Berto Jongman: What Do Afghan Insurgents Want?

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 11 Society, Academia, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, IO Deeds of Peace, Peace Intelligence
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Understanding Afghan Insurgents – Motivations, Goals, and the Reconciliation and Reintegration Process

Who Are They? What Do They Want? Why Do They Fight?

This paper presents the results of 78 in-depth interviews conducted with self-identified Afghan insurgents. If the interviewees are indeed representative of broader Taliban sentiments, then the future of Afghanistan is grim. It appears that only the return of a ‘pious’ Islamic government will satisfy them.

Author: Andrew Garfield, Alicia Boyd

Series: FPRI Monographs and Essays Issue: 3

Mini-Me: NSA-Google-MIT Can Now Plant False Memories

Academia, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics
Who?  Mini-Me?
Who? Mini-Me?

Huh?

MIT scientists implant a false memory into a mouse’s brain

Sometime soon, a lab mouse could wake up thinking he had snuggled up to a girl mouse the night before. But he hadn’t. The memory would be fake.

Scientists have successfully implanted a false memory into a mouse’s brain — a seemingly far-fetched idea reminiscent of a science fiction film.

Click on Image to Enlarge
Click on Image to Enlarge

“If mice had Hollywood, this would be ‘Inception’ for them,” said one of the lead researchers, MIT neuroscientist Steve Ramirez, whose study was published online Thursday in the journal Science.

Ramirez and his colleagues tagged brain cells associated with a specific memory and then tweaked that memory to make the mouse believe something had happened when it hadn’t.

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SchwartzReport: University of California Betrays Public

Academia, Corruption

schwartz reportI have done numerous articles in SR, and written my own essays (See: An Appraisal of The Illness Profit System. http://www.explorejournal.com/article/S1550-8307%2810%2900291-0/fulltext) on the corruption of science in the service of corporate interests. Here is the latest.

Public Research for Private Gain
DARWIN BOND GRAHAM – East Bay Express

EXTRACT:

In a unanimous vote last month, the Regents of the University of California created a corporate entity that, if spread to all UC campuses as some regents envision, promises to further privatize scientific research produced by taxpayer-funded laboratories. The entity, named Newco for the time being, also would block a substantial amount of UC research from being accessible to the public, and could reap big profits for corporations and investors that have ties to the well-connected businesspeople who will manage it.

Sepp Hasslberger: Vaccines do Irreparable Harm + Vaccine Harm RECAP

03 Economy, 06 Family, 07 Health, 11 Society, Academia, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Media
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

When will government health departments start paying attention?

Vaccines Do Irreparable Harm: Study from Poland

A new scientific review from Poland discusses irreparable harm done by vaccines.

This review addresses the issue in terms of adverse effects, immune system effects, neurological symptoms following vaccination, and a history of vaccines demonstrating little benefit. It centers mostly on studies not often referenced in the western world, providing fresh and broad-ranging information.

An honest reading of the study can leave little doubt that harm done may be extensive and often permanent.

Read full article detailing adverse effects.

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Patrick Meier: 4G Humanitarian Technology Briefing (99 Slides with Words in Notes Format)

Academia, Advanced Cyber/IO
Patrick Meier
Patrick Meier

ROBERT STEELE:  I had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Patrick Meier speak at the National Defense University (NDU) this past Thursday.  He is based in Qatar because the US Government is not very good at spotting, assessing, recruiting, and respecting world-class individual talents.  Patrick is a global asset.  What he knows about humanitarian technology is priceless.  Below is Patrick's “long” briefing, 99 slides, with words in Notes format.

4G Humanitarian Technology

During the Q&A one of the NDU staff asked Dr. Meier if he had considered asking NSA for help [I don't make this stuff up.]  In the ensuing discussion what was really clear to me is  that the the pioneers in humanitarian technology not only do not need anything NSA has to offer, but they are far advanced — vastly advanced — beyond anything the US secret intelligence community is capable of doing.  CLARIFICATION BY DR. MEIER:  Point is we don't need half as advanced tech/methods to do what we currently need to do, much of this commercially available already and slowly coming to open source world as well.

meier-smarmie-2013-v41-1Among the highlights for me personally:

01  Every image taken by a cell phone is capable of having the geospatial coordinates and the time and date stamped within the image.  This feature is turned off on most cell phones.  We need to find a way for individuals to be able to easily activate the feature.  If we can ever get The Virgin Truth off the ground, I'd like to see the OpenBTS cell phones given out free pre-set to this function — its value in relation to early warning on crop or animal disease as well as very rapid situational awareness when many images are coming is, cannot be exaggerated.

02  When humanitarian technologist talk about geo-tagging, they are talking about hash-tags and words added by the sender they are NOT talking about embedded geospatial code.  Some in the audience did not appear to understand this distinction, at least one clearly did.

03  Some — at least as represented in this room by the most talkative among a small handful — are spectacularly ignorant about what NSA cannot and does not do, and about the limitations of big data (legacy) versus big data (real time).  They are particularly limited in understanding that one human brain is vastly more powerful than any single NSA computer, and that a thousand or ten thousand or a hundred thousand human minds, organized voluntarily and coherently

There are very few people that I consider spectacularly gifted and relevant to the creation of a World Brain and Global Game.  Medard Gabel is one of them.  Patrick Meier is another.

Berto Jongman: Deviant Globalization + Legalized Crime Meta-RECAP

01 Poverty, 02 Infectious Disease, 03 Environmental Degradation, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 06 Genocide, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Academia, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Law Enforcement, Media, Military, Non-Governmental
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Not new, but now becoming more transparent to the public.

Book: Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century (2011)

Criminals of the World Unite: A smart member of the global warrior elite “discovers” the next big threat

Myths of Terrorism

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Berto Jongman: Scientists Decide to Create Replacement Human, Ignore High-Level Threats to Humanity

Academia, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Blind science?  Or unethical science?

2045: A New Era for Humanity

Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies, 4 June 2013

In February of 2012 the first Global Future 2045 Congress was held in Moscow. There, over 50 world leading scientists from multiple disciplines met to develop a strategy for the future development of humankind. One of the main goals of the Congress was to construct a global network of scientists to further research on the development of cybernetic technology, with the ultimate goal of transferring a human’s individual consciousness to an artificial carrier.

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