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300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

This is something I've been seeing postings about for the last few days. It directly relates to a lecture Aldous Huxley gave in 1962 at UC Berkley. I'm saying this relates because the is a portion where he talks about getting the people to love their servitude. In these exercises, volunteers will be the victims.

Preparing for Major Terrorism Exercises Three Cities

The federal government has begun preparing three U.S. cities for large-scale, 10-day terrorism-response exercises scheduled this month.

Beginning sometime between May 7 and May 29, local, state and top level federal authorities will respond to simulated weapons of mass destruction attacks in three cities — Denver, Portsmouth, N.H., and the Washington, D.C.-area.

Denver or Portsmouth will face either a simulated biological or a chemical weapons attack. The D.C. metropolitan area will respond to a radiological attack drill — which could range from simply an exposed container of radioactive material to a small nuclear detonation.

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2013/04/232013/04/23

Jean Lievins: Social Innovation Management

Academia, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics

Post-Graduate Certificate in Social Innovation Management

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2013/04/192013/04/19

Anthony Judge: Questions Authorities Refuse to Answer — Questions that Demand Answers

#OSE Open Source Everything, Academia, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement, Media, Military, Non-Governmental

Strategic Implications of 12 Unasked Questions in Response to Disaster

Produced on the occasion of publication of an analysis of What Went Wrong in Afghanistan (Foreign Policy, March/April 2013)
and of investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings (April 2013)

Checklist of questions

1. What questions have not been asked?

2. Is any checklist of questions, asked and unasked, maintained as a source of collective learning?

3. Who ensured that the unasked questions were designed off the table?

4. What agenda is served by not asking particular questions?

5. What pressures are applied to those endeavouring to ask those questions, and what penalties result from asking them?

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2013/04/14

John Steiner: Corporate Personhood Denied in Pennsylvania — States Begin to Reject Supreme Court Corruption — Possible Litmus Test for 2014 Congressional Elections

Civil Society, Commerce, Ethics, Government, Law Enforcement

Do click on below to read the full, encouraging ad inspiring report…relevant for fracking, shale gas, factory farming, sludge dumping, large scale water withdrawals and industrial scale energy projects.

Dear Friends,

Last week, a Pennsylvania county court declared that corporations are not ³persons² under the Pennsylvania Constitution, and therefore, that corporations cannot elevate their ³private rights² above the rights of people. In a landmark ruling, President Judge Debbie O¹Dell-Seneca of the Washington County Court of Common Pleas denied the corporation¹s request on the basis that the Pennsylvania Constitution only protects the rights of people, not business entities. This same decision must be made in thousands of other courts across our country to lay the fallacy of “corporate personhood” to rest for good, but I am so grateful to this person of integrity for standing in the “jaws of the beast” and declaring the truth. And I am also grateful to the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) for their generous work in helping communities across the country adopt Community Bills of Rights that ban such projects as fracking, sludge dumping and other as violations of the community¹s right to a sustainable energy and farming future. Please take the time to read the language of Judge Debbie O'Dell-Seneca's decision. It is beautiful and inspiring and true.

2013/04/14

SchwartzReport: USA at Bottom in Child Well Being — and Tops in Military Spending, Imprisonment, Divorce, and Obesity

06 Family, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Government, Ineptitude

U.S. Ranks Near Bottom of UNICEF Report on Child Well-being
KATIE MCDONOUGH, Assistant Editor – Salon

The cliché holds that: Our children are our future. If that is true we don't have much of a future. We don't seem to give a damn about our children and, as the UNICEF report makes clear, it shows.

The United States ranked in the bottom four of a United Nations report on child well-being. Among 29 countries, America landed second from the bottom in child poverty and held a similarly dismal position when it came to ‘child life satisfaction.”

Keeping the U.S. company at the bottom of the report, which gauged material well-being, overall health, access to housing and education, were Lithuania, Latvia and Romania, three of the poorest countries in the survey.

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2013/04/132013/04/13

Mini-Me: Guantanamo & New York — Two Sides of Criminal Insanity

04 Education, 11 Society, Academia, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Military

Huh?

Detainees, U.S. guards clash at Guantanamo Bay

Carlos Warner, a U.S. lawyer representing some of those detainees, told CNN late last month detainees have become increasingly frustrated with “very dire, dire conditions” and their sense that the current legal process leaves them in limbo indefinitely.

“It leaves them with the prospect of the only way we leave Guantanamo is death,” Warner said. “Unfortunately, I think the men are ready to embrace this.”

Berto Jongman: US Army Strategy Confernce YouTube (1:34:03) State-Sponsored Crime and Non-State Actors – Gangs, Guns, & Graft

10 Transnational Crime, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Military

Panel V – State Sponsored Crime and Non-State Actors: Gangs, Guns, and Graft
Chair: Dr. Stephen Blank, SSI, U.S. Army War College
Panelists: Edward Lucas, The Economist; Karen Saunders, Forum Foundation for Analytic Excellence; Douglas Farah, International Assessment and Strategy Center

See Also: “Many Dangers, Little Money: Strategic Choices During the Interwar Years” The first panel of the 2013 Army War College Strategy Conference- Panelists – Dr. Conrad Crane, U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center; Dr. Robert Citino, University of North Texas; Dr. Michael Neiberg, U.S. Army War College; Dr. Tami Biddle, U.S. Army War College