The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
As Congress bumbles on with 2014 budget limits and appropriations, the narrative of American armed forces as “the best in the world” continues as the de rigueur and foppish test of patriotism at House Armed Services Committee hearings. Being what passes for “pro defense” requires blindness, and lots of money, in the current political system …
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It is easy to look at the shutdown and the concomitant chaos in federal government as the product of incompetence and corruption. But it was a deliberate effort by a vocal congressional minority from safe, cynically gerrymandered, congressional districts to sabotage the functioning of the entire federal government. One would think that a deliberate effort …
I’ve had several translations of the I Ching Before, and this one is far superior to the rest. At first glance the advice in the various hexagrams may seem nearly the same, from one hexagram to the next; but the repetitions are examples of core Taoist philosophy, which tend to apply in almost any situation, …
Tablets and Periodicals October 19, 2013 Are tablets the salvation of the newspaper industry? Google’s chief economist thinks they may be. In a speech he recently gave in Milan, Hal Varian points to the ways consumers’ usage of tablets differs from that of other devices. Writer Will Conley summarizes: “Varian said tablets are the most …
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Tables and News — or Tables and Decision-Support?”
Is making a policy decision in the “National Interest” smart anymore? Probably not. Here’s something I’ve been thinking about. I’ve been grappling with a simple question. Is the use of national interest, as the basis of security and foreign policy, a dumb idea in the present context? National interest is a construct from the realism …
Continue reading “John Robb: In the National Interest? Probably Not.”
Bikes versus Cars: Politics Of…. Bitcoin and Snowden Building a More Secure Internet Culture and Extremism Evading NSA is Simple – Avoid the Internet Every Nuclear Missile an Accident Waiting to Happen
Did not make this up! Associated Press says so. US adults are dumber than the average human Associated Press, 8 October 2013 WASHINGTON — It’s long been known that America’s school kids haven’t measured well compared with international peers. Now, there’s a new twist: Adults don’t either. In math, reading and problem-solving using technology – …
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