.
Do These Studies Explain the “Success” of Many of Those in the 1%?
And all along we were taught to believe that poor people are the most unethical.
Abstract:
Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving, relative to lower-class individuals. In follow-up laboratory studies, upper-class individuals
were more likely to exhibit unethical decision-making tendencies (study3), take valued goods from mothers (study4), lie in a negotiation (study 5), cheat to increase their chances of winning a prize (study 6), and endorse unethical behavior at work (study 7) than were lower-class individuals. Mediator and moderator data demonstrated that upper-class individualsā unethical tendencies are accounted for, in part, by their more favorable attitudes toward greed.
I get quite a few laughs when I point out that my degree is in medieval Latin poetry. Hey, what can I say? The computer science departments at my undergraduate university did not want anyone using the precious mainframe to index Latin anything. The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Dr. William Gillis had a different view. So I know zero about poetry but I could in the early 1960s generate concordances and indexes. The rest, of course, is history. Halliburton Nuclear, Booz, Allen & Hamilton (now Snowdonized), and a couple of big companies into electronic information.
Imagine my thrill when I read the most amazingly wild and crazy article in the San Francisco Chronicle (July 14, 2013) on page E8 with the reassuring, almost baby-blanket comfortable title, āEnglish Majors, Once Disdained, Back in Demand.ā You may be able to find a version of this write up at http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx. No promises, however. I am following in the footsteps of universities which are craw fishing away from the notion that someone with a degree in law or art history will be able to find a job after graduating.
In my opinion, the main point of the essay is that English majors can look beyond standing in line for SNAP cards and unemployment benefits. English majors have the ability to āconstruct stories.ā The passage which made me a true believer about the value of an English major was:
From our earliest days our education system separates us into the “gifted” and the not-so gifted. When we're just small children, many of us are put on a path to be cogs in the machine.
This has happened once before, and appears to be a rather sad attempt to discredit activists not realizing that all this exposure is discreting any future attempt to prosecute real child pornography violators — and the elite pedophiles that appear to be “untouchable” by the FBI.Ā There is no evidence this is being done by the US Government, only by those who believe that activists are fair targets for unethical, invasive, and criminal attack.
BREAKING: Attempted Set-Up of Stewart Rhodes & Dan Johnson With Child Porn
