Documents tagged with lyle brecht

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In Defense of a Land: Military Violence & the Perennial American Response

Discussion & meditation on President Obama’s decision to escalate an unnecessary and destructive war in Afghanistan
  • lbrecht published this 12 / 01 / 2009
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The Most Dangerous Woman in America? Sarah Palin and her desire for an honorable America

What is Sarah Palin's game plan?
  • lbrecht published this 11 / 30 / 2009
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Understanding Prophecy in the Book of Revelation

Discussion of John of Patmos's use of prophecy in the Book of Revelation
  • lbrecht published this 11 / 29 / 2009
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Creating Jobs & Reducing Carbon through Sustainable Economic Growth

A new-model plan for jobs creation while reducing deficits, restarting the economy, and addressing climate change
  • lbrecht published this 11 / 13 / 2009
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Health Care Choice & Consequential Economic Risk

The nations' choice of health care system has consequential risk in promoting sustainable economic growth and the creation of new jobs
  • lbrecht published this 11 / 10 / 2009
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Consequential & Catastrophic Risks

Discussion of public (government) and private (business) sector's roles in managing consequential and catastrophic systemic risks.
  • lbrecht published this 11 / 05 / 2009
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Macroecologics: Fumbling toward Sustainability

A primer on developing ecosystem services markets.
  • lbrecht published this 10 / 29 / 2009
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Thinking Strategically About Regulations

Using regulatory-based market incentives from behavioral economics to improve regulatory compliance and generate economic recovery and sustainable economic growth.
  • lbrecht published this 10 / 10 / 2009
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Game Strategy of Nuclear Deterrence

Discusses some of the game theory assumptions of nuclear deterrence - early draft for comments.
  • lbrecht published this 10 / 09 / 2009
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Ambassadors of Reconciliation

Michael. J. Gorman, Inhabiting the Cruciform God: Kenosis, Justification, and Theosis in Paul’s Narrative Soteriology (2009): discussion and reflections.
  • lbrecht published this 10 / 07 / 2009
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Securitization of Risk

Discussion of securitization of financial risk
  • lbrecht published this 10 / 07 / 2009
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Where Did a 10-Year Nine Trillion Dollar Deficit Come From

Discusses the CBO projected 10-year $9 trillion deficit of the U.S. federal government.
  • lbrecht published this 10 / 07 / 2009
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Decarbonizing the National Economy

The normal temperature for the earth is very hot and little or no permanent ice. Climate is essentially “a precariously balanced nonlinear system that lurches between very different states of col...
  • lbrecht published this 10 / 02 / 2009
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Economic Games Behind Nuclear Deterrence

A discussion of the economic game theory basis for nuclear deterrence as the foundation for U.S. national defense.
  • lbrecht published this 09 / 25 / 2009
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Ridding the World of Doomsday Machines

Could doomsday machines be a rational response to short-term economic drivers? Is it profitable to build doomsday machines? Once they are built, is it institutionally profitable to keep them in pla...
  • lbrecht published this 09 / 17 / 2009
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Costing Systemic Risk from Doomsday Machines

Perverse economic incentives to build and maintain doomsday machines for short-term economic gain must be dismantled rather than relying on appeals based on merely moral and ethical grounds. Ret...
  • lbrecht published this 09 / 15 / 2009
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Myth of the Nuclear Security State

The myth of the nuclear state presumes that that nuclear weapons make us safer. The nuclear security state was designed originally to protect our society from human evil. But has this myth become a...
  • lbrecht published this 09 / 11 / 2009
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Capitalism, Socialism & Corporatism

Capitalism today, no matter where it is practiced or under what form of political system whether it be democratic, authoritarian, totalitarian or fascist is based on the accumulation and allocation...
  • lbrecht published this 09 / 08 / 2009
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Note to a Peak Oil Denier

In Michael Lynch’s op-ed in Tuesday, August 25, 2009 New York Times, "‘Peak Oil’ Is a Waste of Energy" he claims that oil remains abundant. Thus the government shouldn’t throw money away on harebra...
  • lbrecht published this 08 / 27 / 2009
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Ecological & Ecofeminist Theology

The tsunami which devastated countries around the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004 tragically brought home the importance of and need for a political theology of the environment. For it showed tha...
  • lbrecht published this 07 / 25 / 2009
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