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2014/10/24

SchwartzReport: Climate Change + Concentrated Wealth = Violence. Revolution USA is Coming. Any Questions?

There are going to be many unanticipated consequences arising from climate change, here is one that is just beginning to surface. Our failure to take what is happening to our planet seriously is going to come at great cost to human civilization. And this may be part of the reason the police have been militarized. Strategic Planners reach into the future as far as they can. And with 55 studies known, and an unknown number in the secret literature, the climate change violence linkage is becoming accepted wisdom. Militarizing the police is the obvious move, particularly in a country filled with guns, militias, and roaring boys.

Climate Change And Rising Violence Are Linked, According To 55 Scientific Studies

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2014/10/222014/10/22

Isaac Asimov: How Do People Get New Ideas?

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Salon Summary:

Never-before-published Isaac Asimov essay reveals the secret to true creativity

EXTRACT:

To cultivate group creativity he believes the perfect human petri-dish is one of ease and relaxation:

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2014/10/21

David Brin: An Unstable World? NOT WORRIED — Starting with Russia…

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An Unstable World? Part One: Russia

Some folks have lately asked why I seem so calm, when every week brings news of yet another brewing disaster, with the world apparently spinning into chaos. So much for Francis Fukayama's famous line – around 1990 – that the rapid and unstoppable spread of liberal democracy would soon bring an “end of history.”

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2014/10/21

Anthony Judge: Systemic Equivalences between Ebola, Alien Invasion and Dissidence – Strategic implications of seemingly disparate forms of terrorism

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Systemic Equivalences between Ebola, Alien Invasion and Dissidence

Strategic implications of seemingly disparate forms of terrorism

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2014/10/21

Jean Lievens: Nora McDevitt on Living in the 21st Century – The Sharing Economy, Peer to Peer, Climate Change, and The Last 5 Billion

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Living in the 21st Century: The Sharing Economy, Peer to Peer, Climate Change, and The Last 5 Billion

EXTRACT

This fast-moving, transformative, technological revolution will continue to unseat the old paradigm in ways that we have only begun to fathom. The old model of leadership enforces a top-down paradigm, and coined by Shepard Fairley as “Obey,” is crumbling. Unlike the industrial era, under this new model we create lateral networks. We are living at the dawn of a new era. While it will bring with it a unique set of problems, challenges and difficulties to overcome, it marks a shift into a new epoch in human evolution.

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Graphic: Epoch B Swarm Leadership

2014/10/15

Anthony Judge: Representation of Creative Processes through Dynamics in Three Dimensions Global insight from spherical reframing of mandalas, the zodiac and the enneagram

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Representation of Creative Processes through Dynamics in Three Dimensions

Global insight from spherical reframing of mandalas, the zodiac and the enneagram

Introduction
Global insight implied by circular representation
Spherical mapping of conditions traditionally associated with the zodiac
Relevance to change, learning and creativity
Transcending polar preoccupation
Imagining the nature of cognitive “flight” in terms of the enneagram
Cognitive navigation?
Meaningful cognitive navigation
References

2014/10/13

Owl: Dmitry Orlov on Ebola and Five Stages of Collapse — Financial, Commercial, Political, Social, Cultural

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Dmitry Orlov on Ebola and the Five Stages of Collapse

Orlov is one of the best futurists writing on society collapse, having witnessed and personally experienced the collapse of the Soviet Union. His book, Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Collapse-Experience-American-Prospects/dp/0865716854, is one of the best ever written in the collapse genre and necessary reading for anyone who is interested in this theme.

In 2008 he came up the a taxonomy of collapse, which he says occurs in 5 stages. The full article is here, http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2008/02/five-stages-of-collapse.html and he has a book on it too.

Below is a summary of his five stages of collapse:

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