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Libya, Water, and War + RECAP

08 Wild Cards, 12 Water, Earth Intelligence, IO Sense-Making
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Libya: Water Emerges as a Hidden Weapon

Sunday 29 May 2011

by: Simba Russeau, Inter Press Service

Photo: Libyan postcard artwork representing the Great Man-Made River project. (Photo: sludgegulper)

Cairo – Libya’s enormous aquatic reserves could potentially become a new weapon of choice if government forces opt to starve coastal cities that heavily rely on free flowing freshwater.

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BRICS Revolt on IMF–Tipping Point?

Advanced Cyber/IO, Communities of Practice, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics

BRICS' open revolt against European grip on IMF

Narayan Lakshman

The Hindu, 26 May 2011

Paris: The International Monetary Fund's Executive Directors from the BRICS economies have openly revolted against the prospect of the Fund's Managing Director role reverting to a European, deepening the woes of an organisation that was recently rocked to its very core by the resignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn as its chief following sexual assault allegations.

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Phi Beta Iota: The BRICS [Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa] are now powerful enough to route around the West, but have not yet created a coherent multinational information sharing and sense-making capability such that they can confront the West in real-time with every lie to the public.  When that happens, and it will happen within five years, we anticipate a complete shift in power to the south and the east.  A near term test could be the illegal military actions against the Libyan leader, government, and capital.  The era of “because we say so is coming to an end.”  The era of direct assaults on NATO soil of “rear-area” launching pads and support facilities is here now.

See Also:

From BRIC to BRICS–Sanya Declaration

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New Concept: Holding Experts Accountable

03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Academia, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Earth Intelligence, Ethics

(AP) – 25 May 2011

ROME (AP) — Seven scientists and other experts were indicted on manslaughter charges Wednesday for allegedly failing to sufficiently warn residents before a devastating earthquake that killed more than 300 people in central Italy in 2009.

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Essential Tenets for Maintaining our Common Good

03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Other Atrocities, Communities of Practice, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Policies
Jock Gill

Greater Democracy

Monday 23 May 2011

Essential Tenets for Maintaining our Common Good

An essay written by Alan Page

Introduction:

The “common good” is the collection of what no one person owns, but which all people depend upon for life.  A simple example is the air we breathe.  No one owns it but we would all perish without it.  Now the “common good” is being threatened by many different human activities and policies. Some of these include:

 

  • The evolving climate crisis that will affect us all.  Just a shift of a few degrees in the global temperature could deliver a fatal blow to the “common good” by changing what is now a benign climate into a hostile one that can no longer sustain “life as we know it”.
  • The periodic business cycle causes many dislocations that are unnecessary but unavoidable given the current banking system.
  • Less commonly known and generally off the table is the currency and credit formation function and the ramifications of this prime control system.
  • The implications for all other functions are very poorly understood, and will be a major consideration of the TENETS.
  • This compound crisis must be dealt with as if it were a life and death matter.

 

 

This document provides some guidance for how to enable humanity to act responsibly in a coordinated fashion without deprivation of anyone’s rights.  An attempt is made to recognize the sources of control and motivation that exist and how to enable effective response as if our lives depended on it.

The PDF of the whole essay is here: Tenets CGF101110.pdf

Alan C. Page, Ph.D.
Research Forester

Phi Beta Iota: The full essay contains some very well-developed itemized measures of merit and we strongly second Brother Jock's recommendation.

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Denmark to Claim North Pole–Really BAD Idea

06 Russia, 08 Wild Cards, Civil Society, Earth Intelligence, Government, IO Multinational, Strategy
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Denmark to lay claim to North Pole

CNN, May 18th, 2011

The Kingdom of Denmark is preparing to claim ownership of the North Pole, according to a Danish media report.

In a document leaked to the Danish newspaper Information, Denmark will ask the United Nations to recognize the North Pole as a geologic extension of Greenland, the vast Arctic island that is a Danish territory. Danish Foreign Minister Lene Espersen confirmed the annexation attempt, Information reported.

According to The Copenhagen Post, “The kingdom is expected to make a demand for the continental shelf in five areas around the Faroe Islands and Greenland, including the North Pole itself.”

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Phi Beta Iota: As much as we respect the Danish, this is a very BAD idea and should be promptly rejected (and vetoed) by the members of the UN Security Council.  Both the North and the South regions are perfectly positioned to be what they have always been–commons–and to be administered by a hybrid trust that relies on transparency, truth, and trust to assure both regions are not “owned” by any mere state, but rather held in trust for all.  How these two regions are managed could ultimately be a model for how we mange the Earth as a whole.