The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
As I have indicated in earlier blasters, I find the parallels between the political forces corrupting defense “science” and climate “science” to be stunning (e.g., directly here or more subtly here). Attached is a very thoughtful piece by the distinguished Australian scientist Garth Paltridge. His subject is the psychological state of play in the politicization of climate science, …
Rise of the Managerial Class Posted on Jun 19, 2012 By William Pfaff At a time when corporate America is exploring and exploiting its new Supreme-Court-bestowed role in the management of American election results, an earlier transformation in the composition and political role of American business leadership should be recalled. This was the replacement of the Gilded …
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The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 5 Integrity, Lies, and Panarchy Extract III All the kum-ba-ya in the world and all the micro-issue think tanks and advocacy groups are ineffective because they lack a strategic analytic model, a process for doing intelligence so as to do informed activist democracy, and a call to arms that …
The Open Source Everything Manifesto Robert David Steele Reality Sandwich, 13 June 2012 The following is excerpted from The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, & Trust published by Evolver Editions, an imprint of North Atlantic Books. The circumstances underlying this manifesto are stark and compelling: We are at the end of a five-thousand-year-plus historical process …
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From Stuck in the Game, to Liberating Public Wisdom Dear friends, What’s going on with our politics? On the one hand, we in the US are watching grotesque income inequality and extreme wealth being used to buy power and more wealth to further control our political and economic systems. On the other hand, we have …
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Chapter 3 Manifesto Extract I The circumstances underlying this manifesto are stark and compelling: We are at the end of a five-thousand-year-plus historical process during which human society grew in scale while it abandoned the early indigenous wisdom councils and communical decision-making. Power was centralized in the hands of increasingly specialized “elites” and “experts” who …
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The Rise of the New Economy Movement By Gar Alperovitz, AlterNet, 23 May 12 s our political system sputters, a wave of innovative thinking and bold experimentation is quietly sweeping away outmoded economic models. In ‘New Economic Visions’, a special five-part AlterNet series edited by Economics Editor Lynn Parramore in partnership with political economist Gar Alperovitz …
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