May 2011 – Page 20 – Public Intelligence Blog

NATO: A Feast of Blood

From Tripoli, 24 May 2011

With that as background [moved to end of post], last night's NATO rocket attack on Tripoli is inexplicable. A civilian metropolitan area of around 2 million people, Tripoli sustained 22 to 25 bombings last night, rattling and breaking windows and glass and shaking the foundation of my hotel.

I left my room at the Rexis Al Nasr Hotel and walked outside the hotel and I could smell the exploded bombs. There were local people everywhere milling with foreign journalists from around the world. As we stood there more bombs struck around the city. The sky flashed red with explosions and more rockets from NATO jets cut through low cloud before exploding.

I could taste the thick dust stirred up by the exploded bombs. I immediately thought about the depleted uranium munitions reportedly being used here–along with white phosphorus. If depleted uranium weapons were being used what affect on the local civilians?

Continue reading “Cynthia McKinney from Tripoli: NATO War Crimes”

2011/05/24

Review: Cosmic Weather Report — Notes from the Edge of the Universe

5 Star, Change & Innovation, Complexity & Resilience, Consciousness & Social IQ, Cosmos & Destiny, Culture, Research, Future, Intelligence (Collective & Quantum), Nature, Diet, Memetics, Design, Philosophy, Truth & Reconciliation, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution

Mark Borax and Ellias Lonsdale

Phenomenal Starting Point for Anyone Opening Up, May 24, 2011

Disclosure: I bought this book because I am negotiating a contract with the publisher for a book in their new Manifesto series (tentative title: Manifesto for Truth–Public Intelligence in the Public Interest). I wanted to get a “sense” of where the publisher was grounded. I am also looking at (these were given to me) four of the books by Patricia Cori the most interesting to me being an early one, No More Secrets, No More Lies: A Handbook to Starseed Awakening (Sirian Revelations).

Ten years ago I would have considered this book–and those of Patricia Cori–to be off the wall, psycho-babble. Not now! Now, after a decade of being exposed to deeply grounded common sense among individuals such as Tom Atlee, Harrison Owen, Paul Hawkins, Barbara Marx-Hubbard, Peggy Holman and so many others, I find this book to be *startlingly* effective, easy to read, and full of *so many* gifted phrases. The authors, each published on their own, are strong together. Along with the other books that I list below within my ten book limit, I absolutely recommend this book as a window into the period of Awakening that begins now–2012 is not about apocalypse, it is about the death of atrocities against humanity by governments and corporations and banks, and the emergence of the human spirit and the human mind into a Whole Earth manifestation that “connects” with the larger Cosmos. I am not fully mature yet, but this book is a helpful point of reference.

Continue reading “Review: Cosmic Weather Report — Notes from the Edge of the Universe”

2011/05/24

Concrete Canvas–Add Water–Lots of Potential

01 Poverty, 06 Family, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Government, Non-Governmental, Peace Intelligence

concrete tent — Click on Image to Enlarge

‘Concrete Canvas' Makes Erecting Permanent Buildings As Easy as Pitching a Tent

Drapeable fabric turns into solid concrete when it gets wet

popsi.com, Clay Dillow, 18 May 2011

When disaster strikes and permanent structures are leveled, as they were recently by earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand (and more distantly in Haiti), they are usually replaced in the short term by tent cities. Two engineering students thought they could do better and invented Concrete Canvas, a fabric impregnated with concrete that can turn a tent into a hardy, permanent structure in 24 hours. Just add water.

Read full article (includes link to very impressive video)

Phi Beta Iota: This has even more potential if combined with the use of cement from carbon, and non-potable water.

2011/05/24

Patch.com: Hyper-Local Online News & Views

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, IO Sense-Making

I rarely promote major media outlets such as AOL, but the past few months I have been geting a LOT of good quality local news to fill the gap left by ailing local newspapers with AOL's venture called patch.com. With community based and locally edited editions for towns and communities all across the nation, Patch has become a major local source for news, events, and perspectives in my own community. At first skeptical, I tried it and found it a wonderful new way the internet can become a new source for local news and information!

Check it out at patch.com and find a location near you, or become your own news source by starting one if your area lacks one.

Today I found out that AOL and Huffington Post have merged, and Arianna herself announced a new “blog” section for each local patch across the country. Here's is her announcement:

Continue reading “Patch.com: Hyper-Local Online News & Views”

2011/05/24

Legacy Issues — Sinking the Ship Over Time

Blog Wisdom

Legacy issues

What does your organization do with legacy products and services? Things you started that never really caught on, or died out slowly over time?

That's a very easy way to judge the posture and speed of a brand. If there's a one-way track–stuff gets added, but it never gets taken away–then the ship is going to get slower and heavier and become much harder to handle until it eventually sinks.

How long did it take Detroit to take the ashtrays out of cars? The single-sex admission policy at the club? How many people who use your website need to speak up on behalf of a button or a policy for you to persist in keeping it there? How long before you cancel the Sisterhood meetings that are now attended by just three people?

Either you're focused on maintaining the legacy features or you're focused on figuring out how to replace them. Driving with your eyes on the rearview mirror is difficult indeed.

In a world of little competition, legacy features are something worth keeping. No sense alienating loyal customers.

But we don't live in a world of little competition. The faster your industry moves, the more likely others are willing to live without the legacy stuff and create a solution that's going to eclipse what you've got, legacies and all.

2011/05/24

Open Ventures: Individual Superempowerment

Blog Wisdom

Monday, 23 May 2011

OPEN VENTURES: Entrepreneurial Superempowerment

Global Guerrillas

Corporations haven't changed much organizationally since the middle ages. They're dinosaurs. It's time to turn them into history, where they belong.

As part of the new venture I'm working on, we're developing a set of new rules that allow a new form of corporation to work much more like the Internet. We think these changes will make these new organizations superior to our current corporate competition — both from the perspective of the person working with (not, not for) us and from the ability of these ventures to compete with the status quo.

At this point, the organization we're building is the equivalent of the first mammal. Very, very small relative to competition (the dinos that ruled the earth for hundreds of millions of years) but incredibly adaptive. The rules of adaptation we're developing will help us stay alive, and eventually (we hope) defeat the competition. We hope you'll decide to evolve along with us.

Here's the first rule we think is important: if at all possible, use entrepreneurial superempowerment.

Essentially, this rule is torn from my book on global guerrilla warfare. The same amplification that makes it possible for small groups of terrorists/guerrillas to do incredible damage/challenge nation-states can be used to build a successful organization. In short, this rule means that you should provide the people working with your organization all of the tools they need to be economically successful. In particular, these tools need to be networked tools. Tools that amplify every action taken by 1,000 fold.

Further, on a motivational level, these people should be allowed to innovate. To become entrepreneurs that are constantly striving to maximize their potential. Allow them the flexibility to try new ideas, change up the processes used, and pioneer new areas for expansion. The objective is to fill your entire organization with superempowered entrepreneurs.

Vae victis

2011/05/23

Search: global insurgency map

Searches

Thank you for this search. In the absence of Berto Jongman's map of world conflict and human rights, still the very best and most comprehensive document available, the Chart of Conflict 2011 from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London is worth a look but a pale substitute. Insurgency occurs when a government loses legitimacy. This loss of legitimacy inspires a wide range of responses from the non-violent to the violent. Most maps and handbooks do not have a sophisticated analytic model and do not account for the preconditions of revolution across all the domains.

Revolution 2.0 Awakening 2012 (CLOSED)