Intelligence and Success: False causes, true causes

Many ideas about the causes of intelligence and success are wrong. This is as much the case for those who have negative outlook as it is for those who believe that they are positive.There have been times and places in which having a brain was equated with cynicism and...

Common Sense vs. Real Intelligence

When I was 12, a few months after immigrating to America,  my camp manager said during a trip, "Use common sense." I asked what is common sense, and this lead to a lot of laughter.But the issue at hand is not a humorous one. Really, what is common sense? As someone who's...

IQCRACY: A Recipe for the Survival of Our Species

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The survival of the species depends on the establishment of an IQcracy, a Platonian Republic of the Intellect. At the top, serving as leaders and decision-makers, would be people with 150 IQ and higher. ...

Nine trends defining the future world of work

Increasing global integration: Due mainly to explosive growth in many emerging markets, the world will experience massive economic growth over the next thirty or so years. It is predicted that by 2050,...

Sustainable Development vs. Artificial Armageddon

In 1998, after observing activities of the Christian Right in California where I was living and working, I predicted what was going to happen. And it did. I knew what they were up to, and I described them as Nazis of America. I knew that they were going to seriously...

Litmus test for Biblical statements

Biblical statements can be tested for their authenticity based on what we know about God. In looking at these statements, the question to be asked at all times is, "Would this be something that an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-righteous creator of the universe would say?" If...

Convergence of military and intelligence resources

Blind spots in Congressional oversight The timing of this article and attention to the topic is brilliant. Concern about Congressional oversight is natural. My concern is about the Nation’s foreign policy and...

Intelligence and Subversion of Intelligence

Camille Paglia, in addressing socialist tendencies of some American university students, said that the toilets in which they graffitied their slogans came from capitalism. There is a problem with that argument. There were toilets in the Soviet Union as well; and there are...

Al Gore and Technological Progress

In his book "Earth in the Balance," Al Gore wrote that the people who weredenying the global warming in 1980s were going to be penitent later for whatthey had done. He made an error common to humanitarians: Of overestimating people's character. As it stands, these people...

Cirque du National Security Hungary

In the last weeks Hungarian National Security was humiliated 3 times.. Two former Chief of National Security arrested - one of them charged with espionage (he studied at Moscow KGB University - it was a known fact), also a former minister of National Security arrested at the...

Top 10 Craziest Watches

Top 10 Craziest Watches It seems that nobody wants to adorn their wrists with simple looking watches anymore. The market is flooded with all sorts of weird looking watches out of which These Watches have...

Attitudes of Hell

Hell is this: an inversion of truth - an inversion of value - a swamp, an inverted palace, with toads at the top. Consier hell to be mathematical opposite of heaven. All that is true is held to be lie, all that is lie is held to be truth. The good is seen as evil, the...

Iranian Intelligence Ministry slams on CIA network, 30 arrested

The Iranian intelligence ministry said it has uncovered a CIA spy network and has arrested more than 30 people. The statement read on Iran's state TV said the alleged network attempted to recruit Iranians to spy on Iran's nuclear and aerospace programs, universities and...

Osama bin Laden used USB flash drive for Emails

Computerworld reports that the reason Osama bin Laden used the internet to send emails without being traced was due to the formatting of a USB stick which he could install into his computer. This system hid his...

Would it be top secret if all it knows is on the internet?

Watch a good Jason Bourne movie and believe it. The spookiest part about Blackwater aka Xe etc is that the “owners” and participants are right wing conservatives of the highest order. They are as fanatical in...

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