The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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Food For Thought
If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally … You might live in a country run by idiots.
If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion … You might live in a country run by idiots.
If you have to show identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor or check out a library book, but not to vote who runs the government … You might live in a country run by idiots.
If the government wants to ban stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines with more than ten rounds, but gives 20 F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt … You might live in a country run by idiots.
Continue reading “Junius P. Long: Food for Thought — Is USA Run by Idiots?”
World Introversion through Paracycling
Global potential for living sustainably “outside-inside”
Introduction
Incoherence of external reality
Transformation of worldview from “inside-outside” to “outside-inside”
Imagining a window of strategic opportunity for change
Insightful confusion: outside-in, inversion, introversion?
Alleviating the “weight” of external matters
Alternation of worldview between “inside-outside” and “outside-inside”
Paradoxical cycling between “inside-outside” and “outside-inside”
Paracycling: towards a terminological and visual clarification
Sphere eversion as guide to the cognitive twist of global introversion?
Imagining transcendence appropriately challenging to comprehension
Approaches to distinguishing requisite cognitive variety
Paradoxically dynamic coherence of internalized “pantheons”
Engaging with “peaceful” and “wrathful” deities
Embodying the world as a strategic opportunity
References
Placeholder. Original site is crashing constantly today. Bottom line is that “dream” is a soft translation palatable to Westerners, the actual translation is closer to China being restored — as the Middle Kingdom has always considered itself – to the central dominating position over the world. More later.
Elizabeth Weaver Engel and Jeff De Cagna are the authors of a small but very useful guide to Content Curation originally written for membership groups, and first published in November 2012. The guide offers a good introduction to why content curation is so important, how it can help any organization and what are the key things to know about it for anyone who knows little or nothing about it. From the original PDF guide, entitled “Attention Doesn't Scale: The Role of Content Curation in Membership Associations“:
“Content curation provides a potential path to a new type of thought leadership, one that is more suited to a world where information is no longer the scarce resource. Focus is. Meaning is. Wisdom is.
But that type of support will require a signicant shift in our business models.
For decades, associations have been in the business of generating information.
Our challenge now is to transform ourselves into being in the business of sense-making, helping members distinguish what new information is most relevant and integrate that information into their mental categories, and meaning-making, helping them understand the implications of that new information for their worldviews.”
Lots of good tips, references and relevant resources listed. Provides good foundational reference for any serious business reader. Good intro to content curation. Resourceful. Informative. 8/10. Pass it on.
YouTube Z(23:41) video: The Role of Content Curation in Associations: Interview With Elizabeth Engel) by Brian Kelly of AssociationMaves.com
When NATO undertook the job of providing air support for Libyan rebels one of the actions they were tacitly supporting was the demolition of the Libyan state security apparatus. A hated tool of repression, those employed in it were slaughtered where ever they were found, offices were looted, files were burned, and systems destroyed. The effort to stabilize the country now involves their former colonial masters, the Italians, helping to rebuild this government function. Rebuilding the Libyan Intelligence provides a decent read with Italian to English translation.
Tigris & Euphrates River Basin Water Loss
From the beginning of 2003 to the end of 2009, portions of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria that lie within the Tigris and Euphrates river basins shed 117 million acre-feet of water. That’s roughly equivalent to the volume of the Dead Sea.
