Graphic: DoD Weapons — 41% Documented Waste Per Year — 60% More Probable
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While touted as strategy, I fail to see any, more like wishful thinking and hope…..and as we all know, Hope is Not a Strategy…. Remarks by Secretary Panetta at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LEON E. PANETTA: Thank you very much, Theresa, for that kind introduction. And thank you for the …
Dear friends, My friend and colleague Miki Kashtan has written a compelling article exploring the interconnectedness of personal, community and social dimensions of the Sandy Hook crisis, “Adam Lanza and All of Us.” I highly recommend the whole article, but for the purposes of this commentary, I want to highlight this excerpt: “I see violence, …
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CIA National Intelligence Council 3.0 out of 5 stars Report Lauds Fracking as Energy Solution, Disappoints on Multiple Fronts, December 27, 2012 Certainly worth reading, along with other and generally better reports linked below, but a huge disappointment. There is nothing here actually useful to a national or corporate leader, and generally nothing new. To …
Old news but always worth revisiting. Dishonesty was on display everywhere in 2012 USA Today, 26 December 2012 EXTRACT: “Cheating creates its own gravitational force. The very act of cheating and getting away with it significantly increases the chances you’ll do it again,” says Michael Josephson, president of the Josephson Institute of Ethics in Los …
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Proposal for a World Brain Institute and Development of a Global Game ·Transhumanism, December 26, 2012 [Editor’s Note: The World Brain was proposed in collection of essays by H. G. Wells, wherein Wells describes his vision of the world brain: essentially a free, synthetic, universal, authoritative, and permanent “World Encyclopaedia” very much like today’s Wikipedia. Wells imagined this resource would help world …
Meet the four-legged robot being housebroken by the US military If you thought a soldier’s best friend was a weapon, try again. Meet LS3 (Legged Squad Support System) — the four-legged machine being developed for military use by engineering firm, Boston Dynamics. The outfit designed the not-so-cuddly contraption (aka AlphaDog) under contract by DARPA to …
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