Seth Godin: Paradigm Shift toward Cooperation

Coordination Our economy is almost entirely based on a Darwinian competition–many products and services fighting for shelf space and market share and profits. It’s a wasteful process, because success is unpredictable and unevenly distributed. The internet has largely mirrored (and amplified) this competition. eBay, for example, not only pits sellers against one another, it also …

Nuclear/Climate Change: CLOSED 17 May 2011

ROLLING UPDATE from Beginning of Crisis SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/PBI-Japan-Update 16 May 2011 ALL:  Study: Seaports unready for climate change CANADA:  Climate change threatens arctic coastlines CHINA:  China’s Nuclear Arsenal: Status and Evolution EUROPE-SPAIN:  Spanish Quake Jolts European Nuclear Debate GERMANY-JAPAN-USA:  Nuclear Nations Turn To Natural Gas And Renewables INDIA:  Manmohan Singh takes stock of country’s …

Bin Laden Show 55: Waterboarding for Morons

Fact Check: No evidence presented waterboarding helped find bin Laden Phi Beta Iota: An excellent objective piece that  confirms what all of us–and particularly Col Stuart Herrington, USA (Ret)–as well as some of those actually involved in the CIA campaign–have been saying.  Waterboarding does not work.  It leads to fiction that wastes time and money …

US Army Brainwashing Experiment

The Dark Side of “Comprehensive Soldier Fitness” Friday 1 April 2011 by: Roy Eidelson, Marc Pilisuk and Stephen Soldz, Truthout Why is the world’s largest organization of psychologists so aggressively promoting a new, massive and untested military program? The APA’s enthusiasm for mandatory “resilience training” for all US soldiers is troubling on many counts. The …