Category: Cultural Intelligence

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Robert James Beckett: John Stanton on Data Imperialism & Digital Slavery

Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency
Robert James Beckett
Robert James Beckett

Ethics? We don't need no stinkin' ethics.

Imperialism via Data: The Digitization of Human Behavior, “Social Radar”, Sensors and Neuroscience

John Stanton, Global Research, 13 March 2016

In 2007 I wrote and presented a conceptual paper to an international studies group in Portugal. The subject matter was, generally, the use of Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience (ECN) to manage humanity. That paper would eventually finds its way, remarkably, into Rebecca Costa’s seminal The Watchman’s Rattle.   . . . In just under ten years, the topics alluded to in my 2007 paper have taken the form of four converging and accelerating movements that seem likely to usher in drastic change in the human condition: The digitization of human behavior; cracking open the brain through neuroscience; the engineering and manipulation of human and non-human genomes; and the proliferation of the Internet of Things, which is code for the sensorization of the human/non-human, home, work, school, automobile, street, global commons, etc.  Read more.

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Michel Bauwens: P2P, the Commons, and Civil Renewal

Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens

Video Interview in Eleven Parts

01 – genesis of the P2P Foundation
02 – what are the commons?
03 – Old Vs New
04 – constitutionalism from below
05 – civil renewal
06 – why can't we work together?
07 – democratization of culture & education
08 – Us and them vs mutualization
09 – localised production and the future of community
10 – from disintermediation to reintermediation
11 – mindfulness and the commons

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Eagle: Divide and Rule in Iowa — Proctor & Gamble as a Microcosm of Global Injustice “Made in the USA”

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
300 Million Talons...
300 Million Talons…

Divide and Rule: Notes From the Hidden Abode in Global Iowa

Paul Street, CounterPunch, 8 March 2016

P&G relies on a leading temporary or “contingent” worker agency to fill its large number of lower-paid – $10 to $11.85 an hour depending on shift – and casually employed production positions with primarily African immigrants, many of whom are quite highly educated. These mostly Black- workers speak Arabic (the Sudanese), French (the Congolese), some English (the Sudanese in the lead, followed by the Congolese, with non-Puerto Rican Latin Americans far behind) and wear long red t-shirts to make them visible to speeding fork-lift drivers who pose a constant threat to life and limb.

The temp firm is Staff Management/SMX, which describes itself as “a recognized leader in comprehensive staffing and contingent workforce solutions. I was told that it skims off $6 an hour for every lower-level “light industrial” working hour it delivered to P&G, making the manufacturing and packaging giant’s real wage bill for first-shift production workers $16 an hour. That’s no small rake-off for SMX.

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David Witzel: Net Positive

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
Dave Witzel
Dave Witzel

The Net Positive movement is building momentum but remains an emerging concept. Forum for the Future is working with business, NGOs and academics to create an ambitious vision with a rigorous and detailed road map for action.

Within a year of inception the group had laid out 12 principles that characterise the approach, tying together all of the areas in which organisations should act.

The NPG then turned its attention to developing a Net Positive measurement framework to enable outcomes to be measured accurately and consistently, and provided guidance on how to communicate an organisation’s approach in a clear and compelling way.  Read more.

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Chuck Spinney: Andrew Cockburn on the Vulnerability of the Election-Industrial Complex

Cultural Intelligence
Chuck Spinney
Chuck Spinney

Television, turnout, and the election-industrial complex

By Andrew Cockburn, Harpers

“I never met a politician who started out to be a fund-raiser,” remarked Mike McKenna, a Republican energy lobbyist and recipient of constant pleas for cash from lawmakers.   . . .   “If you can convince the politicians that they don’t really need to spend their time raising all that money,” he told me earnestly, “they’ll carry you round Capitol Hill on their shoulders.”

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Owl: Is Donald Trump a Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing?

Cultural Intelligence
Who? Who?
Who? Who?

Trump: A Wolf in Wolf's Clothing

EXTRACT:

His Freudian slip up in favoring foreign high-tech workers to come into the US on H1B visas, plus his expressed wish to radically lower taxes on business may be a signal to the Technorati that Robb is talking about, that he’s really on their side, no need to start a 3rd party, because after he gets the left behinds – the “losers,” the “fired” – to put him in office, he’ll support the Technorati.

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