May 2011 – Page 3 – Public Intelligence Blog

2011/05/302011/05/30

Why the U.S. Should ‘Give’ Af-Pak to China

02 China, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 08 Wild Cards, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Multinational, IO Sense-Making, Military, Peace Intelligence, Strategy

Worth a look — even if only the first paragraph.

The New Rules: Why the U.S. Should ‘Give' Af-Pak to China

Thomas P.M. Barnett | Bio | 30 May 2011
Column

Nuclear Pakistan, we are often told, is the Islamic-state equivalent of a Wall Street firm: In geostrategic terms, it is too big to fail. That explains why, even as the Obama administration begins preparing for modest troop withdrawals from Afghanistan this July, it dispatched Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Islamabad last week to smooth over bilateral relations with Pakistan's paranoid regime, which were strained even before the killing of Osama bin Laden. But Clinton's trip and the Obama administration's instinctive embrace of Islamabad is a fool's errand, doomed by history, geography and globalization itself.

In fact, the U.S. should drop the entire Afghanistan-Pakistan mess in China's lap now, while the getting is good, and here are the reasons why: …

Phi Beta Iota: World Politics Review has not figured out the new world of information quite yet, and we have no desire to copy their entire article. Suffice to say that Barnett, who has gotten much more coherent since his first book, is on target here, but add to that that the US Government's foreign policy is both ideological and idiotic — apart from the huge error by Zbigniew Brzezinski giving Pakistan the nuclear bomb in the first place, the US has no business in Central Asia that is of benefit to the American people, only to the American carpet-baggers that feed at the public treasury (now much depleted and greatly in debt) while looting foreign countries.

2011/05/302011/05/30

Agency – Responsibility – Intelligence – Integrity

Blog Wisdom

Agency

A door is not responsible if it swings and hits you in the nose. Neither is the hand of the guy who punched you.

Philosphers and lawyers talk about agency. Responsibility comes with the capacity to act in the world. If you can decide, if you can act, you have agency.

Life without agency would be a nightmare. Trapped in a box, unable to do anything by choice, nothing but a puppet…

Why then, do organizations and individuals struggle so intently to avoid the responsibility that comes with agency? “It's not my job, my boss won't let me, there's a federal regulation, we're prohibited, it's our supplier, that's our policy…”

It's not something you can turn on or off. Either you have the capacity to act in the world. Or you don't.

2011/05/30

Graphic: Collective Intelligence Application Framework

Analysis, Citizen-Centered, Collection, Innovation, Multinational Plus, Processing, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Tribes, True Cost

here is a 5.7MB png file or here a 0.8MB pdf file
here as a zoomable version using the gmaps engine (handle gently, it seems to stop working if handled roughly): http://beyondconsensus.de
and based on feedback on readability i made a 13 A4-paper version as well

Source

Tip of the Hat to Benjamin Aaron Degenhart.

2011/05/302011/05/30

Robyn O’Brien’s Tedx Talk: Food’s Erin Brockovich — Allergy Kids/health care costs/global competitiveness

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 06 Family, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, 12 Water, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence

Robyn O¹Brien lives in the Boulder area. She is a fresh, inspiring and credible voice for the information/patterns she has assembled/synthesized about how our food ³industry² makes us sick (allergies, cancer, etc., etc.), raises our health care costs, weakens our global competitiveness, also etc. etc. and what we can do about it. And, she brings a deep level of compassion and wisdom to the task of transformation at hand. Kudos to Robyn….JS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rixyrCNVVGA

Robyn O¹Brien shares her personal story and how it inspired her current path as a “Real Food” evangelist. Grounded in a successful Wall Street career that was more interested in food as good business than good-for-you, this mother of four was shaken awake by the dangerous allergic reaction of one of her children to a “typical” breakfast. Her mission to unearth the cause revealed more about the food industry than she could stomach, and impelled her to share her findings with others. Informative and inspiring.

Robyn authored The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It. A former Wall Street food industry analyst, Robyn brings insight, compassion and detailed analysis to her research into the impact that the global food system is having on the health of our children. She founded allergykidsfoundation.org and was named by Forbes as one of “20 Inspiring Women to Follow on Twitter.” The New York Times has passionately described her as “Food's Erin Brockovich.”

Robyn O'Brien
www.allergykidsfoundation.org
http://www.robynobrien.com/

Phi Beta Iota: The industrialization of agriculture, and the corruption of government, have led to a complete ignorance of the “true cost” of bad food, not only in making children ill, but in consuming fuel, water, sweatshop labor, and enabling tax avoidance and the externalization of pollution costs to the public present and future. It bears mention that US Government regulation has totally trashed the emergent organic food movement in the USA, and there are only two sustainable agricultural models on the planet: the Amish in the USA, and the Cubans. The truth at any cost now lowers all other costs forever.

2011/05/302011/05/30

IMF Hypocrisy: Ethics for Staff, Not for Board

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence

At I.M.F., a Strict Ethics Code Doesn’t Apply to Top Officials

By GRAHAM BOWLEY

New York Times, May 29, 2011

At the International Monetary Fund, there is one set of ethics guidelines for the rank-and-file staff and another for the 24 elite executive directors who oversee the powerful organization.

. . . . . . .

“There are a lot of controls in place when it comes to the staff, but not for the leadership,” said Katrina Campbell, a compliance and ethics expert at Global Compliance.

Read full article….

2011/05/30

To Be Intelligent or Not — The Future of Earth

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

May 29, 2011
David Warsh, Proprietor

Now Change the Rest

The Economist was founded in 1843 by James Wilson, a hat manufacturer temporarily brought low by one of global capitalism’s first identifiable business cycles. By a series of courageous re-inventions over 168 years, it has managed to become, and then remain, one of the most influential editorial voices in the world.

It is time for another of those periodic reinventions.

Wilson’s original prospectus announced his determination to take part in “a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.”

. . . . . . .

The shift required – one that already has begun under editor John Micklethwait, but one which still has far to go – involves the recognition that the social sciences have begun to integrate concepts of governance, organization and cooperation into the center of their conception of the world, rather than confining them (as they were in The Wealth of Nations) as something of an afterthought to the last section of Smith’s great book.

Read full article….

Phi Beta Iota: Brother Penguin has brought forth a very articulate statement on the role of humanity in changing–the the point of catastrophic implosion–the Earth. While lamenting the lack of responsibility of governments and corporations, the article stops short of recognizing that the challenge is not about governance, which is a process, but rather about information, which is a foundation. Multinational information-sharing and sense-making among the eight tribes of intelligence is the non-negotiable first step toward illuminating and then eradicating the corruption and waste that is now characteristic of all organizations and individuals that lack integrity. Everyone has intelligence. Virtually no one has integrity. That is where we start. Integrity in information-sharing and sense-making.

2011/05/292012/12/18

Graphic: Maps of the Post Flood Future Geography

Geospatial

america new millenium — Click on Image to Enlarge

EDIT of 18 Dec 2012 to add below link:

Graphic: Stress on Great Lakes Water + Water RECAP

EDIT of 18 Oct 2012: The second nuclear catastrophe in Japan is IMMINENT. The flooding is, like the magnetic field flip, a 100-150 year evolution (see second reference below). Not yet being discussed is the fact that when sea water rises, it will flood and contaminate aquifers that have gone shallow. Naturally one anticipates that renewable power and water desalination and purification will be freely available in the future.

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The Japanese tsunami-nuclear crisis has put public thinking about climate change, 2012, and nuclear risk into high gear.

These maps are going mainstream. There are very weak signals that the US government and Wall Street are quietly freaking out at the highest levels and stealing what they can while they can, on the assumption that the “debt” will become irrelevant in the aftermath of a combination of catastrophes in the 2012 time-frame.

Our confidence that 2012 is a year is awakening rather than catastrophe is now revised. It may be both.

The core second point that is emerging in public intelligence is the implication of flooded nuclear plants that go critical underwater and make the seas radioactive. It is clearly both unlikely and perhaps impossible to shut down all these nuclear reactors and evacuate their waste. When combined with tens of millions of rotting corpses in the oceans, the problem of clean safe water becomes interesting.

The third point, much much submerged (pun intended) beneath the catastrophic sea level change and the nuclearization of water, is the possible “first disclosure” of extra-terrestials, whom we believe to be both benign and mixed–greens and grays, at a minimum. The lead thinkers we know are closing down their traditional businesses and heading for high ground with clean aquifer water. The future will be interesting.

world future water — Click on Image to Enlarge

It pains our collective to observe that the US Intelligence Community is completely useless in service to the public. A national intelligence community that had integrity and could produce intelligence (decision-support) would be all over this, and would refuse orders from unethical self-serving politicians to keep their findings secret.

It's time America got its house in order. Public intelligence in the public interest is a good starting point.

See Other Future-Oriented Maps

Tip of the Hat to EarthBattalionCalvary at Facebook.

Map Home Page (Gordon Michael Scallion & Cynthia Keyes)

See Also:

After the Earthquakes….Volcanos

Berto Jongman: Strategic IO – Earth’s Magnetic Field 150 Year Flip

Graphic: US Counties Protected by Levees

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