Search Results for “Information Pathologies” – Page 32

2010/07/212013/03/03

Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Negative)

The long list below is organized along the lines of the Revolutionary Prediction Matrix discussed in a short Marine Corps University paper and a longer graduate thesis, to wit: Political-Legal; Socio-Economic; Ideo-Cultural; Techno-Demographic; and Natural-Geographic. It is also available online as Chapter 20: “21st Century Counterintelligence: Evaluating the Health of the Nation” in the new …

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2010/06/302010/06/30

Review: Why Don’t Students Like School–A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom

Major Contribution, Itself a Bit Turgid, Easily in the Dirty Dozen MUST READS June 30, 2010 Daniel T. Willingham I struggled a bit with this book, which is ably and logically presented but does not tell a story as much as it delivers a lecture piece by piece. No doubt my own limitations in play, …

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2010/06/162010/06/16

Journal: Pentagon Lies, NYT Sells Out, Obama Fiddles

Rotting Oder of Pentagon Info Op Signals Effort to Shore Up its Great Game in the Hindu Kush On 13 June, James Risen of the New York Times conveniently (at least for the Pentagon and the war party) reported that the “United States has discovered $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan [also …

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2010/02/122010/02/12

Search: management connect the dots

Personal from Robert Steele. Although this search yields some links, we’d like to do a little better for you. Here are a few observations: 1) If you are only working with 20% of the relevant information, you cannot connect dots that lie outside that 20%. We live in a complex globalized environment in which everything …

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2010/02/092010/02/09

Search: memetic leadership design

Wonderful serach. We have some graphics and some books, and a couple of external links for you. Top Recommendations: Graphic: Six Circles–Earth Intelligence Network Operational Concept Graphic: Epoch B Multinational Network Rising Graphic: Open Everything Review: Evolutionary Activism by Tom Atlee Review: Nonzero–The Logic of Human Destiny Review: The Compassionate Instinct–The Science of Human Goodness …

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2010/01/142010/01/14

Journal: America’s Debt to–and Incapacitation of–Haiti

How easily we forget the balance books of history. Below are two pieces, one from the colonial era written in 2006, the other from the recent “neo-colonia” era in which the author examines the specifics of the Clinton Administration’s policies toward Haiti. Chuck America’s Historic Debt to Haiti By Robert Parry February 10, 2006 As …

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2009/12/312009/12/31

Journal: 2010–Welcome to Orwell’s World

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’.” Barack Obama is the leader of a contemporary Oceania. In two speeches at the …

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