The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Christopher Schaefer (PhD), gives us both a short essay below recommending two books, and at the link, a five-page essay, “Mind the Gap: Wealth Disparities, the Deficit, and our Economic Future.” CREATING COMMON WEALTH Christopher Schaefer It is now clear that the present global economic crisis is also a political and moral crisis raising fundamental …
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Baruch Fischhoff and Cherie Chauvin (eds.) Insider/Academic/Psychology Overview, Avoids the Negatives,July 25, 2011 First off, this book is not being offered by Amazon but rather by third party sellers seeking to leverage public ignorance. The book is available for $70 instead of $130 at National Academies Press, where it is also available for free by …
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Thomas R. Flannagan, Kenneth C. Bausch 2011 Workbook 49 Problems, 10 Clusters, & Software,July 22, 2011 This is a very reasonably priced workbook that can also be purchased in bulk (presumably at the standard 50% discount) from the publisher, and I certainly do recommend it as a toolkit for any level–undergraduate to postgraduate to professional–discussion …
Creating a Smart Nation–and a World Brain–demands the participation of all of the people all of the time.
Here we go again…. In a Bill, Wall Street Shows Its Clout ANDREW ROSS SORKIN New York Times Deal Book, 4 July 2011 Wall Street often tries to play down its influence in Washington. As Congress pushed through financial regulations that seemed to get watered down last year, Wall Street’s chief executives tried to suggest, …
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Dear Friends and Colleagues, George Soros wrote the introduction to Chuck Sudetic’s new book The Philanthropy of George Soros. An excerpt was published in the most recent issue of The New York Review of Books I’ve also included the text below. All best, Michael Vachon Phi Beta Iota: Emphasis added below the line. This is …
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Doing the Right Thing for IC and DoD Dr. Russell Ackoff (P) The President wants $400B shaved off security over 12 years. The DNI thinks he is excluded from that number. Possibly, but that’s only because the President hasn’t yet come up with a similar number for intelligence. $80B for all intelligence is too much, …
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