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2011/03/192011/03/19

Education, Intelligence, & Research: Academic Trends

03 Economy, 04 Education, 10 Security, 11 Society, Academia, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government

Research and Markets: Global Trends 2010 Trend Report: Shapers & Influencers – Academic Institutions

May 2010 newly offered 18 March 2011

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Global Trends 2010 Trend Report: Shapers & Influencers – Academic Institutions” report to their offering.

The world's next generation of young adults will not only be the largest ever, but also have received more schooling than any before.

The quantity, quality and focus of education will strongly influence future global development. There will be rising needs for trained teachers. Advances in communication and information technologies will quicken the dissemination of knowledge globally, giving rise to opportunities for cross-border education, as well as a greater need for lifelong learning to maintain a competitive edge in skills and knowledge.

A further influence on education will be the rise of collective versus individual intelligence as people worldwide seize the potential to tap into diverse sources of learning and knowledge simultaneously across the world, through both formal and informal networks. In this environment, the balance of influence of national curriculum boards and governments on education will decrease, while that of educational providers, parents, learners, learning channels and networks and global thinkers will increase.

Announcement and Contents

Order Report (Euro 199.00)

Phi Beta Iota: Emphasis added. The trend not yet visible to others is the inevitable convergence of education, intelligence (decision-support) and research into one coherent openly-managed network that optimizes multinational (multilingual) multiagency multidisciplinary multidomain information-sharing and sense-making (M4IS2).

2011/03/192011/03/19

Denmark: One Hundred Mobile App Teach Kids Math

04 Education, 08 Wild Cards, Academia, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Mobile

One Hundred Free Mobile Apps to Teach Kids Math in Schools — Denmark Aims to be #1 in M-Learning for K12 Students

Danish students will in the future have access to a library of more than 100 apps for mobile phones, teaching them math in a more fun and engaging way. All mobile data traffic will be free, thanks to a partnership with the national mobile operators.

(PRWEB) March 18, 2011

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2011/03/192011/03/19

GRIFTOPIA Part II: The Next Mega-Meltdown

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Budgets & Funding, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests

Mega-Banks and the Next Financial Crisis

Hedge-fund manager Paul Singer recognized the risks of subprime mortgages and bet against them. Now he warns that monetary policy could cripple American banks again.

James Freeman, The Wall Street Journal, 19 March 2011

Full article

Phi Beta Iota: Absolutely worth a full read. Here's the bottom line: US Government is simply not serious about regulation; the Federal Reserve in assuming faith in the dollar and printing money so fast inflation is inevitable and a total collapse of the dollar possible; the big banks are still over-leveraged; and a mega-meltdown is a virtual certainty. We assume the “elite” think they can stave off the melt-down until after November 2011 so as to have four more years of a compliant complacent government.

Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? + US Fraud RECAP

Search: US fraud tri-fecta

2011/03/182011/03/18

Garland On Oil, Energy, & Presidential Non-Sense

05 Energy, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Government, IO Sense-Making

Garland: “Pres. Obama, I too am exhausted defending you.”

What finally knocked me out of your camp was your speech last Friday…the one about energy. Let's break it down into specifics.

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Phi Beta Iota: Worth a full read for two reasons:

1. Demonstrates the non-sense a President can spout when his speeches are written based on the lack of coherent (holistic) open source intelligence within the US Government; and

2. Raises the rather fascinating idea that those regions that refuse to permit alternative energy (e.g. windmills) or refineries or other elements of a national energy infrastructure in their backyards should be limited in their access to domestic energy from others.

2011/03/17

Japan Nuclear Effect Felt in Louisiana USA

03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 10 Security, Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, IO Mapping, Key Players

GM Suspends Shreveport Truck Output on Japan Parts Shortage

Bloomberg March 17, 2011, 4:13 PM EDT

By Craig Trudell

March 17 (Bloomberg) — General Motors Co., the largest U.S. automaker, will suspend production at its Shreveport Assembly in Louisiana for the week of March 21 because of a parts shortage resulting from the crisis in Japan.

Poverty & Nuclear Power: Pros and Cons

05 Energy, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Government, Key Players

Poverty to Dictate Future Power Play

Geoffrey T. Smith, Wall Street Journal

March 17, 2011

Those who believe that economics, rather than individuals or events, is the driving force behind history are going to have their faith sorely tested in the coming weeks.

Emotion and experience say the revival of nuclear power can not and should not continue after the events at Fukushima. Economics, and the political imperatives that it creates, say it is inevitable.

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2011/03/16

Hacker Group Anonymous Civil Disobedience

Commerce, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, InfoOps (IO), Law Enforcement

Hacker Group Anonymous Brings Peaceful Revolution To America: Will Engage In Civil Disobedience Until Bernanke Steps Down

The world's most (in)famous hacker group – Anonymous – known for effectively shutting down their hacking nemesis security firm (with clients such as Morgan Stanley and, unfortunately for them, Bank of America)- HBGary, advocating the cause of Wikileaks, and the threat made by one of its members that evidence of fraud by Bank of America will be released on Monday, has just launched communication #1 in its Operation “Empire State Rebellion.” The goal – engage in “a relentless campaign of non-violent, peaceful, civil disobedience” until Ben Bernanke steps down and the “Primary Dealers within the Federal Reserve banking system be broken up and held accountable for rigging markets and destroying the global economy effective immediately.”

Read the manifesto….

Phi Beta Iota: Bernanke, like Obama, is a front. As long as Goldman Sachs occupies the Secretary of the Treasury and the National Security Advisor positions, as long as no one goes to jail starting with Rubin, Summers, and Gaither, one can salute their intentions, but question their intelligence (as in decision support). They can start by reading Matt Taibbi's Griftopia–Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America.