Category: Cultural Intelligence

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Mongoose: Three-Step Plan for Electing Bernie

Cultural Intelligence
Mongoose
Mongoose

STEP ONE: Sponsor the Electoral Reform Act of 2015 and lead it to passage now. Take Over BigBatUSA.org and raise $10 from each of 100 million disenfranchised voters.

STEP TWO: Run as Democrat first, as and then as an Independent if nomination goes to Hillary Clinton as now presumed. NOTE: This requires a change of stated position to date, that he will not run as an Independent and will support the Democratic nominee irrespective of the crimes committed to achieve that fraudulent selection.

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

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

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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Michel Bauwens: EU Commons Intergroup

Cultural Intelligence
Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens

What We Share: A Commons- Intergroup takes off in the EU Parliament

Sophie Bloemen of the Commons Network

EXTRACT

The intergroup can be understood as confirmation of the aspirations and discourse of the commons becoming a political force. In a way, the bottom-up movement is given a certain political legitimacy by the intergroup. . . . Commons thinking expresses a strong denial of the idea that society is and should be composed of atomized individuals living as consumers. Instead the commons discourse points to the possibility that people can live their lives as citizens, deeply embedded in social relationships. Moreover, that citizens’ active participation is important in realizing wellbeing and a well-functioning society. Read full article.

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Marcus Aurelius: More Than Half World’s Countries Spawning Jihadists – Robert Steele: Is Anyone Getting This?

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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius

From Newsmax; have not yet been able to verify:

U.N.: More Than Half of World's Countries Spawning Jihadists

A highly disturbing new report from the United Nations asserts that more than half of the world's nations are now producing jihadist fighters to join the ranks of terrorist organizations in the Middle East. More than 25,000 mujahideen have joined the al-Qaida network and the Islamic State (ISIS) in recent years, creating an “unprecedented” and long-term threat to international security, according to the U.N. The report, prepared by the U.N. Security Council's special permanent committee for monitoring Islamic violence, “amounts to one of the most bleak and comprehensive assessments of the global foreign fighter phenomenon compiled yet,” the Financial Times stated. The authors of the report said their findings are based on detailed evidence from 27 intelligence and security services from around the globe.

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Jean Lievens: The Meaning of the Paris Commune — “Communal Luxury”

Cultural Intelligence
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

The Meaning of the Paris Commune

Todays book of the day is Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross. We feature here an extract from an interview with the author for Jacobin.

What can the Paris Commune offer to present struggles for emancipation?

At its most speculative reaches, “communal luxury” implies a set of criteria or system of valuation other than the one supplied by the market for deciding what a society values, what it counts as precious. Nature is valued not as a stockpile of resources but as an end in itself.. . . .