Worth a Look: Science in the Private Interest: Has the Lure of Profits Corrupted Biomedical Research?

Book Description: Something has changed in the culture and values of academic science over the last quarter-century. University science is now entangled with entrepreneurship, and researchers with a commercial interest are caught in an ethical quandary. How can an academic scientist honor knowledge for its own sake, while also using knowledge as a means to …

2013 Robert Steele Reflections on Alternative Command & Control (AltC2) — Five Questions and a Game Plan 1.1

1.1 Adds contribution “An API for NATO” from Innovation Hub participant laukner, and adds Open Source Everything (OSE) graphic that most of us agree is the necessary technical transformation that must take place for the UN, EU, NATO, BRICS, and others to be effective at M4IS2 and creating a prosperous world at peace, a world …

Tom Atlee: A Difference of View — Top Down Control of Unstable Bottom, or Bottom-Up Renaissance of Capitalism and Democracy?

The Guardian UK reports that the US and other militaries are preparing for major domestic disorder stimulated by climate, energy, and economic crises. NSA surveillance is part of that.  This shoring up of power-over from the top calls for our rapid development of power-with from below. Ramping up the two big Powers The report below …

Anthony Judge: Vigorous Application of Derivative Thinking to Derivative Problems [Simplification: The Most Intelligent Essay You Will Ever Read About Loss of Legitimacy]

Vigorous Application of Derivative Thinking to Derivative Problems Transcending bewailing, hand-wringing and emotional blackmail Introduction Tracing back to the source of problems as necessary due diligence? Current examples of unsourced problems Terrorism and invasive surveillance as unsourced problems Exclusivism: gerrymandering, question avoidance, denial Recognizing the pattern of entanglement Immoral authority of Abrahamic religions? Simulation of …

Owl: Is DHS Using NSA to Create a Domestic “Red List”? + DHS RECAP

This writer claims a “threat matrix” has been secretly developed in anticipation of a martial law declaration in the possibly near future. It will be for readers here to decide whether this is plausible or not, but it offers some interesting details on how the “threat score” will work that gives it some air of …