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Analyzing Crisis Hashtags on Twitter

Hashtag footprints can be revealing. The map below, for example, displays the top 200 locations in the world with the most Twitter hashtags. The top 5 are Sao Paolo, London, Jakarta, Los Angeles and New York.

A recent study (PDF) of 2 billion geo-tagged tweets and 27 million unique hashtags found that “hashtags are essentially a local phenomenon with long-tailed life spans.” The analysis also revealed that hashtags triggered by external events like disasters “spread faster than hashtags that originate purely within the Twitter network itself.” Like other metadata, hashtags can be informative in and of themselves. For example, they can provide early warning signals of social tensions in Egypt, as demonstrated in this study. So might they also reveal interesting patterns during and after major disasters?

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2013/07/102013/07/10

SchwartzReport: Life – Simplicity within Complication

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The most important point in this article is in the last paragraph: “Life does not exist in a laboratory vacuum, where scientists can pare away genes to some Platonic purity. Life exists in a tapestry, and the species with the smallest genomes in the world survive only because they are nestled in life’s net.”
We live in a network of interdependent interconnected life.

How Simple Can Life Get? It’s Complicated
CARL ZIMMER – The New York Times

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2013/07/092013/07/09

John Steiner: One Hundred Sustainable Solutions — and One Person’s Top Ten

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

Sustainia100 Free Online Read of PDF Download

One Person's Top Ten from the Sustainia 100

Our favorite:

(9) The Savory Institute is working with sheep producers in Argentina to restore 40 million acres of grassland, so helping to deal with the world’s serious desertification crisis (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/16/desertification-climate-change?INTCMP=SRCH). They do this by putting animals on the land and teaching farmers to use the animals’ natural output to accelerate grassification of the land. http://www.savoryinstitute.com/what-we-do/

2013/07/092013/07/09

Medard Gabel: Eighteen Strategies for Confronting the Major Systemic Problems Confronting Humanity

Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Bottom line: for one third of what we spend on war, we can eradicate all ten high level threats to humanity.

Introduction What We Have and What We Want Synergies of the Whole
1. Eliminate Starvation and Malnourishment 2. Provide Health Care & AIDS Control 3. Provide Shelter 4. Provide Clean Safe Water 5. Eliminate Illiteracy 6. Provide Clean, Safe Energy: Efficiency 7. Provide Clean, Safe Energy: Renewables 8. Retire Developing Nations Debt 9. Stabilize Population		10. Prevent Soil Erosion 11. Stop Deforestation 12. Stop Ozone Depletion 13. Prevent Acid Rain 14. Prevent Global Warming 15. Remove Landmines 16. Refugee Relief 17. Eliminating Nuclear Weapons 18. Build Democracy
Credits, Major References & Footnotes

Here is a more recent graphic from Medard Gabel:

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2013/07/082013/07/09

2013 Robert Steele Reflections on [Search:] non+traditional+threat 1.2

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence, Searches, Threats

ROBERT STEELE: I have elected to answer this personally. It may well be the most fundamental question this web site has received in that any corruption in the answer to this question assures the failure of any strategy, policy, acquisition, or operation that is spawned from an inherently corrupt — a deliberately corrupt — refusal to take the question seriously.

There are several ways to address this. The first is the most obvious, which is to say that the traditional threat is state on state conventional forces, and the non-traditional threats are everything else. Here in one chart is what General Al Gray, USMC, then Commandant of the Marine Corps, with my assistance as his ghost-writer, put in “Global Intelligence Challenges in the 1990's” (American Intelligence Journal, Winter 1989-1990).

The whole point of that article was to suggest that both the US Intelligence Community and the US Department of Defense needed to radically alter how they trained, equipped, and organized. I now realize that it was corruption, not stupidity, that buried this message. As SOCOM and Navy Irregular Warfare said in defending their decision not to go after the Somali pirates from 2005-2008 and later, “it's not an expensive enough problem.”

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2013/07/07

Jean Lievens: Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence, Worth A Look

Available Now!

A Collection of Essays
Edited by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

The Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh was asked what we need to do to save our world.

“What we most need to do,” he replied,

“is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.”

Our present ecological crisis is the greatest man-made disaster this planet has ever faced—its accelerating climate change, species depletion, pollution and acidification of the oceans. A central but rarely addressed aspect of this crisis is our forgetfulness of the sacred nature of creation, and how this affects our relationship to the environment. There is a pressing need to articulate a spiritual response to this ecological crisis. This is vital and necessary if we are to help bring the world as a living whole back into balance.

Contributors include: Chief Oren Lyons, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sandra Ingerman, Joanna Macy, Sister Miriam MacGillis, Satish Kumar, Vandana Shiva, Fr. Richard Rohr, Bill Plotkin, Jules Cashford, Wendell Berry, Winona LaDuke, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Brian Swimme, and others.

2013/07/03

SchwartzReport: US Agriculture — Industrialized Food Combined with Gestapo Tactics Against Small Farms & Interstate Transport — Threatens Public Health

01 Agriculture, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Law Enforcement

The food trend becomes ever more alarming. For people like Ronlyn and myself, who eat out of our garden, it has little impact, but for millions who don't have that option, the story is becoming ever bleaker. The Obama Administration's active complicity in this trend should be a national scandal.

Industrialized Food for Profit Threatens Our Health
DAVID GUMPERT – truthout

Full story and book cover with Amazon link below the line.

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