The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Published on Monday, April 11, 2011 by TruthDig.com Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System by Chris Hedges Note: Truthdig server overwhelmed. This is the Common Dreams reprint. A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless …
It can safely be said that most great ideas result from errors (including accidents), because the real break-throughs occur when the prevailing paradgim (“business as usual”) is so demonstrably unfit as to call into question its further utility OR something really sensational is discovered that is totally inconsistent with the prevailing paradigm. PERSISTENCE rooted in …
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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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Volunteers Behind Libya Crisis Map: A True Story Patrick Meier, iRevolutiion, 8 March 2011 My colleague Clay Shirky called it “Cognitive Surplus” in his recent book. Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams refer to it as “MacroWikinomics” in theirs. What is cognitive surplus? The trillion hours of free time enjoyed by the world’s educated population every …
Professor James C. Scott (Author) 5.0 out of 5 stars Structural Dysfunctionalism November 18, 2001 ByMichael Biggs (Oxford, United Kingdom) – See all my reviews James Scott is known for portraying the moral world of peasants, showing how they have resisted the encroachment of capitalism and the state. Now he investigates the other side: the …
VIDEO: Learning to See in the Dark: The Roots of Ethical Resistance Carol Gilligan April 24, 2009 Time: 1:10:34 Carol Gilligan is an ethicist and psychologist currently appointed as a University Professor at the New York University. She received an A.B. in English literature from Swarthmore College, a masters degree in clinical psychology from Radcliffe …
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