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2013/06/252016/02/14

2013 Robert Steele: $500 Million to Resettle 1 Million on a Moonscape with Sun, Dirt, & Salt Water….Exploring the Practical Edge of Intelligence with Integrity — 2.0 Habitat Cost Sheet Posted

OUR OBJECTIVE: Figure out how to take one million people out of a virtual hell and resettle them into a virtual heaven, using only $500 million ($500 per person), and three ingredients available in plentitude: sunlight, barren earth, and salt water. Begin within 90 days and finish within two years. In so doing, create the playbook for addressing the needs of the two billion extreme poor so as to end the migration pressures on Australia, Europe, Russia, Turkey, and the USA.*

SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/500-Civilization

* Three hard things in one package: # of people, fixed low-cost per person, and zero base start — in the middle of a moonscape with no supporting foundation. This is about speed & scale combined, and open source and low cost per person plus assured sustainability combined. A non-trivial challenge no one else has addressed.

INTRODUCTION:

Both human understanding and critical technologies have advanced far beyond the understanding of most academics, civil organizations including labor unions and religions, corporations, governments, law enforcement, media, the military, and non-government/non-profit organizations.

Hybrid public governance rooted in open-source decision-support — legal ethical evidence-based decision-support — is the wave of the future that we must all ride if we are to prosper.

My email is robert.david.steele.vivas [at] gmail [dot] com. I seek to attract ideas from those who believe, as I do, that there is plenty of money to create a prosperous world at peace — we simply lack applied intelligence with integrity across all traditional organizations. There are new leaders in place who appear disposed to listen. The time for Alternative C2, Open Source Everything (technical), and M4IS2 (human factor) has arrived.

Three big things have changed:

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2013/05/312013/05/31

Search: Development at Gunpoint – Why Civilians Must Reclaim Stabilization Aid

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Development at Gunpoint – Why Civilians Must Reclaim Stabilization Aid

Michael Young

Foreign Affairs, December 19, 2010

The current multibillion-dollar campaign to counter transnational terrorism, defeat insurgencies, and stabilize fragile states blends diplomacy, defense, and development. A principal tool in this vast effort is humanitarian and development assistance — what has come to be known as militarized aid. Flows of aid to fragile states have grown significantly over the past decade and are increasingly concentrated on a few frontline countries. The rhetoric of foreign assistance policymakers is infused with terminology derived from national security and counterterrorism doctrine. Defense ministries now control vast aid budgets.

Militarized aid is delivered by soldiers or private contractors at the behest of a political-military leadership. In Afghanistan, for example, the Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) weld military, aid agency, and contractor components to multiply force where, in the words of U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, ”the U.S. military’s ability to kick down the door [must be] matched by its ability to clean up the mess and even rebuild the house afterward.” Yet it is unclear whether militarized aid is effective. In research carried out for the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University, Andrew Wilder dubbed militarized aid ”a ‘weapons system’ based on wishful thinking.” And it appears increasingly evident that such aid actually damages the greater stabilization effort in three ways: it erodes humanitarian principles, spreads risk, and is often of poor quality.

Humanitarian principles are derived from the laws of war. These principles include, among others, humanity (aid must save lives and alleviate suffering), impartiality (aid is based solely on need), and independence (aid is not suborned to political or military objectives). These are not abstract, do-good notions. They are born of conflict, and there are hardheaded reasons why they define a civilian space for aid.

Adhering to these tenets assures those in war-torn communities that the primary interest of aid workers is helping civilians survive with dignity. As a result, they grant humanitarian organizations access and protect aid workers’ safety. They may even mediate with armed opposition groups on the aid organizations’ behalf. This is how relief agencies continue to operate in violent places such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan.

Even given the best intentions, massive budgets and pressure to spend almost always translate into ineffective use of funds.

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2013/05/272013/05/27

Mini-Me: African Union at 50 — Anti-NATO Anti-EU or an EU-NATO ACT Opportunity? How Should EU-NATO Engage BRICS Over Africa?

Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

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Africa and U.S. Imperialism – Post-Colonial Crises and the Imperatives of the African Revolution (AllAfrica)

Africa: Celebrating Tajudeen, the OAU and AU – Which Way Africa? (AllAfrica)

Africa Must Guarantee Her Own Security (AllAfrica)

Africa rises as BRICS countries set up a different development aid model (Kenya Daily Nation)

African Union and EU to Strengthen Trade and Economic Links (AllAfrica)

African Union can halt NATO imperialism (Iran Press TV video and transcript)

Africa: The Organization of African Unity (OAU)/African Union at 50 (AllAfrica)

Africa: The Other Side of the Coin – Celebrating 50 Years Without the Same Recognition From Its Western Counterparts (AllAfrica)

Analysis: Africa defense force never more needed but still a paper tiger (defenceWeb)

Angola: University Lecture Releases “African Union, Quo Vadis?” Essay (AllAfrica)

At South Africa summit, lack of cohesion weighs heavily on the BRICS (Christian Science Monitor)

Brazil writes off $900mn African debt (The BRICS Post)

Brics and Africa: a winning partnership against hunger? (The Guardian)

Brics bank seen to spur tourism (Calcutta The Telegraph)

BRICS chafe under charge of “new imperialists” in Africa (Reuters)

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2013/05/222013/05/22

Sterling Seagrave: OSINT & Truth Network (Bottom Up) versus Fascist Coven Network (Top Down) — Adds Nordic & BENELUX, Switzerland Evaluations

#OSE Open Source Everything, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Gift Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Responding to 2013 Robert Steele Answers on OSINT to PhD Student in Denmark

You refer several times to what you call “unethical private sector parties whose only focus is on money in, not intelligence out.” This is what corrupted Truman's initiative. Covens like this go way back in history, but in the US more recently it coalesced around the group that set up the Fed, expanded to include globetrotters like Wild Bill Donovan and the Dulles Brothers. They, in turn, brought in collusion with Meyer Lansky, a merger of Mafia with highest level Masons, and a very powerful group of attorneys (Paul Helliwell, etc), financiers (Averell Harriman, etc), who were vigorously engaged in financing the Bolsheviks, the Nazis, the Fascists, Imperialists, and eventually Neo-Cons. While financing these groups to put power into dictatorship-of-the-State (everyone else being disposable serfs), they profited from moving heroin and other drugs, and siphoned off all the gold they could to personal offshore caches. In effect, this created a covert government-within-a-government, enabled them to take over mass media, and to use pharmaceuticals to stupefy the general public. The formal government of the US is now 90% corrupted into what's been called “a parliament of whores”. Huge sums provided to “rescue” Greece, etc., vanish. The coven has brought together as many fascist foreign governments as possible, so in effect it is attempting to set up its “invisible government” as the new global government. In doing so it has subverted the UN, and virtually all global organizations such as the FAO. This is why OSINT is having such a difficult time, reversing the poisonous current. The last thing the coven wants is an honest, moral, and open source of truthful information for the public.

How many and which fascist governments?

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2013/05/032013/05/03

Berto Jongman: Human Security as Paradigm for Hybrid Governance

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Human Security — A New Response to Complex Threats

Written by Sadako Ogata

Today, millions of people face extreme insecurity as a result of conflicts and economic crises — not only in acute conflicts like Syria but also in many lower-profile crises. To be sure, great strides have been made since the start of this century, notably in reducing global poverty, due in large part to the concerted action and targeted goals to be achieved by 2015 that were set in motion at the landmark 2000 UN Millennium Summit. However, there is no denying that, in too many parts of our world, the international community fails to protect people whose lives are dangerously at risk.

This calls upon us to mount a new response to meeting human needs, one that recognizes the complex nature of the problems now before us. Such a response exists in the concept of human security, which was advanced a decade ago with the release of the findings of the UN Commission on Human Security, which I co-chaired with Amartya Sen.

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2013/01/012013/01/01

Howard Rheingold: 24 Jan to 1 Mar Webinar on “Toward a Literacy of Cooperation: Introduction to Cooperation Studies”

03 Economy, 04 Education, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Gift Intelligence

We're convening “Toward a Literacy of Cooperation: Introduction to Cooperation Studies,” January 24 -March 1.

A detailed syllabus: http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/cooperation4

Cost: $300; $250 if you've taken a Rheingold U course before; $500 if your company reimburses you.

In addition to the monetary cost, a commitment to participate is required. The real magic is in learning the meta-skill of forming a learning community with strangers around the world in just a few weeks. To get the most out of this experience, you will need to devote 2-3 hours a week to reading, writing, mindmapping. It's the equivalent of a graduate-level seminar.

Read the syllabus carefully. Check the schedule. The reason I'm looking for learners three weeks early is that it works better if everyone gets a week or two head start on the readings. The community is limited to 35 learners. Although the syllabus is freely world-readable, the forums, blogs, and live-sessions are limited to committed participants. This will be the fourth time that this course has been convened. I've learned a great deal about facilitating this community from my co-learners along the way.If you are seriously interested, let me know, and I'll notify you when it's time to pay me via PayPal.

2012/12/112012/12/11

Berto Jongman: Anonymous to Leak “Unprecedented Amounts of Data” — Project Mayhem

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Officers Call, YouTube

Anonymous to Leak “Unprecedented Amounts of Data” Starting with December 10 – Video

Starting with December 10 and until December 21, Anonymous hacktivists plan on leaking “an unprecedented amount” of corporate, financial, military and state data as part of the campaign called Project Mayhem 2012.

According to the hackers, the information has been secretly gathered by whistleblowers, vigilantes and conscientious citizens.

“The global economic system will start the final financial meltdown,” the hackers stated. “People all over the world, out of fear to go bankrupt, will try to withdraw their savings from their bank accounts. This will trigger an even larger meltdown wave.”

They added, “Imagine the corrupted start to fear us. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny, but when the government fears the people, there is liberty. People shouldn't fear of their government. Governments should fear their people.”

See other Anonymous YouTubes.