Without explicitly saying so, Porter has provided us a case study on how the entire strategic decision process has folded inward on itself, and in so doing, has disconnected the flow of decisions from the unfolding reality. But there is more. Porter describes how that disconnect has flowed out of the White House, the CIA, and Pentagon into the Orientation of the think tanks and the mass media, and by implication, into the collective mind of the population at large.
Showing posts with label military UAVs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label military UAVs. Show all posts
Monday, August 20, 2012
Chuck Spinney on UAVs
How Drones Destroy Their Own OODA Loops by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY
Friday, June 08, 2012
Items of Interest, 8 June 2012
Ron Paul and the Sex Selection Abortion Ban
The New Liberal Apocalypse by Jordan Bloom
Landrieu: The King of The Mystically Imbecilic Krewe of Tacchzuss
The Detached Vision By MICHAEL OAKESHOTT
The Confederate Colonel: Michael Hill, Egalitarian Democracy, the Universal Wolf
The Amendment that Destroyed America
What’s Behind the HHS Mandate? by Gerard V. Bradley
Former president of APA says organization controlled by ‘gay rights’ movement
17-year-old tells world leaders to step up, give her a future by Greg Hanscom
Christopher Dawson on Liberalism, Part III by Brad Birzer, TIC Co-editor
Anthony Esolen, Liberality, The Fifth Lively Virtue
Flannery O'Connor: The Story of a Southern Soul
Kirk Center: Summer 2012 Reading
Memo From Middle America | DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES’ Eva Longoria And The Failure Of Mexican Assimilation
Daniel McCarthy, From the Nation State to the New Church
Gamesmanship for a New Dark Age
Statism Means Culture War By ROBERT P. MURPHY
From gay marriage to education, state intervention pits citizen against citizen.
The American Empire:
Daniel McCarthy, Preparing for a Post-Imperial Future
Inside America’s Controversial Commando Conference
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Drones
Blowback and the Consequences of Obama's Foreign Policies
The Army’s Flawed Resilience-Training Study by STEPHEN SOLDZ and ROY EIDELSON
Islam:
Robin Hood, King Arthur, Muhammad by Howard Kainz
Agrarianism and Relocalization:
Cultivating Freedom By LEWIS MCCRARY (a feature on Joel Salatin)
A report on the truth of food deserts (pdf)
Small-Scale Slaughterhouses Aim To Put The 'Local' Back In Local Meat
A Review of the Localization Reader
Environmentalism:
Orion Magazine: Wendell Berry, Tim DeChristopher, and Teri Blanton discuss principled activism, April 15, 2011 (mp3)
Loaded Words BY DERRICK JENSEN
Writing as a combat discipline
The Human Costs of Fracking
An 80-Year License to Kill? by KARL GROSSMAN (nuclear power)
Catholic:
The Teen Porn Epidemic and What to Do About It
Why Isn’t Pornography Beautiful? by Mattias Caro
Fr. Z, My idea of concelebration
A little too traditionalist? I think Bouyer (and the Christian East) certainly would disagree with the multiplicity of private Masses, rather than a communal Mass, though not all priests present would be obliged to concelebrate. They could fill other clerical roles.
They show us what to be living for by Archbishop Jose Gomez
The reality is hard to believe
(on the Cristeros)
Why it's okay to be against heresy and for imposing one's will on others by Father Robert Barron
Liturgical Developments for the Anglican Ordinariate
Orthodox:
The True Self and the Story of Me
Metropolitan Kallistos of Diocleia on the Economic Crisis
Feminism:
Jack Donovan, Paycheck Fairness, “Legibility,” and a Recipe for Failure
The Problem With Patriarchy
Diet and Health:
Barefoot Running: Paleo-Fact Or Paleo-Fad?
The Real Deal on Adrenal Fatigue – Guest post on RobbWolf.com
Free the Animal: Paleos & Primals: YOU are the Key, not Disney or Michelle Obama
Tip 364: Train Like Your Ancestors: Tips to Achieve Optimal Health and Body Composition
Government not punishing individuals who choose to imbibe soda or compelling dietary decisions, just banning the product because it is unhealthy or dangerous. OK or not?
What Is Food? By MARK BITTMAN
Dating:
Final Exam – Navigating the SMP
Theology of Game
History:
‘De novo modo’: The birth of fashion in the Middle Ages
Misc:
What Duvet Said – The Tank (Crazy About You Cha Cha)
http://www.roguetwo.com/what-duvet-said-the-tank-crazy-about-you-cha-cha/
http://www.whatduvetsaid.com/audio/wds060712.mp3
Mevio
Tim Kennedy | I Want To Quit Fighting And Go Back To War
Tim Kennedy performs "Part of Me" by Katy Perry
The New Liberal Apocalypse by Jordan Bloom
Landrieu: The King of The Mystically Imbecilic Krewe of Tacchzuss
The Detached Vision By MICHAEL OAKESHOTT
The Confederate Colonel: Michael Hill, Egalitarian Democracy, the Universal Wolf
The Amendment that Destroyed America
What’s Behind the HHS Mandate? by Gerard V. Bradley
Former president of APA says organization controlled by ‘gay rights’ movement
17-year-old tells world leaders to step up, give her a future by Greg Hanscom
Christopher Dawson on Liberalism, Part III by Brad Birzer, TIC Co-editor
Anthony Esolen, Liberality, The Fifth Lively Virtue
Flannery O'Connor: The Story of a Southern Soul
Kirk Center: Summer 2012 Reading
Memo From Middle America | DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES’ Eva Longoria And The Failure Of Mexican Assimilation
Daniel McCarthy, From the Nation State to the New Church
Gamesmanship for a New Dark Age
Statism Means Culture War By ROBERT P. MURPHY
From gay marriage to education, state intervention pits citizen against citizen.
The American Empire:
Daniel McCarthy, Preparing for a Post-Imperial Future
Inside America’s Controversial Commando Conference
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Drones
Blowback and the Consequences of Obama's Foreign Policies
The Army’s Flawed Resilience-Training Study by STEPHEN SOLDZ and ROY EIDELSON
Islam:
Robin Hood, King Arthur, Muhammad by Howard Kainz
Agrarianism and Relocalization:
Cultivating Freedom By LEWIS MCCRARY (a feature on Joel Salatin)
A report on the truth of food deserts (pdf)
Small-Scale Slaughterhouses Aim To Put The 'Local' Back In Local Meat
A Review of the Localization Reader
Environmentalism:
Orion Magazine: Wendell Berry, Tim DeChristopher, and Teri Blanton discuss principled activism, April 15, 2011 (mp3)
Loaded Words BY DERRICK JENSEN
Writing as a combat discipline
The Human Costs of Fracking
An 80-Year License to Kill? by KARL GROSSMAN (nuclear power)
Catholic:
The Teen Porn Epidemic and What to Do About It
Why Isn’t Pornography Beautiful? by Mattias Caro
Fr. Z, My idea of concelebration
A little too traditionalist? I think Bouyer (and the Christian East) certainly would disagree with the multiplicity of private Masses, rather than a communal Mass, though not all priests present would be obliged to concelebrate. They could fill other clerical roles.
They show us what to be living for by Archbishop Jose Gomez
The reality is hard to believe
(on the Cristeros)
Why it's okay to be against heresy and for imposing one's will on others by Father Robert Barron
Liturgical Developments for the Anglican Ordinariate
Orthodox:
The True Self and the Story of Me
Metropolitan Kallistos of Diocleia on the Economic Crisis
Feminism:
Jack Donovan, Paycheck Fairness, “Legibility,” and a Recipe for Failure
The Problem With Patriarchy
Diet and Health:
Barefoot Running: Paleo-Fact Or Paleo-Fad?
The Real Deal on Adrenal Fatigue – Guest post on RobbWolf.com
Free the Animal: Paleos & Primals: YOU are the Key, not Disney or Michelle Obama
Tip 364: Train Like Your Ancestors: Tips to Achieve Optimal Health and Body Composition
Government not punishing individuals who choose to imbibe soda or compelling dietary decisions, just banning the product because it is unhealthy or dangerous. OK or not?
What Is Food? By MARK BITTMAN
Dating:
Final Exam – Navigating the SMP
Theology of Game
History:
‘De novo modo’: The birth of fashion in the Middle Ages
Misc:
What Duvet Said – The Tank (Crazy About You Cha Cha)
http://www.roguetwo.com/what-duvet-said-the-tank-crazy-about-you-cha-cha/
http://www.whatduvetsaid.com/audio/wds060712.mp3
Mevio
Tim Kennedy | I Want To Quit Fighting And Go Back To War
Tim Kennedy performs "Part of Me" by Katy Perry
Sunday, May 06, 2012
Items of Interest, 6 May 2012
Stephen M. Walt, What if realists were in charge of U.S. foreign policy?
John Lukacs, What is Happening to History
Pakistan: US Needs to Find ‘Alternative’ to Drone Strikes
David S. D'Amato, The Source of Structural Inequality
Artisanal pride: On Loving Japan
The Kind of Man Modernity Can Afford
Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore
by Peter L. Berger.
Peak Oil and Energy:
The oil industry's deceitful promise of American energy independence by Kurt Cobb (EB)
Feminism:
Women Policing Hierarchy
The "Who's Your Daddy?" Party: Ross Douthat, The Party of Julia
Orthodox:
Hamatoura عذراء يا أم الإله
Romeiko Ensemble
Diet and Health:
Welcome to Our New MovNat International Instructor, Joseph Bartz
Contra Dance:
Sacramento
From April 28:
Yes, the location of the dance may be wanting, but couldn't some of the participants dressed up more for the occasion?
More PC stupidity at the Pentagon: SEALs Working Towards Improving Team Diversity
John Lukacs, What is Happening to History
Pakistan: US Needs to Find ‘Alternative’ to Drone Strikes
David S. D'Amato, The Source of Structural Inequality
Artisanal pride: On Loving Japan
The Kind of Man Modernity Can Afford
Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore
by Peter L. Berger.
Peak Oil and Energy:
The oil industry's deceitful promise of American energy independence by Kurt Cobb (EB)
Feminism:
Women Policing Hierarchy
The "Who's Your Daddy?" Party: Ross Douthat, The Party of Julia
Orthodox:
Hamatoura عذراء يا أم الإله
Romeiko Ensemble
Diet and Health:
Welcome to Our New MovNat International Instructor, Joseph Bartz
Contra Dance:
Sacramento
From April 28:
Yes, the location of the dance may be wanting, but couldn't some of the participants dressed up more for the occasion?
More PC stupidity at the Pentagon: SEALs Working Towards Improving Team Diversity
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Items of Interest, 1 May 2012
Gianna Jessen Abortion Survivor in Australia (full)
Balancing the Universal and the Particular in American History
by Bradley J. Birzer, TIC Co-editor
White House: Drone Strikes Ethical and Legal
U.S. Doesn't Need To Know A Person's Name to Kill Him in a Drone Strike
Socratic and Secular Irony
A review of A Case for Irony by Jonathan Lear.
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, American Dystopia, Fiction or Reality?
America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part II
by James Gustave Speth
This is fine as far as it goes, but it is a leftist communitarian vision and incomplete, as a result. It is missing that aspect of the natural law which pertains to family and community formation, and everything ordered to it (such as sexual morality).
Rod Dreher, What Can I Know? Should I Know?
Former CIA Official Seeking to Confirm Efficacy of Torture Does The Opposite
Hrm... May Day March for Dignity and Resistance—Press Release
Open House at Tara Firma Farms, Saturday, May 5, 1-5 P.M.
Economics:
The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
Relocalization:
Lights Out for the Territory by Charlotte Du Cann (EB)
Rob Hopkins: My TEDxExeter talk: ‘My town in Transition’
Erik Curren, Today, I’m running for city council
Catholic:
A Traditional Western Icon - From the Rheinau Psalter
Statement on China Commission Meeting
Laity "are called to participate with apostolic zeal in the evangelization of the Chinese people"
Al Mohler's Interview of Ross Douthat
Charity is not an emotion. Is the "ethics of care" dominated by compassion and emotion? And can compassion replace the order of charity? I find the study to be junk designed to make the less or non-religious look better than their "religious" peers.
Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than are non-believers
EWTN interview on Fr. Joseph's Cause of Canonization
On Wednesday May 2, at 8 p.m. Eastern time, EWTN will broadcast a one-hour interview about Fr. Joseph Muzquiz, a priest of Opus Dei whose cause of canonization has begun in Boston.
Cistercian Spirituality and Emergence of the Coronation of the Virgin in the Late Middle Ages
Feminism:
Financial Return Of Medical Degree Negative For Women?
Kay Hymnowitz on Morning Joe, discussing the supposed "pay gap"
Diet and Health:
Quantum Nutrition Series: Is there a perfect diet?
What is Paleo?
MDA: Why Don't We Walk Anymore
Forgot the video from Mark Sisson's Primal Resource Guide:
Robb Wolf: Strength Training for BJJ – Episode 130 (mp3)
Fewer carbs short-term gets rid of liver fat
A healthy gut is the hidden key to weight loss
Robert Lustig: The Skinny on Obesity (Ep. 3): Hunger and Hormones- A Vicious Cycle
The Physical Challenge
History:
‘He contents the people wherever he goes’ Richard III: His Parliament and Government
The Participation of Women in the Anglo-Saxon World: Judith and The Wife’s Lament
Women’s Rights in Early England
From Other Worldly to Worldly: Materialism, Anomie, and the Decline of Catharism’s Charismatic Appeal
'The inordinate excess in apparel’: Sumptuary Legislation in Tudor England
In the Wake of the Treaty of Windsor: A Tale of Two Ladies
Rare Footage of Civil War Veterans Doing the Rebel Yell
Music:
Bill Monroe's Mandolin
11th Annual Independent Music Awards
A Spotlight On William Christie by Laura Osterlund
TV:
There's A New Sheriff In Town: 'Longmire'
NYC 22: How Long Before It’s Cancelled?
Park Min Young Reveals Photo from Set of "Dr. Jin"
Is the Japanese drama Jin (DramaWiki) based on the same source material? Seems like it. The Japanese drama was too fantastical, though subtitles would have helped my comprehension more; more thoughts on it here.
Misc:
Mel Gibson Calls Joe Eszterhas’ Anti-Semitic Accusations ‘Utter Fabrications’
Something with Tim Ferris: Japan: Fun in Tokyo & Kyoto
Legion Firearms LF-15d
Balancing the Universal and the Particular in American History
by Bradley J. Birzer, TIC Co-editor
White House: Drone Strikes Ethical and Legal
U.S. Doesn't Need To Know A Person's Name to Kill Him in a Drone Strike
Socratic and Secular Irony
A review of A Case for Irony by Jonathan Lear.
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, American Dystopia, Fiction or Reality?
America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part II
by James Gustave Speth
This is fine as far as it goes, but it is a leftist communitarian vision and incomplete, as a result. It is missing that aspect of the natural law which pertains to family and community formation, and everything ordered to it (such as sexual morality).
Rod Dreher, What Can I Know? Should I Know?
Former CIA Official Seeking to Confirm Efficacy of Torture Does The Opposite
Hrm... May Day March for Dignity and Resistance—Press Release
Open House at Tara Firma Farms, Saturday, May 5, 1-5 P.M.
Economics:
The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
Relocalization:
Lights Out for the Territory by Charlotte Du Cann (EB)
Rob Hopkins: My TEDxExeter talk: ‘My town in Transition’
Erik Curren, Today, I’m running for city council
Catholic:
A Traditional Western Icon - From the Rheinau Psalter
Statement on China Commission Meeting
Laity "are called to participate with apostolic zeal in the evangelization of the Chinese people"
Al Mohler's Interview of Ross Douthat
Charity is not an emotion. Is the "ethics of care" dominated by compassion and emotion? And can compassion replace the order of charity? I find the study to be junk designed to make the less or non-religious look better than their "religious" peers.
Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than are non-believers
EWTN interview on Fr. Joseph's Cause of Canonization
On Wednesday May 2, at 8 p.m. Eastern time, EWTN will broadcast a one-hour interview about Fr. Joseph Muzquiz, a priest of Opus Dei whose cause of canonization has begun in Boston.
Cistercian Spirituality and Emergence of the Coronation of the Virgin in the Late Middle Ages
Feminism:
Financial Return Of Medical Degree Negative For Women?
Kay Hymnowitz on Morning Joe, discussing the supposed "pay gap"
Diet and Health:
Quantum Nutrition Series: Is there a perfect diet?
What is Paleo?
MDA: Why Don't We Walk Anymore
Forgot the video from Mark Sisson's Primal Resource Guide:
Robb Wolf: Strength Training for BJJ – Episode 130 (mp3)
Fewer carbs short-term gets rid of liver fat
A healthy gut is the hidden key to weight loss
Robert Lustig: The Skinny on Obesity (Ep. 3): Hunger and Hormones- A Vicious Cycle
The Physical Challenge
History:
‘He contents the people wherever he goes’ Richard III: His Parliament and Government
The Participation of Women in the Anglo-Saxon World: Judith and The Wife’s Lament
Women’s Rights in Early England
From Other Worldly to Worldly: Materialism, Anomie, and the Decline of Catharism’s Charismatic Appeal
'The inordinate excess in apparel’: Sumptuary Legislation in Tudor England
In the Wake of the Treaty of Windsor: A Tale of Two Ladies
Rare Footage of Civil War Veterans Doing the Rebel Yell
Music:
Bill Monroe's Mandolin
11th Annual Independent Music Awards
A Spotlight On William Christie by Laura Osterlund
TV:
There's A New Sheriff In Town: 'Longmire'
NYC 22: How Long Before It’s Cancelled?
Park Min Young Reveals Photo from Set of "Dr. Jin"
Is the Japanese drama Jin (DramaWiki) based on the same source material? Seems like it. The Japanese drama was too fantastical, though subtitles would have helped my comprehension more; more thoughts on it here.
Misc:
Mel Gibson Calls Joe Eszterhas’ Anti-Semitic Accusations ‘Utter Fabrications’
Something with Tim Ferris: Japan: Fun in Tokyo & Kyoto
Legion Firearms LF-15d
Friday, April 27, 2012
Items of Interest, 27 April 2012
Patrick Buchanan on Uncommon Knowledge
National Review TV: The U.S. & the World with Patrick J. Buchanan: Chapter 5 of 5 (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4)
Jordan Bloom, Paul Ryan, Thomas Reese and Anti-Subsidiarity
Paul Gottfried, Human Rights, the Useless Fiction
Rod Dreher, How Boomers Ruined Education
Only One Way to End the Indecencies of War
How Highbrows Killed Culture
Insanity: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote
Cybersecurity Bill CISPA Broadened Then Passed Through House
As California Collapses, Obama Follows Its Lead
Ross Douthat, Bad Religion: A Response
The Game of Drones
Recognizing Heroes by RALPH NADER
Joel Salatin:
Video of him at Tara Firma Farms
Slideshow: Feeding the Future
Economics:
Economics Can't Explain Everything
Love and money; Why Chrisitianity is incompatible with capitalism
Relocalization:
Fence Post Economics
Festival of Transition
The Hidden Power of Co-Ops (EB)
Sustainability:
Debunking the Myth that Only Industrial Agriculture Can Feed the World
Energy:
DAVE LINDORFF, Relax, It’s Just a Run-of-the-Mill Nuke Spill
Private Empire, Steve Coll's Book on Exxon-Mobil
(The Dark Side)
Can Renewable Energy Sustain Consumer Societies
Breaking Point: The End Of The Cheap Energy Economy
VIDEO: CROSSOVER WITH RICHARD HEINBERG: END OF CHEAP ENERGY ERA
Is the Chinese government already planning for a postcarbon future? Many, including Chris Martenson, seem to think that it is ahead of the US in this respect, even if its transition could be better.
Catholic:
A Perfectly Imperfect Vocation Story: Sr. Juliana Schmitt, O.Cist. (’86)
Guillaume de Machaut’s “Messe de Nostre Dame” in the context of fourteenth-century polyphonic music for the Mass Ordinary
Education:
Thomas Storck, Think Different: A New Model for University Administration
Diet and Health:
How Vegetable Oils Replaced Animal Fats in the American Diet
ERWAN LE CORRE: THE 10 MOVNAT PRINCIPLES
Latest in Paleo 56: Who You Gonna Trust? (mp3)
LCC (Episode 47): Dr. Joe Leonardi And Tara Grant Dig Into The Disconnect Between Medical Care And Chronic Disease (mp3)
Islam:
Islam's Origins: Where Mystery Meets History
Music:
I Shall Be Released - Up On Cripple Creek (tribute to Levon Helm)
Punch Brothers: Sophisticated Strings
Allegri: Motets, Miserere, Missa In lectulo meo & Missa Christus resurgens
Choir of Kings College London, David Trendell
Bourne Vivaldi (Bourne Soundtrack/Vivaldi Double Cello Concerto) - ThePianoGuys
National Review TV: The U.S. & the World with Patrick J. Buchanan: Chapter 5 of 5 (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4)
Jordan Bloom, Paul Ryan, Thomas Reese and Anti-Subsidiarity
Paul Gottfried, Human Rights, the Useless Fiction
Rod Dreher, How Boomers Ruined Education
Only One Way to End the Indecencies of War
How Highbrows Killed Culture
Insanity: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote
Cybersecurity Bill CISPA Broadened Then Passed Through House
As California Collapses, Obama Follows Its Lead
Ross Douthat, Bad Religion: A Response
The Game of Drones
Recognizing Heroes by RALPH NADER
Joel Salatin:
Video of him at Tara Firma Farms
Slideshow: Feeding the Future
Economics:
Economics Can't Explain Everything
Love and money; Why Chrisitianity is incompatible with capitalism
Relocalization:
Fence Post Economics
Festival of Transition
The Hidden Power of Co-Ops (EB)
Sustainability:
Debunking the Myth that Only Industrial Agriculture Can Feed the World
Energy:
DAVE LINDORFF, Relax, It’s Just a Run-of-the-Mill Nuke Spill
Private Empire, Steve Coll's Book on Exxon-Mobil
(The Dark Side)
Can Renewable Energy Sustain Consumer Societies
Breaking Point: The End Of The Cheap Energy Economy
VIDEO: CROSSOVER WITH RICHARD HEINBERG: END OF CHEAP ENERGY ERA
Is the Chinese government already planning for a postcarbon future? Many, including Chris Martenson, seem to think that it is ahead of the US in this respect, even if its transition could be better.
Catholic:
A Perfectly Imperfect Vocation Story: Sr. Juliana Schmitt, O.Cist. (’86)
Guillaume de Machaut’s “Messe de Nostre Dame” in the context of fourteenth-century polyphonic music for the Mass Ordinary
Education:
Thomas Storck, Think Different: A New Model for University Administration
Diet and Health:
How Vegetable Oils Replaced Animal Fats in the American Diet
ERWAN LE CORRE: THE 10 MOVNAT PRINCIPLES
Latest in Paleo 56: Who You Gonna Trust? (mp3)
LCC (Episode 47): Dr. Joe Leonardi And Tara Grant Dig Into The Disconnect Between Medical Care And Chronic Disease (mp3)
Islam:
Islam's Origins: Where Mystery Meets History
Music:
I Shall Be Released - Up On Cripple Creek (tribute to Levon Helm)
Punch Brothers: Sophisticated Strings
Allegri: Motets, Miserere, Missa In lectulo meo & Missa Christus resurgens
Choir of Kings College London, David Trendell
Bourne Vivaldi (Bourne Soundtrack/Vivaldi Double Cello Concerto) - ThePianoGuys
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Items of Interest, 17 April 2012
Thomas Fleming, The Decline of the American Empire
Christopher Blum, Man, Proud Man (A review of Domenico Losurdo's Liberalism: A Counter-History)
Mike Church, Restoring Republicanism as the Proper Form of American Governance
Bar Refaeli Unloads on Handsy Airport Screener -- You MUST Be a Lesbian
'Heretics': The Crisis Of American Christianity
Ross Douthat's Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
(Religion News, Christianity Today)
He'll be on C-Span.
Joel Salatin on Life: Participate Viscerally
Joel Salatin responds to New York Times’ ‘Myth of Sustainable Meat’
Jailing Americans for Profit: The Rise of the Prison Industrial Complex
Health Care in the Age of Decline
PJB, Bibi's Dilemma -- and Barack's
First Solar's Loan Guarantees: Money Laundering For Obama Cronies
The Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret
Kelley Vlahos, Forget Katniss, We Need Montag
Daniel Larison, Would Romney’s Foreign Policy Be Significantly Different?
The Passion of Cesar Chavez
Economics:
Commentary: The world is finite, isn't it? by Tadeusz Patzek (EB)
The Trouble with Money by Chris Martenson
Relocalization:
Small scale farmers organise the International Peasant Day of Struggle
Getting Our Land Back (EB)
How we can bring the world out of the mess in which it finds itself by Tuhi-Ao Bailey (EB)
Limits to Growth – of stuff, value, and GDP by Brian Czech (EB)
David Holmgren: The reverse of globalization by Karen Rybold-Chin (EB)
Clothesline art, laundry activism, cash savings by Lindsay Curren (EB)
Connecting with community through storytelling by Mary Logan (EB)
Storytellers like Robert M. Peters...
Education:
Patrick Deneen, Against Great Books
Sophia Institute Press Becomes Publishing Division of Two Leading Catholic Colleges
It's the first I've heard of Holy Spirit College; I knew Sophia Institute Press had joined with Thomas More last year.
Catholic:
A Guy's Take on Modesty--From a Beach Trip
Father Spitzer: Modern-day Renaissance man
Recognition finally for a warrior priest's heroics
Epiclesis in Eucharistic Prayer I
NLM: The Resurrection in Medieval Art
Gregorios Stathis Byzantine Church Music
Orthodox:
Paschal Encyclical of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew 2012
Paschal Message of His Holiness KIRILL Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
В діаспорі святкували український Великдень (Відео)
Feminism and Courtship/Misandry:
The Curse of Cohabitation
Shacking Up vs. Tying the Knot
The Pay Gap is a Lie
Feminism in Academic History?
Deviant Women in Courtly and Popular Medieval Castilian Poetry
‘Stronger than men and braver than knights’: women and the pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Rome in the later middle ages
Diet and Health
MDA: Why Fast? Part 6: Choosing a Method
Music:
Carolina Chocolate Drops "Lights In The Valley"
Anonymous 4: Celebrating 25 Years of Championing Music
Performing at Stanford tomorrow.
Kickstarter: The Porchligh Sessions (documentary) - FB
US Army:
Army tightens rules on hair, tattoos, makeup
MACP 12APR2012 PART 1
Part 2
Misc:
How to Look Like You're Special Forces
Your Mancave Needs More Beard
Christopher Blum, Man, Proud Man (A review of Domenico Losurdo's Liberalism: A Counter-History)
Mike Church, Restoring Republicanism as the Proper Form of American Governance
Bar Refaeli Unloads on Handsy Airport Screener -- You MUST Be a Lesbian
'Heretics': The Crisis Of American Christianity
Ross Douthat's Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
(Religion News, Christianity Today)
He'll be on C-Span.
Joel Salatin on Life: Participate Viscerally
Joel Salatin responds to New York Times’ ‘Myth of Sustainable Meat’
Jailing Americans for Profit: The Rise of the Prison Industrial Complex
Health Care in the Age of Decline
PJB, Bibi's Dilemma -- and Barack's
First Solar's Loan Guarantees: Money Laundering For Obama Cronies
The Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret
Kelley Vlahos, Forget Katniss, We Need Montag
Daniel Larison, Would Romney’s Foreign Policy Be Significantly Different?
The Passion of Cesar Chavez
Economics:
Commentary: The world is finite, isn't it? by Tadeusz Patzek (EB)
The Trouble with Money by Chris Martenson
Relocalization:
Small scale farmers organise the International Peasant Day of Struggle
Getting Our Land Back (EB)
How we can bring the world out of the mess in which it finds itself by Tuhi-Ao Bailey (EB)
Limits to Growth – of stuff, value, and GDP by Brian Czech (EB)
David Holmgren: The reverse of globalization by Karen Rybold-Chin (EB)
Clothesline art, laundry activism, cash savings by Lindsay Curren (EB)
Connecting with community through storytelling by Mary Logan (EB)
Storytellers like Robert M. Peters...
Education:
Patrick Deneen, Against Great Books
Sophia Institute Press Becomes Publishing Division of Two Leading Catholic Colleges
It's the first I've heard of Holy Spirit College; I knew Sophia Institute Press had joined with Thomas More last year.
Catholic:
A Guy's Take on Modesty--From a Beach Trip
Father Spitzer: Modern-day Renaissance man
Recognition finally for a warrior priest's heroics
Epiclesis in Eucharistic Prayer I
NLM: The Resurrection in Medieval Art
Gregorios Stathis Byzantine Church Music
Orthodox:
Paschal Encyclical of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew 2012
Paschal Message of His Holiness KIRILL Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
В діаспорі святкували український Великдень (Відео)
Feminism and Courtship/Misandry:
The Curse of Cohabitation
Shacking Up vs. Tying the Knot
The Pay Gap is a Lie
Feminism in Academic History?
Deviant Women in Courtly and Popular Medieval Castilian Poetry
‘Stronger than men and braver than knights’: women and the pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Rome in the later middle ages
Diet and Health
MDA: Why Fast? Part 6: Choosing a Method
Music:
Carolina Chocolate Drops "Lights In The Valley"
Anonymous 4: Celebrating 25 Years of Championing Music
Performing at Stanford tomorrow.
Kickstarter: The Porchligh Sessions (documentary) - FB
US Army:
Army tightens rules on hair, tattoos, makeup
MACP 12APR2012 PART 1
Part 2
Misc:
How to Look Like You're Special Forces
Your Mancave Needs More Beard
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Items of Interest, 17 January 2012
John Zmirak, Ron Paul and Pius IX
The Crash-and-Burn Future of Robot Warfare
Is the United States Still the Land of the Free
Economics:
The Problem With Citizens United Is Not Corporate Personhood
Dave Pollard, Gangsters and Bankster (EB)
Transition Voice: What’s really in and out for 2012
Janelle Orsi: Sharing Economy (EB)
Farming:
How farms are using permaculture design to survive and prosper
Jason Bradford, One acre feeds a person (EB)
Your Prius Won’t Save You: Questions for David Owen, Author of The Conundrum
Counterpunch:
GARETH PORTER AND JIM LOBE, Obama Delays U.S.-Israeli War Exercise
THOMAS H. NAYLOR, The End of Something
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, America’s Last Chance
PATRICK COCKBURN, The Newsfakers
Diet and Health:
Cherries for Gout and Arthritis
The LLVLC Show (Episode 533): ‘Minding Your Mitochondria’ TEDx Viral YouTube Sensation Dr. Terry Wahls (mp3)
Low Carb Mistakes
Music:
BBC3: Daniel Hope, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Julian Marshall (expires in 7 days)
2012 SHOT Show - Media Day at the Range
Paul Howe: Advanced Tac Pistol/Rifle Operator
The Crash-and-Burn Future of Robot Warfare
Is the United States Still the Land of the Free
Economics:
The Problem With Citizens United Is Not Corporate Personhood
Dave Pollard, Gangsters and Bankster (EB)
Transition Voice: What’s really in and out for 2012
Janelle Orsi: Sharing Economy (EB)
Farming:
How farms are using permaculture design to survive and prosper
Jason Bradford, One acre feeds a person (EB)
Your Prius Won’t Save You: Questions for David Owen, Author of The Conundrum
Counterpunch:
GARETH PORTER AND JIM LOBE, Obama Delays U.S.-Israeli War Exercise
THOMAS H. NAYLOR, The End of Something
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, America’s Last Chance
PATRICK COCKBURN, The Newsfakers
Diet and Health:
Cherries for Gout and Arthritis
The LLVLC Show (Episode 533): ‘Minding Your Mitochondria’ TEDx Viral YouTube Sensation Dr. Terry Wahls (mp3)
Low Carb Mistakes
Music:
BBC3: Daniel Hope, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Julian Marshall (expires in 7 days)
2012 SHOT Show - Media Day at the Range
Paul Howe: Advanced Tac Pistol/Rifle Operator
Friday, December 23, 2011
Items of Interews, 23 December 2011
Three Myths about the Detention Bill
If America is a Battleground, Nobody Has Any Rights
“Lawfare” – using the law to undermine the Constitution (a powerful tool in the quiet coup now in progress)
PATRICK COCKBURN, Iraq Trembles Amid Renewed Sectarian Violence
PJB, War with Iran? Make Congress Vote on It
John Robb, The Future of Drone Warfare
Economics:
Rob Hopkins, Can We Manage Without Growth, An Interview with Peter Victor Part Two
The power of sovereign economics: myth vs reality
Energy:
Occupying science: technology for the 99 percent by Erik Curren (EB)
The peak oil crisis: 2012 – apocalypse now? by Tom Whipple (EB)
John Michael Greer, Tweedledoom and Tweedledee
Farming:
Wes Jackson: A perennial revolution in agriculture by Ken Meter (EB)
Relocalization and the Simple Life:
Lindsay Curren, When down is up: Review of “The Power of Community”
Shannon Hayes, Reclaiming Christmas, Radical Homemaker-Style
Catholic:
Dom Alcuin Reid on Praying the Christmas Liturgy
Dominican Chant for Matthew's Genealogy of Jesus Christ
Tea at Trianon, New Book About Philip of Spain
Heavenly Music From Hildegard Of Bingen, A Soon-To-Be Actual Saint
St. Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor, and the Second Apostle of Germany
Marianne Cope and ‘Lily of the Mohawks’ to be canonised
Pope Benedict XVI advances Causes of 20 men and women and recognises 64 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War
History:
Hong Kong's unwanted Christmas present By Ronan Thomas
If America is a Battleground, Nobody Has Any Rights
“Lawfare” – using the law to undermine the Constitution (a powerful tool in the quiet coup now in progress)
PATRICK COCKBURN, Iraq Trembles Amid Renewed Sectarian Violence
PJB, War with Iran? Make Congress Vote on It
John Robb, The Future of Drone Warfare
Economics:
Rob Hopkins, Can We Manage Without Growth, An Interview with Peter Victor Part Two
The power of sovereign economics: myth vs reality
Energy:
Occupying science: technology for the 99 percent by Erik Curren (EB)
The peak oil crisis: 2012 – apocalypse now? by Tom Whipple (EB)
John Michael Greer, Tweedledoom and Tweedledee
Farming:
Wes Jackson: A perennial revolution in agriculture by Ken Meter (EB)
Relocalization and the Simple Life:
Lindsay Curren, When down is up: Review of “The Power of Community”
Shannon Hayes, Reclaiming Christmas, Radical Homemaker-Style
Catholic:
Dom Alcuin Reid on Praying the Christmas Liturgy
Dominican Chant for Matthew's Genealogy of Jesus Christ
Tea at Trianon, New Book About Philip of Spain
Heavenly Music From Hildegard Of Bingen, A Soon-To-Be Actual Saint
St. Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor, and the Second Apostle of Germany
Marianne Cope and ‘Lily of the Mohawks’ to be canonised
Pope Benedict XVI advances Causes of 20 men and women and recognises 64 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War
History:
Hong Kong's unwanted Christmas present By Ronan Thomas
Friday, September 30, 2011
Items of Interest, 30 September 2011
Should America halt the use of unmanned 'killer' drones? Yes
Winslow T. Wheeler, The Elites and the Pentagon Budget
Kevin Carson discusses an emerging low-overhead industrial revolution (mp3)
Peak Oil:
5% health: The risk of catabolic collapse and peak fat in modern health systems
by John Thackara (EB)
Not all leftists accept peak oil: Alexander Cockburn, Goodbye “Peak Oil” Hello Glut. He writes:
The Coming Decline and Fall of Big Coal
The Oz Conservative links to commentary on the decision by the Australian government to open combat positions to women: Sheridan's surprise.
Music:
Hitfix: Listen: Susan Boyle sings sparse version of Depeche Mode's 'Enjoy the Silence'
Feist: A Pop Star With A Punk-Rock Past
TV:
Want Good TV? Try These Three Shows by David Bianculli (Dexter and Homeland and Ken Burns's latest)
Winslow T. Wheeler, The Elites and the Pentagon Budget
Kevin Carson discusses an emerging low-overhead industrial revolution (mp3)
Peak Oil:
5% health: The risk of catabolic collapse and peak fat in modern health systems
by John Thackara (EB)
Not all leftists accept peak oil: Alexander Cockburn, Goodbye “Peak Oil” Hello Glut. He writes:
I’ve never had much time for “peak oil” (the notion held with religious conviction by many on the left here, that world oil production either has or is about to top out – and will soon slide, plunging the world’s energy economies into disarray and traumatic change.) In fact there’s plenty of oil, as witness the vast new North Dakota oil shale fields, with the constraints as always being the costs of recovery. Oil “shortages” are contrivances by the oil companies and allied brokers and middlemen to run up the price.
Except that taken too far, would this not result in even greater demand destruction, which would result in less extraction of oil from expensive sources? I don't know if anyone will be responding to Mr. Cockburn.
The Coming Decline and Fall of Big Coal
The Oz Conservative links to commentary on the decision by the Australian government to open combat positions to women: Sheridan's surprise.
Music:
Hitfix: Listen: Susan Boyle sings sparse version of Depeche Mode's 'Enjoy the Silence'
Feist: A Pop Star With A Punk-Rock Past
TV:
Want Good TV? Try These Three Shows by David Bianculli (Dexter and Homeland and Ken Burns's latest)
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Two articles in Asia Times on military drones
The age of the Reaper
For the MQ-9 Reaper drone that struts its stuff equipped with Hellfire missiles and rains death from above, the sky, literally, is the limit. It's expanding its footprint from AfPak to the whole of East Africa up to the Gulf of Aden. The Reaper, though, can also wear a business suit and incorporate the persona of the president of the United States. - Pepe Escobar (Sep 22, '11)
New bases extend US's drone war
The United States is expanding its network of bases to carry out drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Yemen and Somalia. The "constellation" will include a secret new Central Intelligence Agency facility that the US announced this year would be situated somewhere on the Arabian Peninsula - most likely in Saudi Arabia. - Jim Lobe (Sep 22, '11)
For the MQ-9 Reaper drone that struts its stuff equipped with Hellfire missiles and rains death from above, the sky, literally, is the limit. It's expanding its footprint from AfPak to the whole of East Africa up to the Gulf of Aden. The Reaper, though, can also wear a business suit and incorporate the persona of the president of the United States. - Pepe Escobar (Sep 22, '11)
New bases extend US's drone war
The United States is expanding its network of bases to carry out drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Yemen and Somalia. The "constellation" will include a secret new Central Intelligence Agency facility that the US announced this year would be situated somewhere on the Arabian Peninsula - most likely in Saudi Arabia. - Jim Lobe (Sep 22, '11)
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Items of Interest, 13 September 2011
The conversion story of Thomas Storck.
Thomas Fleming, Idling, Week 2
John Zmirak, College: How Not to Waste Your 4 Years
A guide for the perplexed energy policymaker by Kurt Cobb (EB)
This is the house Transition built by Charlotte Du Cann (EB)
The Mondragon bank – an old model for a new type of finance by Oscar Kjellberg (EB)
States quietly throwing wrenches into health care implementation
NPR: An Interrogator Writes the Inside Story of 9-11
Counterpunch:
FRANKLIN SPINNEY, It’s Budgetary War, Bloody and Terrible
IAN HARRIS, Drone Warfare
HARVEY WASSERMAN, Ten Thousand Fukushimas
SHELDON RICHMAN, 9/11 and the National Security Scam
PATRICK COCKBURN, The Enemy That Barely Exists
Terri, Should Christians Kiss Dating Goodbye?
Thomas Fleming, Idling, Week 2
John Zmirak, College: How Not to Waste Your 4 Years
A guide for the perplexed energy policymaker by Kurt Cobb (EB)
This is the house Transition built by Charlotte Du Cann (EB)
The Mondragon bank – an old model for a new type of finance by Oscar Kjellberg (EB)
States quietly throwing wrenches into health care implementation
NPR: An Interrogator Writes the Inside Story of 9-11
Counterpunch:
FRANKLIN SPINNEY, It’s Budgetary War, Bloody and Terrible
IAN HARRIS, Drone Warfare
HARVEY WASSERMAN, Ten Thousand Fukushimas
SHELDON RICHMAN, 9/11 and the National Security Scam
PATRICK COCKBURN, The Enemy That Barely Exists
Terri, Should Christians Kiss Dating Goodbye?
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Items of Interest, 17 August 2011
Daniel Lerch interview on peak oil
An economy turned upside down by Mira Luna (EB)
Christopher Ferrara, The Austrian Version of the English Enclosures Part II
Theodore Dalrymple, Sloppy Riot Thinking
Are pre-2008 bankers the moral equivalents of British looters?
Whose values?
August Glut by (EB) Gene Logsdon
The most dangerous machine ever built by Erik Curren (EB)
Gareth Porter, Veto Over the Drones
How safe is the US?
The Thinking Housewife, Why the Love Ideal of Marriage Doesn’t Work
An economy turned upside down by Mira Luna (EB)
Christopher Ferrara, The Austrian Version of the English Enclosures Part II
Theodore Dalrymple, Sloppy Riot Thinking
Are pre-2008 bankers the moral equivalents of British looters?
Whose values?
August Glut by (EB) Gene Logsdon
Despite flood, hail, drought, high winds, plant diseases, weeds, bugs, deteriorating muscles, coons, deer, squirrels, moles, stock market crashes, grain market inflation, skyrocketing land prices, root rot, robins, rabbits, and radio talk shows, once more the annual great miracle has occurred. We are (literally after the last downpour) swimming in homegrown food. The August Glut is upon us, and we dance among the corn stalks in sheer delight.
The most dangerous machine ever built by Erik Curren (EB)
Gareth Porter, Veto Over the Drones
How safe is the US?
Tot up the United States national security bill and you quickly reach US$8 trillion over the past decade and perhaps even a few trillion more. What did it all go on? No one can be very sure. And did it buy "security" - or make the country less safe? - Chris Hellman
The Thinking Housewife, Why the Love Ideal of Marriage Doesn’t Work
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Items of Interest, 14 July 2010
Rod Dreher, Coming: BP's methane volcano? and io9, Methane bubble "doomsday" story debunked
Rod Dreher, Monsanto's genetically-modified Eucharist
CHT, Obama the Liar on Free Trade
Mark Richardson on the link between liberalism and multiculturalism: Identity lite.
John Robb, JOURNAL: A Mechanism for Economic and Political Concentration
Steve Sailer, How to get into college
Energy Bulletin:
The 50-year farm bill (original)
Fireflies In July (original)
Gene Logsdon, OrganicToBe.org
Counterpunch:
Ellen Brown, How Brokers Became Bookies
Mark Weisbrot, Exacerbating the Crisis in the Eurozone
Jonathan Cook, Remote-Controlled Killing
Dean Baker, Reckless Drilling: BP's Carnage
Deepak Tripathi, The Dwindling of Afghanistan's Coalition of the Willing
Rod Dreher, Monsanto's genetically-modified Eucharist
CHT, Obama the Liar on Free Trade
Mark Richardson on the link between liberalism and multiculturalism: Identity lite.
John Robb, JOURNAL: A Mechanism for Economic and Political Concentration
Steve Sailer, How to get into college
Energy Bulletin:
The 50-year farm bill (original)
Wes Jackson, Solutions
We need new strategies for agriculture that emphasize efficient nutrient use in order to lower production costs and minimize negative environmental effects. The trouble is, the best soils on the best landscapes are already being farmed. Much of the future expansion of agriculture will be onto marginal lands where the risk of irreversible degradation under annual grain production is high. As these areas become degraded, expensive chemical, energy, and equipment inputs will become less effective and much less affordable.
Fireflies In July (original)
Gene Logsdon, OrganicToBe.org
Most of us have only a little knowledge of the awesome events going on in nature right around us all the time. That’s why we must ceaselessly travel in search of distraction far and wide. There are wonders at work right under our noses but we don’t notice. It is even more lamentable now that we have abandoned the real world for the electronic world.
Counterpunch:
Ellen Brown, How Brokers Became Bookies
Mark Weisbrot, Exacerbating the Crisis in the Eurozone
Jonathan Cook, Remote-Controlled Killing
Dean Baker, Reckless Drilling: BP's Carnage
Deepak Tripathi, The Dwindling of Afghanistan's Coalition of the Willing
Monday, June 28, 2010
Items of Interest, 28 June 2010
A review of the LWRCI M6A2 in Guns & Ammo.
The Prisoner of Gen. Petraeus by Patrick J. Buchanan
Zenit:
Pope's Homily at Vespers for Sts. Peter and Paul
"The Church Is an Immense Force of Renewal in the World"
Papal Address to Orthodox Delegation
"Your Presence ... Brings Great Gladness to the Hearts of Us All"
Asia Times:
Macau chief Chui talks the talk
In his first six months in office, Macau chief executive Fernando Chui Sai-on has said all the right things - from promising new public housing units to protecting local workers from imported labor. But many in Macau wonder when his actions will begin to match his good intentions. - Muhammad Cohen
Truly detached from war (original)
The newest American form of war, drones, captures perfectly a larger detachment from the wars the United States fights. This is not just the separation by thousands of kilometers of pilots from the battlefields on which they shoot their missiles, but the very detachment of the American public from the conflicts they send their army (and a vast corps of for-profit private contractors) out to fight. - Tom Engelhardt
Energy Bulletin:
Wine, local food, and local resilience, Part 4 (original)
The Prisoner of Gen. Petraeus by Patrick J. Buchanan
Zenit:
Pope's Homily at Vespers for Sts. Peter and Paul
"The Church Is an Immense Force of Renewal in the World"
Papal Address to Orthodox Delegation
"Your Presence ... Brings Great Gladness to the Hearts of Us All"
Asia Times:
Macau chief Chui talks the talk
In his first six months in office, Macau chief executive Fernando Chui Sai-on has said all the right things - from promising new public housing units to protecting local workers from imported labor. But many in Macau wonder when his actions will begin to match his good intentions. - Muhammad Cohen
Truly detached from war (original)
The newest American form of war, drones, captures perfectly a larger detachment from the wars the United States fights. This is not just the separation by thousands of kilometers of pilots from the battlefields on which they shoot their missiles, but the very detachment of the American public from the conflicts they send their army (and a vast corps of for-profit private contractors) out to fight. - Tom Engelhardt
Energy Bulletin:
Wine, local food, and local resilience, Part 4 (original)
Don Plummer, The Trillium Patch
In this series’ previous post, we discussed making wine at home as a possible solution to wine availability in an age of declining cheap energy. In this the final post of this series, we will discuss in some detail the advantages of home grape growing and wine making. Along the way, we’ll mention organic viticulture methods and briefly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of specific grape varieties that might be considered for a home vineyard.
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