Review: Holistic Darwinism: Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution

Beyond 6 Stars–And a Seventh for Accessible Pricing December 5, 2009 Peter A. Corning I could spend a lifetime reading and re-reading this book, and each of the cited sources, and not waste the time at all. This is one of the most extraordinary works I have encountered, and while I cannot do it justice, …

Search: Knowledge Policy

Cass Sunstein is a very good person, but he will die on the vine at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Bruce McConnell’s old job (Bruce spoke at OSS ’92, along with Arnie Donahue, nothing has changed since then). Knowledge policy is best understood at three levels:

Graphic: Multi-Lateral Sharing

This is a 2000-2002 slide that bears on the extraordinary possibilities inherent in creating a global multinational open source information sharing and sense-making grid.  The 80-20 rule really does seem to stand up under most circumstances.  White Hat (Stabilization & Reconstruction, Peaceful Preventive Measures) are especially responsible to shared open source information across all boundaries. …

SOUTHCOM Week in Review Ending 1 Dec 09

Hot Topics AA: Calderon: Drugs Can’t Be Eliminated but Crime Can 11/27/09 AA: Ibero-American countries form cross-border crime fighting alliance 11/26/09 BR: Jobs, economics complicate Brazil’s Amazon fight 11/26/09 BR: Iranian Leader’s Visit to Brazil Takes the Gloss off Lula’s International Image 11/29/09 CO: Colombian Warlord Shows Up at Hearing with $100K for Victims 12/01/09 …

Journal: Why they hate us (II): How many Muslims has the U.S. killed in the past 30 years?

Tom Friedman had an especially fatuous column in Sunday’s New York Times, which is saying something given his well-established capacity for smug self-assurance. According to Friedman, the big challenge we face in the Arab and Islamic world is “the Narrative” — his patronizing term for Muslim views about America’s supposedly negative role in the region. …

Journal: Vermont Commons, Secession, & Collapse

Secession is Constitutional, Abraham Lincoln’s unconstitutional pillaging and looting of the South not-with-standing.   Few are sufficiently educated to actually know that Lincoln did not free the slaves of the north and west and did not have the Constitutional authority to suspend habeas corpus, conscript men of the north, borrow money to wage war on peacefully …