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Berto Jongman: YouTube (7:20) Intuitive Intelligence

Cultural Intelligence, YouTube
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

The Heart's Intuitive Intelligence: A path to personal, social and global coherence

Published on Apr 22, 2013

The Spiritual Heart — is in a way a little like a smart phone, invisibly connecting us to a large network of information. It is through an unseen energy that the heart emits that humans are profoundly connected to all living things. The energy of the heart literally links us to each other. Every person's heart contributes to a ‘collective field environment.' This short video explains the importance of this connection and how we each add to this collective energy field. The energetic field of the heart even connects us with the earth itself.

The Institute of HeartMath (http://www.heartmath.org) is helping provide a more comprehensive picture of this connection between all living things through a special science-based project called the Global Coherence Initiative (http:///www.glcoherence.org.) They hope to help explain the mysteries of this connection between people and the earth…and even the sun.

Scientists at the Institute of HeartMath (IHM) have already conducted extensive research on the power of heart, the heart/brain connection, heart intelligence and practical intuition.

Whether personal relationships, social connections, or even the global community – we are all connected through a field of electromagnetic energy. Increasing individual awareness of what we bring to this field environment could be the key to creating a sustainable future, a future that we can be proud to have helped create. Learn more about this research, http://www.heartmath.org/heart-intell…, scroll to bottom of the page.

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Dan Zak: Prophets of Oak Ridge – Activists as Terrorists — Conscience vs. Courts

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Dan Zak
Dan Zak

This is the story of two competing worldviews, of conscience vs. court, of fantasy vs. reality, of history vs. the future.

The Prophets of Oak Ridge

Dan Zak

Washington Post, 30 April 2013

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Last summer, in the dead of night, three peace activists penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the United States. A drifter, an 82-year-old nun and a house painter. They face trial next week on charges that fall under the sabotage section of the U.S. criminal code. And if they had been terrorists armed with explosives, intent on mass destruction? That nightmare scenario underlies the government’s response to the intrusion. This is the story of two competing worldviews, of conscience vs. court, of fantasy vs. reality, of history vs. the future.

“It’s idolatry, putting trust in weapons. And weapons are made like gods. … Weapons are always false gods because they make money. It’s profiteering.”Sister Megan Rice

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John Maguire: Honoring Joe Bageant

Cultural Intelligence
John Maguire
John Maguire

Although you may never have heard of him, Joe Bageant was perhaps the preeminent gonzo-journalist and moral-voice of his generation. Author of Deer Hunting With Jesus and Rainbow Pie, Joe quietly led one of the most experience-rich lives you could imagine. He grew up in the hard-knocks region of West Virginia; he joined the Navy as an under-age teenager during wartime; he lived in Colorado during the 1960s in a broke-down bus, worked as a beat-writer, and kept company with some of the greatest counter-cultural American icons including Hunter S Thompson and Timothy Leary.

Not only this, he was one of the most thoughtful, sober, and brutally honest chroniclers of the United States' descent into a consumerist/corporatist police-state. The video linked below is only a brief sampling of some of Joe's thoughts/feelings on what America has become since WWII, and the challenges that stand before us in saving our collective futures.

Joe passed away two years and one month ago from cancer.  His website lives on.  Here is one audio with him on mutated consciousness and willing prisoners of predatory (extractive) capitalism.

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Dolphin: The Most Important LinkedIn Page You’ve Never Seen

Cultural Intelligence
YARC YARC
YARC YARC

Definitely worth a look!  Important information for individuals seeking employment in troubled economic times.

The Most Important LinkedIn Page You’ve Never Seen

Tucked behind your professional, yet pretty, profile picture, the descriptions of all your past jobs, and that column of “People You May Know” is a section of LinkedIn that most people have never heard of, let alone seen. And yet it’s the real reason why you should actually care about sprucing up your LinkedIn profile and network.

Dubbed LinkedIn Recruiter, it’s the company’s flagship product and the core of the professional social network’s Talent Solutions. Talent Solutions drive just over half of LinkedIn’s revenue, $161 million in the last quarter. While any LinkedIn user can see jobs and the pages companies build for themselves, Recruiter is only visible to companies that pay to use LinkedIn as a candidate sourcing and hiring tool.

Recruiter is a bit like a two-way mirror where companies and recruiters can see all of your profile information, without you knowing they’re checking you out. For example, recruiters can search for people with specific skill sets, flag them and add a dossier to their profile — all without that person knowing. They can all of the jobs they’ve listed and people they’re watching. Sure, there is a “Who’s Viewed Your Profile,” but those using LinkedIn Recruiter can make themselves anonymous (as can paying LinkedIn premium account members).

LinkedIn wants to make sure those well-paying recruiters and companies have the best possible experience so that they stick around, maybe even tell their HR buddies. To that end, LinkedIn recently unveiled a refreshed Recruiter home page more in line with its consumer-facing products.

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David Swanson: The Revolution Note Being Televised (US Protesters Going to Jail)

07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics
David Swanson
David Swanson

The Revolution That's Not Being Televised

Hundreds gathered in Dallas to reject the Bush Lie Bury, and three went to jail.  I flew from Dallas to Syracuse, where hundreds protested Obama's drone-murder program, and 32 went to jail and are still there (and will stay until trial unless bail can be raised) — some of them risk major jail time because they violated a protective order that the commander of a U.S. military base gained to protect himself from nonviolent peace activists.  Another drone protester in Missouri, Brian Terrell, is just finishing a six-month sentence.  Climate activist Tim DeChristopher just got out.  The people locked in Guantanamo are refusing to eat, and groups around the world are making plans to fast with them.  The people of Vieques are rallying on May 1st to demand that the U.S. military truly depart their island.  Big plans are being made to rally for Bradley Manning on June 1st.  This week I'm heading to the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee's meeting in North Carolina, after which — just over in Tennessee — three courageous activists go on trial, facing major time in prison, for having entered and protested a nuclear weapons facility.

The revolution will not be televised.

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Chuck Spinney: Iraq Army Losing North, Partition Being Discussed

09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Military
Chuck Spinney
Chuck Spinney

The author of the attached report, Patrick Cockburn, is one of very best reporters reporting on the Middle East, and perhaps the most knowledgeable on Iraq.  This is a very important report, in my opinion.

Partition could really have a destabilizing influence on the entire Arab region, but especially Syria, as well as non-Arab Turkey.  The neocon (and Israeli) dream enhancing Israeli security by breaking up the Muslim state system into a directionless mass of insecure weak warring statelets may well be on its way to fruition.  Next stop – Iran????

Chuck Spinney
Marina di Ragusa, Sicilia

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Iraqi army losing hold on north to Sunni and Kurdish rebels as troops desert

Patrick Cockburn

Sunday, 28 April 2013

Soldiers are deserting a beleaguered Iraqi army as it struggles to keep its hold on the northern half of Iraq in the face of escalating hostility from Sunni Arabs and Kurds who dominate in the region.

Around the oil city of KirkukKurdish troops have advanced south to take over military positions abandoned by the army, while in Baghdad senior Iraqi politicians say that for the first time there is talk of partitioning the country.

The current crisis was sparked on 23 April when the Iraqi army attacked a sit-in protest in the Sunni Arab town of Hawijah, killing at least 50 people and injuring 110. Outraged Sunni Arab protesters have since stepped up their demonstrations against the Shia-led government. Demonstrators are increasingly protected by armed men, some of whom are accused of dragging five military intelligence soldiers in civilian clothes from a car that came near a protest in Fallujah and killing them.

There are signs that the Iraqi army can no longer cope with a crisis in which it is confronting both Sunni Arabs and Kurds.Many soldiers prefer to desert the army rather than shoot at protesters said Najmaldin Karim, the Kurdish Governor of Kirkuk, where Hawijah is situated, in an interview with The Independent. Most deserters are Sunni, Mr Karim said, but he added that some are Shia who don’t want to fight in strange places for something they don’t believe in. 

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SmartPlanet: The rise and $23 billion fall of text messaging

Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence

smartplanet logoThe rise and $23 billion fall of text messaging

Text messaging, the 20-year-old thumb-happy talk replacement that radically changed people’s communications habits and enriched cellphone carriers, is on a decline.

Mobile operators like Verizon and Vodafone lost a combined $23 billion of potential revenue in 2012 as users opted for other ways to send short notes to each other, market research firm Ovum notes, as reported by the BBC.

The latest thing in thumbs. "Chat apps" like WhatsApp overtook text messaging in 2012.
The latest thing in thumbs. “Chat apps” like WhatsApp overtook text messaging in 2012.

Many phone owners switched to “chat apps.”

“Instant messaging on chat apps, such as WhatsApp, has overtaken the traditional SMS text message for the first time,” writes the BBC, attributing that finding to another research firm, Informa.

Chat apps carried 19 billion missives a day in 2012 compared to 17.6 billion for texts, Informa notes.

Next year the gap will widen, to 50 billion versus 21 billion, the research firm predicts. Other chat app providers include Viber and KiK, all competing against services like Apple’s iMessage, Blackberry Messenger and Facebook Chat Heads in an assault on texts, notes the Financial Times

Don’t toll the bell just yet. Texting is still rising, and revenue will hit $127 billion in 2016, up from $115 billion last year, Informa forecasts. While chat apps are popular among smartphone users, consumers in emerging economies with simpler phones will keep text messaging alive for now. Businesses are also considering increasing their use of text messaging because it works on all phones.

“There are a few things that, I think, will keep the SMS alive for a few years yet,” says Informa’s Pamela Clark-Dickson

A few years? Oh how the mighty will fall. What’s next, a Twitter tailspin?

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