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Vatican, Ethics, & Truth II (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

Full Text: Note on financial reform from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace 2011-10-24 Vatican Radio Please find, below, an unofficial translation of the Note on the reform of the international financial and monetary systems in the context of global public authority, released Monday by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. ****************** Pontifical …

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Robert Steele: #OWS Non-Violence versus Violence

Occupy Wall Street is at a delicate point both in the USA and overseas.  Despite its clear commitment to non-violence, police violence in the USA–and provocateur violence in Europe–are eroding the moral legitimacy of the Occupy Wall Street. 1)  Occupy Wall Street needs to maintain discipline, and both domestically and overseas, when provocateurs begin violence, …

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Review: The Innovator’s Manifesto – Deliberate Disruption for Transformational Growth

Michael Raynor 5.0 out of 5 stars Helps Understand OccupyWallStreet–Solid 5 Misses Mark on True Cost Economics,October 13, 2011 I was given this book as a gift, and could not have–in a million years of planning–gotten a better book relevant to OccupyWallStreet (OWS) than this book. I read it this morning while my MGB was …

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Review (Guest): Confidence Men – Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Ron Suskind From Product Description: The new president surrounded himself with a team of seasoned players—like Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers, and Tim Geithner—who had served a different president in a different time. As the nation’s crises deepened, Obama’s deputies often ignored the president’s decisions—“to protect him from himself”—while they fought to seize control of a …

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Paul Fernhout: How Security Clearance Process Harms National Security by Eradicating Cognitive Diversity

This essay discusses how the USA’s security clearance process (mainly related to ensuring secrecy) may have a counter-productive negative effect on the USA’s national security by reducing “cognitive diversity” among security professionals. Background refs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_clearance#United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy Scott Page wrote an insightful book about the value of “cognitive diversity” in making effective groups, called The Difference: …

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