• Background and Theory for Large Scale Organizational Change Methods
  A listing of various large scale organizational change methods.
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• Organizational Change Management Plan Template
  An embedded sample LSOC template.
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• Doomsday: 2000 - Now
  Guess what, folks!! We’re still here!!
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• Open the Future: An Eschatological Taxonomy
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• The Bank Implode-O-Meter - Your play-by-play for the end game of modern banking.
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• ‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’
  This article is making me rethink how I feel about Bill Cosby (towards a more-positive perspective).
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When you look at bank failures things don’t looks so bad, historically speaking. But when you look at non-bank money-lending (and money printing institutions, things get considerably more serious.

For additional context, see Implode-Explode Heavy Industries, Inc. sites titled FedShame and BernakePanky.

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• TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary Campaign Emails Out “Electability” Power-Point To All House Dems
  The gist of the argument is that Hillary has beaten Obama in the vast majority of tough red-leaning House districts, and has consistently outperformed him among key demographics — seniors, Hispanics, and rural voters.
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Blogger, veteran, and author Colby Buzzell writes the following:

Since the Army was kind enough to send me an invitation to go back to Operation Iraqi Freedom, I decided to R.S.V.P. to it by writing a little Op-Ed piece about it for the San Francisco Chronicle.

The article is here. Buzzell says the following:

On way out of my building two weeks ago, I checked my mailbox and found a letter from the Department of the Army with “Important Document” printed in all caps on the middle. I immediately felt sick, so I went back to my room, locked the door, grabbed a beer from the fridge and stared out my window for a while. People outside were all wearing sunglasses and walking about enjoying the sun. I took a picture.

I got out of the Army three long years ago, and since then I’ve never really talked ill of the military, the people in it, or expressed any regrets at all about enlisting. If I had to do it all over again, I honestly would have. Granted, I got lucky and made it back with all my body parts intact. If I hadn’t, my answer might be a little bit different than what it is now.

As terrible as this might sound, whenever someone asks me about enlisting, I’m tempted to encourage them. I figure that the more people who enlist, the slimmer the chances that I’ll get called back up. But of course this is ridiculous: No one in their right mind would enlist now, whereas I’ve already signed the papers. I’m now going back to Iraq for a second time because people like me - existing service members - are the only people at the Army’s disposal.

Here is an example of Buzzell’s writing, accompanied by animation:

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Approximately 1,600,000 Americans have served in the Great War on Terror (via), with 52% of those still in active duty service. Of the remaining 48%, some 245,000 are at least partially disabled.

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• Pew Research Center: The Daily Show: Journalism, Satire or Just Laughs?
  Stewart has always insisted that his show isn’t journalism and given its comedic core, its blurring of truth and fiction, and its ignoring of many major events, that is true in a traditional sense.
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• Prediction: Broadcast TV Will Get Hosed In Upfront - Silicon Alley Insider
  [Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen] thinks the overall market for prime time broadcast TV will be down anywhere from 2% ($8.79 billion) to 14% ($7.73 billion) from the $8.9 billion spent last year.
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• FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right
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• Return to Sender - Iraq Veteran Gets the Call Again
  But now, thanks to not enough Americans volunteering for military service, I now have to worry about my picture appearing on the second or third page of my hometown paper with the words, “it was his second deployment” in my obituary.
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You can’t tell me that St. BBQ, the maverick of campaign finance reform, doesn’t know explicitly how to game the rules that he helped author.

You can’t tell me that Bernake’s academic focus of research on the Great Depression wasn’t a factor in his selection as leader of the Fed.

You can’t tell me that the decision to stop reporting M3 is not at all reflective of the need to inflate us out of our current financial dilemma.

You can’t tell me that no one could have foretold the current economic crisis while the debate regarding bankruptcy reform was going on in Congress in 2005.

You can’t tell me that Obama is the more elitist candidate when your candidate is Ivy League educated, the wife of an ex-President, and is worth over a $100 million dollars (and able to drop millions in loans on her campaign).

You can’t tell me that the Obama campaign has been all about race when every other Clinton press release is about how well she does with Latinos and white people.

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• Congress looks at steel pennies, nickels - May. 7, 2008
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• Innovative Aircraft Seats | Cozy Suite
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• Phase Two - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog
  Most current polling nonetheless shows a close race. The poli-sci guys say never mind: polls are all over the place when the GE is 5 or 6 months out, but converge to fundamentals as election day draws near.
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• G.I. Joe Was There: Were Yesterday’s Boys Programmed for Today’s War of Terror? « Waking the Midnight Sun
  But first, let’s take take a look at the history of G.I. Joe before the 1980’s rebirth.
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• The Dreaded R-Word — The American, A Magazine of Ideas
  Recession-likelihood based on six AEI (conservative think tank) economists. I count 3 imminents, 1 reality-denier, and 2 who hedged or dodged,
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• Wall Street firm to return $37m to Mass. communities following complaint about improper investments - The Boston Globe
  UBS is hoping this matter is closed. This week, the firm said it’s leaving the municipal finance business. But this may be just the beginning of the fallout from the collapse of auction-rate markets.
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• Sadly, No! » Ramengate Comes To A Boil
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• The Raw Story | White House admits pre-war e-mails not archived
  “The harm is that we’ve lost a huge piece of history,” says Anne Weisman, a lawyer for CREW. Weisman estimated the total number of missing White House e-mails at “10 million-plus.”
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• The 75 Skills Every Man Should Master
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• The Gospel of Consumption | Orion magazine
  Instead, we have allowed the owners of those machines to define their purpose: not reduction of labor, but “higher productivity”—and with it the imperative to consume virtually everything that the machinery can possibly produce.
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• The New Paternalism
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• Pentagon’s Propaganda Documents Go Online, but Will the TV Networks Ever Report this Scandal? | Center for Media and Democracy
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• Seth’s Blog: The Media markets
  Most of us are inclined to believe that government officials, doctors and the media are making an effort to tell us the truth. Actually, just like all marketers, they tell us a story.
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• Real Time Economics : K.C. Fed’s Hoenig Worries About ‘Inflation Psychology’
  Hoenig added that “there is a significant risk that higher inflation will become embedded in the economy [as part of consumers “inflation psychology”] and require significant monetary policy tightening to reduce it.”
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• USATODAY.com - Stocks, bonds rally after Bernanke says economy is slowing
  Just as important as the inflation numbers is where investors and consumers think inflation is heading. This inflation psychology can cause people and investors to change their behavior, making high inflation a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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• Inventing illegal immigration. « The Edge of the American West
  The law and its successor of 1892 also made necessary for the first time the modern machinery of immigration and residency control and documentation.
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• 25 WYSIWYG Editors Reviewed | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
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• Casualties of War - New York Times
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My oh my! Which one of the many things might they be looking for?

Destruction of evidence? Peripheral information related to violations of the Hatch Act? Or possibly related to the December 7th “date of infamy” for the eight fired US Attorneys? Or something related to intolerant US Attorney Rachel Paulrose? Jeb Bush associates and Katrina pumps in New Orleans? Or possibly Bloch’s own ethical lapses? Or Bloch’s investigation into Karl Rove’s politicization of everything?

The mind reels at the possibilities!

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• Topp 100-Comic Book Runs
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• Arianna Huffington: What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He’s Fallen - Politics on The Huffington Post
  “I didn’t vote for George Bush” the man confessed. “I didn’t either,” his wife added. Their names: John and Cindy McCain (Cindy told me she had cast a write-in vote for her husband).
  (tags: politics mccain 2008 conservative election HuffPo lies opinion)

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