Ed Jewett: Pandemic Integrity 101 – USA Fails Big Time – Memo for POTUS

03 Economy, 07 Health, 11 Society, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Lessons, Officers Call

Coalescing Effective Community Disaster Response: Simulation and Virtual Communities of Practice

Decisions and information flow back and forth, and up and down, the tapestry of response. Inaccurate perceptions, ineffective and inefficient communications and other factors may combine to generate instability or breakdown in systems responsible for crisis management and communal safety and well-being.

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CounterPunch: Deployables Rising — In Ireland . .

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Peace Intelligence

Sinn Fein’s Victory is Ireland’s ‘Brexit Moment’ When Left-Out Voters Turn on the Elite

For the first time a single party, Sinn Fein, will be politically powerful on both sides of the border, a partner with the DUP in Belfast and potentially either a leading partner in the next Irish government in Dublin or the main opposition to it. This creates a degree of de facto Irish unity never experienced before and will be deeply resented by unionists who see the balance of power swinging against them.

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Zero Hedge: The Pornification of America — Online Predation on the Young in Full Swing…

06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Law Enforcement, Media

The Pornification Of America: How Young Girls Are Being Groomed By Sexual Predators

There are usually six stages to grooming by a sexual predator: friendship (targeting and gaining trust); relationship (filling the child’s needs); gauging the level of protection surrounding the child; exclusivity (isolating the child from others); sexualization (desensitizing the child to sex talk and activities); and abuse.

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