Category: Cultural Intelligence

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Sepp Hasslberger: How Would Nature Design A Financial System? Community Credit!

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

Credit is just as good as money. We can give each other credit. That means we can use our own money, no longer depending on the banks and the speculators…

Community Credit: The Next Generation of Financial Architecture

How would nature design a financial system?

What we can see today, if we choose to look for it, is a global permaculture of community credit systems emerging on the ground, from the bottom up, below the canopy of established finance. These systems, which could also be called community-based mutual credit systems, are consistent with biological design principles in all the ways bank credit is not. They are bottom-up, locally attuned and adapted, decentralized, diverse, self-organized, iterative and modular –  in short, everything we dream of from a biological design perspective.  Perhaps most important, these systems are not premised on quantitative expansion; instead, we could say they are premised on qualitative expansion, with quantitative stability over time. This is consistent with the design of mature biological systems and the phase our species is moving into now, as we reach the limits to our own growth.

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Robert Steele: Stupid Princeton Kids

Cultural Intelligence
Robert David Steele Vivas
Robert David Steele Vivas

Should Princeton disown Woodrow Wilson?

At Princeton and other colleges, historic symbols are targets of the racial justice movement.

ROBERT STEELE: If we renamed every building, monument, and road associated with every US leader responsible for crimes against humanity, we would have to rename ALL of them. Perhaps we should focus on the crimes against humanity being committed by the current US Administration? Or is that too hard for privileged kids looking to make a statement without having to lift a finger? I am all in favor of restitution (especially to our Native Americans) in the context of Truth & Reconciliation, but I'd rather get it right across the board, instead of this infantile crap. We need to restore integrity to our government — that means Electoral Reform, the election of an Independent President with a Coalition Cabinet, and the election of 20-30 small party and Independent Members to Congress so as to restore Article 1 of the Constitution. Anything less is a waste of time and energy.

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Steve Aftergood: CRS on The Islamic State

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence
Steven Aftergood
Steven Aftergood

CRS on Islamic State and US Policy

Phi Beta Iota: The CRS report is superb on the facts in relation to the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) if one assumes they are an autonomous entity.  It falls severely short in failing to inform Congress on the culpability of elements of the US Government (CIA, State, Pentagon), Saudi Arabia, and Turkey as well as Israel, Qatar, and Iraq, in creating ISIS, nurturing ISIS, and protecting ISIS.

See Also: ISIS @ Phi Beta Iota

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