Journal: Third Party Desired by 58% in America + ReCap

Large Majority of Americans Thinks Country Needs Viable Third Party By: Jon Walker Monday September 20, 2010 1:03 pm A large majority of Americans, 58 percent, believe that the country needs a third major party to adequately represent the American people, according to a new Gallup poll. Only 35 percent think the Democratic and Republican …

Review (Guest): The New Social Learning–A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media

Phi Beta Iota: two reviews are provided, one from the blogsphere (Tip of the Hat to Pierre Levy at LinkedIn, and one from Amazon.  If not obvious, this new trend in organizational learning assures that “secret” organizations will get dumber and dumber as time goes by. Authors:  Tony Bingham and Marcia Connor I (Bill Ives) …

Journal: US Ruling Class versus Country Class–Deep Insights, Need Integrity and Fact-Based Deliberation

America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution By Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 – August 2010 issue of American Spectator EXTRACT 1:  They [the bi-opoly two parties] think, look, and act as a class. EXTRACT 2: The two classes have less in common culturally, dislike each other more, and embody ways …

Secrecy New Extract: DIA Seeks to Classify Reality

PENTAGON DELAYS PUBLICATION OF NEW BOOK The Department of Defense says that a forthcoming book about the war in Afghanistan contains classified information, and that it should not be put on the market in its current form.  Instead, the Pentagon is considering whether to purchase and destroy the entire first printing of the book, “Operation …

Journal: Pentagon Financial System–Broken by Design

Earth to Pentagon: Follow the Freaking Money! David Isenberg, Huffington Post, 12 September 2010 Author, Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq QUOTE FROM IG REPORT:   Early-on in the review, the staff identified one all-important, central element that is adversely affecting every facet of the OIG audit program — the DOD’s broken accounting system. This …