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Commenting on Berto Jongman: Modernizing Analytical Training + Robert Steele & RECAP

Remember the Gorge Carver-Gorge Allen contrasting mindsets in predicting the outcome in Vietnam. The optimistic Carver argued , “if, if, if, we’re going to win. The pessimistic Allen countered: “unless, unless, unless we’re going to lose.”

In more formal argumentation, the “ifs” and “unlesses” are the ‘key assumptions” or “key variables” that are intended to support the estimated prediction. What have we here? Rarely a path to the truth.

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2015/06/092015/06/08

Jean Lievens: Can Evolution Explain Kindness? Are Political, Social, & Economic Altruism Important?

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

The hard problem: Tom Stoppard on the limits of what science can explain

Can evolution explain acts of kindness, and morality? We arranged a debate between a sceptical Tom Stoppard and the evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson. Stuart Jeffries acted as referee

selfishness beats altruism within groups, but altruistic groups beat selfish ones

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2015/05/272015/05/26

Review (Guest): The Liberty Amendments

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government

Mark R. Levin

Amending the Constitution?

By Joanna Daneman #1 HALL OF FAME TOP 10 REVIEWER VINE VOICE on August 13, 2013

Mark Levin is a radio host and a Constitutional scholar. Invoking Article V of the Constitution, which sets out methods for amendments, Levin has proposed a number of changes to term limits, taxation, restoring states' power and more.

Phi Beta Iota: 34 States have asked for a Constitutional Convention. Congress — the two-party tyranny — is ignoring that demand and manipulating the data to conceal from the public the fact that a legitmate constitutional demand has been made.

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2015/05/272015/05/26

Judge Thomas Brennan with Dan Marks: YouTube (43:46) The Article V Amendatory Constitutional Convention – Keeping the Republic in the 21st Century

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics

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2015/05/272015/05/26

Friends of the Article V Convention: Congress Begins Counting State Applications for a Convention

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government

Congress Begins Count of AVC Applications

With a quiet addition to House rules on January 6, 2015 the House of Representatives began for the first time in history an official process for tabulation of state applications for an Article V Convention. … According to Article V of the Constitution Congress is mandated to call a convention “on the application” of two-thirds of the state legislatures. In today’s terms this means a single application from 34 state legislatures. The public record shows the applications already submitted number nearly 20 times the necessary 34 applications with nearly submitted within the last 114 years. The issue of a convention call has always been not the states failing to submit sufficient applications but Congress, up to now, refusing to count the applications and issue a convention call. Thus the applications have languished among hundreds of thousands of pages of Congressional Record—still constitutionally effective—but ignored. This is no longer the case as the first affirmative step toward calling the nation’s first Article V Convention is underway. Full document.

Friends of the Artcile V Convention

2015/05/272015/05/26

Mark Levin: YouTube (30:01) Constitution Article V, and the Liberty Amendments

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government

Mark Levin shows how the state legislatures, with no permission required from the feds, can amend the US Constitution. It's right there in Article V, and the historical record shows that the Founding Fathers meant for that Article to be used in a time like ours, when the feds have gone way beyond their Constitutionally granted authority.

2015/05/262015/05/28

Robert Steele: Homeland Security – The Much Bigger Picture

01 Poverty, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence

Robert David Steele Vivas

Homeland Security: The Much Bigger Picture

Homeland Security Today, May 26, 2015

By: Robert David Steele

As I scan the horizon across our homeland, what many of us think of as America the Beautiful, I cannot help but see something different — a troubled, even shocked, dysfunctional government, corrupt industry, the shallowness of our chattering class (academics, media and think tanks) and an apathetic citizenry.

From the perspective of a long-time intelligence professional – a former spy who helped create the Marine Corps Intelligence Center and spent 20 years as a CEO pioneering commercial intelligence – not only do most of the preconditions for revolution exist in America right now, but the federal government seems determined to ignore realities across the board.

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