Tip of the Hat to Joe Stauffacher at Facebook.
SchwartzReport: Asia Owns the Future — Two Thirds of Global Middle Class in Asia by 2030
02 China, 03 Economy, 03 India, 04 Indonesia, 08 Wild Cards, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Government
As this report spells out, “By 2030, Asia-Pacific countries will comprise nearly two-thirds of the global middle class, dwarfing the projected one-fifth for Europe and North America combined.” Along with climate change this is one of the great geopolitical meta-trends that will define the 21st century. In the U.S., one has to also add The Emerging White Minority Trend. And yet you will find barely a mention of this anywhere in corporate media. Why is that do you think? Austerity economics and deregulation have virtually destroyed the American middle class, certainly made it a shadow of its former self. In those European countries which embraced Austerity Economics a similar process has been going on. At the same time India, China, the Asia-Pacific nations, are creating a middle class that will dwarf its White counterpart. Power will shift. Our intransigence concerning climate change, means leadership will go elsewhere, and will increase the speed of this transfer. We are going into a different world. And because profit is our only cultural priority, we are doing it rather badly.
Bulgaria’s Burning Man (Vimeo 21:07)
Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, GovernmentFlame (Пламен) — short film about Plamen Goranov
In 2013 Plamen Goranov, a 37-year-old construction worker and artist from Varna, Bulgaria set himself on fire as a form of political protest. PLAMEN (also meaning ‘flame' in Bulgarian) explores what led the young activist to his protest and ultimately to his death, thus setting a disturbing trend of self-immolations in the EU's poorest country.
Awards and Vimeo Below the Fold
Owl: USA #29 Out of 30 in Family, Health, Etc.
06 Family, 07 Health, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence
USA Not #1 in Health, Family, Income and More: Ranks #29 Among 30 Countries
When someone tells you the United States is the best country in the world to live, ask them on what grounds or with what data do they make this claim. They would not make such a statement if they had all the facts marshalled in the ebook-report summarized in this article. The author looks at, according to Paul Rosenberg, “eight indicators each in seven categories, ranking counties in order along with precise figures for how they score. The seven categories are: health, family, education, income and leisure, freedom and democracy, public order and safety, and generosity. Indicators include things like life expectancy at birth, infant mortality rate, share of income received by richest 10 per cent, years of life lost in injury, etc.”
Anthony Judge: Strategic Self-Reference and World Futures — An Integral Approach to Doing the Right Thing Instead of the Wrong Things Righter
Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Embodying Strategic Self-reference in a World Futures Conference
Transcending the wicked problem engendered by projecting negativity elsewhere
Bill Bunting: YouTube (12:40) The Truth If You Can Handle It – A Cry From the Heart on Behalf of Earth & the Public Against Predatory Governments and Corporations
Cultural Intelligence, Earth IntelligenceRobert Steele: Vilification of the Confederate Flag is Abusive, Despicable, Ignorant Public Misbehavior
Cultural Intelligence
Every time I think I have seen President Obama hit bottom he exceeds my previous expectations. The recent vilification of the heritage of half the country, criminalizing the symbol of that heritage for tens of millions of Americans, is gratuitously divisive, to say the least. It also displays a stunning ignorance of history, and a cavalier disrespect for fact that I find disgusting.
As a practical matter, removing all Confederate-battle-flag items from National Park Service battlefield concessionaires is incendiary, not just ridiculous — beyond juvenile to the point of criminal insanity. This is misbehavior worthy of the impeachment of the President for attacking, with malice aforethought, an entire culture long abused by the North and its financial backers.
