Berto Jongman: J. Hughes on Defining Virtues Good for Business, Economics, and Technology
Building the Virtues Control Panel J. Hughes Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies, 28 July 2014
Mike Lofgren: Investigative Commissions as Pretentious Cover-Up — the 9/11 Commission Ten Year On
How to Read a Government Commission Report: An Inquiry Into the 9/11 Commission’s 10th Anniversary Report As an inquiry into the complex subject of international terrorism, the 9/11 Commission’s 10th anniversary reprise is a slipshod farrago of circular argumentation, faulty reasoning and naïve gullibility about the claims of senior officials – but it does serve …
Eric Zuesse: NYT Dangerous Lies About Ukraine & Russia
(PREFACE: Right before this went to press, Britain’s Guardian headlined “Moscow May Walk Out of Nuclear Treaty,” and Washingtonsblog bannered “Senior U.S. Intelligence Officers: Obama Should Release Ukraine Evidence.” The latter newsflash is a memo to the President signed today by 9 senior retired U.S. intelligence professionals who gently lay out the evidence that President Obama has been lying about …
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Mark Dixon: Digital Druid – America, We Have A Problem
Mark Dixon is a partner in the Principled Society Project and a pioneer in Smart Local Government and Cognitive Digital Democracy. America…..we have a problem. “We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” So says E. O. Wilson in his latest book, “The Social Conquest of Earth”. …
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Robert Steele: Rebuilding National Intelligence – A 12-Step Plan
Rebuilding National Intelligence – A 12-Step Plan Why Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry, and Chuck Hagel Need to THINK….now. Robert David STEELE Vivas OpEdNews, 27 July 2014 DOC (21 Pages): Steele Rebuilding National Intelligence 1.9 SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-12-Steps As we begin the final two and a half years (less seven days) of the Obama-Biden …
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SchwartzReport: Science is Not About Certainty Rather About Most Reliable Way of Thinking at Present Level of Knowledge
This is a really excellent essay on the nature of science. Rovelli’s observation: “Science is not about certainty. Science is about finding the most reliable way of thinking at the present level of knowledge” is one of the most insightful things I have read about science in a decade. There are also very insightful comments …
Mini-Me: Fukushima Getting Worse!
Huh? Fukushima: Bad and Getting Worse Global Physicians Issue Scathing Critique of UN Report on Fukushima by JOHN LaFORGE CounterPunch, Weekend Edition July 18-20, 2014 There is broad disagreement over the amounts and effects of radiation exposure due to the triple reactor meltdowns after the 2011 Great East-Japan Earthquake and tsunami. The International Physicians for …
