Forwarded by Marguerite Hampton. Terri Jean One of the greatest events in human rights history occurred when a man stood alone, challenging the United States government and its constitution, demanding […]
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Understanding the Accelerating Rate of Change
Reposted from the KurzweilAI Network. Originally published in Perspectives on Business Innovation. We’re entering an age of acceleration. The models underlying society at every level, which are largely based on a linear […]
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The following talk, reposted from the Life Web, was presented in May of 2000 at the Planetwork, Global Ecology and Information Technology conference held at the San Francisco Presidio. Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. […]
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The following article is another from the reading list selected by Don Steehler. Richard Effland Before the surge of field studies in the 1950s and 1960s, researchers had little appreciation for […]
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Reposted from EDGE. At the end of March, Jared Diamond was in New York to receive THE LEWIS THOMAS PRIZE Honoring the Scientist as Poet. The prize was presented to […]
Continue readingMachiavellian Realism and U.S. Policy
The following 1991 article is another from the reading list selected by Don Steehler to aid his fellow humans in understanding our present human crisis. Howard Zinn While teaching courses in […]
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Reposted from The Yellow Times. John Brand Saddam is history. Now what? Only a handful of conquerors and political leaders have stood in the place where President Bush finds himself. […]
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The Integral Institute is dedicated to the proposition that partial and piecemeal approaches to complex problems are ineffective. Whether addressing individual and personal issues of meaning and transformation, or increasingly […]
Continue readingThe Fairy Godmother is Dead!
Reposted from a March 31, 2003 “White Paper” at Simmons & Company International. Matthew R. Simmons The U.S. air waves are now filled with economic stories like: “The Dangers of High […]
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Reposted from Strike The Root. Craig Russell Chances are you have one of the most insidiously dangerous objects ever created—and one of the State’s most powerful tools of domination—in your […]
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