Jean Lievens: American Thinker Heretical Thoughts on Ethics and Capitalism

Some Heretical Thoughts on Politics and Economics Glenn Fairman American Thinker, 21 June 2014 The belief that the raw mechanics of Capitalism, uninformed by any moral penumbra of ethics, religion, or philosophy, has alone caused the great material increase of the West, is of itself suspect. Indeed, the Protestant Work Ethic, the idea of fair …

INTERVIEW: Nafeez Ahmed (The Guardian) and Robert Steele on Re-inventing Intelligence to Re-engineer Earth

NEW URL (Guardian revamping its site): The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% ORIGINAL URL: The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% – ex CIA spy The man who trained more than 66 countries in open source methods calls for re-invention of intelligence to re-engineer …

Anthony Judge: Comprehension of Numbers Challenging Global Civilization

Comprehension of Numbers Challenging Global Civilization Number games people play for survival Introduction Enabling disaster through basic mathematical operations Numbers in play in psychosocial organization Conceptual clustering and cognitive constraints Pattern memorability between symbolic mystification and “stretching” Imaginative depiction of the cognitive challenge Requisite complexification of imagery to embody greater significance Creative pretence dissociating numbers …

Chuck Spinney: Non-Learning in US Foreign Policy

JUNE 16, 2014 Polk Report How to Evolve an Exit Strategy From America’s Foreign Policy Shambles by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY and WILLIAM R. POLK, Counterpunch Attached beneath my introductory comment is an essay by the American historian William R. Polk.  His subject is the American predilection for non-learning in foreign policy. My comment is intended …