The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Andrew Cockburn’s essay in The Pentagon Labyrinth is titled “Follow the Money.” There are a lot of people who will say that is an undignified way to assess America’s national security apparatus; they might even say that Cockburn’s focus is cynical. I would personally venture to guess that a disproportionate number of those saying so are …
Network organisation for the 21st century Harry Halpin and Kay Summer, Turbulence.org Will the upsurge in activity around climate change and the food crisis repeat the cycle of the movement of movements over the past decade – momentary visibility then dissolution? Harry Halpin and Kay Summer say ‘yes’, unless different models of organising are embraced. …
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Who Screwed the Middle Class? — By Kevin Drum | Fri Mar. 25, 2011 3:00 AM PDT EXTRACT: A lot has happened over the past 30 years, but if you’re looking for a single political sea change that’s had the biggest impact on middle class wages—more important than union decline, more important than NAFTA, more …
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Tom Christie spent almost 50 years inside the DOD acquisition apparatus, concluding his career as a top level civilian professional directing DOD’s office of Operational Test and Evaluation. Since the 1960s, he has seen every single stab at reforming how we develop and buy weapons come and go – and fail. Today, as measured by …
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But Nobody Pays That G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI The New York Times, March 24, 2011 General Electric, the nation’s largest corporation, had a very good year in 2010. The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the …
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2012 is a year of awakening, and a year of convergence. Inspired by two books by Capt Doug Johnston, USN (Ret), Religion, The Missing Dimension of Statecraft (1995) and Faith-Based Diplomacy–Trumping Realpolitik (2003), our collective concept of public intelligence has treated faith as essential and integral to the advanced Information Operations (IO) Cube. Ref A: …
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Panarchy is “a useful way of thinking about cross-scale dynamics in complex adaptive systems.” Source Panarchy, in modern terms, is both an emerging theory of local to global relations spanning all current disciplines (e.g. economics, political science, sociology), and a public intelligence concept that posits non-violent collective intelligence, with access to all true cost information, …
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