#OWS #ElectoralReform Strategy Memorandum

Restoring the Republic – One  People – One Voice – One Community Grand Strategy is about combining means (inputs) and ways to achieve ends (outcomes). In very general terms, the strategic outcomes that appear to be sought by the mélange of participants in the emerging nation-wide—even global—rebellion against the existing system—center around social justice as …

Marcus Aurelius: WSJ on Viet-Nam War – Lack of Integrity

Well, this is harsh w/r/t Westy… Wall Street Journal October 8, 2011 Pg. C5 Bookshelf The War Over The Vietnam War By Max Boot Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam. By Lewis Sorley, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 416 pp., $30 September 2006. Violence levels are spiking in Iraq. Every day brings reports of more suicide bombings, …

Reflections: Citizen in Search of Integrity (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

This is an updated version of the 2002 original, “Citizen in Search of a Leader.” We are now in Epoch B. Instead of leaders, we need facilitators, and the leadership comes from within the larger collective as it achieves ethical transparent consensus. Summary of Qualifications America needs a facilitator that is balanced, thoughtful, integrative, supportive …

John Steiner: Declaration of Occupation of NYC + Revolution USA RECAP

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City Posted on September 30, 2011 by NYCGA This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on september 29, 2011As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all …

DefDog: Harnessing Collective Intelligence

Insight to collective cooperation……. From Phoenecia to Hayek to the ‘Cloud’ Matt Ridley EXTRACT: Knowledge is dispersed and shared. Friedrich Hayek was the first to point out, in his famous 1945 essay “The Uses of Knowledge in Society,” that central planning cannot work because it is trying to substitute an individual all-knowing intelligence for a …

Review (Guest): Confidence Men – Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Ron Suskind From Product Description: The new president surrounded himself with a team of seasoned players—like Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers, and Tim Geithner—who had served a different president in a different time. As the nation’s crises deepened, Obama’s deputies often ignored the president’s decisions—“to protect him from himself”—while they fought to seize control of a …